Sm. 8vo. 308 leaves, printer's woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut initials, printer's imprint at the end.
Brunet I, 300. Tiraboschi VI, 875. Ginguené III, 405.
Rebound in half red morocco, lettered on the back in gilt: Berosvs./Antiqvitates/cum/Commentariis/Annii./; margins cut close. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. An early autograph signature, Rich. Monnox 1694, is on a fly-leaf at the beginning; a manuscript inscription at the end and a few marginal notes are in an early hand.
Johannes Annius (Viterbensis) [Giovanni Nanni], 1432-1502, Italian scholar and author. This book, originally printed in Rome in 1498, was published as a collection of fragments by the authors named, but was soon proved to be the fabrication of Annius.
Jefferson's title as above follows the list of contents on the verso of the first leaf." "00020","J. 2","","","","Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 2, Dynasties de Manethon, par le Comte Jean Potocki, 12mo.","Potocki, Jan, Count.","Dynasties du Second Livre de Manethon par le Comte Jean Potocki. A Florence: Chez Guillaume Piatti, MDCCCIII. [1803.]","DT83 .A2 M42","
First Edition. 12mo. 64 leaves. One of 100 copies printed.
Quérard VII, 296. Estreicher XIV, 505. Hilmy II, 133.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled endpapers, by John March (in August 1805, cost 75 cents). Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Count Jan Potocki, 1761-1815, Polish antiquarian, orientalist and historian, had correspondence with Jefferson, see no. 4 below.
This book is dedicated to Cardinal Borgia." "00030","J. 3","","","","Chronologie de Manethon. par Potocki.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 102, as above.","Potocki, Jan, Count.","Chronologie des Deux Premiers Livres de Manethon. Par le Comte Jean Potocki . . . Avec permission de la Censure. à St. Petersbourg: De l'Imprimerie de F. Drechsler, 1805.","DT83 .A2 M4","
First Edition. 4to. 18 leaves, list of errata on the verso of the second leaf. One of 100 copies printed.
Quérard VII, page 296. Estreicher XIX, page 505. Jolowiez 3270. Hilmy II, page 133.
Original marbled boards, with the original paper label on the front cover. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Presentation copy from the author.
On August 10, 1806, Levett Harris wrote to Jefferson that he had sent:
. . . a work of the Count Potocky, namely, l'histoire ancienne des provinces de l'Empire de Russie, with the cronologie de Manethon, which the author desired me to present to you in his name . . .
The books had not arrived on March 28, 1807, when Jefferson wrote from Washington to Levett Harris, acknowledging the receipt of letters and parcels. The letter closes:
to this I must add by anticipation my thanks . . . to Count Potocki for the two works from him, which you mention to have been sent by m[???] A. Smith, and which, I doubt not will come safely to hand . . .
For the Histoire ancienne . . . de Russie, see no. 248." "00040","J. 4","","","","Principes de Chronologie anterieure aux Olympiades. par Potocki.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 103, as above but with the reading anterieures.","Potocki, Jan, Count.","Principes de Chronologie, pour les Temps Antérieurs aux Olympiades. Par le Comte Jean Potocki . . . A St.-Petersbourg: De l'Imprimerie d'Alexandre Pluchart et Comp., 1810.","DS61 .P86","
First Edition. 4to. 45 leaves; text in double columns; the permission de la Censure on the back of the title, and list of the errata on the last leaf. One of 100 copies printed.
Quérard VII, page 296. Estreicher, page 505. Red straight grain morocco, gilt ornamental borders, marbled endpapers, g.e., flyleaf watermarked J. Whatman 1806. Probably a presentation binding. Signed by Jefferson at sig. 1. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Presentation copy from the author.
On August 19, 1810, Count Potocki wrote from St. Petersburg to Jefferson:
Votre Excellence . . . ayant bien voulu témoigner de l'estime pour mes ouvrages je la prie de vouloir bien agreer le present exemplaire, qui contient toute ma doctrine chronologique. J'ai plusieurs renseignements à demander sur l'Amérique, et si votre Excellence vouloit entrer en correspondence avec moi, je la prierois de me faire parvenir sa réponse par le canal du consul Américain Levet harris . . .
On June 1/13 of the same year Levett Harris had written from St. Petersburg:
. . . I likewise add a packet from Count John Potocky containing the commencement of a new & very interesting work he is now occupied with . . . I informed Count Potocky that the former copies of his Works which I sent you could not fail to have given you great satisfaction and I should feel much obliged by your confirming this in the next letter You honor me with. Count P. will receive such a communication from me, I can assure you with great pleasure . . .
On September 13/25, Levett Harris wrote again:
I have the pleasure of transmitting You herewith a copy of the last work of Count John Potocky of which he requests your acceptance . . .
The book was received in March 1811. On March 8 Dck. Barthe wrote from Philadelphia to Jefferson:
I Have the Honour of forwarding to You per Mail, a Package intrusted to my care at St. Petersburg by Mr. Levett Harris. I had flattered myself with the prospect of getting here early in November last, but the Brig on board of which I was supercargo having been detained by the British in coming out of the Sound and sent to London; my return home has been delayed considerably, although vessel & cargo were restored without trial.
To this Jefferson replied on March 17:
Th: Jefferson acknowledges the reciept of a letter and volume from Count Potocki which m[???] Barthe has been so kind as to take charge of and forward to him; he returns him his thanks for this mark of attention and salutes him with respect & his best wishes.
Jefferson acknowledged Potocki's letter above on May 12, 1811:
I have recieved your letter of Aug. 19. & with it the volume of Chronology you were so kind as to send me, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. it presents a happy combination of sparse and unconnected facts, which brought together & fitted to each other, forms a whole of symmetry, as well as of system. it is as a gleam of light flashed over the dark abyss of times past. nothing would be more flattering to me than to give aid to your enquiries as to this continent . . . but time tells me I am nearly done with the history of the world; that I am now far advanced in the last chapter of my own, & that it's last verse will be read out ere a few letters could pass between St. Petersburg and Monticello . . .
Count Potocki died in November 1815 and Jefferson eleven years later, on July 4, 1826." "00050","J. 5","","","","Sanchoniathon's Phaenician history by Cumberland.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 57, as above, with reading Phenician.","Sanchuniathon.","Sanchoniatho's Phœnician History, Translated from the First Book of Eusebius De Præparatione Evangelica. With a Continuation of Sanchoniatho's History by Eratosthenes Cyrenæus's Canon, which Dicæarchus connects with the First Olympiad . . . By the Rt. Revd. R. Cumberland, D.D. late Bishop of Peterborough. With a Preface giving a Brief Account of the Life, Character, and Writings of the Author, By S. Payne, A. M . . . London: Printed by W. B. [?Botham] for R. Wilkin, MDCCXX. [1720.]","DS81 .P5","
First Edition. 8vo. 280 leaves, folded chronological table; publisher's advertisement at the foot of the last page.
Lowndes I, page 568.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress in 1901. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. At the end the initials s l are written in ink.
Listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price: 11.2.
Sanchuniathon, an ancient Phœnician sage, whose mythological writings Philo Herennius of Byblus claimed to have translated from the Phœnician originals.
Richard Cumberland, 1631-1718, bishop of Peterborough, the friend of Samuel Pepys, hoped to prove in this work that the heathen gods were mortal men. Publication was interrupted by the Revolution, and postponed until 1720, when the book was posthumously published by Squier Payne, Cumberland's son-in-law, who added a life of the Bishop. On the last leaf is the advertisement The other Part of this Work is ready for the Press, entituled, Origines Gentium Antiquissimæ . . ." "00060","J. 6","","","","Josephus, Gr. Lat. Bernardi.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 116, as above.","Josephus, Flavius.","Flavii Josephi Antiquitatum Judaicarum Libri Quatuor Priores, Et Pars magna Quinti, Gr. Lat. Cum Exemplaribus MSS. collati, & illustrati Notis amplissimis D. Edvardi Bernardi S. T. P. Item Historiarum de Bello Judaico Liber Primus, Et Pars secundi, Gr. Lat. Ad Codices MSS. itidem recogniti & emendati. Oxoniæ: E Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCC. [-1687.] [1700, 1687.]","DS116 .J53","
Folio. 2 parts in 1. 245 leaves, the last leaf of the first part has the catchword Bello Judaico on a slip pasted down and is followed by the title for the De Bello Judaico. Liber Primus, et Pars Secundi, with the imprint dated 1687; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns; on both title-pages is an engraved vignette by MB [Michael Burghers], representing Athene with emblems in the foreground, the Sheldonian and colleges in the background, that on the earlier title-page unsigned and printed in reverse.
Lowndes III, 1235. Graesse III, page 480. STC J1081.
Old vellum. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed by Jefferson on his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 10.0.
Flavius Josephus, c. 37-c. 95, Jewish historian, produced his literary work under the patronage of Vespasian, and was the recipient of one of the pensions which that emperor was the first to bestow on Greek and Latin writers.
Edward Bernard, 1638-1696, English scholar, was Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. This edition, planned originally by Dr. Fell, was never finished; the completed parts were printed in 1686 and 1687, and published in 1700 with a new title-page. The interruptions suffered by Bernard inspired Clement Barksdale's lines:
Savilian Bernard's a right learned man;
Josephus he will finish when he can." "00070","J. 7","","","","Josephus. Gr. Lat. Havercampii et Hudsonii edente Oberthür","","6. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 58, as above.","Josephus, Flavius.","Flavii Josephi Hebraei Opera Omnia Græce et Latine excvsa ad Editionem Lvgdvno-Batavam Sigeberti Havercampii cvm Oxoniensi Ioannis Hvdsonii collatam. Cvravit Franciscvs Oberth[???]r . . . Tomvs I [-III]. Lipsiæ: Svmtv E. B. Schwickerti, cI[???]I[???]ccLxxxII [-cI[???]I[???]cclxxxv] [1782-5.]","DS116 .J55","
3 vol. bound in 6. 8vo. vol. I, 608 leaves (292 and 316); vol. II, 576 leaves (316 and 260); vol. III, 683 leaves (337 and 346); Greek and Latin text on opposite pages.
Graesse III, page 480.
Calf, gilt, marbled endpapers, m. e.; initialled by Jefferson in two places in each volume. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed by Jefferson on his undated manuscript catalogue as 6. v. 8vo. with the price: 40+12.
Franz Oberthür, 1745-1851, German scholar, was a native of Wurzburg.
Sigbert Havercamp, 1683-1742, Dutch philologue, published his first edition of Josephus in 1726, 2 vol. folio.
John Hudson, 1662-1719, English classical scholar, was at one time Librarian of the Bodleian. His edition of Josephus was posthumously published in 1720." "00080","J. 8","","","","Josephus. Eng. by Whiston.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 117, as above.","Josephus, Flavius.","The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian. Translated from the Original Greek, according to Havercamp's accurate Edition. Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, with the Appendix, or Life of Josephus, written by himself: Seven Books of the Jewish War: and Two Books against Apion. Illustrated With new Plans and Descriptions of the Tabernacle of Moses; and of the Temples of Solomon, Zorobabel, Herod, and Ezekiel; and with correct Maps of Judea and Jerusalem . . . By William Whiston, M. A. Some time Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge. London: Printed by W. Bowyer for the Author: and are to be sold by John Whiston, Bookseller, MDCCXXXVII. [1737.]","DS116 .J7","
First Edition of this translation. Folio. 632 leaves, folded engraved map and two folded plates all mounted; 2 additional leaves in signature dd contain a Postscript by the translator; at the end is A Compleat Chronological Catalogue of Mr. Whiston's Writings on 3 pages, with a short Publisher's advertisement, and Directions to the Bookbinder.
Lowndes III, page 1235.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress.
Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in the first upper case alphabet.
William Whiston, 1667-1752, English divine and mathematician, and Goldsmith's model for the Vicar of Wakefield, was a friend of Sir Isaac Newton, whom he succeeded as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, and whose chronological system he attacked (see no. 135)." "00090","J. 9","","","","Decreta Romanorum pro Judaeis facta. Krebsii.","","8vo. Lipsiae. 1768.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 59, as above.","Krebs, Johann Tobias.","Decreta Romanorvm pro Ivdæis facta e Isoepho collecta et Commentario Historico-Grammatico-Critico Illvstrata. Adivnctvm est Decretvm Atheniensivm pro Hyrcano Pontifice M. Ivdæorvm Factvm Commentario Illvstratvm a Io. Tobia Krebsio Illvstris Moldani Rectore. Lipsiæ: Svmtibvs Caspari Fritsch, cI[???]I[???]cclxvIII. [1768.]","DS116 .J56","
First Edition. 8vo. 237 leaves.
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie XVII, page 98. Not in Graesse. Not in Ebert.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt, marbled endpapers, m.e.; initialled by him at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 4+2.
Johann Tobias Krebs, 1718-1782, German classical and Hebrew scholar, was one of the earliest pupils of J. A. Ernesti, to whom this book is dedicated." "00100","J. 10","","","","Perizonii Ægyptiarum originum investigatio. Perizonii origines Babylonicae et Aegyptiaca.","","12mo., 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. nos. 3 and 4, as above.","Perizonius, Jacobus.","Jac. Perizonii ægyptiarium Originum et Temporum Antiquissimorum Investigatio, in qua Marshami chronologia funditus evertitur, tum illæ Usserii, Cappelli, Pezronii, aliorumque, examinantur et confutantur. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Johannem vander Linden, Juniorem. MDCCXI. [1711.]","DT83 .A2P4","
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 279 leaves in eights, a cancel leaf marked S7* inserted after S7 and 3 leaves cut away; vol. II, 201 leaves in eights; titles printed in red and black, that to Volume II reads: Jac. Perizonii Origines Babylonicæ et Aegyptiacæ Tomis II . . . with the same imprint as in volume I. The Privilege in vol. I is in the Dutch language.
Graesse V, page 203. Van der Aa XV, page 185.
Rebound in half brown morocco in February 1905 by the Library of Congress, original m.e. preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes. On the titles of both volumes is written in an old hand: pretii 5sh.
Jacobus Perizonius [Jakob Voorbroek], 1651-1715, Dutch classical scholar." "00110","J. 11","","","","Historiae poeticae scriptores antiqui sc. Apollodorus . . . . . . . . Conon. Ptolemaeus Hephaest. F. Parthenius. Antoninus Liberalis. Gr. Lat. Gale.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 5, Historiae Poeticae Scriptores antiqui, sc. Apollodorus, Conon, Ptolemæus Hephæst, F. Parthenius, Antoninus Liberalis. Gr. Lat. Gale. 8vo p.","Gale, Thomas, editor.","Historiæ Poeticæ Scriptores Antiqui. Apollodorus Atheniensis. Conon Grammaticus. Ptolemæus Hephæst. F. Parthenius Nicænsis. Antoninus Liberalis. Græcè & Latiné. Accessere breves Notæ & Indices necessarij. Parisiis: Typis F. Muguet. Prostant apud R. Scott, Bibliopolam Londinensem, MDCLXXV. [1675.]","PA3499 .M9 G3 1675","
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 386 leaves; Greek and Latin texts in parallel columns, a half-title at the beginning of each book, woodcut vignette on the general title.
Brunet III, page 227.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress, the 1815 bookplate tipped in on the dedication leaf. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T; numerous marginal notes written in ink in Greek and Latin, some signed with the initial J.
Thomas Gale, 1635?-1702, English classical scholar, Dean of York. His dedication to Joseph Williamson is dated from London, 1675.
Robert Scott, bookseller of Little Britain, had warehouses also in Paris, Frankfort and other European cities." "00120","J. 12","","","","Apollodorus Gr. Lat. Heyne.","","4. v. 12mo. Goettingae. 1782.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 6, as above.","Apollodorus, of Athens.","Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliothecæ Libri Tres. Ad Codd. MSS. Fidem recensiti a Chr. G. Heyne. Gœttingæ: apud Ioh. Christ. Dieterich, 1782.—Ad Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliothecam notæ avctore Chr. G. Heyne cvm commentatione de Apollodoro argvmento et Consilio operis et cvm Apollodori Fragmentis. Pars I. [-III.] ib. 1783.","BL780 .A6","
Together 4 vol. sm. 8vo. vol. I, 147 leaves; vol. II, 268 leaves; vol. III, 191 leaves; vol. IV, 256 leaves; pagination continuous in the last 3 vol.
Brunet I, page 345. Graesse I, page 162.
Bound for Jefferson in French calf, gilt line borders on sides, gilt ornaments on the backs, marbled end papers, m.e. It is probable that the three volumes by Heyne were bound at a different time. They are lettered vol. I, II, III, on the backs, and are not listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, in which the Apollodorus is entered, without price, except for the binding: rel. 5f4. Each volume is initialled by Jefferson in two places, at sig. I and T, Ii and Tt and so forth.
With the first volume is bound:
Mitscherlich, Christoph Wilhelm.
Epistola Critica in Apollodorvm ad virvm illvstrem Chr. Gottl. Heyne. Accedvnt nonnvlla in Stativm et Catvllvm avctore Chr. Gvil. Mitscherlichio. Gœttingæ: apud Viduam Abr. Vandenhœkii, 1782.
12mo. 46 leaves, with collation A-C12, D10, some leaves unopened.
Apollodorus, fl. B.C. 140, a grammarian of Athens. The Bibliotheca contains an account of the mythology and the heroic age of Greece.
Christian Gottlob Heyne, 1729-1812, German philosopher and antiquarian, the originator of the scientific treatment of Greek mythology. This is his first edition of Apollodorus.
Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich, 1760-1854, German scholar." "00130","J. 13","","","","Herodotus. Gr. Lat. Gronovii.","","9. v. 12mo. Foul.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 7, as above, with Foulis.","Herodotus.","[???] τoν 'Hϱoδoτoυ [???]λικαϱνασσεως [???]στoϱια. Herodoti Halicarnassensis Historia. Ex Editione Jacobi Gronovii; Tomis Novem . . . Adjectus est, ex eadem editione, Liber de Vita Homeri; vulgo sed falso, adscriptus Herodoto. Tom. I. [-IX.] Glasguæ: In Aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, M. DCC. LXI. [1761.]","PA4002 .A2 1761","
9 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 238 leaves; vol. II, 200 leaves; vol. III, 176 leaves; vol. IV, 181 leaves; vol. V, 125 leaves; Vol. VI, 131 leaves; vol. VII, 227 leaves; vol. VIII, 136 leaves; vol. IX, 152 leaves; Greek and Latin text on alternate leaves.
Graesse III, page 255. Ebert 9548. Dibdin, page 155.
Original calf, gilt backs; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Probably from the library of George Wythe, who bequeathed his library to Jefferson and who owned a number of Foulis' editions of the classics. A marginal note in Greek in the first volume appears to be in his hand.
Wythe sent to Jefferson a catalogue of the Foulis editions immediately after the fire at Shadwell on February 1, 1770. On March 9 he wrote:
I send you some nectarine and apricot graffs and grapevines, the best I had; and have directed your messenger to call upon major Taliaferro for some of his. You will also receive two of Foulis's catalogues. Mrs Wythe will send you some garden peas . . .
Herodotus, c. 484-425 B. C., Greek historian, ''the Father of History.'' Herodotus is usually placed first on lists of historical authors on requested reading lists supplied by Jefferson.
Robert Foulis, 1707-1776, and Andrew, his brother, 1712-1775, printers to the University of Glasgow, designed this series of Classics in forty-one volumes to render the reading of the Greek Historians more convenient for Gentlemen in active life." "00140","J. 14","","","","Thucydides. Gr. Lat. Wassii & Dukeri.","","8. v. 12mo. Foul.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 8, Thucydides, Gr. Lat. Wassii et Dukeri, 8 v 12mo, Foulis.","Thucydides.","ò τoυ &thetas;oυκυδιδoυ πoλεμoς πελoπoννησιακoς. Thucydidis Bellum Peloponnesiacum. Ex editione Wassii et Dukeri. Tom. I. [-VIII.] Glasguæ: In ædibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, MDCCLIX. [1759.]","PA4452 .A2 1759","
8 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 185 leaves; vol. II, 150 leaves; vol. III, 151 leaves; vol. IV, 178 leaves; vol. V, 134 leaves; vol. VI, 151 leaves; vol. VII, 136 leaves; vol. VIII, 152 leaves.
Graesse VI, page 149. Ebert 22929. Dibdin, page 411.
Calf, gilt backs, uniform with no. 13, etc.; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Thucydides, c. 471-c. 395 B. C., Athenian historian.
Charles Duker, 1670-1752, German scholar, was a pupil of Perizonius, several of whose books are in this collection.
Joseph Wasse, 1672-1738, English classical scholar." "00150","15","","","","Thucydides. Gr. Lat. not. var. Dukeri.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 118, as above.","Thucydides.","&thetas;oυκυδιδoυ πεϱι τoυ Πελoπoννησιακoυ πoλεμoυ Bιβλια oκτω. Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo, Cum Adnotationibus integris Henrici Stephani, & Joannis Hudsoni. Recensuit, & Notas suas addidit Josephus Wasse. Editionem curavit . . . Carolus Andreas Dukerus . . . Amstelaedami: Apud R. & J. Wetstenios & Gul. Smith, M.DCC.XXXI. [1731.]","PA4452 .A2 1731","
Folio. 347 leaves, engraved frontispiece by J. C. Philips after G. F. L. Debrie, vignette on title, headpiece by Folkema, 2 double page engraved maps, Greek and Latin text in parallel columns.
Brunet V, page 845. Ebert 22928. Dibdin, page 410.
Henricus Stephanus (Henri Estienne II), 1531-1598, was a member of the French family of scholars and printers.
For John Hudson, see no. 7." "00160","J. 16","","","","Thucydides translated by Hobbes.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 119, as above.","Thucydides.","Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre Written by Thvcydides the sonne of Olorvs. Interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke By Thomas Hobbes Secretary to ye late Earle of Deuonshire. London: Imprinted for Hen: Seile, 1629.","DF229.T5 H6 1629","
First Edition. Folio. 290 leaves: engraved title in compartments, 3 engraved folded maps (one backed), 2 plates; at the foot of A4 a list of Errata headed These errours of the Presse, I desire the Reader to correct with his Penne, thus.
STC 24058. Johnson, Catalogue of Engraved and Etched English Title-Pages, page 4, no. 10.
Original calf, rebacked; an engraved map of Greece, dated 1781, inserted. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T; some passages underscored in ink. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 4/6.
Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, 1588-1679. This translation was the first published work of Hobbes. It was made some years before its publication and the preface shows already his interest in the social order." "00170","J. 17","","","","Thucydides. Eng. by Smith.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 104, as above, 4to.","Thucydides.","The History of the Peloponnesian War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides. In Two Volumes. Volume the First [-Second]. By William Smith, A.M. . . London: Printed by John Watts, MDCCLIII. [1753.]","DF229 .T5 S6 1753","
First Edition. 2 vol. 4to. vol. I, 209 leaves; vol. II, 249 leaves; folded engraved map (backed) in each volume, engraved vignette head of Thucydides on each title and headpieces by G. Vander Gucht; the reading In Two Volumes is omitted from the second title; list of subscribers at the beginning of vol. I. This copy lacks the portrait frontispiece.
Lowndes V, page 2680.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress, with the 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in the first upper case alphabet in vol. I, not initialled in vol. II. A few contemporary manuscript notes occur and also pencil notes of a much later date.
Jefferson's manuscript catalogue calls for an 8vo. edition of this work. This is corrected in the 1815 and later Library of Congress catalogues.
William Smith, 1711-1787, English translator from the Greek. In his Preface to this work Smith gives a history of previous translations of Thucydides, beginning with that of Claude de Seyssel into French in 1527, and including a critical analysis of the translation by Hobbes (q. v. no. 16, supra) who however sorry and mischievous a philosopher, was undoubtedly a very learned man. The maps are borrowed from the last edition printed in Holland of the original, 1731." "00180","J. 18","","","","Xenophontis Hellenica. Gr. Lat. Wells.","","4. v. 12mo. Foul.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 9, Xenophontis Hellenica, et Agesilaus, Gr. Lat. Wells, 4 v 12mo, Foulis.","Xenophon.","τα τoυ Ξενo&phis;ωντoς Eλληνικα και ò Aγησιλαoς. Xenophontis Græcorum Res Gestæ; et Agesilaus. Cum annotationibus Edwardi Wells. Tomis Quatuor. Tom. I. [-IV.] Glasguæ: In ædibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, M.DCC.LXII. [1762.]","PA4494 .H3 1762","
4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 128 leaves; vol. II, 161 leaves; vol. III, 173 leaves; vol. IV, 145 leaves; the Agesilai Encomium has separate pagination. Greek and Latin text on alternate leaves. List of books printed by R. & A. Foulis on the last leaf.
Not in Dibdin. Not in Ebert. Advocates' Library Catalogue, page 987.
Original calf, gilt backs, uniform with no. 13, etc., above. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout with the exception of sig. T in the last volume. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Xenophon, born c. 430 B. C., Greek historian. The Hellenica covers the period from 411, when the history of Thucydides finishes, to 362 B. C.
The genuineness of the Agesilaus, an eulogy of the Spartan King, Agesilaus II, has been disputed.
Edward Wells, 1667-1727, English divine." "00190","J. 19","","","","Xenophontis Cyri expeditio. Gr. Lat. Hutchinson.","","4. v. 12mo. Foul.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 10, Xenophontis Cyri expeditio, et Hipparchicos, Gr. Lat. Hutchinson, 4 v 12mo, Foulis","Xenophon.","τoυ Ξενo&phis;ωντoς [???] τoυ Kυϱoυ Aναβασις. Xenophontis Expeditio Cyri. Tomis Quatuor. Ex Editione T. Hutchinson . . . Tom. I. [-IV.] Glasguæ: In ædibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, M.DCC.LXIV. [1764.]","PA4494 .A4 1764","
4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 134 leaves; vol. II, 130 leaves; vol. III, 126 leaves; vol. IV, 138 leaves; Greek and Latin text on alternate leaves, publishers' list of classics on the last leaf of vol. I; two unsigned leaves at the beginning of each volume for the half-title and title.
This edition not in Graesse and not in Ebert. Dibdin, page 453.
Original calf, gilt backs, uniform with no. 13, etc., above. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I throughout.
Thomas Hutchinson, 1698-1769, English scholar. His first edition of the Anabasis, frequently reprinted, was published in Oxford in 1735." "00200","J. 20","","","","id. Eng. by Spelman.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 60, The same, Eng. by Spelman, 2 v 8vo.","Xenophon.","The Expedition of Cyrus into Persia; and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks. Translated from Xenophon, with Critical and Historical Notes, by Edward Spelman, Esq; in Two Volumes. The Second Edition. London: Printed for D. Browne, C. Davis, A. Millar, S. Baker, and John Whiston, 1749.","DF231 .32 A3 1749","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 188 leaves, engraved frontispiece by P. Fourdrinier, folded map; vol. II, 178 leaves; both titles printed in red and black, that to the second volume reads as above except that In Two Volumes is replaced by Vol. II. A Geographical Dissertation, signed R. Forster on 39 leaves at the beginning of the second volume.
Lowndes V, page 3012.
