Rural Economy: containing a treatise of Pisè building .... - BOUND WITH - Debates in the Senate of the United States on the Judiciary ....
first edition Full contemporary calf.
1806 / 1802 · New Brunswick [NJ] / Philadelphia
by Johnson, S W
New Brunswick [NJ] / Philadelphia: I Riley & Co. / For E Bronson, printed by Thos.Smith, 1806 / 1802. First Editions.. Full contemporary calf.. A very good copy; x-lib. with a stamp on the title and first page of text of the Johnson; binding rubbed and chafed.. 8vo; I - [2], viii, 246, [6] + 8 plates; II - [4], [3] - 324 pp.
I - A rare and wholly American work that contains one of the earliest dissertations on wine making and vine planting published in the United States. Pisè building is a method of construction that makes use of compacted soil to form load bearing walls for structures (a form of construction still used in parts of Asia). One of the plates in the book illustrates a building that was constructed by Johnson using this method. The section on wine is important because he draws upon local sources whom he identifies. Little is known about Johnson. He is, however, identified as being a correspondent of T Jefferson concerning the publication of this book. Hitchcock #652; Rink #2508; Felcone #813. II - My colleague David Lesser has summed the book up quite well, so here it is again: After achieving power in the 'Revolution of 1800,' the Jeffersonians' first major test of strength was their effort to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1801, passed in the waning days of Adams's Federalist Administration. The Act created eighteen federal circuit judges, additional district judges, and enhanced the Judiciary's power. Not only did it, in Jefferson's view, strengthen the national government at the expense of state judiciaries, but "the Federalists used their last moments of power to establish themselves in the posts it created. In Jefferson's words, they retreated into the Judiciary as a stronghold." Adams, History of the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson 187. This book tracks the entire debate in the Senate; the Preface recognizes its importance as "the great question of the independence of the judicial department of our government." With "discussion of judicial review and legislative supremacy" [Cohen]. AI 3273 [4]. Cohen 1058. Sabin 19101. Not in Marvin, Marke, Harv. Law Cat. (Inventory #: 17026)
I - A rare and wholly American work that contains one of the earliest dissertations on wine making and vine planting published in the United States. Pisè building is a method of construction that makes use of compacted soil to form load bearing walls for structures (a form of construction still used in parts of Asia). One of the plates in the book illustrates a building that was constructed by Johnson using this method. The section on wine is important because he draws upon local sources whom he identifies. Little is known about Johnson. He is, however, identified as being a correspondent of T Jefferson concerning the publication of this book. Hitchcock #652; Rink #2508; Felcone #813. II - My colleague David Lesser has summed the book up quite well, so here it is again: After achieving power in the 'Revolution of 1800,' the Jeffersonians' first major test of strength was their effort to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1801, passed in the waning days of Adams's Federalist Administration. The Act created eighteen federal circuit judges, additional district judges, and enhanced the Judiciary's power. Not only did it, in Jefferson's view, strengthen the national government at the expense of state judiciaries, but "the Federalists used their last moments of power to establish themselves in the posts it created. In Jefferson's words, they retreated into the Judiciary as a stronghold." Adams, History of the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson 187. This book tracks the entire debate in the Senate; the Preface recognizes its importance as "the great question of the independence of the judicial department of our government." With "discussion of judicial review and legislative supremacy" [Cohen]. AI 3273 [4]. Cohen 1058. Sabin 19101. Not in Marvin, Marke, Harv. Law Cat. (Inventory #: 17026)