Research Catalog

Title

Enquiry into the validity of the British claim to a right of visitation & search of American vessels suspected to be engaged in the African slave-trade / Henry Wheaton, LL.D. Minister of the United States, at the Court of Berlin, author of "Elements of international law," etc.

Author

Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848.

Publication

London : John Miller, Henrietta Street, Covert Garden, 1842.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, John, active 1819-1868
• Savill, Thomas Choate

Description

175, [1] pages; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Enquiry into the validity of the British claim to a right of visitation and search

Subjects

• Slave trade > United States
• Maritime law
• Search, Right of
• Antislavery movements > Great Britain
• Slave ships

Note

• Errata slip inserted after title page.
• "T.C. Savill, Printer, 107, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross."--printer statement, foot of page 175.
• Advertisement for other works by the author, page [1] at end.

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Call Number

XD (Wheaton, H. Enquiry into the validity of the British claim)

OCLC

8022083

Author

Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848.

Title

Enquiry into the validity of the British claim to a right of visitation & search of American vessels suspected to be engaged in the African slave-trade / Henry Wheaton, LL.D. Minister of the United States, at the Court of Berlin, author of "Elements of international law," etc.

Publisher

London : John Miller, Henrietta Street, Covert Garden, 1842.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

London ed. in Nelson.

Source

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2017. Copy in Sc Rare E 17-XX, Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Added Author

Miller, John, active 1819-1868, bookseller.

Savill, Thomas Choate, printer.

Research Call Number

XD (Wheaton, H. Enquiry into the validity of the British claim)

Sc Rare E 17-6 (Lapidus Collection)