Rebound in half-red morocco by the Library of Congress in 1904. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes; some passages marked in pencil; in vol. II, page 224, at the speech of Medosades to Xenophon: we give you Notice . . . to leave the Country: Otherwise, we shall not allow you to remain here . . . Jefferson has written in the margin a bull.
Edward Spelman, d. 1767, English author and translator, originally Edmund Yallop, adopted the surname of his ancestor Sir Henry Spelman (q. v.). His translation of the Anabasis is dedicated to Lord Lovell, and was first published in 1742. John Whiston, whose name appears in the imprint as one of the publishers, was the son of the translator of Josephus, no. 8 supra." "00210","21","","","","Xenophontis Cyropaedia. Gr. Lat. Hutchinson","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 105, as above.","Xenophon.","Ξενo&phis;ωντoς Kυϱoυ παιδειας Bιβλια oκτω. Xenophontis de Cyri Institutione Libri Octo. Græca recognovit, cum Codice MSto Oxoniensi & omnibus fere libris editis contulit, plurimis in locis emendavit, Versionem Latinam reformavit, Observationibus suis, Tabula Geographica, binisque Dissertationibus præmissis auxit & illustravit; Notas H. Stephani, Leunclavii, æ. Porti & Mureti recensitas & castigatas, Variantium Lectionum delectum, Indicesque necessarios adjunxit Thomas Hutchinson A. M. Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXXVII. [1727.]","PA4494 .C5 1727","
4to. 290 leaves, engraved frontispiece by Vertue, engraved arms on the first page of text, folded engraved map; Greek and Latin text in long lines, the Greek above the Latin, notes in double columns below.
Brunet V, 1492. Graesse VI, 486. Dibdin, 452.
This is the first edition of Hutchinson's Cyropaedia, and was frequently reprinted." "00220","J. 22","","","","Xenophontis Cyropaedia. Gr. Lat. Hutchinson.","","4. v. 12mo. Foulis.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 11, as above.","Xenophon.","τoυ Ξενo&phis;ωντoς [???] τoυ Kυϱoυ παιδεια. Xenophontis Institutio Cyri. Tomis Quatuor. Ex editione T. Hutchinson. Tom. I. [-IV.] Glasguæ: In ædibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiæ Typographi, M.DCC.LXVII. [1767.]","PA4494 .C5 1767","
4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 158 leaves, vol. II, 137 leaves, vol. III, 152 leaves, vol. IV, 186 leaves; publishers' list on the last leaf of vol. III; Greek and Latin text printed on alternate leaves.
This edition not in Graesse, and not in Ebert. Dibdin, page 452.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress, with the 1815 bookplates preserved. Initialled by Jefferson throughout at sigs. I and T; a few small corrections in ink.
On April 15, 1806, Jefferson purchased from P. & C. Roche of Philadelphia a copy of Xenophontis Cyropedia Græcæ & Latinæ. 4 vol. in 8vo. reliés 10.00.
His undated manuscript catalogue lists the Foulis edition, 4. v. 12 mo., with the price 8/-.
For Hutchinson's first edition see no. 21 above." "00230","J. 23","","","","Mitford's History of Greece [to the death of Philip]","","4. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 106, Mitford's History of Greece, 4 v 4to.","Mitford, William.","The History of Greece. By William Mitford, Esq. The First [-Fourth] Volume. London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808.","DF214 .M68 1808","
4 vol. 4to. vol. I, 301 leaves, vol. II, 282 leaves, vol. III, 292 leaves, vol. IV, 329 leaves; printer's imprint at the end of each volume.
This edition not in Lowndes, and not in the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
Old tree sheep; initialled by Jefferson in each volume. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Jefferson tried to get an octavo edition of this book. On February 28, 1810, he wrote from Monticello to Milligan:
I observe by the Reviewers that a IVth. vol. of Mitford's history of Greece came out in 1808, in 4to. if an 8vo. copy is to be had I should be glad of it. I have such a repugnance to the handling of 4tos & folios, that I always prefer waiting for the 8vo. or smaller editions.
On September 26 he wrote again referring Milligan to his letter of Feb. 28, and reminding him that to a former request:
I added one for Mitford's history of Greece, if an 8vo. edition could be had, and also for the 4th. vol. of that work, just published if that volume also had been printed in 8vo. and I at the same time asked the favor of you to forward me my account. not having heard from you I have still to repeat the same requests . . .
On June 4 of the following year, 1811, W. Rives wrote to Jefferson from Milton:
W. Rives offers his most respectful compliments to Mr. Jefferson, & informs him that he is at present unable to communicate the precise amount of the costs of Mitford's Greece & Mrs. Macauley's England, but will procure the agent of Brown & Rives in this place to obtain a particular statement of them from the house in Richmond. The manner in which Mr. Jefferson proposes to discharge these costs will be perfectly convenient & satisfactory. — If Mr. Jeferson should wish to retain Col. Barbour's Mitford for any other purpose than a comparison of it with his own, W. Rives is authorized to assure Mr. Jefferson of the readiness & pleasure with which it will be continued in his use . . . William Mitford, 1744-1827, English historian. The History of Greece was undertaken at the suggestion of Edward Gibbon, and the first volume originally published in 1784. A fifth volume appeared in 1810." "00240","J. 24","","","","Arriani expeditio Alexandri. Gr. Lat. Vulcanii.","","fol. Stephanus 1575.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 120, as above.","Arrianus, Flavius.","Aϱϱιανoυ πεϱι αναβασεως A'λεξανδϱoυ, [???]στoϱιων βιβλ[???]α η. Arriani (qui alter Xenophon vocatus fuit) De Expedit. Alex. Magni, Historiarum Libri VIII. Ex Bonavent. Vvlcanii Brvg. noua interpretatione. Ab eodem quamplurimi loci ope veteris exemplaris restituti. Cum Indice copiosissimo. Alexandri Vita, ex Plvt. Eivsdem Libri II, De Fortvna vel virtute Alexandri. [Geneva:] Anno M. D. LXXV, Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, Cvm Privilegio Cæs. Maiest. In decennium. [1575.]","PA3935 .A3 1575","
Folio. 148 leaves; woodcut Estienne device on the title; Greek and Latin texts printed in parallel columns. On the last leaf is the Nomina autorum qui ab Arriano citantur.
Graesse I, page 227. Renouard, Annales de l'Imprimerie des Estienne, page 142.
Old calf, initialled by Jefferson at sig. Ii. With the Library of Congress 1822 bookplate.
Ordered by Jefferson from the 2d Part of Lackington's catalogue for 1787 in a letter to Stockdale written from Paris on July 1, 1787.
The list as sent to Stockdale reads: 4362. Arriani. 8/6. amplified in a memorandum in Jefferson's handwriting: 4362. Arriani expeditio Alex. Gr. Lat. fol., neat. 8/6. Steph. 1575.
The book is listed in Jefferson's undated catalogue, with the price, 8/6.
Flavius Arrianus Of Nicomedia, born about 96 A. D., Greek historian and philosopher, the friend and pupil of Epictetus.
Vulcanius [i. e. Bonaventura de Smet], 1538-1614, Belgian scholar, and Professor of Greek at Leyden. This is the first edition of his Arrianus, which was the first critical edition with the Greek and Latin texts." "00250","J. 25","","","","Arriani expeditio Alexandri. Gr. Lat. Raphelii.","","8vo. Wetstenii 1767.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 61, as above.","Arrianus, Flavius.","Arriani Nicomedensis Expeditionis Alexandri Libri Septem et Historia Indica Græc. et Lat. cum Annotationibus et Indice Græco Locupletissimo Georgii Raphelii . . . Amstelædami: Apud Wetstenium, MDCCLVII. [1757.]","PA3935 .A3 1757","
8vo. 444 leaves, engraved frontispiece, folded engraved map, title printed in red and black, Greek and Latin text in parallel columns.
Brunet I, page 497. Graesse I, page 227.
Old half calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Bought from Van Damme, Amsterdam, in March 1788, when Jefferson was himself in that city. On March 18 the latter sent a large order to Van Damme including a number of books from De Bure's catalogue, of which no. 4771 was Arrianus. Gr. Lat. Raphelii. Amstelodami Wetstenii. 1757. 8vo.
On June 25 Van Damme reported to Jefferson (now in Paris) that he had purchased the De Bure books as requested, and had sent them to Paris. The price of the Arrianus was 7-10.
The book is entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue and with the same error in the date of printing, 1767, as in his entry quoted above. The error was copied in the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue, but corrected in the later editions." "00260","J. 26","","","","Quintus Curtius. Maittaire.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 12, as above.","Curtius Rufus, Quintus.","Quinti Curtii Rufi De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni Libri. [Edited by Michel Maittaire.] Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, M DCC XVI. Cum Privilegio. [1716.]","PA6376 .A2 1716","
12mo. 120 leaves, title printed in red and black, woodcut ornaments.
Graesse II, page 311. Ebert 5553. Not in Dibdin.
Bound in tree calf, marbled endpapers, for Jefferson by John March; initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. This copy formerly belonged to Richard Strugnell, who has scribbled on the title-page and in other parts of the volume; the words Anne R. below the Royal arms on the leaf of License have been crossed through, and Geo: Rex written above. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Quintus Curtius Rufus, fl. A. D. 41-54, is known only for his biography of Alexander the Great.
Michel Maittaire, 1668-1747, French bibliographer, was for some years tutor to Philip Stanhope, to whom Lord Chesterfield addressed his Letters.
This edition of Quintus Curtius's work is dedicated by Maittaire to William Baron Wingham, Lord Chancellor, Cal. Dec. 1715." "00270","J. 27","","","","id. not. var.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 62, Quintus Curtius, not. var. 8vo Elzevir","Curtius Rufus, Quintus.","[Q. Curtii Rufi, Historia Alexandrii Magni. Cum notis selectissimis variorum Raderi, Freinshemii, Loccenii, Blancardi, etc. Editio accuratissima, accurante C. S. [C. Schrevelio] M.D. Amstelodami: ex officina Elzeveriana [Daniel Elzevir], 1673.]","PA6376 .A2 1673","
8vo. 448 leaves, folded engraved map, a few woodcut illustrations in the text; J. Freinshemii Supplementorum in Q. Curtium on 70 leaves at the end has separate pagination. This copy is imperfect, and lacks the title-page (supplied in ink) and the plate at page 184.
Graesse II, page 311. Willems 1482. Pieters, page 295.
Old calf, initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1822 bookplate. The Elzevirs published three editions of Quintus Curtius in octavo, in 1658, 1664 and 1673. Each was a reprint of the other. In the absence of the title-page or other information it cannot be ascertained which was in the Jefferson collection.
The Elzevir editions of 1656 and 1670 are entered by Jefferson in his dated and undated catalogues (in the latter with the prices). These were not sold to Congress in 1815, but copies of these editions were in the auction sale of 1829.
Cornelis Schrevelius, 1608-1669, Dutch physician and scholar." "00280","J. 28","","","","id. cum supplemento Freinshemii Delphini.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 63, Id. in usum Delphini, cum supplemento Freinshemii, 8vo","Curtius Rufus, Quintus.","Q. Curtii Rufi de Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni Cum Supplementis Freinshemii. Interpretatione & Notis Illustravit Michael le Tellier è Societate Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini. London: Impensis A. & J. Churchill, 1705.","PA6376 .A2 1705","
8vo. 296 leaves, text in long lines, notes in double columns, 2 pages of Exemplaria tam Mss. quam edita Curtii ex Freinshemio; publishers' advertisement on the verso of the last leaf.
Graesse II, 311. Ebert 5551. Lowndes I, 573.
Old calf; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. A few contemporary manuscript notes occur. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the Library of Peyton Randolph, whose bookplate was present in 1903 when the Library card was printed, but has since been removed.
A copy was ordered by Jefferson through Stockdale, on July 1, 1787, from the 2d. Part of Lackington's catalogue, no. 4623. Q. Curtius 1/6. Jefferson's own memorandum includes the edition: 4623. Q. Curtius Delphini. 8vo. 1/6.
Johann Freinshem, 1608-1660, German scholar. His first edition of Quintus Curtius was published in Strassburg in 1639. The first Delphin edition was published in Paris in 1678. For a note on the Delphin editions see no. 52." "00290","J. 29","","","","Quinte Curce de Vaugelas. Lat. Fr.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 13, Quinte Curce, Lat. Fr. de Vaugelas, 12mo.","Curtius Rufus, Quintus.","Quinte Curce de la Vie et des Actions d'Alexandre le Grand, de la Traduction de Monsieur de Vaugelas, avec les Supplemens de Jean Freinshemius, Traduits par feu M. du Ryer. à Berlin: Aux Depens d'Ambroise Haude, 1746.","PA6377.F5V3 1746","
2 vol. in 1. 8vo. 273 leaves; this copy lacks the portrait; the French title is followed by a Latin title, each with an engraved medallion portrait, and preceded by a half-title; sig. Si has the half-title for Tome Second. The French and Latin texts are printed in parallel columns.
Graesse II, page 313. Ebert 5567. This edition not in Quérard.
Old vellum (back gone); red edges. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. The initials S. B. written in ink on the title-page.
From the library of F. R. Salzmann, [?Friedrich Rudolf Salzmann, 1749-1821] whose bookplate (Ferdinand Wachsmuth del.) has been removed from the inside cover since the printing of the Library catalogue card in 1903.
Two editions in French are listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, both with prices:
Quinte Curce de Vaugelas et du Ryer. 4to. 1.16.
Quinte Curce de Vaugelas. Lat. Fr. 12mo. 3 (livres).
Claude Favre, Seigneur de Vaugelas, Baron de Péroges, 1595-1650, French grammarian and man of letters. The first edition of his translation of Quintus Curtius was posthumously published in 1653.
Pierre du Ryer, 1605-1658, French author and translator, secretary to the King of France." "00300","J. 30","","","","Blackwell's life & writings of Homer, & court of Augustus.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 64, as above.","Blackwell, Thomas.","An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer. By Thomas Blackwell, J. U. D. Late Principal of Marishal College in the University of Aberdeen. The Third Edition. London: Printed for E. Dilly, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, MDCCLVII. [1757.]","PA4037.A2B5 1757","
8vo. 216 leaves, portrait frontispiece by G. vander Gucht, engraving on the title-page, and engraved head and tail pieces by G. Scotin after Gravelot, large folded map, the last leaf with a list of books printed for T. Oswald at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry.
Lowndes I, page 213.
Old calf, gilt line borders on the sides; with the 1815 Library of Congress bookplate. Initialled at sigs. I and T by Jefferson, who has written on the fly-leaf in ink:
A man who would enquire why such a particular poet as Homer existed at such a place, in such a time, would throw himself headlong into chimaera, & could never treat of such a subject without a multitude of false subtleties & refinements. he might as well pretend to give a reason why such particular generals as Fabius & Scipio lived in Rome at such a time, & why Fabius came into the world before Scipio. for such incidents as those no other reason can be given but that of Horace.
Scit genius, natale comes, qui temperat astrum
Naturae deus humanae, mortalis in unum
—Quodque capuit, vultii mutabilis, albus & ater.
Thomas Blackwell, 1701-1757, Scottish classical scholar. The first edition of this Enquiry was issued anonymously in 1735." "00310","J. 31","","","","Diogenes Laertius. Gr. Lat. Meibomii.","","2. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 107, as above.","Diogenes Laertius.","Diogenis Laertii de vitis, dogmatibus et Apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum Libri X Græce et Latine. Cum subjunctis integris annotationibus Is. Casauboni, Th. Aldobrandini & Mer. Casauboni. Latinam Ambrosii versionem complevit & emendavit Marcus Meibomius . . . Additæ denique sunt priorum editonum Præfationes, & Indices locupletissimi. [In Diogenum Lærtium ægidii Menagii Observationes & emandationes, hac editione plurimum auctæ. Quibus subjungitur Historia Mulierum Philosopharum eodem Menagio scriptore . . .] Amstelaedami: apud Henricum Wetstenium, cI[???] I[???] c vIIIc. [1692.]","B168 .D4","
2 vol. 4to. vol. I, 336 leaves, engraved frontispiece, plates with portraits of the philosophers; vol. II, 252 leaves; titles of both volumes printed in black and red, engraved emblematic device on each title-page; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns; at the beginning of vol. I is Catalogus editionum Diogenis Laertii ab infantia Typographiæ usque ad annum 1663.
Graesse II, page 396. Ebert 6176. Dibdin, page 124.
Old calf, repaired. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T, and i and t. On the fly-leaf of vol. I are manuscript notes in the handwriting of Thomas Mann Randolph. The name R. Rudyerd 1716.pret. £1:10s is written on both titles. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Diogenes Laertius, fl. A. D., 222-235, is known chiefly for his biography of the Greek philosophers, of which the first edition was published at Basel in 1533. This edition of 1692 contains the Greek text after the edition printed in Rome in 1594 amended by Meibomius, and the Latin version of Ambrosius. At the foot of each page are the notes of Stephanus, the Casaubons, Aldrobrandini and Meibomius. Volume II contains the annotations of Ménage, and his Historia Mulierum philosospharum.
Marcus Meibomius, 1630-1711, German classical scholar and musician, lived for a time under the protection of Queen Christina of Sweden, and eventually became librarian to the King of Denmark.
Aegidius Menagius [Gilles Ménage], 1613-1692, French scholar, lived for years in the household of Cardinal de Retz, and was immortalized by Molière as Vadius in Les Femmes Savantes." "00320","J. 32","","","","Diogenes Laertius, Eunapius. Gr. Lat. 2. v.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 14, Diogenes Laertius et Eunapius . . . (as above).","Diogenes Laertius.","Diogenis Laertii de Vitis, Dogmatis & apophthegmatis clarorum Philosophorum, Libri X. Hesychii ill. de iisdem Philos. & de aliis Scriptoribus, Liber. Pythagoreorvm Philosoph. fragmenta. Is. Casavboni notæ ad lib. Diogenis multò auctiores & emendatiores. Evnapii Sardiani de vitis Philosophorum & Sophistarum Liber, cui accesserunt eiusdem Auctoris Legationes. Omnia Graecè & Lat. ex editione postrema. Coloniæ Allobrogum: apud Joannem Vignon, M. DC. XVI [1616.]","PA3965 .D6 1616","
1 vol. bound in 2. Sm. 8vo. 648 leaves. The first four leaves of Hesychius lacking, as usual; separate title for Eunapius; printer's device on both titles, woodcut initials, Greek and Latin text in parallel columns. The volume division occurs after Rr3.
Brunet II, page 719. Dibdin, page 123.
Bound originally for Jefferson in two volumes, rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress, with the 1815 bookplates preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes; some manuscript marginalia in Greek; some leaves foxed and stained.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue as a 12mo. with the price: 4.10.
Hesychius, fl. 5th cent. A. D., grammarian of Alexandria.
Eunapius, born A. D. 347, Greek sophist and historian.
Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614, classical scholar. Born in Geneva of French descent, Casaubon moved to England n 1610 and became naturalized." "00330","J. 33","","","","Diogene de Laerce.","","12mo. Paris 1668. 2. v.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 15, Diogene de Lærce, 2 v 12mo, Paris, 1668.","Diogenes Laertius.","Diogene Laërce, de la Vie des Philosophes. Traduction nouvelle. Par Monsieur B*******. [-Seconde Partie.] A Paris: En la Boutique de Langelier, Chez René Gvignard, M. DC. LXVIII. Avec Privilege dv Roy. [1668.]","B168. D6","
First Edition of this translation. 2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 236 leaves; vol. II, 195 leaves, continuous signatures and pagination; at the beginning of vol. I: Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le 22. May 1668.
Barbier I, col. 994. Graesse II, 397. Ebert 6185, note.
Calf, gilt ornaments on the back and labels lettered: Diogene/Lærce/Tom. I. [-II.]/; blue silk bookmarks, bound for Jefferson by John March (the backs slightly damaged by scorching). Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in volume I. The name of the translator, Gilles Boileau, written in ink on the title-page of the first part (not by Jefferson). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
The book was purchased probably in 1802. The binding, which cost D. 1.00, is on March's bill for October 11 of that year.
Gilles Boileau, 1631-1669, French poet and translator, was the brother of Boileau-Despréaux." "00340","J. 34","","","","Stanley's lives of the Philosophers.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 108, as above.","Stanley, Thomas.","The History of Philosophy: Containing The Lives, Opinions, Actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of every Sect. By Thomas Stanley, Esquire. The Fourth Edition. In which the innumerable Mistakes, both in the Text and Notes of all former Editions are corrected . . . To which is prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. London: Printed for A. Millar, A. Ward [and others], MDCCXLIII. [1743.]","B111 .S82","
4to. 426 leaves; text in double columns; engraved portrait frontispiece (lacking in this copy).
Lowndes V, page 2493.
Rebound in half morocco by the Library of Congress in 1903, with the bookplates preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T and with a few pencil notes in his hand. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the library of Reuben Skelton, with his armorial bookplate.
Thomas Stanley, 1625-1671, English poet and philosopher, dedicated this work to his uncle, Sir John Marsham, the chronologist. It is derived to a great extent from the works of Diogenes Laertius." "00350","J. 35","","","","Justin. not. var.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 65, as above.","Justinus, Marcus Junianus.","Iustini Historiæ Philippicæ Cum integris Commentariis Iac. Bongarsii, Franc. Modii, Matth. Bernecceri, M. Z. Boxhornii, Is. Vossi, I. Fr. Gronovii, I. G. Graevii, T. Fabri, I. Vorstii, I. Schefferi, Et excerptis H. Loriti Glareani atque Editoris Oxoniensis. Curante Abrahamo Gronovio. Editio Secunda. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Samuelem et Joannem Luchtmans, 1760.","PA6445 .J6 1760","
1 vol. bound in 2. 8vo. 648 leaves (308 and 340); engraved frontispiece by F. Bleyswyck, engraved device on the title by v. d. Mr., title printed in red and black; Notae, Excerptiones Chronologicae, Index, Corrigenda, etc. in the second volume.
This edition not in Graesse. Ebert 11157. Dibdin, page 215.
Bound for Jefferson in two volumes, calf, gilt backs, marbled end papers, m. e. Initialled by him at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson's dated and undated manuscript catalogues list another edition of Justinus: Justin Amst. Wetstenii. 24s the latter entry with the price: 1-16. These were not sold to Congress.
Marcus Junianus Justinus, Roman historian of uncertain date. His work is taken from the now lost Historiae Philippicae of Trogus Pompeius.
Abraham Gronovius, 1695-1775, Dutch scholar. The dedication of this edition of his Justinus is dated from Leyden, x Kal. April, 1760, and is addressed to the Proceres of the Academiæ Lugduno-Batavæ. The first edition was published in 1719." "00360","J. 36","","","","id. Delphini.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 66, as above.","Justinus, Marcus Junianus.","[De historiis Philippicis et totius Mundi originibus. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Petrus Josephus Cantelius . . . In usum Delphini. Huic editioni accessere Jac. Bongarsii excerptiones chronologicæ historias accomodatæ. Londini: impensis R. Clavell, H. Mortlock, S. Smith et B. Walford, 1701.]","PA6445 .J6 1701","
8vo. This copy is imperfect, and lacks the title-page and some preliminary matter; it collates: [ ]1, B-Z, Aa-Ee8.
Graesse II, page 513. Ebert 11149.
Rebound in blue buckram by the Library of Congress in 1912. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. A number of drawings and scribblings occur (not by Jefferson).
The original Delphin edition was published in Paris in 1677 in quarto." "00370","J. 37","","","","Diodori Siculi libri XV. de XL. Gr. Stephani. 1559.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 121, as above.","Diodorus Siculus.","Διoδωϱoυ τoυ Σικελιωτoυ βιβλιo&thetas;ηκης ιστoϱικης βιβλια πεντεκαιδεκα εκ των τεσσαϱ[???]κoντα. Diodori Sicvli Bibliothecæ historicæ libri quindecim de quadraginta. Decem ex his quindecim nunquam prius fuerunt editi. [Geneva:] Anno M. D. LIX Excvdebat Henricvs Stephanvs illustris viri Hvldrici Fvggeri typographus. [1559.]","PA3965 .D3 1559","
Folio. 430 leaves, Estienne device on the title, woodcut initials and ornaments; printed in Greek letter.
Brunet II, page 715. Dibdin, page 119.
French red morocco, gilt back, gilt line borders on the sides, marbled endpapers, g.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. i and t. The autograph signature of Macé du püy St. Cyr, 1663, is written on the title-page and at the end. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Diodorus Siculus, fl. 60-21 B. C., Greek historian. This edition was edited by Henri Estienne, and is the first of the greater part of the work; an edition containing only books XVI to XX was published in Basle in 1539.
Henri Estienne, 1528-1598, French printer and scholar, was the second of that name, and the son of Robert Estienne." "00380","J. 38","","","","Diodori Siculi libri 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Graece Basiliae Diodorus Siculus. Latiné Rhodomanni . .","","4. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 16, Diodori Siculi libri, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Gr. Basiliae, et Lat. Rhodomanni, 4 v 12mo","Diodorus Siculus.","Διoδωϱoυ Σικελιωτoυ ιστoϱιων βιβλια τινα τ[???] ε[???]ϱισκ[???]μενα. Diodori Sicvli Historiarvm Libri Aliqvot, qvi extant, opera & studio Vincentii Obsopoei in lucem editi. Cum gratia & priuilegio ad triennium. Basileae: Oporin, 1539—[Bibliothecæ historicæ libri XV de XL . . . Hanau: Wechel, 1611].","PA3965 .D3 1539","
4to. and sm. 8vo. The Basel edition, in quarto, is the first edition of the Greek text, and has been cut down by Jefferson to resemble a duodecimo, and conflated with the octavo edition which is the Latin translation by Rhodomann. The whole is bound in four small volumes, of which the first is now lost. Notes on the fly-leaves of vol. II and III signed by F. Vinton, and made after the loss of vol. I, give a full explanation of Jefferson's procedure.
The volumes are bound in tree calf, with marbled endpapers, gilt backs, lettered II, III, IV, probably by Milligan. Initialled by Jefferson in each volume at sigs. I and T and a few marginal notes in his autograph. The inscription Conradus Pfistorius, Basiliensis obtulit 1611, and other manuscript notes are on the title-page of vol. III. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. The Basel edition was probably bought from Froullé in 1792, to whom on October 10 of that year Jefferson sent an order for a number of books including:
Diodorus Siculus, ab Obsopoei Gr. Coln. 1539.
This edition or any smaller one which is complete either in Greek alone, or Greek & Latin.
Jefferson had tried to get a copy of this edition in 1788.
On March 23 of that year an order to Van Damme included no. 158 in his catalogue: Diodorus Siculus. Græcé. Basiliæ 1539. 8vo. Four months later, on July 25, Jefferson cancelled his order to Van Damme for this and other books as he had trouvé l'occasion d'acheter ailleurs.
