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049 $aBRLL
099 $aAdams 172.11
099 0 $aAdams 172.12
100 1 $aBurgh, James,$d1714-1775.
245 10 $aPolitical disquisitions :$bor, An enquiry into public errors, defects, and abuses /$cillustrated by and established upon facts and remarks, extracted from a variety of authors, ancient and modern. Calculated to draw the timely attention of government and people to a due consideration of the necessity and the means of reforming those errors, defects and abuses of restoring the Constitution and saving the state.
246 3o $aEnquiry into public errors, defects, and abuses
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for E. and C. Dilly ...,$cMDCCLXXIV-MDCCLXXV [1774-1775]
300 $a3 v. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aVols. 1-2 pub. anonymously; v. 3 Vol.3 with author statement on titlepage: "By J. B. Gent. ... ", i.e. James Burgh, author of "The dignity of human nature."
500 $aPagination, v. 1: xxiii, [9], 486 p; v. 2: viii, [9], 477 p.; v. 3: [8], 460, [42] p.
500 $aJohn Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.$5MB (BRL)
500 $aJohn Adams Library: presentation copy. $5BRL
500 $aJohn Adams Library copy 172.11 v.1 inscribed: "For John Adams Esq at Boston from the Author. As a small token of his regard for the political character of that gentleman who has distinguished himself as a patriot, and the true friend of civil and religious liberty. London, March 7th 1774."$5MB (BRL)
500 $aJohn Adams Library copy 172.11 v.2 contains scrap of paper before first leaf, stating "Paid more than I have on Nov. 16" with figures and calculations that appear to be in John Adams' hand; removed and stored separately.$5MB (BRL)
500 $aJohn Adams Library copy 172.11 v.2 inscribed: "To John Adams Esqr. from the Author."$5MB (BRL)
500 $aJohn Adams Library copy 172.12 v.1 inscribed: "These volumes are presented to John Adams Esqr as a small token of respect for his patriotic virtue."$5MB (BRL)
500 $aJohn Adams Library has two copies; copy 172.11 lacking vol. 3.$5MB (BRL)
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
510 4 $aAdams,$c74-13
510 4 $aAdams,$c74-14
510 4 $aAdams,$c75-14
510 4 $aESTC,$cT69213
533 $aAlso available on microfilm.$bWoodbridge, CT :$cResearch Publications, Inc.,$e1986. 1 reel ; 35mm.$f(The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6078, no. 01).
590 $aJohn Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.
650 0 $aPolitical science.
650 0 $aPolitical ethics.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1760-1789.
700 10 $aAdams, John, $d1735-1826, $eformer owner. $5BRL
710 2 $aJohn Adams Library (Boston Public Library)$5MB (BRL)
937 $aPolitics and government.
955 $aR-B
994 $a02$bBRL