Abrégé du Droit de la nature & des gens.
Contributors: Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von, 1632-1694.
Published: 1750
Language: fre
Subjects: Natural law -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, French -- Washington (D.C.)
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Droit de la nature et des gens.
Notes: Ms.
Binder's title (on label pasted on spine): Droit de la nature & des gens.
Anonymous French abridgment of Samuel Pufendorf's De jure naturae et gentium (it speaks about Pufendorf in third person). Made probably from the French translation which appeared in several editions under title Droit de la nature et des gens.
The abridgment has 7 pts.; "tome I" contains the first 3, "tome II" the rest.
Former owner: Behr Le...[?] (name inscribed on prelim. p. 3 of v. 2). Acquired by LC in 1944 (LL 7799A12).
Fair copy, written by two scribes, probably in a French-speaking part of Europe.
Vol. 1: [4], 376, [6] p.; v. 2: [6], 507, [1] p.
Watermark in most of v. 1, bell; in last third of v. 1 and all of v. 2, horn on sling in enclosure formed by two branches and crown; countermark includes poorly legible words, and date: 1749.
Penciled on laid-in paper slip: MS 1.