Only four days before the order was cancelled, on July 21, Jefferson had written to Monsieur Gautier (of the house of Grand & Co. in Paris):
I am much obliged to you for the communication of the Deuxponts Catalogue of Greek & Latin books . . . I have their Plato which I like much. I wish they could be induced to print Diodorus Siculus & Dionysius Halicarnasseus in the same format. these are the only Greek authors of esteem which have never been printed but in large formats. there is indeed an Octavo edition of Diodorus printed at Basle. but it is of 5. books only out of 15. which remain, it is without a translation which is necessary for much the greater part of readers, and it is in an obsolete character, abounding with contractions now out of use, & little known. so that in fact it is worth nothing. Wesseling's edition of Diodorus, and Hudson's of Dionysius, exactly copied, but in Octavo format, would certainly meet with great success, the translation being printed on the same page with the original. perhaps if you were to suggest this to the printers of Deuxponts, they might think it worthy their attention . . .
The edition of 1539 was one of the books which Mrs. Paradise was commissioned by Jefferson to buy in the Pinelli sale in April, 1789. In a letter written to her from Paris on April 6, Jefferson takes the liberty of mentioning that he will go to the price proposed in your letter for the Diodorus Siculus in 4to. The price proposed was too low, and the lot, no. 7380, went to Lord Spencer for £1. 17. 0.
Both editions are listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, the former as an 8vo.:
Diodori Siculi libri 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. graece.
8vo. Basiliae. 4. 10.
Diodorus Siculus. Latiné Rhodomanni. 8vo. 4.
Vincent Obsopoeus, d. 1540, German classical scholar, was a native of Franconia. He was the first editor of the Greek text of Diodorus Siculus.
Laurent Rhodomann, 1546-1606, German classical scholar. This is the first separate edition of his Latin translation of Diodorus. It had previously been printed, in 1604, with the Greek text of Obsopoeus." "00390","J. 39","","","","Stanyan's Graecian history.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 67, as above.","Stanyan, Temple.","The Grecian History. From the Original of Greece, to the End of the Peloponnesian War. Containing the Space of about 1684 Years. In Two Volumes. By Temple Stanyan, Esq; Volume the First. The Second Edition Revis'd and Enlarg'd. [—Volume the Second, Now originally Publish'd.] London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, MDCCXXXIX. [1739.]","DF213 .5 .S79","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 256 leaves; engraved frontispiece in compartments by Van der Gucht, folded engraved map; vol. II, 196 leaves; engraved frontispiece as in vol. I.; titles printed in red and black, that of vol. II with a different reading; some leaves foxed.
Lowndes V, page 2494.
Original calf, gilt line borders on sides, gilt backs. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Temple Stanyan, d. 1752, English classical scholar, dedicated this work to John, Lord Somers, Baron of Evesham. The Preface contains a critical account of the Greek, Roman, and some English historians. The first volume was originally published in 1707." "00400","J. 40","","","","Potter's antiquities of Greece.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 69, as above.","Potter, John.","Archæologia Græca: Or, the Antiquities of Greece. The Seventh Edition. By John Potter, D.D. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume the First [—Second] . . . London: Printed for G. Strahan [and others], MDCCLI. [1751.]","DF76 .P858","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 250 leaves; vol. II, 229 leaves; numerous engraved plates; titles printed in red and black, with different readings specifying the contents.
Lowndes IV, page 1932.
Old calf, gilt; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. On the title-page of each volume Jefferson has written in a youthful hand Ex Libris Thomae Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
John Potter, 1674?-1747, Archbishop of Canterbury, is described on the title of vol. II of this edition as Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The work was first published in 1697, 1698." "00410","J. 41","","","","Voiage d'Anacharsis en Grece par l'Abbé Barthelemy","","8. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 68, as above.","[Barthélemy, Jean Jacques.]","Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, dans le Milieu du Quatrième Siècle avant l'Ère Vulgaire. Seconde Édition. Tome Premier [-Septième.]—Recueil de Cartes Géographiques, Plans, Vues et Médailles de l'Ancienne Grèce, relatifs au Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis, précédé d'une analyse critique des cartes. Seconde Édition. A Paris: Chez de Bure, l'aîné, M. DCC.LXXXIX. Avec approbation, et privilège du Roi. [1789.]","DF28 .B2 1789","
Second Edition. Text in 7 vol. 8vo., atlas of plates in 1 vol. 4to.; vol. I, 203 leaves; vol. II, 287 leaves; vol. III, 283 leaves; vol. IV, 285 leaves; vol. V, 275 leaves; vol. VI, 259 leaves; vol. VII, 231 leaves; Atlas of plates, 21 leaves containing the Analyse Critique des Cartes de l'Ancienne Grèce . . . par M. Barbié du Bocage, 31 folded plates.
Quérard I, page 200. Catalogue des Ouvrages de J. J. Barthélemy, page 8.
Bound for Jefferson in calf (vol. I rebacked, and vol. II repaired at the joints); the text of the Atlas of plates cut down and the plates folded to octavo size. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T (vol. 7 at sig. t); below the plate in vol. II the name Watterston is written in pencil.
Purchased from Froullé on December 27, 1788. 2 copies, 7 vol. 8vo. br. 90 (livres). The atlas of plates is not included in this bill.
The second copy was bought for James Madison to whom Jefferson wrote from Paris on January 12, 1789:
. . . we have lately had three books published which are of great merit in different lines. the one is in 7. vols 8vo. by an Abbé Barthelemy, wherein he has collected every subject of Graecian literature, after a labour of 30. years. it is called les voiages d'Anacharsis. I have taken a copy for you, because the whole impression was likely to be run off at once . . .
Jefferson had similarly described the book among the things worth reading in a letter to Doctor Currie of Richmond, Virginia, written on December 20, 1788:
. . . a work on Grecian antiquities by the Abbé Barthelemi, of great classical learning, the produce of 20 years labor is now in the press, about 8. vols. 8vo. . . .
And again, on March 24, 1789, to Doctor Willard:
. . . The most remarkable publications we have had in France for a year or two past are the following. les voiages d'Anacharsis par l'Abbé Barthelemi. 7. vols. 8vo. this is a very elegant digest of whatever is known of the Greeks; unuseful indeed to him who has read the original authors, but very proper for one who reads modern languages only . . .
A copy with the atlas was bought for Jefferson from Goldsmith, through William Short, on June 20, 1790, price 45 (livres). Jefferson bought other copies for members of his family and for his friends, which appear on his book bills from time to time. A copy without the atlas and without price is entered on his undated manuscript catalogue.
Jean Jacques Barthélemy, 1716-1795, French scholar and numismatist. The first edition of this work was published in quarto in 1788. At the sale of the author's library in 1800, a copy of the octavo edition of 1789 bound in papier velin, with the atlas broché, lot no. 906b, brought 74.19. livres." "00420","J. 42","","","","Athenaei Deipnosophistae. Lat. Natale de Conte.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 122, as above.","Athenæus.","Athenæi Dipnosophistarvm siue Cœnæ sapientum Libri XV. Natale de Comitibvs Veneto Nvnc primum è Græca in Latinam linguam uertente . . . Ad potentissimum Ferdinandum, Pannoniæ, Boemiæ, ac Romanorum Regem . . . Venetiis: apud Andream Arriuabenum ad signum Putei, MDLVI. [1556.]","PA3937 .A5 1556a","
First edition of this translation. Folio. 156 leaves; printer's woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut initials; chiefly in italic letter, with passages in Greek, printed in double columns.
This edition not in Brunet. Graesse I, page 244.
In a contemporary Venetian binding of calf, blind stamped roll borders and inner frames on the sides, rebacked. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. The initials JG in an old hand on the title-page. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the Library of Benjamin Franklin. Purchased in 1803 by Jefferson from Dufief, cost $1.50., at the time the latter was trying, without success, to sell Franklin's library to Congress.
On February 4th, 1803, Jefferson wrote to Dufief:
I recieved . . . last night your letter of Jan. 31. with Doctr. Franklin's catalogue, which I have this morning sent to the chairman of the library-committee of Congress. I observe in it the following books Athenai Deipnosophistorium. fol.
Philostratus works from the Greek. fol.
Durham's Physico and Astrotheology. 8vo. which I will ask the favor of you to send me with those you are about forwarding me . . .
Dufief replied on February 14:
. . . Aussitot la lecture de votre lettre j'ai fait mettre a part les trois ouvrages de votre choix—je vous les adresserai à la premiere occasion favorable . . .
Dufief eventually sent the books on February 26, and the bill on March 1.
For the Philostratus see chapter 16 and for Derham, Physico Astrotheology see chapter 27.
Athenaeus, fl. 190 A.D., Greek rhetorician and grammarian, was an Egyptian by birth. The Deipnosophistæ, or Dinner Table Philosophers, was first published by Aldus in 1524.
Natale Conti, 1520-1582, Milanese scholar." "00430","J. 43","","","","Bryant's mythology.","","3. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 109, as above.","Bryant, Jacob.","A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology: Wherein an Attempt is made to divest Tradition of Fable; and to reduce the Truth to its Original Purity . . . Vol. I [-II]. The Second Edition. [-Vol. III.] By Jacob Bryant . . . London: Printed for T. Payne, P. Elmsly, B. White, and J.Walter, M.DCC.LXXV. [-M.DCC.LXXVI.] [1775, 1776.]","BL305 .B7","
3 vol. 4to. First Edition of vol. III, second edition of vol. I and II; vol. I, 268 leaves; engraved frontispiece of the Marlborough Gem by Sherwin, engraved map; vol. II, 272 leaves, folded engraved map; vol. III, 305 leaves; engravings in the text throughout, and numbered plates by Basire. In vol. III, leaf Ggg4 has been inserted and has the lower margin cut away.P>Lowndes I, page 296.
Original sprinkled calf, with marbled end papers; not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1822 bookplate.
From the Library of George Wythe, with a number of manuscript notes and corrections by him.
Jacob Bryant, 1715-1804, English antiquary and bibliographer, famous for a collection of Caxtons which eventually went to his one time pupil, the Marquis of Blandford.
The first 2 volumes of this work were originally published in 1774. The second edition was published in 1775 as above, and not in 1780 as erroneously stated by Lowndes." "00440","J. 44","","","","Horatii Tursellini historiae universalis epitomen.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 17, as above.","Tursellinus, Horatius.","Horatii Tursellini, Romani, Historiarum, ab origine mundi, usque ad annum à Christo nato, MDXCVIII. Epitomæ Libri decem. Cum brevibus Notis, duplici item accessione, usque ad annum MDCXLII. Ac duplici Indice. Editio ultima prioribus correctior. Ultrajecti: apud Gulielmum vande Water, MDCCX. [1710.]","D18 .T65","
8vo. 319 leaves, engraved frontispiece by P. Sluyter, printer's woodcut device on the title, title printed in red and black.
Not in Brunet. Quérard IX, page 587.
Rebound in half red morocco, original sprinkled edges. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Horatius Tursellinus [Orazio Torsellino], 1545-1599, Italian historian and man of letters. The first edition of this work was published in Paris in 1631; the first Utrecht edition in 1703. By an arrêt of the Parliament of Paris on 3 September 1761, this book was ordered to be burned as containing pernicious documents." "00450","J. 45","","","","Perizonii commentarii in epitomen Horat. Tursell.","","3. v. 4to. M. S.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 110, as above.","Perizonius, Jacobus.","Liber Primus [-Decimus] Commentariorum in Epitomen historiarum Horatii Tursellini ex privatis lectionibus celeberrimi Jacobi Perizonii. Anno MDCCXIV.","","
Original holograph Manuscript bound in 3 vols. 4to., written in ink on thick paper, measuring 10½ by 8 in., in long lines, 28-32 to a page, the headlines cut into or cut close by the binder, other margins wide. Vol. I, 298 leaves including 6 blanks: title, Liber I, paged 1-375 (some irregularities), Liber II, paged 1-210; vol. II, 312 leaves including 1 blank: Liber III, paged 1-255; Liber IV, pp. 1-127; Lib. V, pp. 1-64; Lib. VI, pp. 1-75; vol. III, 200 leaves, including 4 blanks: Lib. VII, pp. 1-92 (with irregularities); Lib. VIII, pp. 1-91 (with irregularities); Lib. IX, pp. 1-102; Lib. X, pp. 1-105.
The volumes are bound in calf, gilt backs, m. e., with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates. On a fly-leaf of vol. I is written:
This Book containing three Volumes
I give at my Death to the Revd. Mr. Thos. Dawson
Rector of Bruton Parish.
July the 4th. 1743. H. Potter.
The Revd. Mr. Thos. Dawson had been appointed rector of Bruton Parish, Williamsburgh, in 1743, the year of the above deed of gift. In 1755 he became Commissary and President of the College of William and Mary, and died in 1761.
Jacobus Perizonius, 1651-1715 (see no. 10) made special manuscript copies of most of his works for Leyden University where he occupied the chair of eloquence and history. No printed edition of this manuscript is listed in the bibliographies." "00460","J. 46","","","","Perizonii animadversiones historicae.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 18, as above.","Perizonius, Jacobus.","Jacobi Perisonii, Ant. F. Animadversiones historicæ in quibus quamplurima in priscis Romanarum rerum, sed utriusque Linguæ Autoribus notantur, multa etiam illustrantur atque emendantur, varia denique antiquorum rituum eruuntur, & uberius explicantur. Amstelædami: ex officini Henrici & Viduæ Theodori Boom, 1685.","DG211 .P44","
First Edition. 8vo. 260 leaves; printer's woodcut device on the title-page (Haghen no. 2).
Van der Aa XV, page 183.
Old calf, gilt backs, sprinkled edges; joints repaired and new end papers, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On the title is written pretij 5sh. in an early hand." "00470","J. 47","","","","Dionysii Halicarnassensis. opera omn. Gr. Lat. not. var.","","6. v. 8vo. Lipsiae 1774","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 70, Dionysii Halicarnensis opera omnia, not. var. Gr. Lat. 6 v 8vo, Lipsiæ, 1774","Dionysius Halicarnassus.","Dionysii Halicarnassensis Opera Omnia Græce et Latine cvm annotationibvs Henrici Stephani, Frid. Sylbvrgii, Franc. Porti, Isaaci Casavboni, Fvlvii Vrsini, Henr. Valesii, Io. Hvdsoni et Io. Iac. Reiske. Lipsiæ: Svmtibvs Gotth. Theoph. Georgi. cI[???]I[???]cclxxiv. [-cI[???]I[???]cclxxvII.] [1774-1777.]","PA3966 .A2 1774","
6 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 349 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacks the first leaf, a blank; vol. II, 339 leaves; vol. III, 338 leaves; vol. IV, 380 leaves; vol. V, 360 leaves; vol. VI, 410 leaves; separate signatures but continuous pagination throughout the volumes; the titles vary in the different volumes, and all except the first have the volume number on the title-page, the first volume is numbered on the half-title; Greek and Latin text in long lines, the notes in double columns.
Graesse II, page 400. Ebert I, 6224. Dibdin, page 129 Contemporary calf, gilt backs, marbled endpapers, r.e.; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout; foxed leaves in each volume. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Jefferson bought a copy from Froullé on December 13, 1788, price 78 (livres). Entered at this price on his undated manuscript catalogue.
Dionysius Halicarnassus, fl. 30 B.C.-8 B.C., Greek scholar and historian. Dionysius went to Rome about 30 B.C. and lived there for more than twenty years before writing his account of its antiquities. This was the only edition of the Greek text in octavo until that date.
Johann Jacob Reiske, 1716-1744, German philologue, was the general editor of this work." "00480","J. 48","","","","Dionysii Halic. quae extant. Lat.","","small 8vo. Hanoviae. 1615.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 19, Id. Quæ extant, Lat. p. 8vo Hanoviæ, 1615.","Dionysius Halicarnassus.","Dionysii Halicarnassei scripta qvæ extant omnia, Historica et Rhetorica; nvnc primvm vniversa latine edita: illa quidem olim per Gelenium; sed ita modo interpolata per Frideric. Sylburgium, vt penè noua versio dici queat . . . Hanoviæ: Typis Wechelianis, apud Hæredes Ioannis Avbrii, Anno M. DC. XV. [1615.]","PA3966 .A2 1615","
2 parts in 1. 8vo. 464 and 248 leaves, printer's woodcut device on both titles.
Graesse II, page 400.
Old vellum, gilt frame sides with arms in the center and ornaments at the angles. A prize copy presented to Jacobo Hoflandio, at Rotterod. ix Calend. Aprilis, 1650. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in the first alphabet. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
A copy of this edition is listed on Jefferson's undated catalogue, with the price, 5/-. A copy of Halicarnassis (Dionysii) antiquitates, Lugd. 1555. 2.v. p. in 12 was ordered by Jefferson from Van Damme (Vol. I of his catalogue, page 237), from Paris, on March 23, 1788, but apparently not obtained.
Frideric Sylburg, 1536-1596, German classical scholar. Sylburg was for some years employed by Wechel to edit his series of the classics, and later worked for Commelin at Heidelberg in the same capacity." "00490","J. 49","","","","Denys d'Halicarnasse.","","2. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 111, as above.","Dionysius Halicarnassus.","Les Antiquités Romaines de Denys d'Halicarnasse Traduites en François: Avec des Notes Historiques, Geographiques, Chronologiques et Critiques. Par M.*** Tome Premier [-Second]. A Paris: Chez Philippe-Nicolas Lottin, M. DCC. XXIII. Avec Privilege du Roi. [1723.]","DG207 .D587","
2 vol. 4to. vol. I, 358 leaves; vol. II, 387 leaves; 5 engraved maps and plans in the first and 3 in the second volume; in the first volume is the Catalogue des Auteurs Cités dans les Notes de cet Ouvrage; the Chronologie Grecque-Romaine selon Denys d'Halicarnasse, with separate pagination, is on 19 preliminary leaves.
Quérard II, page 480. Barbier I, col. 223.
Old French mottled calf, gilt backs, gilt line borders on sides, blue endpapers, r. e., a leaf missing in volume I at the end of the Chronologie. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
A French edition in six volumes bought from Froullé in 1788 for 78 (livres) was not for Jefferson's own library.
François Bellanger, 1688-1749, French humanist and scholar. This is the first edition of his translation of Dionysius Halicarnassus and was the earliest of a number of translations made by him from the classics. It is dedicated to Monsieur Barentin." "00500","J. 50","","","","Polybii historia. Gr. Lat. Casauboni.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 123, as above.","Polybius.","IIoλυβιoυ τoυ λυκoϱτα Mεγαλoπoλιτoυ ιστoϱιων τ[???] σωζoμενα. Polybii Lycortæ F. Megalopolitani Historiarum libri qui supersunt. Isaacvs Casavbonvs ex antiquis libris emendauit, Latine vertit, & Commentariis illustrauit . . . [Frankfort:] Typis Wechelianis sumptibus Daniel. & Dauid. Aubriorum & Clementis Schleichii, M. DC. XIX. [1619.]","PA4391 .A2 1619","
Folio. 668 leaves; Wechel's woodcut device on the title-page, title printed in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns, lower margin cut away from the title.
Ebert 17692. Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, page 328.
Old calf (back cover gone), marbled end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Jefferson bought a copy of Polybii cum notis casoboni, 3 vol. 51 (livres) from Froullé on August 16, 1787, apparently not for his own library.
Polybius, c. 204-c. 123 B.C., Greek historian. His history was a source book for Livy, Cicero and later historians.
For a note on Casaubon see no. 32. This is his second edition of Polybius. The first was published in Paris in 1609 by Drouart, who supplied copies to Wechel distributed by the latter with his own title-page, and reissued in 1619." "00510","J. 51","","","","Polybius. Gr. Lat. Casauboni. not. var. recensit Gronovius. re-edidit Ernestus Lipsiae 1764. apud Krausium. Polybius by Hampton . . . . . . . . . . . .","","8 vol. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 71, Id. Gr. Lat. Casauboni, not. var. Gronovii et Ernesti, Lipsiae, 1764, and Eng. by Hampton, 8 v 8vo.","Polybius.","IIoλυβιoυ τoυ λυκoϱτα ιστoϱιων τα σωζoμενα . . . Polybii Lycortæ F. Historiarvm qvæ svpersvnt interprete Isaaco Casavbono ex recensione Iacobi Gronovii cvm notis Casavbonorvm, Vrsini, Valesii, Palmerii et Iacobi Gronovii . . . Præfationem et Glossarivm Polybianvm adiecit Io. Avgvstvs Ernesti. Lipsiæ: apvd Io. Pavl. Kravisvm, 1763,4.—The General History of Polybius. In Five Books. Translated from the Greek. By Mr. Hampton. The Third Edition. In Two Volumes . . . London: Printed by H. S. Woodfall, For J. Dodsley, 1762,3.","PA4391 .A2 1763","
8 vol. 8vo. These editions were issued in three and two volumes respectively. They were conflated by Jefferson, and bound for him in 8 vol. calf, gilt backs, pale blue endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson in each volume, at sigs. I and T, Ii, Tt, Iii, etc., with the necessary periods inserted in the double lettered signatures. The Library of Congress 1815 bookplate in each volume.
The Ernesti edition was purchased from Froullé on August 16, 1787: idem [i. e. Polbyius] donné par hernesti, 3 vol. 8vo. 36 (livres). The English edition was ordered from Lackington's last catalogue, no. 988. Hampton's Polybius. 4 vols. 8vo. 14/-, in a letter to John Trumbull, written from Paris on May 18, 1788, who on June 20 reported having sent the books from Lackington, including Polybius 16/6.
In Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue the price of the two editions together is listed as 52-16 (livres).
Johann Augusti Ernesti, 1707-1781, German classical scholar and theologian.
James Hampton, 1721-1778, English scholar. The first edition of his translation of Polybius was published in 1756-61." "00520","J. 52","","","","Livy. Dujatii in usum Delphini.","","5. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 112, as above.","Livius, Titus.","Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum Libri Qui Extant. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Joannes Dujatius . . . in usum serenissimi Delphini . . . Accessere Librorum omnium deperditorum Supplementa, per Jo. Freinshemium . . . Parisiis: Apud Fredericum Leonard, M. DC. LXXIX. [-M. DC. LXXX., M. DC. LXXXII.] [1679-80-82.]","PA6452 .A2 1679","
First Delphin Edition. 4to. 5 vol. only [should be 6]. Vol. I, 502 leaves including the blanks and titles, the last leaf of text before the Index has the catchword Joan.; vol. II, 448 leaves; this volume begins with the half-title for Tom. I, Pars II; the title for Tom. II has the imprint dated Paris, 1679; vol. III, 415 leaves; vol. IV, 358 leaves; vol. V, 396 leaves; printer's device on each title-page, engraved plans, full-page and folded plates, medallion portraits, woodcut illustrations; text in long lines, above the notes in double columns.
Brunet III, page 1107. Graesse IV, page 229. Ebert 12106. This edition not in Dibdin.
Old calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in each volume. At the head of the two full-page plans in vol. I is written in ink Tomo jo. pag. 136, and similarly in the same hand on the plate of medallion portraits in vol. II, Tomo 2. pag. 620. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
This volume was in Jefferson's possession before January 9, 1813, on which date he wrote to Dufief for an edition in smaller format:
I possess also the 4to. Delphin edition but I dislike such cumbersome volumes . . .
This is the only example of an original Delphin edition in Jefferson's chapter on ancient history, though there are a number of the London reprints in 8vo. The Delphin classics were originally published in Paris, 1674-1730, 64 volumes quarto, begun under the editorship of Bossuet and Huet, tutors to the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV.
A sixth volume of this edition was published in 1682. It was never a part of this copy, on the flyleaf of volume I is written: Livii historia 5 volumes 5 Guineas.
Titus Livius, 59 B. C.-A. D. 17, Roman historian." "00530","J. 53","","","","Livio del Nardi.","","3. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 124, as above.","Livius, Titus.","Le Deche di T. Livio Padovano delle Historie Romane, Tradotte nella lingua Toscana, da M. Iacopo Nardi, cittadino Fiorentino, & nuouam[???]te dal medesimo gia la terza volta riuedute, & emendate . . . Con la Tauola de Re, Consoli, Tribuni militari con la podesta Consolare, & Dittatori, che per i tempi correnti sono stati creati nella città di Roma . . . In Venetia: nella stamperia de Givnti, M D LXII. [1562.]","PA6456 .N3","
Folio. 1 volume bound in 3. 523 leaves (165, 179 and 179) the last leaf, probably a blank, cut away; woodcut device on the title, woodcut initials, register, printer's device and colophon at the end; a few leaves unopened; some leaves damp-stained.
Graesse IV, page 235.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt backs, marbled endpapers. Initialled by him at sig. I and T in each volume; some passages scored under in red crayon and some in pencil. On the title-page is an autograph signature which appears to be by Jefferson, signing his name in an Italian form. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jacopo Nardi, Florentine historian, was born in 1476. The first edition of his translation of Livy appeared in 1540." "00540","J. 54","","","","Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 20, Livius, supplementis Freinshemii et notis Joan. Clerici, Watsteni, 10 v 12mo.","Livius, Titus.","Titi Livii Historiarum quod exstat, cum integris Joannis Freinshemii Supplementis . . . recensuit et notulis auxit Joannes Clericus. Amstelaedami: apud Henricum Wetstenium; Traiecti ad Rhenum: apud Gulielmum van de Water, cI[???]I[???] cc x. [1710.]","PA6452. A2 1710","
10 vol. sm. 8vo. vol. I, 244 leaves; vol. II, 246 leaves; vol. III, 235 leaves; vol. IV, 224 leaves; vol. V, 232 leaves; vol. VI, 248 leaves; vol. VII, 254 leaves; vol. VIII, 248 leaves; vol. IX, 252 leaves; vol. X, 182 leaves; XIV folded and numbered engraved maps; engraved frontispiece-title in each volume, some signed by J. Goerce; the printed title, which is in red and black, occurs in vol. I only.
Graesse IV, page 229. Ebert 12108.
Sprinkled French calf, gilt backs. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout. On the end flyleaf of the last volume is written in ink in another hand: Th:s Jefferson late President of the United States. This set was formerly in the library of William Byrd of Westover, in Virginia, and has his armorial bookplate preserved in volumes II, III and X. The Library of Congress 1815 bookplate is in all the volumes except vol. I from which it has been partially removed, and vol. VIII, both of which have modern plates; the name of a former owner, with the date 1789, has been scratched out from the inside covers of the volumes, and cut away from the first title.
Bought from Dufief, Philadelphia, in February 1813, price $12.50.
A copy of this edition was offered to Jefferson in a letter from Koenig of Strassburg on May 26, 1788, price 30 (?francs), but evidently was not purchased. At the end of 1812 Jefferson had no edition of Livy in 8vo format, and on December 25 of that year wrote to Dufief at Philadelphia asking for copies of Livy and Tacitus in Latin. any edition in 8vo. or any smaller size, of a good type, of either of them will do. but I should prefer . . . Tonson's 12mo. edition of Livy in 6 vols. edited I think by Maittaire . . .
In reply Dufief sent, on January 4, 1813, a copy of an Elzevir edition in 4 volumes, $8.00. Jefferson wrote on January 9:
I recieved last night your favor of the 4th. with the Elzevir Livy, which, having your permission, I now return because I already possess that edition, and it is too small in it's type for my eyes. I possess also the 4to. Delphin edition but I dislike such cumbersome volumes. having a desire to give Livy a reading at this time, I wished a handy edition and of a type suited to a Septagenary. Maittaire's is the best for my purpose, being of a good print, in 6. vols 12mo. there may be others perhaps equally suitable. such an edition I will thankfully recieve from you.
