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Le sang innocent vengé : ou, Discours sur les réparations dues aux accusés innocens / par J. P. Brissot de Warville.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1785 Bri (b.w.) Af 314.3 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793 2539
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Compensation for judicial error--Early works to 1800.
- Compensation for judicial error.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Early works to 1800.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 69 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Chez Desauges, 1781.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [n][superscript 4]A-D[superscript 8]E[superscript 3].
- Local Notes:
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Brissot de Warville, Defenseur, q.v.; number 2 in table of contents; item 3 in volume. Brissot de Warville to Benjamin Franklin, 7 March [1782,] speaking of the prospectus of his Bibliotheque philosophique sur les loix criminelles, and asking that he "accept of the little dicourse I have the honour of sending to you. it Belongeth to the same Matter. Undoubtedly, the object, if not the style, shall move your concern & pity".
- Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other works. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801-1803, by William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (130); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to Historical Society.
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