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The judgment of whole kingdoms and nations, concerning the rights, power and prerogative of kings, and the rights, privileges and properties of the people ..

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, Somers, John Somers, Baron, 1651-1716, Dunton, John, 1659-1733, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. MB (BRL), John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL) · Boston : Printed for J. Langdon · 1 picture

A 1800s Boston printing of a political treatise on royal power and the people's rights, drawn from the library of former owner John Adams and held by the Boston Public Library. The only picture is a small engraved view of two plain wood-frame houses with a bare tree beside a road, framed by a library shelf label reading Adams 172.9, so it offers little beyond a quiet vernacular architecture study and the look of period library marking.

Political science · Constitutional history

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