On February 1, Dufief wrote offering to Jefferson the 10 volume edition described above, and which he purchased:
Je n'ai pu encore malgré toutes mes recherches réussir à trouver l'édition de Tite Live par Mattaire. Mais je puis obtenir un exemplaire d'un autre Editeur, en 10 vol8 12o reliés, prix 12-50 ct. En voici le titre: ''Titi Livii historiarum quod exstat, cum integris Joannis Freinshemii Supplementis emendatioribus et suis locis collocatis, tabulis Geographicis & copioso indice. Recensuit et notutis auxit Joannes clericus''. Amsterdam 1710 . . .
Jefferson accepted this on February 11:
I thank you for the trouble you have taken to find a copy of Livy for me. that which you mention in your letter of the 1st. inst. just now recieved, will answer perfectly, & probably better than Maittaire's . . .
Dufief's bill for this copy was receipted on May 29, 1815. It was the William Byrd copy, in the catalogue of whose library it is listed as being in case no. H., sixth shelf, duodecimo.
There is no entry for this edition in Jefferson's manuscript catalogues, though the book was sold to Congress in 1815.
Jean Leclerc [Joannes Clericus], 1657-1736, Swiss philosopher, theologian, critic, and man of letters, was professor of belles-lettres, philosophy, hebrew, and ecclesiastical history at the Collège des Remonstrants, at Amsterdam." "00550","J. 55","","","","Sallust. Delphini.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 73, id. Delphini, 8vo.","Sallustius Crispus, Caius.","C. Sallustii Crispi Opera omnia, quæ extant, Interpretatione et Notis illustravit Daniel Crispinus, in usum Serenissimi Delphini . . . Londini: Typis Gul. Strahan. Impensis S. Ballard, W. Innys, A. Ward [and others], M.DCC.XLVI. [1746.]","PA6653 .A2 1746","
8vo. 176 leaves; title printed in red and black, text in long lines, Interpretatio and Notae in double columns.
Rebound in half red morocco, by the Library of Congress, with the armorial bookplate of George Wythe and the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates preserved. Some side notes in ink by Wythe. Not initialled by Jefferson.
One of the books bequeathed to Jefferson by George Wythe.
Caius Sallustius Crispus, B. C. 86-34, Roman historian. This edition of his works is a late reprint of the London edition of 1697, copied from the original Paris Delphin edition of 1674, and is unnoticed by the bibliographers.
Daniel Crispin, fl. 1746, Swiss man of letters." "00560","J. 56","","","","Sallust. Wasseii. not. var. Julius Exuperantius . . . . ","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 72, Sallust Wasseii, not. var. et Julius Exuperantius, 4to p.","Sallustius Crispus, Caius.","C. Crispi Sallustii quæ extant; cum notis . . . Accedunt Julius Exsuperantius, Porcius Latro; et fragmenta historicum vett. Cum notis A. Popmæ. Recensuit, Notas perpetuas, & Indices adjecit Josephus Wasse . . . Præmittitur Sallvstii Vita, Auctore, V. Cl. Joanne Clerico. Cantabrigiæ: Typis Academicis, apud Cornelium Crownfield, MDCCX. [1710.]","PA6653 .A2 1710","
4to. 535 leaves; the Addenda ad notas in Fragmentum are preceded by a letter by the Rev. P. Parkes, rector Staplefordiæ de Thany in com. Essexiæ (Stapleford Tawney Essex); separate pagination for the Fragmenta; title printed in red and black, text in long lines above the notes in double columns; some leaves badly foxed and discolored. Graesse VI, page 240. Ebert 20027. Dibdin, page 347. Bowes, page 378.
Rebound in half red morocco, by the Library of Congress.
Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T." "00570","57","","","","id. Foul.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 21, as above.","Sallustius Crispus, Caius.","Caii Salustii Crispi quæ supersunt omnia. Ex recensione Gli. Corte. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1749 [or 51, or 77].","","
8vo.
A copy of this book was included in the library Jefferson bought from the Rev. Samuel Henley on March 3, 1785. It was sold to Congress in 1814, but was either missing at the time of the sale or was lost immediately afterwards. The book is not checked in an early working copy of the 1815 catalogue, and is the first entry in an undated manuscript list headed Congress Library Books missing, made between 1815 and 1830. The entry is omitted from all the Library Catalogues after that of 1815." "00580","J. 58","","","","id. Mattaire.","","16s","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 22, as above, 12mo.","Sallustius Crispus, Caius.","Caii Sallustii Crispi quæ extant. Londini: ex officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, M DCC XXV. [1725.]","PA6653 .A2 1725","
12mo. 102 leaves, title printed in red and black, printer's woodcut device.
Graesse VI, page 241. This edition not in Ebert. Not in Dibdin.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress with the 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. Some leaves discolored.
A reimpression of Maittaire's edition of 1713." "00590","J. 59","","","","Caesar Delphini.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 75, Id. Delphini, 8vo.","Caesar, Caius Julius.","C. Julii Cæsaris quæ exstant, interpretatione & notis illustravit Joannes Godvinus Professor Regius in usum Delphini. Juxta editionem Parisiensem. Editio Tertia. Londini: E Typographæo Mariæ Matthews. Impensis J. & B. Sprint, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth, J. Bowyer, H. Clements, Gul. Taylor, T. Ward, Gul. & J. Innys, & Gul. Churchill, M. DCC. XIX. [1719.]","PA6235 .A2 1719","
8vo. 332 leaves, folded map, title-page in red and black; text in long lines, notes in double columns; some leaves foxed and discolored.
Old sheep; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1822 bookplate.
Caius Julius Caesar, c. 102-44 B. C. The first Delphin edition of his works was published in Paris in 1678." "00600","J. 60","","","","Caesar notis Davisii et variorum, Metaphrasi Graeca. Cant. 1727.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 74, as above.","Caesar, Caius Julius.","C. Julii Cæsaris et Auli Hirtii quæ exstant omnia. Recensuit ac selectis Petri Ciacconii, Francisci Hotomanni, Joannis Brantii, Dionysii Vossii et aliorum notis suas addidit Joannes Davisius. Accedunt ejusdem curæ secundæ nec non Metaphrasis Græca Librorum VII. de Bello Gallico. Cantabrigiæ: Typis Academicis, MDCCXXVII. [1727.]","PA6235 .A2 1727","
1 vol. bound in 2. 4to. 458 leaves (168 and 290), folded engraved map as frontispiece to each volume, 1 folded engraved plate. The sheets containing the Greek translation, (a-m) have been removed and used to interleave the corresponding Latin text at the beginning of the work. The volume division occurs at the end of sig. Tt.
Graesse II, page 8. Ebert I, 3277. Dibdin, page 65.
This edition not in Bowes.
Bound for Jefferson, in two volumes, tree calf, marbled end papers; initialled by him at sigs. I and T, and Iii and Ttt. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
John Davies, 1679-1732, was President of Queen's College, Cambridge. His edition of Cæsar's Opera was first published in 1706 (Bowes 371)." "00610","J. 61","","","","id. Fr. de d'Ablancourt.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 23, as above.","Caesar, Caius Julius.","Les Commentaires de Cesar, de la traduction de N. Perrot, sieur d'Ablancourt. Edition nouvelle, reveuë & corrigée. A Amsterdam: chez Pierre Mortier, MDCCVIII. [1708.]","PA6240 .A1P4 1708","
12mo. 288 leaves: a-d, A-V12 (the first leaf lacking), engraved frontispiece, folded engraved map and plate, printer's device on the title (in this state not in Silvestre and not in Hæghen), publisher's catalogue on the last 2 leaves; title and 2 plates mounted.
This edition not in Brunet, Graesse, or in Ebert.
Rebound by the Library of Congress in half red morocco; with the 1864 bookplate. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, French translator from the classics. The first edition of his translation of Cæsar's Commentaries was published in 1650." "00620","J. 62","","","","Florus. not. var.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 76, as above.","Florus, Lucius Annaeus.","L. Annæi Flori Epitome rerum Romanarum ex recensione Jo. Georgii Grævi cum ejusdem annotationibus longe auctoribus. Accessere notæ integræ Cl. Salmasii, Jo. Freinshemii, & Variorum. Nec non Numismata et Antiqua Monumenta in hac nova editione, suo cuique loco inserta. Cum variantibus, lectionibus & Indice. In fine additus est L. Ampelius ex Bibliotheca Cl. Salmasii. Tomus I [-II]. Amstelaedami: apud Georgium Gallet, M.DCCII. [1702.]","PA6386.A2 1702","
2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 278 leaves, 1 folded leaf with a table printed in red and black inserted at page 156; engraved numismatic and other illustrations in the text, including one full-page engraving of a column, and a trireme; vol. II, 194 leaves, titles printed in red and black. In vol. I the text is in long lines with the gloss below in double columns; in vol. II the text is in long lines and is followed by the notes in long lines.
Graesse II, page 605. Ebert 7689. Dibdin, page 150. Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes.
Lucius Annaeus Florus, Roman historian, lived under Trajan and Hadrian. His epitome of Roman history covers the period from the foundation of the city to the establishment of the empire under Augustus, and is drawn chiefly from Livy." "00630","J. 63","","","","id. Lat. Fr. Le Mothe le Vayer.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 24, as above.","Florus, Lucius Annaeus.","Epitome de l'Histoire Romaine, fait en quatre livres par Lucius Ann. Florus et mis en François sur les traductions de Monsieur, frère unique du Roy. A Paris: chez Thomas Jolly, M. DC. LXX. [1670.]","PA6387 .F8L4 1670","
12mo. 239 leaves only: ã6, A-T12, V5, imperfect at the end, several leaves of Table missing, printer's woodcut device on the title-page, French and Latin text on opposite pages.
This edition not in Graesse. Not in Quérard.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf by John March; with Jefferson's original shelf-mark: C.1./24 written on a slip and pasted on the title-page, on which is his autograph signature in an early hand: Ex Libris Thomae Jefferso[n] (the last letter cut away by the binder.) Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
François de la Mothe le Vayer, 1588-1672, French academicien, the translator, was at one time tutor to Louis XIV. This work is dedicated by him to Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou, frère unique de sa Majesté." "00640","J. 64","","","","Florus by Stirling.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 78, Id. Stirling, 8vo.","Florus, Lucius Annaeus.","L. Annæi Flori Rerum Romanarum Epitome. Or, an Abridgment of the Roman History by L. Annæus Florus . . . For the Use of Schools. By John Stirling, M.A. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon. London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by T. Astley, M DCC XXXVIII. [1738.]","PA6386 .A2 1738","
First edition of this translation. 8vo. in fours. 124 leaves, text in double columns, Ordo in long lines below. The work ends on Yi verso, page 162, and is followed by a Geographical Index, Vocabularium and Themata Verborum; publisher's advertisement on the last leaf.
Graesse II, page 606. Not in Ebert.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Ordered by Jefferson in a letter to Stockdale, written from Paris on July 1, 1787, no. 3912 in the second part of Lackington's catalogue, price 1/6.
Listed at this price, in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
John Stirling, D.D., d. 1777, Vicar of Great Gaddesdon, Hertfordshire, England, was the author of several translations from the classics. The preface to this work was written from Gadbridge near Hempstead, undated." "00650","J. 65","","","","Florus Delphini.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 77, Id. Delphini, 8vo.","Florus, Lucius Annaeus.","L. Annæi Flori Rerum Romanarum Epitome. Interpretatione & Notis illustravit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri Filia, jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Londini: Impensis R. Clavell, H. Mortlock, & S. Smith, M DC XCII. [1692.]","PA6386 .A2 1692","
8vo. 176 leaves; title-page printed in red and black; the text printed in long lines, the Interpretatio and Notae in double columns.
Graesse II, page 605. Ebert 7685. STC F1378.
Rebound in red morocco in 1903 by the Library of Congress, gilt line border on the sides. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 1 f 16.
The first Delphin edition was printed in Paris in 1674." "00660","J. 66","","","","Vertot. Revolutions de Rome.","","3. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 25, as above.","Vertot, René-Aubert de.","Histoire des Revolutions arrivées dans le Gouvernement de la Republique Romaine. Par Mr. l'Abbé de Vertot . . . Quatrième Edition augmentée d'une Dissertation de l'Auteur, sur le Senat Romain, &c. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. A La Haye: chez Antoine Van Dole, MDCCXXXIV. [1734.]","DG231. V557","
3 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 221 leaves; vol. II, 229 leaves; the last two with a list of Livres imprimez chez H. Scheurleer . . . vol. III, 249 leaves, at the end Difficultez touchant la Constitution du Sénat Romain, proposées par Milord Stanhope . . . et résolues par Monsr. l'Abbé de Vertot . . . A la Haye: chez Henri Scheurleer, 1722, with separate title, the last three leaves for Scheurleer's Catalogue; titles printed in red and black.
Burnet IV, page 595. This edition not in Quérard.
Old calf, gilt back. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout; a small note written in ink in vol. II, page 45; 2 leaves, probably blank, torn away at the end of vol. I; title leaf in vol. III lacking. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
René-Aubert de Vertot, 1655-1735, French religieux. The first edition of this work was printed in Paris in 1719." "00670","J. 67","","","","Annales Romaines par Macquer.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 26, as above.","Macquer, Philippe.","Annales Romaines, ou Abregé Cronologique de l'Histoire Romaine, depuis la Fondation de Rome, jusqu'aux Empereurs . . . A Paris: chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, M. DCC. LVI. [1756.]","DG210 .M17","
First Edition. 8vo. 284 leaves, sheet Z misbound. Quérard V, page 419.
French mottled calf, gilt back, marbled end papers, sprinkled edges; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Bought from Froullé on June 27, 1787, price 4 livres.
Philippe Macquer, 1720-1770, French scholar, was a member of a Scottish Catholic family who emigrated to France on the fall of the Stewarts. He was a brother of the chemist, Pierre-Joseph Macquer, q. v." "00680","J. 68","","","","Plutarchi vitae. Gr. Lat. Cruserii.","","4. v. small folio.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 113, as above, with reading 4 v p. fol.","Plutarch.","Toυ σo&phis;ωτατoυ Πλoυταϱχoυ παϱαλληλoν, βιoι Pωμαιων και Eλληνων. μ&thetas;'. Sapientissimi Plutarchi paralellum, Vitæ Romanorum & Græcorum. Quadraginta nouem. [Florentiæ: in ædibus Phil. Junta, 1517.]—Plvtarchi Chæronei, Gravissimi et Philosophi et Historici, Vitæ comparatæ illustrium Virorum, Græcorum & Romanorum, ita digestæ ut temporum ordo series que constet, Hermanno Crvserio I. C. . . . Basileæ: Apvd Thomam Gvarinvm Anno M. D. LXIIII. [1564.]","PA4369 .A2 1517","
These two editions conflated and bound in 4 vol. folio. Vol. I has the half-title for the Giunta edition as above, preceded by a leaf with the Giunta device. Vol. II has the title for the Basle edition (backed), vol. III and IV have no titles. At the end of the last volume (1564 edition) are lives by Aemilius Probus [Cornelius Nepos].
The books were bound for Jefferson in calf, and are initialled by him in each volume; numerous MS. marginal notes in several hands and the signature of Wm. Cocke. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Plutarch, c. 46-120, Greek biographer and miscellaneous writer, is known chiefly for his Parallel Lives, of which the Giunta edition above is the first printed edition. The work was frequently reprinted and translated. The first complete edition of Plutarch's Opera was published by Stephanus in 1572, see the next number.
Hermann Cruser, 1510-1575, Dutch classical scholar." "00690","J. 69","","","","Plutarchi vitae. Gr. Lat. Eng.","","13. v. 12vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 27, as above.","Plutarch.","Πλoυτ[???]ϱχoυ τo[???] Xαιϱων[???]ως παϱ[???]λληλα, [???] β[???]oι παϱ[???]λληλoι. Plvtarchi Chæronensis Parallela seu Vitæ parallelæ. Id est, Vitæ Illvstrivm virorum, quos binos quasi paria composuit . . . Interprete Hermanno Crvserio, I. C. . . [Geneva: H. Stephanus, 1572.]—Plutarch's Lives. In Six Volumes. Translated from the Greek . . . To which is prefixed, The Life of Plutarch, by Mr. Dryden. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Donaldson, M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774.]","PA4367 .A2 1572 v. 9-21","
These two editions conflated and bound in 13 volumes 12mo. Each volume has at the beginning a title from the Edinburgh, or a half-title from the Stephanus edition. The Stephanus edition is the first edition of the Opera of Plutarchus and was issued in 13 volumes. The remaining volumes are in the Jefferson collection, but were separated by him from the Vitae, and are in chapter 16, Ethics.
The volumes are bound in calf, gilt backs, with the volume numbers 1-13. Each is initialled by Jefferson on any leaves which bear the signatures I and T in any form. Each title or half-title has the volume number written in ink by two hands, one of which may be Jefferson's; paragraph numerals in the margins of the text are by Jefferson. An analysis of the contents in pencil on the fly-leaves of each volume is in a later hand. The first title of the Edinburgh edition has the autograph signature Ex Libris Jno. Taylor, and the date 1787 in another hand.
The volumes have the 1815 Library of Congress bookplate, with the exception of vol. III which is from another copy with marbled edges, and has been rebound with new endpapers and bookplate.
The Stephanus edition was at one time in the library of William Byrd, whose autograph signature is on the title-page of vol. I of the Opera. It is entered in his Library Catalogue: Case 15. Fourth Shelf. 8vo. Plutarchi Opera—6 Tom., [do] in 7 Tom.
The set contains a duplicate copy of vol. XIII of the Stephanus edition, containing the Appendix, not listed in Jefferson's manuscript nor in the printed Library catalogues. Old calf, initialled by Jefferson at sig. [1][???], and with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
On the half-title is written, not by Jefferson: Excudebat H. Stephanus, Parisiis, 1572.
Jefferson bought several editions of Plutarch's works. In 1787 he bought a copy from Froullé in Paris; in 1791 he bought a set from John Pemberton, the Philadelphia quaker, who wrote to Jefferson on July 16:
I send the books thou paid for 2 months past. they are not in such good order as I could have wished. they suffered while in the Bookseller's hands—that if thou does not approve of them I cannot insist on thy taking them.
6 vol; Plutarch's lives, Greek.
7 vol; do . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10
[The books were paid for on May 16 according to an entry in Jefferson's note book.]
In the following year, 1792, Jefferson ordered from Lackington's catalogue a copy of the 1762 edition, which he describes as ''4421. h.b. not uniform, 12mo. 9/-.'' On April 15, 1806, he bought from Roche of Philadelphia Dacier's French edition, 14 vol. 12mo. The undated manuscript catalogue has an entry: Plutarchi vitae, 7 vols. 8vo. Gr. Lat. 60f4." "00700","J. 70","","","","Cornelius Nepos.","","not. var. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 79, Cornelius Nepos, Notis Varior. 8vo.","Nepos, Cornelius.","Cornelii Nepotis Vitæ Excellentium Imperatorum, Observationibus ac Notis Commentatorum, quotquot hactenus innotuere, Illustratæ. Accesserunt huic Editioni præcipuorum Græciæ Imperatorum Icones æri incisæ, ut & Index Rerum & Verborum præcedenti multo auctior & emendatior. Amstelodami: Ex Typographia P. & J. Blaeu, prostant apud Wolfgang, Janssonio-Waesbergios, Boom, à Someren, & Goethals, M DC LXXXVII. [1687.]","PA6515 .A2 1687","
8vo. 256 leaves, text printed in long lines, notes in double columns, engraved medallion portraits in the text, printer's woodcut device on the title-page.
Ebert I, 5262. Dibdin, page 269.
Rebound in calf, marbled endpapers, in the late nineteenth century. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. On the title-page the autograph signature: R. Blythmans. 96.
Jefferson bought a copy of an edition of this book from Milligan on March 5, 1815, at which time Milligan was supplying replacement copies of books missing at the time of the sale of the library to Congress.
In a letter to Thomas J. Rogers, written in December 1823, concerning his forthcoming biographical dictionary, Jefferson expressed the opinion that the works of Cornelius Nepos would be suitable for children when at the reading school. nothing would interest them more than such works as Cornelius Nepos . . .
Cornelius Nepos, c. 99-c. 24 B. C. This is the fourth variorum edition of this work, which contains parallel lives of distinguished Romans and foreigners, and is an exact reprint of the edition of Hackius of 1675, including the dedication. The first variorum edition appeared in 1658." "00710","J. 71","","","","id. Foul.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 30, Cornelius Nepos, Foulis, 12mo.","Nepos, Cornelius.","Cornelii Nepotis Excellentium Imperatorum Vitæ. Ex editione Oxoniensi. Glasguæ: In ædibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, M DCC LXI. [1761.]","PA6515 .A2 1761","
8vo. 156 leaves: publisher's list on the last leaf.
This edition not in Graesse. Ebert I, 5271. Dibdin, page 271.
Original calf, gilt back, uniform with no. 13 etc. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
The editione Oxoniensi was printed in 1697." "00720","J. 72","","","","Cornelius Nepos.","","12mo. Cruserii.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 28, as above.","","","","
This entry appears in Jefferson's dated catalogue, in the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue and all subsequent catalogues to that of 1849, inclusive, after which it is dropped.
It appears to be a ''ghost'', as no edition by Cruser of the work of Cornelius Nepos is listed in the bibliographies, nor in the biographies of Cruser.
The Vitae of Cornelius Nepos are sometimes joined to Plutarch's Vitae Paralellorum of which Cruser edited an edition, and which may account for Jefferson's entry." "00730","J. 73","","","","Cornelio Nepote. Lat. Ital. dal Bandiera.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 29, Id. Lat. Ital. dal Bandiera, 8vo, p.","Nepos, Cornelius.","Cornelio Nipote della Vita degli eccellenti comandanti: In volgar Toscano recato a riscontro del testo Latino, ed illustrato con note di varie maniere per Alessandro M. Bandiera Sanese de' servi di Maria. Quarta edizione migliorata e ricoretta dall'Autore. In Venezia: MDCCLXI, appresso Tommaso Bettinelli, con Licenza de' Superiori, e Privilegio. [1761.]","PA6516 .18B3 1761","
8vo. 228 leaves: A-Z, Aa-Dd8, Ee12, the last a blank, 2 folded leaves with printed tables.
Not in Graesse, Brunet, Ebert. Only the edition of 1743 in Schweiger and in Moss. Argelati, Biblioteca degli Volgarizzatori, published in 1747, has the edition of 1743.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt back, gilt line borders on sides, marbled end papers, m. e.; initialled by him at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price: 2-10+2, the latter figure probably for the binding.
Alessandro Bandiera, b. 1699, Italian scholar. The first edition of this translation was published in 1743." "00740","J. 74","","","","Middleton's life of Cicero.","","3. v. 8.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 114, as above, 2 v 4to.","Middleton, Conyers.","The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero. In Two Volumes . . . By Conyers Middleton, D.D., Principal Library-Keeper of the University of Cambridge. London: Printed [by James Bettenham] for the Author, MDCCXLI. [1741.]","DG260 .C5 M5","
First Edition. 2 vol. 4to. Large paper. Vol. I, 316 leaves; vol. II, 298 leaves; engraved head of Cicero on the title of each volume, engraved head and tail pieces and initials by Gravelot; list of subscribers at the beginning of vol. I, printer's imprint at the end of each volume.
Lowndes III, page 1544.
Rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress in 1905. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes; a marginal note in his hand in vol. I, page 450; pencil marks are not by Jefferson.
There is no entry for a quarto edition of this work in Jefferson's manuscript catalogue. The 1815 Library of Congress catalogue correctly describes this copy as 2 v. 4to.
Jefferson bought a copy of the 3 volume edition from Milligan in 1808: March 8, 1808. To 1 Middleton's Cicero. 3 vols. calf, gilt. $10.50. He had at one time tried to buy a copy in London. An undated note in Jefferson's writing lists a number of books to be sent from London including Middleton's Life of Cicero. the 8vo. edition & no other.
This work has a place on most of Jefferson's recommended reading lists. His opinion of it is expressed in a letter to Mrs Anne Cary Bankhead, dated from Washington, December 8, 1800:
I like much your choice of books for your winter's reading. Middleton's life of Cicero is among the most valuable accounts we have of the period of which he writes . . .
[See also Tacitus, no. 80.]
Conyers Middleton, 1683-1750, English divine, and 'Protobibliothecarius' of the University Library of Cambridge. The list of subscribers to this work, which numbers three thousand, is exceptionally interesting. Only two of the names have American addresses: Jonathan Blenman, Esq; attorney general of Barbadoes, and John Peare, of Antigua, Esq. Other names of American interest are the right hon. the Lord Delawar and Thomas Hollis." "00750","J. 75","","","","Velleius Paterculus.","","not. var. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 80, as above.","Velleius Paterculus, Marcus.","[C. Velleii Paterculi quæ supersunt ex Historiæ Romanæ voluminibus duobus. Cum integris scholiis, notis, variis lectionibus, et animadversionibus doctorum. Curante Petro Brumanno. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1719.]","PA6798 .A2 1719","
8vo. 452 leaves only, should be 454, lacks the title, engraved frontispiece and the last leaf, probably blank.
Graesse V, 163. Ebert 23481 note. Dibdin 421.
Rebound in buckram by the Library of Congress in 1921. Initialled at sigs. I and T by Jefferson, who has supplied the title in ink on a blank leaf at the beginning:
Velleius Paterculus cum notis Variorum curâ P. Burmanni Lugd. Batav. 1719.
Additions are made in another hand (possibly that of Thomas Mann Randolph) below which has been added the title written in pencil.
Marcus Velleius Paterculus, c. 19 B. C.-c. A. D. 31, Roman historian.
Pieter Burmann, 1688-1741, Dutch classical scholar, was a pupil of Grævius and Gronovius and succeeded Perizonius to the chair of history and Greek eloquence at Leiden." "00760","J. 76","","","","id.","","8vo. Oxoniae.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 81, Id. Oxoniae, 8vo.","Velleius Paterculus, Marcus.","M. Velleii Paterculi quæ supersunt: cum variis Lectionibus optimarum editionum; doctorum virorum conjecturis & castigationibus; et Indice locupletissimo. Accedit annotationum libellus. Oxoniæ: E Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno. Dom. MDCCXI. Prostant apud Joan. Wilmot [1711.]","PA6798 .A2 1711","
8vo. 130 leaves, engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre by MB [M. Burg] on the title-page, Wilmot's advertisement below the imprint.
Lowndes IV, page 1798. Graesse V, page 162. Ebert 23479 (note).
