Government and Politics
More than 150 works on government and political science are among the department's rare books, as are 366 titles in the James Bowdoin Collection, and 76 volumes from Harold Hitz Burton.
A sampling:
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Thomas Hobbes
- De Corpore Politico, 1650; A Letter about Liberty and Necessity, 1676; and Leviathan, 1651
- Edmund Burke
- An Account of the European Settlements in America, 1758; and Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 and 1791; works, 1st American edition, 1806-07
- Thomas Jefferson
- Notes on the State of Virginia, 1801, and A Summary of the Rights of British America, 1774
- The Federalist: A Collection of Essays ...
- 1st complete edition, 1788
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Treatise on the Social Compact, 1764, and works, 1774, 1780-82, and 1793
- Immanuel Kant
- Harold Hitz Burton Collection
- Seventy-six volumes from the library of Supreme Court associate Justice Harold Hitz Burton (Bowd. 1909); these are complemented by a small collection of his papers
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