Original panelled calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. The name of the editor Joh. Hudson and the marginal entries of the corresponding arabic numerals to the roman numerals in the text are probably not by Jefferson. The early Library of Congress catalogues erroneously date this copy 1791. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
For a note on John Hudson, 1622-1719, see no. 7. This is the second edition of his Velleius Paterculus, originally printed in Oxford in 1693." "00770","J. 77","","","","Dionis Casii. historia et Xiphilinus. Gr. Lat. Xylandri.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 125, as above.","Dio Cassius.","Tων Διωνoς τoυ Kασσιoυ ϱωμαικων ιστoϱιων βιβλ[???]α π[???]ντε κα[???] ε[???]κoσι. Dionis Cassii Romanarvm Historiarvm Libri XXV, Ex Guilielmi Xylandri interpretatione . . . [Geneva:] Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, Anno M. D. XCII. [1592.]—Xiphilinus, Joannes. Eεκ των Διωνoς κλoγαι Iωαννoυ τoυ Ξι&phis;ιλινoυ. E Dione Excerptæ Historiæ ab Ioanne Xiphilino. Ex interpretatione Guilielmi Blanci, à Guilielmo Xylandro recognita. Henrici Stephani in Ioannem Xiphilinum post duos egregios messores Spicilegium. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, Anno M. D. XCII. [1592.]","PA3947 .A2 1592","
2 vol. in 1. Folio. ?[i] 414 leaves; [ii] 204 leaves; Estienne's device on both title-pages, woodcut initials and ornaments, Greek and Latin text in parallel columns.
Brunet II, page 712 and V, page 1504. Graesse II, page 393 and VI, page 495 (with date misprinted 1572). Dibdin 126.
Old calf, rebacked. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs i i and t i. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the Library of William Byrd, with his armorial bookplate. In his library catalogue it is listed in Case 15. Second Shelf. folio. Deonis et Ziphilini. Opera.
Dio Cassius Cocceianus, c. 150-235, Greek writer of Roman birth. Part of his original history remains and part is preserved in the epitome of Joannes Xiphilinus.
Joannes Xiphilinus, fl. 1075, a monk of Constantinople. His epitome of Dio Cassius's work was prepared by order of Michael Parapinaces.
Guilielmus Xylander was the pseudonym of William Holtzmann, 1532-1596, professor of Greek at Heidelberg University.
For a note on Henri Estienne see no. 15." "00780","J. 78","","","","Appiani Alexandrini historia. Gr. Lat. Tollii.","","2. v. 8vo. Jansonii 1670.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 82, as above.","Appianus Of Alexandria.","Aππιανoυ Aλεξανδϱεως ϱωμαικα. Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum Historiarum Pars prior . . . Alexander Tollivs, Utrumque textum multis in locis emendavit, correxit & Henrici Stephani, Ac Doctorum quorundam Virorum Selectas Annotationes adjecit. [Pars Altera . . . ] Amstelodami: Ex Officina Joh. Janssonii à Waesberge, Et Johannis à Someren. Anno M. DC. LXX. [1670.]","PA3873 .A2 1670","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 309 leaves, engraved title; vol. II, 368 leaves; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns; the colophon at the foot of Iiii8 recto reads: Hardervici: Ex Typographiâ Pauli Vanden Houte . . . Anno M. DC. LXX.
Graesse I, page 168. Dibdin, page 32.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson in both volumes.
A copy of this book from De Bure's catalogue was bought by Jefferson while in Holland on March 18, 1788, from Van Damme of Amsterdam. Van Damme sent the book to Jefferson in Paris in June, price 12 (Dutch livres). The book is entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with this price.
Appianus of Alexandria, fl. A. D. 138, Roman historian. His work was originally written in Greek and is a valuable source book for the history of various peoples and countries to their incorporation in the Roman Empire.
Alexander Tollius, 1625-1675. This is his first edition of Appianus, and was founded on that of Henri Estienne." "00790","J. 79","","","","Appiano Alessandrino dal Braccio é Ruscelli.","","12mo. Ven. 1567.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 31, as above.","Appianus Of Alexandria.","Appiano Alessandrino delle Gverre de'Romani, cosi esterne, come civili. Tradotte da M. Alessandro Braccio Secretario Fiorentino. Nuouamente ristampato & tutto ricorretto, & di copiose tauole migliorato. Con l'Istoria della Gverra Illirica, & di quella contra Annibale, del medesimo Autore nuouamente ritrouata in lingua Greca, & tradotta in Italiano dal S. Girolamo Rvscelli. Venetia: M. D. LXVII, appresso Domenico, & Gio Battista Guerra, fratelli. [1567.]","PA3873 .A3 1567","
Sm. 8vo. 2 parts in 1. 296 leaves (208 and 88); the last leaf of the first part has the Register, woodcut Phoenix device and the colophon, and is followed by the second title, with imprint dated 1567 (colophon dated 1566); separate pagination; printed in italic letter throughout.
Graesse I, page 270. Argelati, page 74.
Bound in calf for Jefferson by J. March, marbled end papers, with Jefferson's original shelf-mark C.1. /31 [Chapter I. no. 31] in ink, on a slip pasted down on the title-page. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. Ordered by Jefferson while in Holland, on March 23, 1788, from Van Damme, no. 282 in his catalogue. It is listed without the price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Alessandro Braccio, d. 1503, a Florentine, was Secretary to the Republic of Florence. The first edition of his translation of Appianus, made from the Latin version of Candido, appeared in 1563.
Girolamo Ruscelli, d. 1566, Italian man of letters." "00800","J. 80","","","","Tacitus Gronovii. not. var. Amstel. Elzevir 1672. & Eng. by Gordon.","","9 v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 83, as above with Cronovii.","Tacitus, Cornelius.","C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, quæ exstant . . . Joh. Fred. Gronovius recensuit, & suas notas passim adjecit . . . Amstelodami: apud Danielem Elsevirium, 1672, 3.—The Works of Tacitus. In Four Volumes. To which are prefixed, Political Discourses upon that Author . . . The Second Edition, corrected. London: Printed for T. Woodward, and J. Peele, 1737","PA6705 .A2 1672","
9 vol. 8vo. This set consists of the Elzevir edition (Willems 1479), 2 vol. and the second edition of the English version by Thomas Gordon, 4 vol., conflated by Jefferson and bound in 9 vol., tree and marbled calf, gilt backs, plain endpapers: Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T wherever they occur, vol. 1-7, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate, vol. 8, rebound with a new bookplate, vol. 9, repaired and with the 1864 plate. This volume has the plates and maps folded to 8vo. size. Vol. 2 has the stamp of R. D. Cooke, 18 Church Street, New York on the Library of Congress bookplate. The Elzevir edition has the autograph signature of Ludouicus Alexander Croiset in several places. Some of the volumes are scorched and water stained.
Jefferson bought a copy of Gordon's Tacitus from Stockdale, price £1-4, in August, 1787, and a copy of Taciti cum notis variorum 4 vol. price 28 livres from Froullé in the same month.
On July 1, 1787 Jefferson wrote to Stockdale:
. . . If you can procure for me a copy of all Tacitus's works in Latin, in usum Delphini and in 8vo. send them: and in that case send also from Lackington No. 1529. Tacitus's works by Gordon 5.v. 8to. 14f6. but if you cannot find the precise Latin edition above indicated, do not send the English one.
Stockdale replied on July 10:
Tacittus's Works in Latin is not to be got in 8vo.
On August 3, Stockdale had found a copy of Gordon's book and wrote:
. . . I should have sent the Articles off sooner had it not been for the difficulty I had to meet with Gordon's Tacitus, it being entirely out of print; it is bound, but I hope it will answer your purpose, the price is £1.4.
A copy of the Elzevir edition was offered to Jefferson on May 26, 1788, by Koenig of Strassburg, and was one of those sent to Paris, chez M. Prevost, libraire, and put de coté for Jefferson.
The Elzevir and Gordon editions are entered together on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue as on the dated, with the complete price: 75 (livres).
Jefferson's opinion of Tacitus was expressed in a letter to Mrs. Anne Carey Bankhead, written from Washington, December 8, 1800:
. . . Tacitus I consider as the first writer in the world without a single exception. his book is a compound of history & morality of which we have no other example
Of Gordon's translation he wrote on May 1, 1813, to Charles Clay, to whose son, Cyrus, he had sent a copy of Tacitus (bought from Dufief on Jan. 4, 1813 for $8.00):
. . . the solidity of his [i. e. Tacitus] matter, his brevity, & his fondness for point & antithesis make him difficult. I would advise the use of a translation, to be read after the original . . . Murphy's is preferred by those who cannot read the original, and who do not therefore know the spirit of the author. But those who do find much more of that spirit in Gordon's. his selection of Tacitus & Sallust for translation seems to have been dictated by the similar causticity of his own genius . . .
Cornelius Tacitus, c. 55-120, Roman historian.
Thomas Gordon, d. 1750, Scottish miscellaneous writer. The first edition of his translation of Tacitus was published in 1728, in 2 vol. folio." "00810","J. 81","","","","Tacitus Brotier. Tacito por Sveyro. Tacitus by Gordon.","","12. v. small 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 32, Tacitus, edition of Brotier, with Span. por Sveyro, and Eng. by Gordon, 12 v, p 8vo.","Tacitus, Cornelius.","C. Cornelii Taciti Opera supplementis, notis et dissertationibus illustravit Gabriel Brotier . . . Parisiis: ex typographia L. F. Delatour, 1776.—Las Obras de C. Cornelio Tacito. Traducidas de Latin en Castellano por Emanvel Sveyro, natural de la ciudad de Anuers . . . En Anvers: en casa de Pedro y Iuan Bellero, 1619.—The Works of Tacitus. With Political Discourses upon that Author. By Thomas Gordon, Esq. The Fifth Edition Corrected. Dublin: for J. Williams [and others], 1778.","PA6705 .A2 1776","
12mo. and 8vo. The three editions conflated by Jefferson, cut to size and bound for him, probably by March, in 12 vol. calf, gilt backs (vol. I, tooled to a different design) marbled end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T wherever they occur. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate (in vol. 9 placed inside the back cover, the 1822 plate being in the front cover); on the Spanish title the initials e h are written in ink. The Brotier edition was purchased by Jefferson from Goldsmith in Paris through William Short in 1790. In an undated letter, written in that year, Jefferson sent Short a list of his requirements, including:
. . . Tacittus de l'Abbé Brotier (or some such name) in 6. or 7. vols 12mo. Frouillé sent it to me once & I returned it. I would prefer it unbound if to be had so . . .
Short procured the book from Goldsmith and sent it to Jefferson on June 20, with a copy of Goldsmith's memoire (marked pd. June 29, 1790.) which included Tacite de l'Abbé Brothier. 7 vol. 21.10 (livres).
The Spanish translation was bought from Lackington, ordered with others in a letter written by Jefferson on September 9, 1789, at the moment when he was about leaving Paris for some time. This book was no. 9680 in the catalogue: Tacitus in Spanish. 8vo. 6/6.
This edition in Spanish is the only one of the three under consideration listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Gabriel Brotier, 1723-1789, French humanist and Jesuit, was librarian of the College of Louis-le-Grand. His first edition of Tacitus was published in 1771 in 4to.
Emanuel Sueyro, born in 1587 in Antwerp, of Portuguese ancestry, is chiefly known for his translations into Spanish.
For a note on Gordon see the previous entry." "00820","J. 82","","","","Suetonius. Delphini.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 84, as above.","Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius.","C. Suetonii Tranquilli Opera omnia quæ extant, Interpretatione et Notis illustravit Augustinus Babelonius, jussu Christianissimi regis, ad usum serenissimi Delphini . . . Londini: E Typographæo Mariæ Matthews. Impensis R. Knaplock, J. & B. Sprint, B. Tooke [and others], M.DCC.XVIII. [1718.]","PA6700 .A2 1718","
8vo. 400 leaves; title printed in red and black, text in long lines, notes in double columns.
Lowndes V, page 2543.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Bought from Lackington, in a letter from Jefferson written from Paris on Sep. 9. 1789, giving an order for a number of books from Lackington's last catalogue, including 9292 Suetonius Delphini. 8vo. 4/6.
It is entered without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, fl. A. D. 98-138, Roman historian and private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian. The first Delphin edition of the Opera was published in Paris in 1684 in quarto." "00830","J. 83","","","","Historiae Augustae scriptores sex. viz. Aelius Spartianus. Julius Capitolinus. Aelius Lampridius. Vulcatius Gallicanus. Trebellius Pollio. Flavius Vopiscus . . . . . . . . .","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 85, as above.","","Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores VI. ælius Spartianus. Julius Capitolinus. ælius Lampridius. Vulc. Gallicanus. Trebell. Pollio. Flavius Vopiscus. Cum integris Notis Isaaci Casauboni, Cl. Salmasii & Jani Gruteri. Cum Indicibus locupletissimis Rerum ac Verborum. Tomus I [-II]. Lugduni Batav.: Ex Officina Hackiana, A[???] MDCLXXI. [1671.]","DG205 .H5 1671","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 572 leaves; vol. II, 472 leaves; engraved frontispiece in each volume, printer's woodcut device on the printed title (lacking in vol. II). The text in long lines, the commentaries in double columns.
Brunet III, page 226. Graesse III, page 304. Ebert 9831.
Old vellum, gilt backs; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Probably purchased from Armand Koenig of Strassburg. A copy of this book was included by Koenig in a Liste de livres relíés nouvellement acquis, du formal in Octavo. etc; offered to Jefferson in a letter sent to him at Paris on May 26, 1788.
For a note on Casaubon, see no. 32.
Claudius Salmasius [Claude Saumise], 1588-1653, French classical scholar.
This work was originally published in Milan in 1475, and was frequently reprinted. The first edition by Salmasius of Casaubon's notes appeared in 1620.
Jan Gruter, 1560-1627, Dutch scholar and critic." "00840","J. 84","","","","Xiphilinus.","","2. v. 4to. Gr. Lat. Guilielmi Blanci.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 115, Xiphilinus. Gr. Lat. Blanci, 2 v 4to.","Dio Cassius—Xiphilinus, Joannes.","Eκ των Διωνoς τoυ Nικαεως Pωμαικ[???]ν [???]στoϱιων . . . [???]πιτoμ[???] Iω[???]ννoυ τoυ Ξι&phis;ιλ[???]νoυ Dionis Nicaei Rervm Romanarum à Pompeio Magno ad Alexãdrum Mamææ, Epitome authore Ioanne Xiphilino . . . Lvtetiae: Ex officina Roberti Stephani, M. D. LI. [1551.]—Dionis Nicæi, rerũ Romanarvm a Pompeio Magno, ad Alexandrum Mamææ filium Epitome, Ioanne Xiphilino authore, & Guilielmo Blanco Albiensi interprete. Ad Georgium Armeniacum, Cardinalem Ampliss. Lvtetiæ: [Robertus Stephanus] M. D. LI. [1551.]","PA Byzantine","
First Edition. 2 vol. 4to. These two volumes, containing the original Greek text and the Latin translation have been conflated by Jefferson, and rebound, with the Greek and Latin texts on opposite pages, a title-page at the beginning of each volume. The title-page of the Greek text has Estienne's device, that for the Latin translation is one of the copies with the arms of George d'Armagnac, Cardinal.
Graesse VI, page 495. Renouard, page 80, nos. 8, 9.
Bound in calf for Jefferson; initialled by him at sigs. i. i and t. i in the first volume, not initialled in the second. A few marginal references in his hand. On the title-page of the first volume is the signature of Wm. Le Neve, 1724, and in an earlier hand pret. 4ll. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
See no. 77." "00850","J. 85","","","","Herodian. Gr. Lat. Eng.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 33, Herodianus, Gr. Lat. Eng. 2 v 12mo.","Herodianus","Hϱωδιανoυ ιστoϱιων βιβλια η. Herodiani Historiarum Libri VIII . . . Præmissa est M. Antonini Philosophi Vita, à Jo. Xiphilino conscripta. Edinburgi: In ædibus Tho. Ruddimanni, Sumptibus Jo. Patoni, M. D. CC.XXIV. [1724.]—Herodian's History of His Own Times, or of the Roman Empire after Marcus, Translated into English. With large Notes, explaining the most remarkable Customs, Ceremonies, Offices, &c. among the Romans . . . By J. Hart . . . London: Printed for the Author, And sold by T. Waller, T. Payne, and R. Dodsley, MDCCXLIX. [1749.]","PA4001 .H4 1724 copy 2","
8vo. The two editions cut to size and conflated by Jefferson; bound for him in 2 vol. calf, gilt backs, plain endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T, and with marginal reference numerals by him. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Graesse III, pages 253 and 254. Lowndes II, page 1052.
Herodianus, fl. 3rd cent. A. D., Greek historian. His history covers the period from 180-238 A. D. and supplements that of Dio Cassius. The first separate edition of his Historiarum was published by Aldus in 1524.
Angelo Poliziano, 1454-1499, Italian humanist, the translator into Latin." "00860","J. 86","","","","Biographia Classica.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 34, as above.","[Harwood, Edward.]","Biographia Classica: The Lives and Characters of all the Classic Authors, the Grecian and Roman Poets, Historians, Orators, and Biographers. With an Historical and Critical Account of them and their Writings . . . The Second Edition, corrected and improv'd. To which is now added, at the end of every Life, a List of the best and most curious editions of each Classic Author. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for Daniel Browne, M DCC L. [1750.]","PA3005 .H3 1750","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 173 leaves: A5, B-P12, publisher's advertisement on the last leaf; vol. II, 150 leaves: []2, B-M12, N, O6, P4.
This edition not in Lowndes, and not in the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
Old mottled calf, gilt back, repaired. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I in both volumes.
From the Library of Reuben Skelton, with his armorial bookplate.
Edward Harwood, 1729-1794, English classical scholar. The 1750 edition appears to be the earliest recorded of this work." "00870","J. 87","","","","Orosius.","","small 4to. Paris 1506.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 86, as above, but with the reading p. 4to.","Orosius, Paulus.","Pauli Orosii Historiographi clarissimi opus prestantissimum. Parhisiis: pro Ioanne petit, 1506, 21 Jan.","PA6518 .08 1506","
Large 12mo. 142 leaves; Petit's criblé device on the title-page, woodcut initials, colophon.
Graesse V, page 51.
Old calf, gilt back, marbled end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. ii and ti, an autograph signature in an early sixteenth century hand on the title-page; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Purchased from Froullé on May 17, 1788, price 6 (livres) and entered at this price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Paulus Orosius, fl. 415 A. D., Spanish historian and theologian. This edition of his History was edited by L. Thibault." "00880","J. 88","","","","Juliani imperatoris Caesares. Gr. Lat.","","8vo. Erlangae. 1785.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 35, as above.","Julianus, Flavius Claudius.","Ivliani Imperatoris Cæsares ex recensione et cvm adnotationibvs Theoph. Christoph. Harles. Erlangæ: svmtv Wolfgangi Waltheri, cI cI[???] cclxxxv. [1785.]","PA4225 .J4C3 1785","
First Harlesian Edition. 8vo. 132 leaves. Greek and Latin text on opposite pages.
Ebert 10992.
Calf, gilt line border on the sides, marbled end papers, m.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
This book was probably purchased in Paris between March 23 and July 25, 1788. On the former date Jefferson ordered a number of books from Van Damme's catalogue, vol. I, page 310, including Juliani opera 1583.
On July 25, 1788 he cancelled the order for this and several other books as he had trouv l'occasion d'acheter ailleurs. The 1785 edition is listed in the undated catalogue, with the price 2.4+2 (probably including the binding).
Flavius Claudius Julianus, 331-363 A. D., Roman Emperor, usually known as Julian the Apostate.
Theophilus Christopher Harles (Gottlieb Christoph Harless), 1738-1815, German classical scholar and bibliographer." "00890","J. 89","","","","Julian's select works by Duncombe","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 87, as above.","Julianus, Flavius Claudius.","Select Works of the Emperor Julian, and some Pieces of the Sophist Libanius, Translated from the Greek. With Notes from Petau, La Bleterie, Gibbon, &c. To which is added, The History of the Emperor Jovian, from the French of the Abb De La Bleterie. By John Duncombe, M.A. In Two Volumes . . . Volume the First [-Second]. London: Printed by J. Nichols for T. Cadell, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784.]","DG317 .A4","
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. vol. I. 193 leaves, list of errata on the last leaf; vol. II, 202 leaves; the last a blank; errata on the verso of the penultimate leaf.
Lowndes III, page 1328.
Old calf, repaired with new end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes.
This book was ordered by Jefferson from Paris, in a letter to Stockdale July 1, 1787, to be obtained from Lackington, no. 6522 in the 2d. part of his catalogue for 1787, price 10/6. It is listed, without price, in Jefferson's undated catalogue.
The first edition of the collected works of Flavius Claudianus Julianus [Julian the Apostate] was published in Paris in 1583.
John Duncombe, 1729-1786, English miscellaneous writer. On the recto of the penultimate leaf of this work Duncombe states that since the printing of the book he is enabled, by the Nouveau Dictionnaire Historique, (4me dition, 6 tomes, 8vo. Caen, 1779) to add an account of a writer to whom he is much obliged, and appends details of the life and works of John Philip Ren de la Bletterie." "00900","90","","","","Life of Julian.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 36, as above.","[La Bletterie, Jean Philippe Ren de—Williams, Anna.]","The Life of the Emperor Julian. Translated from the French. And improved with Coins, Notes and a Genealogical Table . . . London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1746.","","
First edition of this translation. 12mo. 187 leaves, engraved numismatic frontispiece by J. S. Mller.
Lowndes III, page 1238.
Early cards for this book are still in the Library of Congress card catalogue, but the book has disappeared.
Jean Philippe René de La Bletterie, 1696-1772, French historian and man of letters, was professor of eloquence at the College Royal. His Vie de l'empereur Julien was originally published in 1735.
Anna Williams, 1706-1783, English poet, the translator, was a friend of Dr. Johnson with whom she made her home after becoming blind about 1740." "00910","J. 91","","","","Eutropius cum metaphrasi Graeca Paeanii, item Sextus Rufus, Anonymi funebris oratio in Constantinum et Messala Corvinus.","","Not. Var. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 88, as above, but with the reading Covinus.","Eutropius.","Eutropii Breviarium Historiæ Romanæ, Cum Metaphrasi Græca Pæanii, Et Notis Integris . . . Recensuit Sigebertus Havercampus, Qui & suas & Christoph. Augusti Heumanni Notas adjecit. Cum Indicibus copiosissimis. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Johannem Arnoldum Langerak, M D CC XXIX. [1729.] ","PA6384 .A2 1729","
8vo. 462 leaves, half-title for Παιανιoυ μετα&phis;ϱασις εις την τoυ Eυτϱoπιoυ Pωμαικην ιστoϱιαν on Nn8; title-page printed in red and black, a plate with two engraved coats of arms at the head of the dedication.
Graesse II, 529. Ebert I, 7183.
Old vellum, gilt, arms on sides, line borders, corner ornaments; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 book plate. Jefferson bought a copy of Eutropius, Gr. Lat. 12mo. price 1/-, from Lackington, no. 12494 in his catalogue for 1792.
Eutropius, latter half of the 4th century, A. D. His Breviarium covers the history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the accession of Valens.
Sigbert Havercamp. See Josephus, no. 7.
Christophe Auguste Heumann, 1681-1764, German scholar." "00920","J. 92","","","","Ammianus Marcellinus.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 126, as above.","Ammianus Marcellinus.","Ammiani Marcellini Rerum Gestarum Qui de xxxi. supersunt, libri XVIII. Ope MSS. codicum emendati ab Henrico Valesio, & auctoribus adnotationibus illustrati . . . Editio Posterior . . . Parisiis: ex Officina Antonii Dezallier, M.DC.LXXXI. [1681.]","PA6203 .A2 1681","
Folio. 431 leaves, engraved device on the title, engraved headpiece, and medallion portraits; printed in Greek, Latin and italic letter, the text in long lines, the gloss in double columns.
Graesse I, page 104. Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, page 19.
Original panelled calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Ammianus Marcellinus, c. 325-395 A. D., a Greek by birth, but wrote in the Latin language. His history of the Roman Empire forms a continuation of that of Tacitus, and covers the period from the accession of Nerva to the death of Valens, A. D. 96-378. The first edition was printed in Rome in 1474.
Henri de Valois [Valesius], 1603-1676, French classical scholar, first published his edition of Ammianus in 1636. This second edition was published by his brother Adrien de Valois, 1607-1692, who incorporated also the notes of Lindenbrog." "00930","J. 93","","","","Ammianus Marcellinus. Ernesti. Lipsiae. 1773.","","1. tom. in 3. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 89, Ammianus Ernesti, Lipsiae, 1773, 3 v 8vo.","Ammianus Marcellinus.","Ammiani Marcellini Rervm Gestarvm Libri qvi svpersvnt ex recensione Valesio-Gronoviana. Indicem Dignitatvm nec non Glossarivm Latinitatis adiecit Avgvstvs Gvil. Ernesti. Lipsiae: e Libraria Weidm. Hered. et Reichii, cI[???] I[???]cclxxIII. [1773.]","PA6203 .A2 1773a","
1 vol. bound in 3. 8vo. 439 leaves: 18, A-Z, Aa-Nn7 in eights, (A)-(S)8; the volume division occurs after T8 and Nn2; printed in long lines, in Greek, Latin and italic letter.
This edition not in Graesse. Dibdin, page 20.
Bound for Jefferson in 3 vol. French calf, gilt backs, pale blue endpapers; initialled by him in each volume; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Bought from Froullé, December 13, 1788 (in 1 vol. 8vo. broché), price 12 livres. The binding into three volumes was done before the book was entered into the dated or the undated catalogue; the latter entry includes the price, 12 livres, but has not the binding price.
For a note on Ernesti see no. 51." "00940","J. 94","","","","Zosimus. Gr. Lat. Oxonii.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 90, as above.","Zosimus.","Zωσιμoυ K[???]μητoς κα[???] απo&phis;ισκoσυνηγ[???]ϱoυ ιστoϱιας νεας β[???]βλoι [???]ξ. Zosimi Comitis & Exadvocati Fisci, Historiæ Novæ Libri Sex, Notis Illustrati. Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno 1679.","PA4500 .Z6 1679","
8vo. in fours. 196 leaves, engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre on the title-page; Greek and Latin in parallel columns; the dedication to John Dolben (when Bishop of Rochester) and Richard Busby is signed T. S. [Thomas Spark.]
Lowndes V, page 2035. Madan, Oxford Books, 3242.
Original panelled calf; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. On the inside cover is written E libris Josiae Johnson Aulae Clarensis Alumni A. D. 1753, and a few letters are scribbled in ink on the title-page. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Zosimus, fl. late 5th century A. D., Greek historical writer. This is the first English edition of his Historia Nova, of which the first complete edition had appeared in Cizae earlier in the same year.
Thomas Spark, 1655-1692, English classical scholar, edited this book as one of the classical year books of Dr. Fell." "00950","J. 95","","","","Nicephori Breviarium Historicum de reb. gest. ab obitu Mauricii ad Constantinum usque Copronymum. Gr. Lat. Petavii.","","small 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 37, Nicephori Breviarum historicum de rebus gestis ab obitu Mauricii ad Constantinum usque Copronymum, Gr. Lat. Petavii, p 8vo.","Nicephorus, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople.",". . . Nικη&phis;oϱoυ πατϱιαϱχoυ Kωνσταντινoπ[???]λεως Iστoϱ[???]α συντoμoς [???]πò της Mαυϱικ[???]oυ βασιλε[???]ας. S. Nicephori Patriarchæ Constantinopolitani Breuiarium Historicum, de rebus gestis ab obitu Mauricij ad Constantinum vsque Copronymum. Nunc primum vulgatum, ac Latinè redditum opera Dionysii Petavii, è Societate Iesv, cum eiusdem notis chronologicis. Accesserunt & alia insuper Fragmenta Theophanis, Nicephori Gregoræ, Pacyhymerij, & aliorum nondum in hanc diem edita. Parisiis: apud Sebastianvm Chappelet, M. DC. XVI. (1616.]","DF571 .N5","
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 322 leaves; 2 parts in 1. ã, A-T8, TT4, V-Z8, Aa-Bb8, a, B, c-n8, o6, Greek and Latin text of the Historiarum on opposite pages; on ai the half-title for Ad Nicephori Breviarum notae chronologicae. Autore Dionysio Petavio è Societate Iesv, with separate pagination.
Not in Brunet. Not in Graesse. Not in Quérard.
Rebound in half morocco, original marbled edges preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Purchased from Koenig. Ordered by Jefferson from Paris, June 29, 1789, one of a list of books selected from Koenig's catalogue; price, relié, £2.10.
Saint Nicephorus, c. 758-829, Byzantine historian and patriarch of Constantinople.
Denis Petau [Dionysius Patavius], 1583-1653, French scholar." "00960","J. 96","","","","Histoire de Constantinople de Procope [ut econtra]","","8. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 39, Histoire de Constantinople de Procope, Agatias, Menandre, Theophylacte, Simocatte, Nicephore, Leon, Nicephore Bryenne, Anne Comnene, Nicetas, Pachymere, Contacuzene, et Ducas, par Coussin, 8 v 12mo.","Cousin, Louis.","Histoire de Constantinople depuis le régne du l'ancien Justin, jusqu'à la fin de l'Empire. Traduite sur les originaux Grecs par Mr. Cousin, Président en la cour des Monnoies. Dédiée a Monseigneur de Pompone, Secrétaire d'Etat. Tome I [-VIII]. Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris chez Damien Foucault, [?Amsterdam: officine de Wolfgang] M.DC.LXXXV. [1685.]","DF551 .C8","
8 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 348 leaves; vol. II, 288 leaves; vol. III, 318 leaves; vol. IV, 252 leaves; vol. V, 252 leaves; vol. VI, 2 parts in 1, 384 leaves; vol. VII, 380 leaves; vol. VIII, 252 leaves; engraved frontispiece in vol. I, and vignette headpieces in each volume; printer's device as used by Wolfgang of Amsterdam on each title-page.
Graesse II, page 288. Ebert 5363.
Original French mottled calf, marbled end papers, g. on m. e. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
An earlier entry of this book in Jefferson's dated catalogue lists the authors in full, with the description 8 tomes in 10 vols. 12mo. This appears to be the copy bought from De Bure and sold at the 1829 auction. The undated catalogue has only the 8 volume edition, with the price 15 (livres).
Louis Cousin, 1627-1707, French man of letters. The first edition of this abridgment was published in Paris, 8 vol. 4to, 1672-74." "00970","J. 97","","","","Histoire Romaine de Xiphilin, Zonare et Zosime. p. Coussin.","","32. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 38, as above, but with spelling Zonase.","Cousin, Louis.","Histoire Romaine, écrite par Xiphilin, par Zonare, et par Zosime. Traduite sur les Originaux Grecs, par M. Cousin, President en la Cour des Monnoyes. Suivant la Copie imprimée à Paris, chez la veuve de Damien Foucault [?Amsterdam: Officine de Wolfgang], M.DC.LXXXVI. [1686.]","DG13 .C6","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 240 leaves, including the engraved frontispiece by R. de Hooghe, the last three blank; vol. II, 174 leaves; engraved headpiece on the first page of the text in each volume; the second volume has Tome II on the title; woodcut sphere device on the titles as used by Wolfgang of Amsterdam.
Graesse II, page 288. Ebert 24179.
French mottled calf, marbled end papers, g. on m. e. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in the first volume. and sig. Ii in the second. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Two copies of this book are listed in Jefferson's undated catalogue, with the prices 4. 10 and 3.15 (livres). In the dated manuscript catalogue there is an entry for another copy of vol. II only.
The first edition of this work was published in Paris, 1678, 4to." "00980","J. 98","","","","Histoire de l'empire de l'Occident. viz. Eginard, Tegan, Anonymus, Nitard, St. Bertin, Luitprand, Witiquind. par Coussin.","","2 v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 40, as above.","Cousin, Louis.","Histoire de l'Empire d'Occident. De la Traduction de Monsieur Cousin, President en la Cour des Monnoyes. Tome Premier [-Second]. A Paris: chez Robert Pepie, M. DC. LXXXIX. [1689.]","D118 .C86","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 268 leaves; vol. II, 176 leaves.
Not in Quérard. This edition not in Graesse and not in Ebert.
Original sheep, gilt backs, sprinkled edges; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes, 2 small marginal annotations in ink. Both the bindings are scorched, and the books waterstained. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 4 (livres).
The first edition of this work was printed in Paris in 1683." "00990","J. 99","","","","Procopii Anecdota, sive Arcana historia. Gr. Lat. Alemanni.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 127, as above.","Procopius Cæsariensis.","Procopii Cæsariensis. V. I. Aνεκδoτα. Arcana Historia, Qui est liber nonus Historiarum. Ex Bibliotheca Vaticana Nicolaus Alemannus protulit, Latinè reddidit, Notis illustrauit . . . Lvgdvni: [Ioannis Ivllieron] sumpt. Andreæ Brugiotti Bibliopolæ Romani, M. DC. XXIII. [1623.]","DF572 .P8","
First Edition. Folio. 170 leaves, Greek and Latin text printed in parallel columns, the notes of Alemannus in long lines; engraved vignette on the title-page, engravings in the text, woodcut ornaments and initials; the printer's name in the colophon.
Brunet IV, page 897. Graesse V, page 455.
Rebound in half morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 4/-.
Procopius, born about 500 A. D., Byzantine historian, was a native of Caesarea in Palestine. The Anecdota, or Unpublished Memoirs, form a Chronique Scandaleuse of the court of Constantinople from 549 to 562.
Nicolo Alemanni, 1583-1626, Greek antiquarian." "01000","J. 100","","","","Goldsmith's Roman history.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 93, as above.","Goldsmith, Oliver.","The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire. By Dr. Goldsmith. The Second Edition. Vol. I [-II]. London: Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh, T. Davies, and L. Davis, M DCC LXX. [1770.]","DG210 .G5","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 258 leaves; vol. II, 260 leaves, this copy lacks 5 leaves in vol. I, 2 in the first sheet including the title, and Kk2-4.
Lowndes II, page 909. Williams, Seven Eighteenth Century Bibliographies, 145. Scott, Oliver Goldsmith, 223.
Rebound in red buckram by the Library of Congress in 1925. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes.
Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774. The Roman History was first printed in 1769, and was reprinted for the same publishers in 1770. The bibliographical references above are to the first edition of which this is an exact reprint. Samuel Baker and George Leigh, the first two names in the imprint, were the founders of the firm of auctioneers now known as Sotheby and Co." "01010","J. 101","","","","Gibbon's hist. of the decline & fall of the Roman empire.","","13. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 92, as above, but with the reading Gibbon's history.","Gibbon, Edward.","The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq; Volume the First [-Twelfth]. A New Edition. [Vol. I-VI] London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783, [vol. VII-XII] Basil: Printed by J. J. Tourneisen. Paris: sold by Pissot, 1788, 1789.—The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . . . Notes to the Six Last Volumes, ib. 1789.","DG311 .G421","
Together 13 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 240 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by Jno. Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds; vol. II, 256 leaves, folded maps; vol. III, 210 leaves; vol. IV, 226 leaves; vol. V, 221 leaves; vol. VI, 215 leaves; vol. VII, 194 leaves; vol. VIII, 218 leaves; vol. IX, 205 leaves; vol. X, 195 leaves; vol. XI, 208 leaves; vol. XII, 180 leaves; vol. XIII, 228 leaves. This copy is mixed; the first six volumes are the regular London edition, the others the Basle pirate which form part of a Series of English Authors, printed in the original language. In this copy the Swiss volumes each have the cancel title, with the Paris imprint added, and the Basle imprint in each volume reads Printed by J. J. Tourneisen [not for as in some copies].
Lowndes II, page 884 (the London edition only). Norton, A Bibliography of the Works of Edward Gibbon, nos. 35, 46.
The volumes are in the original calf, with the exception of vol. XI and XII, which have been rebound in sheep, the original backstrips preserved; vol. I has the 1822 plate, the other volumes that of 1815. These books suffered in the fire of 1851, and many of the bindings have been repaired. The original backstrips of all the volumes have been preserved with the exception of vol. V from which it is missing, and vol. I and X which have renewed backstrips with a later form of the eagle and stamp. Each volume is initialled at sigs. I and T by Jefferson, and in vol. XII, page 52, he has written the following lines from Ossian:
I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate, the stream of Clutha was removed from it's place by the fall of the walls. the thistle shook there it's lonely head. the moss whistled to the wind. the fox looked out from the windows: the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Ossian's Carthon.
This version differs slightly from the printed one, and may have been quoted from memory. Jefferson had a great respect for the Ossianic poems (see chapter 34) and was not ashamed to own that he thought this rude bard of the North the greatest poet that has ever existed.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 26/6+rel.
Volumes I and III were at one time missing from the set, but were recovered. They are entered on the manuscript list, made after 1815, headed Congressional Books Missing.
Jefferson was interested in helping Pissot in the production of cheap reprints of English authors. On July 6, 1788, he wrote to Francis Hopkinson from Paris:
A printer here has begun to print the most remarkable of the English authors, as that can be done here much cheaper than in England or even Ireland. he supposes America could take off a considerable number of copies, & has therefore applied to me to find a sure correspondent for him. being unacquainted with the printers of Philadelphia & the booksellers, yet satisfied that that would be the best place for him to have a correspondent, I must ask of you to recommend one and to hand to him the inclosed proposals, & the piece of a volume which we send as a specimen, an Octavo volume will cost here 96 sous, which are exactly 4/- sterling, bound & with the abatement of 10 percent about 2/8 sterl. the same in London would cost 7/· above all things let the correspondent be solid in his circumstances. if young m[???] Beach has begun to exercise his destined calling of a printer, he could be the best correspondent for Pissot for many reasons; one is that Pissot is personally known to him, having been the bookseller of Dr. Franklin . . .
This letter interested Franklin in the matter, and he wrote to Jefferson from Philadelphia on October 24, 1788:
Mr. Hopkinson has communicated to me a Letter of yours with a Proposal of Mr. Pissot's respecting his Editions of English Books. I am much oblig'd by your thinking of my Grandson on this Occasion; And if Mr. Pissot will send over a Dozen of each Work as a Trial, I will take Care that the Terms propos'd shall be punctually comply'd with . . .
Gibbon's Decline and Fall is included in almost all Jefferson's recommended reading lists.
Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian. This history was originally issued in quarto from 1776 to 1778, which edition is one of the ''Grolier Hundred''." "01020","J. 102","","","","Histoire du bas empire par le Beau.","","24 v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 42, as above.","Le Beau, Charles.","Histoire du Bas-Empire, en commençant à Constantin Le Grand. Par Monsieur Le Beau . . . Tome Premier [-Vingt-Quatrieme]. A Paris: chez Desaint & Saillant, M.DCC.LVII.[-M.DCC.LXXXVI.] [1757-1786.]","DF551 .L43 Copy 2","
First Edition. 24 vol. (only) 12mo., half-titles in vol. XI-XVIII inclusive, Fautes à corriger in each volume. The imprints vary from time to time, and from vol. XV, 1773, Desaint's name is replaced by Veuve Desaint.
Brunet III, page 899. Quérard V, page 8.
French mottled calf, gilt backs, marbled end papers, m. e. Initialled by Jefferson throughout at sigs. I and T. Jefferson may have bought the book in 1786 whilst he was in France, and during the course of its publication. The complete work with 2 volumes of tables should have 29 volumes. The author died in 1778 whilst vol. XXII was in the press, and the work was completed in 1811 by Ameilhon; the two volumes of Tables Alphabétiques were added in 1817 by Ravier. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Charles Le Beau, 1701-1778, French historian." "01030","J. 103","","","","Aelianus Perizonii.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 94, as above.","Aelianus, Claudius.","Kλ. Aιλιανoυ σo&phis;ιστoυ πoικιλη ιστoϱια, Cl. Aeliani Sophistae Varia Historia, ad MStos Codices nunc primum recognita & castigata, cum Versione Justi Vulteji, sed innumeris in locis ad Graecum Auctoris contextum emendata, et perpetuo commentario Jacobi Perizonii. Accedunt indices, & plures, & superioribus longe locupletiores. [-Pars Altera.] Lugduni in Batavis: apud Johannem du Vivie, Isaacum Severinum, 1701.—Perizonius, Jacobus. Jac. Perizonii Dissertatio de Morte Judæ . . . ib, 1702.—Jac. Perizonii Responsio ad nuperam Notitiam de Variis Aeliani, aliorumque auctorum, locis, ib, 1703.","PA3821 .A4 1701","
4 parts in 2. 8vo. 294 leaves, 364 leaves, 46 leaves; 55 leaves; engraved frontispiece in part I, and vignette on each of the four titles by P. Sluyter after J. Goeree, engraved illustrations in the text, the first title printed in red and black, De Varia Historia in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; on E1 of the last tract is the half-title for Jac. Perizonius Responsio II.
Brunet I, 62. Dibdin, page 2.
Contemporary vellum. Not initialled by Jefferson in either volume. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Claudius Aelianus, fl. 200 A. D., Roman author who wrote in Greek. The Varia Historia, in fourteen books, was first printed in Rome in 1545. This is the first edition by Perizonius and the first edition of the two appended tracts by him, frequently found with this edition.
For a book by Perizonius, see no. 10 above." "01040","?J. 104","","","","Aeliani variae historiae. Gr. Lat. Vulteii.","","16s","Not in the 1815 Catalogue.","Aelianus, Claudius.","æliani variæ historiæ libri XIIII. Item, Rerumpublicarum descriptiones ex Heraclide. Cum Latina interpretatione Iusti Wlteij Wetterani, vtriq; è regione accommodata, & ad Græcũ exemplar, multo quam antehac emendatius, nunc denuò quàm diligentissimè recognita. Lvgd: apvd Ioan. Tornæsivm, Typogr. Reg., cI[???].I[???].xxcvII. [1587.]","PA3821 .A4 1587 copy 2","
16mo. 264 leaves, printer's device on the verso of the last leaf, recto blank, title within a woodcut ornamental border, Greek and Latin text printed in parallel columns. In sheets a and b the text is printed on one side only, those sheets have therefore 16 instead of 8 leaves.
Graesse I, page 24. This edition not in Brunet, and not in Quérard. Not in Baudrier.
Old calf. Not initialled by Jefferson and the few manuscript notes are not by him. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 2 f.
This may have been Jefferson's copy and omitted from the 1815 catalogue in error, the number written in ink on the 1815 bookplate is undecipherable. The copy is credited to the Jefferson collection in the later Library of Congress catalogues.
The first edition was printed in Rome in 1545." "01050","J. 105","","","","Chronicon Alexandrinum. Gr. Lat. Raderi. Monachii 1624.","","4to. small.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 91, as above but reading p. 4to.","Chronicon Paschale.","Chronicon Alexandrinvm idemqve astronomicvm et ecclesiasticvm, (vulgò sicvlvm seu Fasti Sicvli) ab Sigonio, Pamvinio, aliisqve passim Lavdatvm, partimqve Graece editvm; nvnc integrvm Græce cvm Latina interpretatione vvlgatvm opera & studio Matthaei Raderi de Societate Iesv. Monachii: ex Formis Annæ Bergiæ vidvæ, cI[???]. I[???]. xxiv. [1624.]","D17 .C5","
4to. 491 leaves: A-Z, AA-ZZ, Aaa-Zzz, Aaaa-Zzzz, Aaaaa-Zzzzz, Aaaaaa-Hhhhhh3 in fours; Greek and Latin text on opposite pages, the latter in Italic letter.
This edition not in Brunet, not in Graesse, and not in Backer.
Rebound in half brown morocco in 1906 by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
On the title, in an old hand, is the signature formentin.
Bought from Froullé on March 19, 1789, price 9 (livres) Listed without the price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Matthew Rader, 1561-1634, German jesuit. His first edition of the Chronicon Paschale was printed in Munich in 1615." "01060","J. 106","","","","Valerius Maximus.","","not. var. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 95, as above.","Valerius Maximus.","[Valerii Maximi dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX, ex recensione Ant. Thysii Lugduni-Batavorum, 1670.]","PA6791 .V6 1670.","
8vo. 445 leaves only, should be 446; lacks the first leaf with title.
Graesse VI, ii, page 245. Ebert 23330. Dibdin 418.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress, with a modern bookplate, the 1815 bookplate preserved, pasted down on to a fly-leaf on which another pasted slip has a manuscript transcription of the title. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. The few manuscript notes in the book are not in his hand.
Valerius Maximus, fl. A. D. 14, Latin writer. The Maximi dictorum factorumque is a commonplace book of historical anecdotes for the use of schools, taken from Cicero, Livy, Sallust and other authors." "01070","J. 107","","","","Frontini stratagemata. Gaesbeeck. 1675. Frontini strategemata. Amst. 1675. Astutiae militari del Frontino. Ven. 1537","","16s., 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 44, Frontini Stratagemata Gæsbeeck, 1675, 16, and Ital. Ven. 1537, 12mo.","Frontinus, Sextus Julius.","Sexti Julii Frontini viri consularis Strategematicωn sive De solertibus Ducum Factis & Dictis Libri Quatuor. Samuel Tennulius variis Mss. contulit . . . Lugduni-Batav. & Amstelædami: ex officina Abrahami & Adriani à Gaesbeeck, Anno M DC LXXV. [1675.]—Astvtie Militari di Sesto Iulio Frontino huomo consolare, di tvtti li famosi et eccellenti Capitani Romani, Greci, Barbari, et Hesterni . . . MDXXXVII [Tradotta da Fr. Lucio Durantino]. Vinegia: stampato par Giouan' Antonio di Nicolini da Sabio, ad instantia di M. Andrea Ariuabeni. [1536].","PA6389 .F418 1537","
12mo. and small 8vo. These two editions conflated by Jefferson, cut to size and bound in 1 volume. First edition of the Italian translation; title within a woodcut border and the text printed in italic letter throughout. The Amsterdam edition has an engraved frontispiece by Decker.
Ebert 7961 and 7970.
Calf; rebound by the Library of Congress in 1902, probably copied from Jefferson's binding; the 1815 bookplate preserved on the new white endpapers. Each of the books is signed by Jefferson at sigs. I and T where they occur.
Bought from Van Damme of Amsterdam in 1788.
On March 23 of that year Jefferson wrote to Van Damme requesting him to send to his Paris address a number of books from his catalogue including
no. 218. Frontini Stratagematum. Lugd. Bat. 1675. 12mo.
Frontino. Astutie militare. Venetia. 1537. 12mo.
Van Damme's bill, June 25, 1788, includes the Amsterdam edition of 1675, price 2.10.
The receipt of the book was acknowledged by Jefferson on June 29.
The Amsterdam edition is entered twice in the undated as in the dated catalogue, the first time in a separate entry, and later with the Venice edition. In the undated catalogue the former entry has the price 2 (livres).
Sextus Julius Frontinus, c. A. D. 40-103, Roman soldier and author, and at one time governor of Britain. The first three books of the Strategematicon contain examples of military strategem from Greek and Roman history for the use of officers. Liber IV is the work of another author." "01080","J. 108","","","","Historiis antiquis collectanea. Gr. Lat.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 97, Historicis antiquis Collectanea, Gr. Lat. 8vo.","Upton, James.","[Πoικιλη Iστoϱια, sive Novus Historiarum Fabellarumque Delectus, quam ex Aeliano, Polyæno, Aristotele, Max Tyrio, aliisque probatissimis Scriptoribus Græcis, desumptus: Versione et notis illustravit Jacobus Upton, A. M. . . . Londini, 1726.]","PA260 .A2U7 1700","
8vo. 2 parts in 1 vol. with separate signatures. This copy is imperfect, lacking the title and several leaves at the beginning and at the end.
Not in Lowndes. Watt 932v. Allibone III, 2499.
Old sheep, damaged and rebacked. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. Many leaves have interlinear and marginal translations into English in pencil in another hand; the title Historicis antiquis collectanea is written on the first present leaf. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
James Upton, 1670-1749, English schoolmaster." "01090","J. 109","","","","Polyaeni stratagemata. Gr. Lat. Vulteii.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 96, Polyæni stratagemma, Gr. Lat. Vulteii, 8vo","Polyaenus.","Πoλυαινoυ στϱατηγηματων βιβλoι oκτω. Polyæni Strategematum Libri Octo. Justo Vultejo interprete. Pancratius Maasvicius recensuit, Isaaci Casauboni, nec non suas, notas adjecit. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Jordanum Luchtmans, & Johannem du Vivié, 1690.","PA4390 .P5 1690","
8vo. 448 leaves, engraved title-page by T. Mulder, woodcut device on the printed title; Greek and Latin text printed in parallel columns.
Graesse V, page 393. Dibdin, page 326.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress with the book plates preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. Numerous annotations in ink (possibly by William Byrd). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the Library of William Byrd of Westover, with his armorial book plate (listed in his catalogue, Classics, seventh shelf, octavos).
Polyaenus, fl. 2nd century A. D., a Macedonian. The Strategematum, a collection of stratagems and maxims of strategy in the form of anecdotes, was written at the outbreak of the Parthian war, and dedicated to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
Pancracius Maaswyck [Maasvicius], 1658-1719, Dutch scholar, was a native of Leyden. The Polyaenus of Casaubon and Vultejus was originally printed in 1589. This is Maaswyck's first edition." "01100","J. 110","","","","Apophthegmata. Graeca. Latina. Ital. Gall. Hispan. Tunningii.","","8vo. small.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 44, as above, but with the reading p 8vo.","Tuningius, Gerardus.","Apophthegmata Græca, Latina, Italica, Gallica, Hispanica; collecta à Gerærdo Tvningio Leidensi, I. C. [Antwerp:] Ex officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, cIc. I[???]. cIx. [1609.]","PN6299 .T8","
First Edition. 8vo. 296 leaves, the Plantin compass device on the title (Haeghen no. 38).
Graesse I, page 167. Not in Ebert. Van der Aa XVIII, 244.
Original vellum. Jefferson has written his initial T before sig. ii, and placed a period after the first i. An old slip of paper with the word Britannica written by Jefferson has been torn from a larger piece and used as a bookmark. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Ordered with other books by Jefferson from Armand Koenig of Strassburg on June 29, 1789: Apophthegmata Gr. Lat. Ital. Gall. Hisp. Tuningii. 8vo. 1609. Antw 1'' 16. Koenig wrote on July 8 to report he had sent the books, and enclosed his bill. With regard to this item he noted that Le prix de 36 s. dans le catalogue est une erreur, il doit etre de 3.
The book was billed at £3. It is entered without price on Jefferson's undated catalogue.
Gerardus Tuningius (van Tuningen), 1566-1610, Dutch scholar. At the beginning of each part of this work are complimentary verses to him by various poets and scholars written in the languages listed in the title." "01110","J. 111","","","","Lycosthenis Apophthegmata.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 43, as above.","Lycosthenes, Conradus.","[Apophthegmata ex probatis Græcae, Latinæqve lingvæ scriptoribus. A Conrado Lycosthene collecta, & per locos communes, juxta Alphabeti seriem digesta. Postremâ hac editione diligenter recognita, & ab innumeris erroribus expurgatâ, plurimisque centuriis quæ in alteram literam designatæ sunt, locupletata. Accesserunt Parabolæ sive similitudines, ab Erasmo ex Plutarcho & aliis olim excerptæ, deinde per Lycosthenem dispositæ, ac nunc primum aliquot Centuriis auctiores editæ. Londini: apud Thomam Harperum, pro Societate Stationariorum, 1635.]","42/6533","
1 vol. bound in 2. 8vo. 410 leaves only, should be 412: A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Eee8, Fff4; this copy lacks the title and A6; the half-title for Parabolarvm sive Similitvdinvm . . . olim ab Erasmo Roterodamo . . . is on Xx5. The volume division occurs after sig. Ff.
STC 17004.
Bound for Jefferson in 2 vol., tree calf. Initialled by him at sigs. I and T.
Several early signatures occur: Roger Janion, Anno 1669; Thomas Janion; William Janions booke 1668; in the upper margin of A3 is written: The gift of Joseph Watkins? [name partly cut away by the binder] to the Library Company March 10th. 1739/40. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Conradus Lycosthenes [i. e. Conrad Wolffhart], 1518-1561, German philologue. The first edition of the Apophthegemata was published in Basle in 1555, and of the Parabolae in the same city in 1557." "01120","J. 112","","","","Dinothi Memorabilia.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 45, as above.","Dinoth, Richard.","Richardi Dinothi Normanni Constantinatis de Rebvs et factis memorabilibus loci communes historici. Basileæ: Ex officina Petri Pernæ, M. D. LXXX. [1580.]","AG241 .D5","
First Edition. 8vo. 312 leaves; woodcut device on the title, woodcut initials; first leaf backed; at the beginning the list of authors cited.
Not in Brunet. Not in Heckethorn. Haag IV, page 282.
Rebound in half morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate." "01130","","","","","","","","","Dinoth, Richard.","Sententiæ Historicorvm Per Richardvm Dinothvm Normannum Constantinatem collectæ. Basileæ: Ex officina Petri Pernæ, M. D. LXXX. [1580.]","","
[TBE]With this is bound:[/TBE]
First Edition. 8vo. 88 leaves, the last leaf backed; woodcut device on the title.
Not in Brunet. Not in Heckethorn. Haag IV, page 282.
Richard Dinoth, d. c. 1590, French historian, a Calvinist, was expatriated for religious reasons." "01140","J. 113","","","","Kennet's antiquities of Rome","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 98, as above.","Kennett, Basil.","Romæ Antiquæ Notitia: Or, The Antiquities of Rome. In Two Parts. I. A Short History of the Rise, Progress, and Decay of the Commonwealth. II. A Description of the City . . . With Copper Cutts of the Principal Buildings, &c. To which are prefix'd Two Essays; concerning the Roman Learning, and the Roman Education. By Basil Kennett, of C. C. C. Oxon . . . The Eleventh Edition Corrected and Improved. London: Printed for W. Innys, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton [and others], MDCCXLVI. [1746.]","DG76 .K34","
8vo. 226 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by V. de Gucht, 14 full page and folded engraved plates; title printed in black and red.
Lowndes III, page 1263 (without date).
Old calf, gilt line borders on the sides. Initialled at sigs. I and T by Jefferson, who has written his name on the title-page: Ex Libris Thomae [Jefferson], the last word cut away leaving an oblong hole in the paper; both the initials and the inscription are in his early hand. On the fly-leaf is the signature of Robert Lewes, May 23, 1756, with a portion of the inscription torn away. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Basil Kennett, 1674-1715, miscellaneous writer, was the younger brother of Bishop White Kennett (see no. 472). His Romae Antiquae Notitia, dedicated to the Duke of Gloucester, was first published in 1696 and passed through many editions." "01150","J. 114","","","","Vie privée des Romains par D'Arnay.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 48, as above.","Arnay, Jean Rodolphe d'.","De la Vie privée des Romains. A Lausanne: chez Marc-Michel Bousquet & Compagnie, MDCCLVII. [1757.]","DG90 .A6","
12mo. 75 leaves.
Quérard I, page 98.
Contemporary calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 2.10 (livres).
Jean Rodolphe d'Arnay, eighteenth century Swiss historian. The dedication of this book to Jean Jaques Sinner is dated from Lausanne, le 24 Juin, 1752, and the first edition appeared in that year. Quérard erroneously states this edition of 1757 to be the first." "01160","J. 115","","","","Moeurs et coutumes des Romains par Bridault.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 49, as above.","Bridault, Jean Pierre.","Moeurs et Coutumes des Romains. Par M. Bridault, Maître de Pension. Tome Premier [Second]. A Paris: chez P. G. Le Mercier, M. DCC. LIV. [1754.]","DG76 .B85","
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 154 leaves; vol. II, 162 leaves; the chain-lines are perpendicular instead of horizontal in the last sheet (2 leaves) in each volume. At the end is the Extrait des Offices de Ciceron with the Latin (in italic letter) and the French (in roman letter) texts on opposite pages.
This edition not in Quérard.
Mottled sheep, gilt back, marbled end papers, g. e.
Initialled by Jefferson in both volumes at sigs. I and T; the last sig. T falls on the half title for the Extrait des Offices de Ciceron. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 3.
Jean Pierre Bridault, d. 1761, French scholar and author." "01170","J. 116","","","","Lipsii antiquitates Roman. et Fabricii Romae collatio. Lond. 1692. ","","2mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 46, as above.","Lipsius, Justus.","Justi Lipsii Roma illustrata, sive Antiquitatum Romanarum Breviarium. Et Georgii Fabricii Chemnicensis veteris Romæ cum nova collatio. Ex nova Recensione Antonii Thysii, J. C. Cui accesserunt in hâc Editione Justi Lipsii Tractatus Peculiares . . . Cum Figuris Aeneis. In usum studiosæ Juventutis . . . Londini: Impensis Abelis Swalle, & Tim. Childe, MDCXCII. [1692.]","DG76 .L76.","
Sm. 8vo. 193 leaves: []2, B-Z8, Aa7, A8; engraved frontispiece, 1 folded plate, engravings in the text; half-title for Georgii Fabricii Chemnicensis Roma . . . on R4 recto, Index on the last sheet. On Aa7 verso a list of Libri novi quos apud Abel. Swalle & T. Childe venales prostant.
Not in Lowndes. STC L2362. This edition not in Van der Aa.
Original sheep, sprinkled edges (back scorched). Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
On the fly-leaf at the beginning (2 pp.) is written in ink in an early hand a list of books headed A Method from Mr. Peter Brown, and at the end is similarly written Mr. Halls method for a fellowship for philosophy with a list of books on 3 pages. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Justus Lipsius [Joest Lips], 1547-1606, Belgian scholar. The first edition of this work was published in Leyden in 1645.
Georg Fabricius, 1516-1571, German poet, historian, and archaeologist. His Roma, an exhaustive study of the antiquities of Rome, was originally published in 1550.
Antoine Thysius, c. 1603-1665, Dutch historian and philologue, was a pupil of Heinsius, whom he succeeded as librarian of Leyden University." "01180","J. 117","Tracts in antt: history. viz . . . . . . . . . . Description of Priestley's biographical chart Fabbroni della farfalla Fabbroni del bombice e del bisso degl' antichi 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 99, Tracts in Antient history by Priestley and Fabbroni, 8vo.","Three tracts bound together in one volume 12mo., marbled sheep, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. On the fly-leaf Jefferson has listed the contents as in his manuscript catalogue quoted above (Farfalla written with a capital initial letter). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.[TBE]CT105 .P7 1785[/TBE]","Description of Priestley's biographical chart.","i.","","","Priestley, Joseph.","A Description of a Chart of Biography; with a Catalogue of all the Names Inserted in it, And the Dates annexed to them . . . By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. A new edition, with improvements. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. Where may be had by the same Author, A New Chart of Universal History. [Price of each Chart and Description, &c. 10s.6d.]","","
12mo. 15 leaves: A-B6, C8, 2 engraved folded charts by J. Priestley; the last two leaves contain A Catalogue of all the Names.
Not in Lowndes. Fulton and Peters, page 6.
On July 24, 1786, Jefferson wrote to Stockdale from Paris and ordered, unbound, ''Priestly's biographical chart, with 2. of the pamphlets, the one I received with mine wanting several leaves.''
Stockdale's bill for August 18, 1786, included Priestley's Biogl. Chart and the description, each at 10/6. An N.B. reads:
The Bookseller will not sell the description of the Chart separate, nor will he make make [sic] the book perfect, but if you will at another oportunity specify the pages wanting, I will endeavour myself to get them at the booksellers. J.S.
This was acknowledged by Jefferson on September 13. Copies of this book and the Chart appear more than once on Jefferson's book bills.
Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804, English theologian and man of science, came to America in 1794, where he lived for the remaining ten years of his life. He was a friend and correspondent of Thomas Jefferson over a number of years. This is the eighth edition of his Description of a chart of Biography of which the first was printed in Warrington in 1765." "01190","J. 117","Tracts in antt: history. viz . . . . . . . . . . Description of Priestley's biographical chart Fabbroni della farfalla Fabbroni del bombice e del bisso degl' antichi 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 99, Tracts in Antient history by Priestley and Fabbroni, 8vo.","Three tracts bound together in one volume 12mo., marbled sheep, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. On the fly-leaf Jefferson has listed the contents as in his manuscript catalogue quoted above (Farfalla written with a capital initial letter). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.[TBE]CT105 .P7 1785[/TBE]","Fabbroni della Farfalla.","ii.","","","Fabbroni, Adamo.","Della Farfalla Simbolo Egiziano Dissertazione di Adamo Fabbroni Socio dell' Accademia Etrusca di Cortona . . . Firenze MDCCLXXXIII. Per Anton-Giuseppe Pagani, e Comp. Con Approvazione. [1783.]","","
12mo. 25 leaves.
Adamo Fabbroni, Florentine man of letters, was the brother of Giovanni Fabbroni, q. v., with whom Jefferson had correspondence." "01200","J. 117","Tracts in antt: history. viz . . . . . . . . . . Description of Priestley's biographical chart Fabbroni della farfalla Fabbroni del bombice e del bisso degl' antichi 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 99, Tracts in Antient history by Priestley and Fabbroni, 8vo.","Three tracts bound together in one volume 12mo., marbled sheep, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. On the fly-leaf Jefferson has listed the contents as in his manuscript catalogue quoted above (Farfalla written with a capital initial letter). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.[TBE]CT105 .P7 1785[/TBE]","Fabbroni del bombice e del bisso degl' antichi.","iii.","","","Fabbroni, Adamo.","Del Bombice e del Bisso degli Antichi Dissertazione di Adamo Fabbroni . . . In Perugia MDCCLXXXII. Nella Stamperia del Costantini Con Licenza de' Superiori. [1782.]","","
Sm. 8vo. 48 leaves, folded plate, imprimatur on the last page.
At the foot of the last page Jefferson has signed his initials in the script capitals used by him in signing his books.
These three tracts, bracketed together, are entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue." "01210","J. 118","","","","Histoire universelle de Bossuet.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 52, as above.","Bossuet, Jacques Benigne.","Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle. Pour expliquer la suite de la religion & les changemens des empires. Premier Partie. Depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à l'Empire de Charlemagne. Par Messire Jacques Benigne Bossuet . . . Dixieme edition.—Continuation de l'Histoire Universelle . . . Tome Second. Depuis l'an 800. de Nôtre Seigneur jusqu'à l'an 1687. inclusivement. [Par Jean de La Barre.] A Amsterdam: aux dépens d'Etienne Roger, 1710-14.","D21.B74 1710","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 222 leaves, including the engraved frontispiece by A. van Buyssen, 3 folded engraved maps; vol. II, 286 leaves, including the engraved frontispiece, the last 5 for Roger's Catalogue; titles printed in red and black, engraved device on each title-page by Sluyter after Roger.
Barbier I, 750. This edition not in Brunet, not in Quérard, not in Verlaque, Bibliographie Raisonnée des Oeuvres de Bossuet, not in Urbain, Bibliographie critique de Bossuet.
French mottled calf, gilt backs, vol. II, with the original marbled end papers (one gone), vol. I joints repaired and end papers renewed. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed in Jefferson's undated catalogue, with the price 3f. Another edition is also listed in the undated catalogue, in 4to. price 11.0.
Jacques Benigne Bossuet, 1627-1704, bishop of Meaux. The first edition of the Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle, an early French philosophical history, was published in Paris in 1681, and the book was frequently reprinted and translated.
Jean de la Barre, 1650-1711, French man of letters. The first edition of his Continuation of Bossuet's Histoire Universelle was originally published in 1703." "01220","J. 119","","","","Essai historique et chronologique de l'Abbe Berlié.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 53, as above.","Berlié, L'Abbé de.","Essai Historique et Chronologique, sur les principaux événements qui se sont passés depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours. Par Mr. l'Abbé Berlié. A Lyon: chez Jean Deville, M.DCC.LXVI. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roi. [1766.]","D11 .B51","
First Edition. 8vo. 238 leaves: ã4, [???]2, A-Z, Aa-Ff8.
Not in Brunet. This edition not in Quérard.
French mottled calf, gilt ornaments on back, sprinkled edges, marbled end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson tried to buy a copy of this work for the Library of Congress from Charles Pougens, Paris, in 1803. On June 9 of that year it is one of a list headed by Pougens: Articles demandés par Mr. Jefferson et qu'on n'a pu encore trouver, with the annotation: Introuvable ä moins du hazard d'une vente.
It is entered in the undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 4.4.
Nothing seems to be known about the Abbé Berlié. Quérard gives 1779 as the first edition of this work and ascribes it to the comte Théophile Berlier, who, born in 1761, was five years of age at the time of the publication of the first edition in 1766." "01230","J. 120","","","","Abregé chronologique de l'hist. anc. avant J. C. par la Combe","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 54, Abrégé Chronologique de l'histoire Ancienne avant Jesus Christ, par La Combe, 12mo.","Lacombe, Jacques.","Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire Ancienne des Empires et des Républiques qui ont paru avant Jesus-Christ. Avec la notice des Savans et Illustres, & des Remarques historiques sur le génie & les mœurs de ces anciens Peuples. Par M. Lacombe, Avocat. A Paris: chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, M.DCC.LVII. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy. [1757.]","D59 .L14","
First Edition. 8vo. 284 leaves.
Quérard IV, page 365.
French mottled calf, gilt line borders on the sides, gilt back, m.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on the undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 3.10.
Jefferson tried to buy a copy of this book in 1803 from Pougens in Paris for the Library of Congress. It is one of a list sent by Pougens on June 9 headed Articles demandés par Mr. Jefferson et qu'on n'a pu encore trouver.
Jacques Lacombe, 1724-1811, French avocat. This work is dedicated to President Hénault, with whom and Philippe Macquer Lacombe collaborated on the Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire d'Espagne et de Portugal, q. v. no. 181." "01240","J. 121","","","","Abregé chronologique de l'histoire des Juifs.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 51, as above.","[Charbuy, François Nicolas.]","Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire des Juifs, jusqu'à la ruine de Jérusalem par Tite sous Vespasien. Avec des discours entre chaque époque . . . A Paris: chez Hug. D. Chaubert, Claude Herissant, M.DCC.LIX. Avec Approbation & Privilége du Roi. [1759.]","DS114 .C4","
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 272 leaves, engraved headpieces by St. Aubin, after Gravelot, St. Fessard direx, dated 1759. Publisher's Avis on the last leaf.
Barbier I, 29. Quérard II, page 132.
French mottled calf, gilt back, marbled end papers, r. e.; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 3.10.
François Nicolas Charbuy, c. 1715-1788, French professor and littérateur." "01250","J. 122","","","","Abregé chronologique de l'hist. des Empereurs Romains. Richer.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 50, Abrégé Chronologique de l'histoire des Empereurs Romains, Richer, 2 v 12mo.","[Richer, Adrien.]","Nouvel Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire des Empereurs. Tome Premier [Second]. A Paris: chez la veuve David, jeune, M. DCC. LXVII. Avec Approbation & Privilége du Roi. [1767.]","DG270 .R5","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 308 leaves; vol. II, 312 leaves.
Barbier III, 537. Quérard VIII, page 36.
French marbled calf, gilt backs, marbled end papers, r. e.; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered in the undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 7.0.
Adrien Richer, 1720-1798, French author. The first edition of this work was printed in 1753,4, and, according to Barbier, la dédicace de l'auteur, Adrien Richer, au président Hénault, et l'avertissement qui la suit, ont été retranchés dans les exemplaires avec nouveau titre daté de Paris, 1767." "01260","J. 123","","","","Histoire ancienne de Milot.","","4. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 55, as above.","Millot, Claude François Xavier.","Elémens d'Histoire Générale. Premiere Partie. Histoire Ancienne. Par M. l'Abbé Millot, de l'Académie Françoise, & des Académies de Lyon & de Nancy. Tome Premier [-Quatrieme]. Nouvelle édition, augmentée. A Paris: chez Durand neveu [de l'Imprimerie de Prault], M. DCC. LXXVIII. Avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi. [1778.]","D59 .M65","
4 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 231 leaves; vol. II, 236 leaves; vol. III, 236 leaves; vol. IV, 240 leaves; printer's imprint at the end.
Quérard VI, page 142. Not in Backer.
Rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress in 1904. Initialled at sigs. I and T in each volume by Jefferson, who has written on the fly-leaf in vol. I:
'Millot a du moins le merite d'avoir ecrit l'histoire en philosophe, et de ne s'etre jamais souvenu qu'il etait jesuite et pretre.' lettre de d'Alembert 57. Voltaire 310.
Jefferson bought three copies of this work from Froullé, on June 27 and August 16, 1787, and January 31, 1789, each set relié, price 12 livres. The one for his own use is listed on the undated manuscript catalogue, with that price.
Millot's histories are usually to be found on Jefferson's lists of recommended reading.
Claude François Xavier Millot, 1726-1785, French historian, scholar, and jesuit abbé. D'Alembert's justification of him as quoted by Jefferson, was originally spoken to reassure the members of the Académie Française, who were hesitating to elect him a member of that body. The Elemens d'Histoire Générale was originally published in 1772,3; it was frequently reprinted, and translated into several languages.
For Jefferson's copy of Part II. Histoire Moderne, see no. 154." "01270","J. 124","","","","Histoire ancienne de Rollin.","","13. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 56, as above.","Rollin, Charles.","Histoire Ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes et des Perses, des Macedoniens, des Grecs. Par M. Rollin . . . Tome Premier [-Treizieme]. A Amsterdam: chez J. Wetstein et G. Smith, 1735-41, and Paris: chez la Veuve Estienne [de l'Imprimerie de Quillau], 1735,6.","D57 .R7 1735","
A mixed set. 13 vol. 12mo. vol. IX and X are the original Paris edition printed by the veuve Estienne, 1735,6. The books collate as follows: vol. I, dated 1740, 276 leaves; vol. II, 1741, 264 leaves, the last a blank; vol. III, 1739, 310 leaves; folded engraved plan; vol. IV, 1735, 252 leaves; folded engraved map; vol. V, 1740, 262 leaves; vol. VI, 1741, 300 leaves; vol. VII, 1735, 254 leaves including half-title, (sig. Y misbound); vol. VIII, 1735, 308 leaves; folded plate; vol. IX, Paris 1735, 316 leaves; vol. X, ib, 1736, 294 leaves; the leaves in the first alphabet have asterisked pagination [*1]-120*, the second alphabet begins separate pagination, the printer's imprint is at the end of both the Paris volumes; vol. XI, 1737, 317 leaves; including the title for Tome Onzieme. Seconde Partie, with separate pagination; vol. XII, 1739, 324 leaves; vol. XIII, 1739, 269 leaves; titles of the Amsterdam edition printed in red and black with printers' engraved devices, the Paris titles in black without devices.
Original calf, gilt backs; the 2 volumes with Paris imprints measure slightly larger, they are also in original calf, gilt backs, and have marbled end papers, r. e.
Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout (in vol. XI, at sig. I in both alphabets). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
The volumes of the Amsterdam edition are from the library of George Gilmer, and have his signature in several places, in vol. II with a portion of a date in French: G. Gilmer son Livre le vingt neuvieme de Novembre. Vol. I and II have also the signature Ex Libris Johannis Walker, with the date 1760. Vol. IX and X, the two volumes of the first edition, are from the library of Lord Dunmore, and have his autograph signature on the titles. [The Gilmer and Walker families were closely related, and were connected by marriage with the Merewether family and hence with Martha Jefferson. John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, was the colonial governor of Virginia at the time of the Revolution, and returned to England in 1776.]
Charles Rollin, 1661-1741, French historian. The first edition of this work was printed by Estienne in Paris 1730-1738." "01280","J. 125","","","","Universal history.","","20. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 100, as above.","An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Authors; and illustrated with Maps, Cuts, Notes &c. with a General Index to the Whole . . . Vol. I [-XX.] London: Printed for T. Osborne, A. Millar, and J. Osborn, M.DCC.XLVII. [-M.DCC.LXVIII.]","[1747-8.]","D20 .U59 Copy 2","
20 vol. only. 8vo. Folded and full page engraved maps and plates in every volume by Basire, Monk, Blundell, Guignion and others, many in this copy lacking and some defective, printer's device on every title-page. A List of the Names of such Subscribers as are come to hand includes the German Town Library of Philadelphia and the Union Library Company of Philadelphia. This copy is without vol. XXI, the Chronological Tables to the foregoing Twenty Volumes, printed in 1754.
Lowndes V, page 2740.
Original calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout. From the library of Reuben Skelton, with his armorial bookplate in each volume with the exception of vol. I and vol. XVII from which it has been removed; in vol. IV the plate is partly torn away. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
On October 25, 1825, in a letter to George Washington Lewis on the history course at the University of Virginia, Jefferson wrote:
. . . the antient Universal history should be on our shelves as a book of general reference, the most learned, and most faithful perhaps that ever was written. it's style is very plain, but perspicuous . . .
Jefferson had the ancient portion only of the Universal History; the complete work had in addition a modern portion in 44 volumes. The first edition was in folio, 1736-65, 26 vol. The compilers of the ancient portion were George Sale, q. v. Chap. 17, John Swinton, 1703-1777, English historian and antiquary, John Campbell (q. v. Chap. 3), George Shelvocke, d. 1760, Archibald Bower (q. v. Chap. 5) and the impostor George Psalmanazar, 1679?-1763." "01290","J. 126","","","","Howel's history of the world.","","3. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 128, as above.","Howell, William.","An institution of General History, or the History of the World. Being a complete body thereof, from the beginning of the world till the monarchy of Constantine the Great . . . The Second Edition with large additions. By William Howel, LL.D. sometime Fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge . . . London: for Henry Herringman, Thomas Basset, William Crook, and William Cademan, 1680—An Institution . . . The Second Part . . . ib: for Thomas Bassett, William Crook, and William Cademan, 1680—An Institution of General History, or the History of the Ecclesiastical Affairs of the World. Contemporary with the Second Part . . . ib: Printed for the Authors Widdow, by Miles Flesher, 1685—An Institution of General History, or the History of the World. The Third Part . . . ib., 1685—An Institution . . . The Fourth Part. ib., 1685.","D57 .H85","
Folio. 3 vol. vol. I, 498 leaves [this copy lacks sig. Zzzzz and sig. Gggggg]; vol. II (lettered Part 3 on the binding) 376 leaves; vol. III (lettered Part 2 on the back) 109 leaves; titles printed in red and black, publishers' advertisement on the last leaf, some leaves foxed.
Lowndes II, page 1130. STC H3138.
Bound in old calf, repaired and some endpapers renewed by the Library of Congress in 1901. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in each volume.
William Howell, 1638?-1683, English historian. The later volumes of his history were published by his widow Mary Howell, and dedicated by her to King James II." "01300","J. 127","","","","Raleigh's history of the world.","","2. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 129, as above.","Raleigh, Sir Walter.","The History of the World, in Five Books. By Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt. The Eleventh Edition, printed from a copy revis'd by himself. To which is prefix'd the Life of the Author, newly compil'd from materials more ample and authentick than have yet been publish'd; by Mr. Oldys. Also his Trial, with some Additions: Together with a new and more copious Index to the whole Work. In Two Volumes. Volume I. [II.] London: Printed for G. Conyers, J. J. and P. Knapton [and others], MDCCXXXVI. [1736.]","D57 .R17","
2 vol. Folio. vol. I, 340 leaves; vol. II, 246 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece by Vertue, dated 1735, 8 double page maps, title printed in red and black, text in double columns.
Brushfield, The Bibliography of Sir Walter Raleigh, page 224.
Old calf, restored and end papers renewed by the Library of Congress in 1901. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T and 5I and 5T. The two marginal notes are not by Jefferson.
Jefferson ordered a copy of this work from Lackington's catalogue in a letter to John Trumbull, written from Paris on October 2, 1788:
I subjoin below a little note of what I wish to have from Lackington . . . 438. Raleigh's history of the world. 7/6.
The receipt was acknowledged by Jefferson on November 1:
I have duly received your two favors of Oct. 10. & 17. and also the books from Lackington's . . .
Raleigh's History of the World in 2 vol. folio is entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 5/6.
Sir Walter Raleigh, 1552?-1618. The History of the World which covers the period from the Creation to 130 B.C. was first published in 1614, and was Raleigh's last printed work. It was written between 1607 and 1614, when Raleigh was a prisoner in the Tower, and was intended for Prince Henry, whose death in 1612 deprived Raleigh of his chief motive for the continuation of the work.
Sir William Oldys, 1696-1761, Norroy king-of-arms. This is the first edition of his life of Sir Walter Raleigh." "01310","128","","","","Hearne's system of universal history.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 101, as above.","Hearne, Thomas.","Ductor Historicus: or, a short system of Universal History, and an Introduction to the study of it. The Third Edition augmented and improved. In three Books . . . By Tho. Hearne, M. A. of St. Edm. Hall, Oxon. London: Printed by H. Clark, for Tim. Childe, 1714—Oxford, 1704.","","
2 vol. 8vo. engraved frontispiece in each volume.
Lowndes II, page 1022.
Thomas Hearne, 1678-1735, English antiquary, was at one time assistant to John Hudson, Librarian of the Bodleian. Soon after taking his degree he refused an opportunity of coming to Maryland as a missionary. The first edition of this work was published in Oxford in 1704, and volume II was not reprinted for this edition." "01320","129","","","","Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 47, Goldsmith's Essay's, 12mo","","","","This entry is not in Jefferson's manuscript catalogue, and no edition of Goldsmith's Essays is credited to the Jefferson collection in the later Library of Congress catalogues (in which the Essays are placed in chapter 44). There is not a copy from Jefferson's Library in the Library of Congress at the present time." "01330","1","","","","Leçons d'histoire de Volney.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 86, as above.","Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de.","Leçons d'Histoire, prononcées a l'école Normale, en l'An III de la République Française . . . Accompagné de Notes, et de trois Plans relatifs à l'art de construire les salles d'assemblées publiques et délibérantes. Par C.-F. Volney, Membre de l'Institut. A Paris: chez J. A. Brosson, an VIII. [1799.]","D16 .V92","
First Edition. 8vo. 126 leaves, folded engraved double-page plan.
Quérard X, page 273.
Jefferson's copy was bound by J. March in August 1805, at a cost of $1.00, and therefore probably in calf, gilt.
It was purchased from P. & C. Roche, of Philadelphia, one of a list which Jefferson ordered from their catalogue in a letter dated from Washington, May 17, 1805.
The books were sent by Roche on May 20, with the bill:
1. Leçons d'histoire par Volney 1 volume 8vo. Broché (C'est par erreur que l'on a porté sur notre Catalogue cet ouvrage en 2 vols.) 1.25
A translation into English, with the title Lectures on History, was published in London in the same year 1800, of which Jefferson bought a copy for the Library of Congress from Rapine, Conrad & Co., on May 4, 1802, price 75 cents.
Volney's Leçons d'Histoire is usually included in Jefferson's recommended reading lists.
Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney, 1757-1820, French savant, was a friend and correspondent of Jefferson, and visited him at Monticello. The Leçons d'Histoire is one of Volney's minor works, written when he was Professor of History at the newly founded Ecole Normale, where his colleagues, as given on the back of the half-title of this book, included Lagrange, Laplace, Haüy, Daubenton, Berthollet, Bernardin-St-Pierre, Laharpe and others." "01340","2","","","","Blair's chronology.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. A, Blair's Chronology, fol. grand.","Blair, John.","The Chronology and History of the World, from the Creation to the Year of Christ, 1753; illustrated in LVI Tables; Of which IV are Introductory & include the Centurys prior to the Ist. Olympiad; And each of the remaining LII contain in one expanded View, 50 Years or Half a Century By the Revd. John Blair L.L.D. . . London: Printed in the Year MDCCLIV. [1754.]","","
First Edition. Folio. 58 engraved and 15 printed leaves: engraved title, the letterpress by Kitchin after Champion, vignette by S. F. Ravenet after Eisen, engraved leaf of dedication to Philip Earl of Hardwick with his arms by J. Bayly, 3 printed leaves unsigned, B, C, D, each a single leaf, 56 numbered engraved plates of text, double-page with the exception of nos. 21 to 28 which are single leaves, A-I in printed single leaves; the double-page plates are engraved on both sides, the single ones on one side only.
Lowndes 1, page 215, erroneously gives 1756 as the first edition.
The three unsigned leaves at the beginning contain the List of Subscribers, which includes Richard Peters, Esq. of Philadelphia; The Library Company of Philadelphia; The Academy of Philadelphia; Mr. Charles Willing, of Philadelphia.
John Blair, d. 1782, Scottish chronologist." "01350","J. 3","","","","Newton's chronology.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 140, as above.","Newton, Sir Isaac.","The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended. To which is prefix'd, a Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great. By Sir Isaac Newton. London: Printed for J Tonson, and J. Osborn and T. Longman, MDCCXXVIII. [1728.]","D59 .N561","
First Edition. 4to. 196 leaves; engraved headpiece by Foudrinier, engraved initial, 3 folded engraved plates containing a Description of the Temple of Solomon; a4 verso has Advertisement and Errata.
Lowndes III, page 1674. Gray, Sir Isaac Newton, a Bibliography, 309.
Original calf, rebacked, marbled end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T, and with corrections in ink by him; on page 103 the word Crete is altered to Sicily.
Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. This system of ancient chronology was composed by Newton as a young man when at Cambridge, but not published. In 1715 he gave it to the Princess of Wales who allowed the Abbé Conti to take a copy of it, and in 1725 it was published in France without the permission of Newton who had neglected to answer two letters from Freret, the publisher. Newton then consented to prepare his work for the press, but died in 1727 before the preparation was complete. The book was issued by Newton's friend, Henry Pemberton, in 1728. The dedication to the Queen is signed by John Conduitt, Newton's nephew by marriage, who succeeded him as master of the mint." "01360","4","","","","Helvicus's chronology,","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 159, as above.","Helwig, Christoph.","The Historical and Chronological Theatre of Christopher Helvicus . . . Faithfully done into English according to the two best Editions, viz. that of Francofurt, and that of Oxford. And inlarg'd with Additions all throughout, and continued down to the Present Times. London: Printed by N. Flesher, for George West and John Crosley, Booksellers in Oxford, 1687.","D18 .H49","
Folio. 139 leaves; title-page printed in red and black.
Arber, Term Catalogues II, page 176. Madan 2170 note. STC H1411.
Christoph Helwig, 1581-1617, German chronologist. This work was originally written in Latin and published in 1609. The Francofurt and Oxford editions mentioned in the title were printed in 1666 and 1651 respectively. This is the second edition of the English translation which had first appeared in London in 1677. In this edition Roger L'Estrange's License, October 19, 1686, is on the verso of (c)1. The work is arranged in tabular form; it begins with Adam and ends in 1685. There is no mention of the discovery of America, of Columbus nor of other American explorers. The invention of the art of printing by John Gutenberg of Strasburg is noted in the year 1440." "01370","5","","","","Weeks' introduction to chronology.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 15. no. 1, as above.","Weeks, J. Eyre.","Introduction to Chronology. Dublin, 1750.","","
12mo.
No copy of this book has been located for collation, and no copy has been traced in any bibliography. Not in the
British Museum Catalogue.
James Eyre Weeks, or Weekes, who may have been the author of this work, died in 1762." "01380","6","","","","Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 11, Colvin's historical letters, 12mo.","[Colvin, John B.]","Historical Letters; originally Written for and Published in the Virginia Argus: including a brief but general View of the History of the World, Civil, Military and Religious, from the Earliest Times to the Year of our Lord, 1811 . . . Richmond: Printed and Published by Samuel Pleasants, 1812.","D7 .C7","
First Edition. 12mo. 142 leaves: []4, the first a blank, []6, C-Y6, the last a blank, in a 25 letter alphabet.
This edition not in Sabin, not in the Virginia State Library Catalogue.
Jefferson's copy was a presentation from the author, who wrote to him from Washington City, March 26, 1813:
I beg you to accept the accompanying volume of ''Historical Letters.'' I confess I am ashamed of the typographical execution of the work, the badness of which is chiefly to be attributed to its being published to the South of the Potomac. It is a reproach to that part of the United States that so useful an art as that of printing, should be there so much neglected, in point of embellishment, as it is . . .
Jefferson replied from Monticello on April 8:
I thank you for the historical work you have been so kind as to send me . . . it will also be a convenient Manuel even to proficients, who often wish to consult shorter works for a refreshment of memory when occasion occurs for taking more general views. for these purposes doubtless the work you sent me will be useful, & it's cheapness as well as brevity will probably bring it into considerable demand . . .
In the second edition of this work published in 1821 by Milligan in Georgetown, this letter is quoted in full.
Jefferson is mentioned in the text of the volume, page 282:
In 1801 Thomas Jefferson was elected to the same office [i. e., the Presidency], and was re-chosen in 1805: He voluntarily retired in 1809, when James Madison succeeded him.
John B. Colvin, fl. 1800-1821, American newspaper editor and lawyer, was for a time a clerk in the State Department in Washington. The Preface Dedicatory of the book, dated October, 1812, is addressed to Mrs. James Madison." "01390","7","","","","Priestly's description and chart of biography.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 88, as above.","Priestley, Joseph.","A Description of a System of Biography; with a Catalogue of all the Names inserted in it, and the Dates annexed to them . . . By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. A New Edition, with Improvements. Philadelphia: Printed by Akerman & Hancock, for Mathew Carey, 1803.","CT105. P7 1803","
8vo. 31 leaves, 21 folded engraved chronological charts, the first two by Shallus, unnumbered, the remainder unsigned, and numbered 1 to 19.
This edition not in Sabin. Fulton & Peters, page 7, record two issues of this date printed in Philadelphia.
The charts extend from 4000 B. C. to 1750 A. D.; the last three names are Adam Smith, Sam. Johnson and Barthelemy.
For an edition without the charts see Chap. 1, no. 118.
This book was missing at the time of the sale of the Library to Congress, and a copy was supplied by Milligan at Jefferson's request, on May 6, 1815 (bought from William F. Gray, Richmond, price $2.00).
The above entry in Jefferson's catalogue is preceded by an entry for the 12mo. edition already placed by him in chapter 1. See no. 118.
There is a separate listing of this edition in the Library of Congress 1815 catalogue (page 13, no. 2) so it is possible Jefferson had another copy." "01400","8","","","","Priestly's lectures on history.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 87, as above.","Priestley, Joseph.","Lectures on History, and General Policy; to which is prefixed, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. . . . In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [II]. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1793.","D7 .P9","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 212 leaves; vol. II, 248 leaves; a folded engraved chart as frontispiece to each volume.
This edition not in Lowndes. Fulton & Peters, page 13.
The first edition of this work was printed in Birmingham, England, in 1788. The dedication, reprinted in this edition, is dated from Birmingham, Jan. 1, 1788, and addressed to Benjamin Vaughan, to whom these lectures were formerly addressed . . . as a pupil." "01410","9","","","","Chr. Stephani Dictiona[???]. Histori[???]. Geographi[???]. Poeti[???]. Lloydii. Oxon. 1671.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 160, Car. Stephani Dictionarium Historic, Geographicum, Poeticum, Lloydii, Oxon, 1671, fol.","Estienne, Charles.","Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum, Poeticum, Authore Carolo Stephano . . . Editio Novissima . . . Recensuit, supplevit, locisque penè infinitis emaculavit Nicolavs Lloydivs, Collegii Wadhami in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi Socius . . . Oxonii: excudebat G. H[all] & D[owning], sumptibus Johan. Williams, Georg. West, Amos Curteyne & Johan Crosley, Anno Dom. 1671.","DE5 .E7","
Folio. 420 leaves; the title for this edition is followed by that for the edition of 1670, of which this is a reissue with a new title-page.
This edition not in Lowndes. Hazlitt II, page 355. Madan 2909. STC E3348.
Charles Estienne, 1504-1564, the third son of Henri Estienne, originally published his Dictionarium, the first French encyclopedia, in 1553.
Nicholas Lloyd, 1630-1680, English historical compiler. His edition of Estienne's work was published after thirty years' labour." "01420","10","","","","Abr. of the historl., geographl., chronologl. & poeticl.. dict.","","1st. vol. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 89, Abridgment of the historical, geographical, chronological and poetical dictionary, 1st vol. 8vo.","","An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary, exactly describing the Situation, Extent, Customs, Laws, Manners, Commodities, &c. of all Kingdoms, Common-Wealths, Provinces, Islands and Cities, in the known World. Containing likewise the Lives of the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, and Primitive Fathers; Emperors, Kings, Princes, Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, and other eminent Persons; with an Account of the Inventors and Improvers of Arts and Sciences, Philosophers, and all Celebrated Authors. Also the History of the Pagan Gods . . . The Whole consisting of a curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History, Extracted from Moreri, Bayle, Baudrand, Hoffman, Danet, and many more of the best and choicest Historians, Geographers, Chronologers and Lexicographers, Antient and Modern. In Two Volumes . . . London: Printed for J. Hartley, W. Turner and Tho. Hodgson, 1703.","","
Sm. 4to. vol. I [only]. 380 leaves, publishers' advertisement on the last page. The caption title on the first leaf of text reads: An Abridgment of Moreri's, Baile's, Hoffman's and Dannet's &c. Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Poetical Dictionaries . . .
The book is technically a small quarto but has the appearance and measurements of an 8vo.
Arber, Term Catalogues III, 380.
This appears to be the first edition in this format. The complete work is in 2 volumes." "01430","11","","","","Dictionnaire de Bayle.","","4. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 16, as above.","Bayle, Pierre.","Dictionaire Historique et Critique, par Mr. Pierre Bayle. Cinquieme Edition, Revue, Corrigée, et Augmentée. Avec La Vie de l'Auteur, par Mr. Des Maizeaux. Tome Premier [-Quatrieme]. Amsterdam, Leide, La Haye, Utrecht: chez P. Brunel [and other Libraires], 1740.","CT95 .B28","
4 vol. Folio. vol. I, 428 leaves; vol. II, 460 leaves; vol. III, 459 leaves; vol. IV, 358 leaves; title-pages in red and black, engraved vignettes on the titles by P. Tanjé after A. van der Werff, and by I. M. Schenk, engraved headpiece by B. Picart.
Quérard I, page 231. Haag I, page 76.
Pierre Bayle, 1646-1706, French philosopher and man of letters. The Dictionnaire historique et critique was originally published in 1696 and was the first work published by Bayle in his own name. It was immediately proscribed in France and Holland.
Pierre Desmaizeaux, 1666-1745, French scholar, was a member of the Royal Society of London." "01440","12","","","","Dictionnaire de Moreri avec deux supplements,","","10. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 162, as above.","Moreri, Louis.","Le Grand Dictionnaire historique ou le mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane . . . tirées du Dictionnaire critique de M. Bayle, par Mre. Louis Moreri . . . Nouvelle . . . édition . . . [par Louis François Joseph de La Barre, avec le collaboration de l'abbé Jean Le Clerc et de M. Vailly.] Paris: J. B. Coignard [or D. Mariette], 1725—Supplément au Grand Dictionnaire . . . de M. Louis Moreri, pour servir à la dernière édition de l'an 1732 . . . [Par l'abbé C. P. Goujet.] Paris: la Veuve Lemercier, 1735.—Nouveau Supplément au Grand Dictionnaire . . . de M. Louis Moréri . . . [Par l'abbé Goujet.] Paris: J. Vincent, 1749.","","
Together 10 vol. Folio. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
Quérard VI, page 313.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 8. o. (livres).
Louis Moreri, 1643-1680, French polygraph, was a native of Provence. The first edition of his Dictionnaire was published in Lyons in 1674. Copies of the 1725 edition, which was the finest that had appeared to that time, have the imprint of Coignard or of Mariette.
Louis François Joseph de La Barre, 1688-1738, French scholar, the editor of the edition of 1725.
Claude Pierre Goujet, 1697-1767, abbé, French historian and man of letters. This is the first edition of his first supplement to Moreri's Dictionnaire. The second supplement was originally published in 1748." "01450","13","","","","Collier's historical dict.","","4. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 163, as above.","Moreri, Louis—Collier, Jeremy.","The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary; being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History . . . Collected from the best Historians, Chronologers, and Lexicographers; as Calvisius, Helvicus, Isaacson, Marsham, Baudrand, Hoffman, Lloyd, Chevreau, and others; But more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; In Two Volumes in Folio . . . The First [-Second] Volume. The Second Edition Revis'd, Corrected and Enlarg'd to the Year 1688; By Jer. Collier, A.M.—A Supplement to the Great Historical . . . Dictionary . . . Together with a Continuation from the Year 1688, to this Time, by another Hand.—An Appendix to the Three English Volumes in Folio of Morery's Great Historical . . . Dictionary . . . By Jer. Collier, A.M. London: Vol. I and II for Henry Rhodes, Thomas Newborough, the Assigns of L. Meredith, and Elizabeth Harris, 1701; Supplement, for Henry Rhodes and Thomas Newborough, 1705; Appendix, Printed by Geo. James, and sold by R. Sare and F. Gyles, B. and S. Tooke, G. Strahan, W. Taylor, J. Bowyer and W. and J. Innys, 1721.","D9 .M82; D9 .M83","
Second edition of vol. I and II. First Edition of the Supplement and the Appendix. Folio. Vol. I, 411 leaves; vol. II, 315 leaves; Supplement, 346 leaves; Appendix, 280 leaves; engraved portrait of Collier by R. White as frontispiece in vol. I; titles printed in red and black; lists of Subscribers in the Supplement and in the Appendix (include the name of Narcissus Luttrell).
Lowndes I, page 497.
For a note on Moreri see the previous number.
Jeremy Collier, 1650-1726, English non-juror, founded his dictionary, originally published in 1701, on that of Moreri from which it was in part translated. It was compiled during the controversy caused by his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. The Preface in the first volume gives an account of previous dictionaries." "01460","14","","","","Dictionnaire historique et bibliographique par l'Abbé Lavocat.","","4. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 3, as above.","Ladvocat, Jean-Baptiste.","Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique Portatif; contenant l'Historie des Patriarches, des Princes Hebreux, des Empereurs, des Rois, et des grands Capitaines . . . Avec leurs principaux Ouvrages & leurs meilleures Editions . . . Par M. l'Abbé Ladvocat, Docteur, Bibliothéquaire, & Professeur de la Chaire d'Orléans, en Sorbonne. Nouvelle Edition corrigée et augmentée . . . Tome Premier [-Troisieme]. Supplément au Dictionnaire Historique . . . A Paris: Du Fonds de la Veuve Didot, chez Le Clerc, 1777, 89.","YA 15933","
Together 4 vol. 8vo. First Edition of the Supplément. vol. I, 368 leaves; vol. II, 394 leaves, vol. III, 422 leaves; Supplément, 354 leaves; folded printed genealogical table of the Estienne family. The imprint of P. Fr. Gueffier is at the end of vol. I and of Lottin at the end of the Supplément.
Quérard IV, page 387.
On August 8, 1789, Jefferson purchased an edition of this work in four volumes from Froullé, price 17 livres. He bought other editions in the same year as follows: July 23, 1 volume, 21 livres; July 26, 9 vol. 8vo., 46 livres, and another in 1 volume, 17 livres. In 1803 he tried to buy a copy for the Library of Congress from Charles Pougens, who in a letter to Jefferson dated from Paris, June 9, reported the Dictionnaire historique et bibliographique par Ladvocat 4 vol. in 12, to be Epuisé et peu estimé.
The edition in 4 vol. 12mo. is listed without price in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Jean-Baptiste Ladvocat, 1709-1765, for a time Librarian at the Sorbonne, first published this work, an abridgment of Moreri's Dictionary (see no. 144 above) in 1747.
Charles Guillaume Leclerc, 1723-1794, published Ladvocat's work, and added the Supplement." "01470","15","","","","Dictionnaire historique par un societé de gens de lettres.","","9. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 90, as above.","[Chaudon, Louis Mayeul.]","Nouveau Dictionnaire Historique; ou Histoire Abrégée de tous les Hommes qui se sont fait un nom par des Talens, des Vertus, des Forfaits, des Erreurs, &c. Depuis le Commencement du Monde jusqu'a nos Jours . . . Avec des Tables chronologiques pour réduire en Corps d'Histoire les Articles répandus dans ce Dictionnaire. Par une Société de Gens-de-Lettres. Septième édition, revue, corrigée, & considérablement augmentée . . . Tome Ier [-IX]. A Caen: chez G. Leroy; A Lyon: chez Bruyset, Freres, 1789.","CT142 .C5","
9 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 388 leaves; vol. II, 354 leaves; vol. III, 390 leaves; vol. IV, 361 leaves; vol. V, 306 leaves; vol. VI, 321 leaves; vol. VII, 270 leaves; vol. VIII, 303 leaves; vol. IX, 269 leaves.
Barbier III, 499. Quérard II, page 158.
Jefferson ordered a copy of this edition for the Library of Congress from Charles Pougens of Paris, who, in a letter dated June 9, 1803, included it in a list of articles demandés par Mr. Jefferson et qu'on n'a pu encore trouver with the notation that ''On reimprime cet ouvrage a Lyon en 12 vol. 8o''
The edition in 9 volumes is entered without price, in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Louis Mayeul Chaudon, 1737-1817, French abbé, man of letters, and bio-bibliographer. The first edition of this work was printed in Avignon in 1766, and was intended to supersede Ladvocat's abridgment of Moreri's Dictionary (see no. 146). The seventh edition described above was the last of which Chaudon was the sole editor. According to Quérard it should have a supplement in four volumes." "01480","16","","","","Dictionnaire des hommes marquans de la fin du 18me siecle,","","2. to. in 1. vol. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 91, as above but omitting 2. to. in 1. vol.","[Coiffier de Verseux, Henri Louis, Baron.]","Dictionnaire Biographique et Historique des Hommes Marquans de la Fin du Dix-Huitième Siècle, et plus particulièrement de ceux qui ont figuré dans la Révolution françoise. Suivi d'un supplément et de 4 tableaux des massacres et proscriptions. Rédigé par une Société de Gens de Lettres. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. Londres [Hambourg], 1800.","","
First Edition. 3 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 256 leaves; vol. II, 264 leaves; vol. III, 275 leaves; 4 folded printed tables.
Barbier I, 956. Tourneux IV, 20560. Graesse II, 386.
This book was in Jefferson's library before October 22, 1801, when a copy was offered to him by Dufief:
Je viens de recevoir de Londres un ouvrage curieux intitulé ''Dictionnaire biographique & historique des hommes marquans de la fin du 18eme. Siecle & plus particulierement de ceux qui ont figuré dans la Revolution française &c.'' Je me propose de le garder quelques tems afin de le lire; ainsi s'il vous interesse il sera a votre disposition: prix six dollars les 3 v. 8vo. . . .
Jefferson replied on November 1 that he already owned a copy:
. . . I have the Dictionnaire des hommes Marquans. judging of it's merit by turning to the characters I personally know, it is the work of a zealous partisan of the ancien regime. still it is useful to possess . . .
The work was issued in 3 volumes 8vo. as stated by Dufief. Jefferson describes his copy as 2 to. in 1 vol. The 1815 and later Library of Congress catalogues make no mention of the number of volumes, implying that the book was perfect in one volume.
Neither Jefferson nor Dufief suggests the author's name. The work, formerly ascribed to Dubois de la Maisonfort, is now attributed to Coiffier de Verseux.
The biographies include Sir John Adams [sic], l'un des fondateurs de la rép. américaine and George Washington. There is no biography of Jefferson." "01490","17","","","","Galerie des hommes illustres de la Platiere.","","4. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 141, as above.","La Platière, Sulpice Imbert, Comte de.","Galerie universelle des hommes qui se sont illustres dans l'empire des lettres depuis le siècle de Léon X. jusqu'à nos jours . . . ornée de leur portraits. Paris: Bailly, 1787-8.","","
Second Edition. 4 vol. 4to. No copy of this work has been located for collation. It was issued over a period of years, the complete work having seventy-eight cahiers, each with a portrait. The work was originally issued anonymously par une société de gens de lettres, but the second edition is signed by le Cte. de la Platière.
Quérard IV, page 179.
Jefferson was one of the original subscribers to this work. In an undated letter, probably written about 1788, La Platière wrote to him:
L'Histoire Générale des femmes des matieres les plus inconnues Doit naturellement servir de Suite à la Galerie universelle des hommes célèbres que vous avez bien voulu honorer de votre souscription . . .
This work is listed without price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Sulpice Imbert, comte de la Platière, fl. 1788, French soldier, author and artist." "01500","18","","","","Dictionnaire de diplomatique par Dom de Vaynes.","","2. v. 8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 92, as above.","Vaines, François Jean de.","Dictionnaire Raisonné de Diplomatique, contenant les regles principales & essentielles pour servir à déchiffrer les anciens Titres, Diplomes & Monuments, ainsi qu'à justifier de leur date & de leur authenticité. On y a joint des Planches rédigées aussi par ordre alphabétique & revues avec le plus grand soin, avec des explications à chacune, pour aider également à connoître les caracteres & écritures des différentes âges & de différentes nations. Par Dom de Vaines, Religieux Bénédictin de la Congrégation de S. Maur. Tome Premier [-Second]. Paris: chez Humbolt [De l'imprimerie de Didot], 1774.","CD40 .V14","
First Edition. Second issue. 2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 286 leaves, 25 engraved plates; vol. II, 244 leaves, 26 engraved plates, printer's imprint at the end. The first issue has Lacombe's name in the imprint, and vol. I. dated 1773; this issue has a cancel slip with Humbolt's imprint pasted over that of Lacombe.
Brunet V, page 1028. Quérard X, page 9. Robert, Supplement a l'Histoire littéraire de la Congregation de Saint Maur, page 93. De Lama 644.
Entered on Jefferson's manuscript catalogue, price 15.
The copy bought by Jefferson from Pougens, June 8, 1803, at the same price (reduced for him from 18) was intended for the Library of Congress.
François Jean de Vaines, fl. 1753-1790. A Parisian by birth, de Vaines made profession at Saint Faron de Meaux in 1753 at the age of nineteen, and is known to have been living in April 1790." "01510","19","","","","the Chronologist of the war of 1789-96.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 4, as above.","","The Chronologist of the Present War; or general historical and political register. Containing a faithful series of the events which have occurred in Europe, &c. from the commencement of the French Revolution, to the end of the year 1796, including a space of nearly seven years . . . Chronology, one of the Eyes of History. The Second Edition, with many additions and improvements. [The Chronologist of the Present War . . . continued from the commencement of the year 1797 to the conclusion of the year 1798 . . .] London: for G. C. and J. Robinson, 1797, 1799.","DC 147 .5 .C55","
2 parts in 1. 12mo. 252 leaves: []4, B-P12, Q8, R-Y12. The first part ends on Q6 verso, Q7 has the half-title and Q8 the title for the second part; signatures and pagination are continuous.
Not in Halkett and Laing. Not in Lowndes. London Catalogue of Books for 1799, page 21.
Jefferson owned, or had seen, a copy of this work before December 7, 1804. On that date he wrote to Abiel Holmes, recommending books for his use in writing the American Annals:
The Chronologist of the French revolutionary war. 12mo. Lond. 1797. gives the events of that war with minute dates. [See No. 444.]
Jefferson may have bought a copy from Dufief. It is one of a list of books written by him on the back of a letter from Dufief, dated September 29, received October 6, 1813.
The election of Thomas Jefferson as Vice-President, and of John Adams as President is noted under the date February 8, 1797: there were votes, for the choice of President, for John Adams, 71—Thomas Jefferson 68 . . . In obedience to the laws of the United States the President then declared, that John Adams was elected President of the United States for four years, to commence on the 4th of March next; and that Thomas Jefferson was elected Vice-President for four years, to commence at the above time.
Several other interesting references to American affairs occur." "01520","20","","","","Hardie's Remembrancer.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 5, as above.","Hardie, James.","The American Remembrancer, and Universal Tablet of Memory: containing a List of the Most Eminent Men, whether in Ancient or Modern Times, with the Atchievements for which they have been particularly distinguished: as also the Most Memorable Events in History, from the earliest period till the year 1795, classed under distinct Heads, with their respective dates. To which is added, a Table, comprehending the Periods at which the most remarkable Cities and Towns were founded, their present Population, Latitude, and Longitude. The whole being intended to form a comprehensive abridgement of History and Chronology, particularly of that part which relates to America. By James Hardie, A. M. . . . Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by Thomas Dobson, 1795.","D9 .H27","
First Edition. 12mo. 136 leaves, including two blanks, folded table, subscribers' names on eight leaves at the end, errata list at the beginning.
Sabin 30317. Evans 28800.
Jefferson either owned, or had seen, a copy of this work before December 7, 1804, for it is included in a list of books suggested to Abiel Holmes as useful for his history (see the previous entry):
Hardie's American Remembrancer, 12mo. Philada. 1795. may furnish something.
It is also on the list of books written by Jefferson on the back of a letter from Dufief, 29 September 1813.
Jefferson was not one of the subscribers to this book. The account of him in the chapter on Eminent Men (page 22) notes that he was a representative in congress at the declaration of American Independence, July 4, 1776: was sent as ambassador to the court of France 1784; appointed secretary of State 1789; resigned and retired to private life 1794. He also wrote notes on Virginia which are much celebrated.
In the chapter on Memorable Events Jefferson is listed as one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
James Hardie, ?1750-?1826, a Scot, emigrated to New York at the instance of the poet Beattie, and taught at Columbia College from 1787-1790." "01530","21","","","","Abregé chronologique de l'histoire universelle. par Hornot.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 7, as above.","[Sleidanus, Johannes—Hornot, Antoine.]","Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire universelle depuis les premiers empires du monde jusqu'à l'année 1725, traduit du latin avec des augmentations [par Hornot]. Amsterdam et Paris, 1757.","","
First Edition of this translation. 12mo. No copy of this book was located for collation.
Barbier I, 17. Quérard IX, page 190.
Johannes Sleidanus [Johann Philippson, dit Sleidanus], 1506-1556, German historian. This work is a translation and adaptation, with a continuation, of the De quatuor summis imperiis . . . of Sleidanus, first published during his lifetime. Quérard attributes this Abrégé chronologique to John Sleiden, historien anglais. The translation and continuation was by Antoine Hornot, which, according to the catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale, is a pseudonym for Dejean." "01540","22","","","","Millot. Histoire moderne.","","5. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 10, as above.","Millot, Claude François Xavier, Abbé.","Elémens d'Histoire Générale. Seconde Partie. Histoire Moderne. Par M. l'abbé Millot, des académies de Lyon & de Nanci. Nouvelle édition. Tome Premier [-Cinquième]. A Paris: chez Durand, neveu [de l'Imprimerie de Prault], 1777-1778.","D18 .M6","
5 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 224 leaves, the last with the publisher's Notice des Ouvrages de M. l'Abbé Millot, and of l'Abbé Nollet; vol. II, 224 leaves; vol. III, 236 leaves; vol. IV, 226 leaves; vol. V, 218 leaves; printer's imprint at the end of the last volume, a number of cancel leaves throughout. The title of vol. I reads as above; in vol. II, III, and V, the author is described as de l'Académie Françoise, and in vol. IV de l'Académie Françoise, & des Académies de Lyon & de Nancy.
Quérard VI, page 142.
Jefferson bought three copies of this work, one of which was for Madison, from Froullé, at 15 livres each, charged on the bills for June 27 and August 16, 1787 and January 31, 1789. On Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue the price was originally written 13-50, changed with the pen to 16-5.
For the first part of this work, the Histoire ancienne and a note on the author, see no. 126. The Histoire Moderne was first published in 1773." "01550","23","","","","Salmon's Modern hist.","","3. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 164, as above.","Salmon, Thomas.","Modern History: or, The Present State of all Nations. Describing their respective Situations, Persons, Habits, and Buildings; Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion, and Policy; Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry; Plants, Animals, and Minerals. By Mr. Salmon. Illustrated with Cuts and Maps, accurately drawn according to the Geographical Part of this Work, by Herman Moll. The Third Edition . . . In Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III]. London: Printed for T. Longman, T. Osborne, J. Shuckburgh, C. Hitch, S. Austen and J. Rivington, 1744-46.","G114 .S17","
3 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 400 leaves; vol. II, 427 leaves; vol. III, 322 leaves; numerous engraved maps by Moll, and numerous engraved plates of illustration; text printed in double columns, titles printed in red and black.
Lowndes IV, page 2179. Sabin 75826. Cordier I, 28.
Thomas Salmon, 1679-1767, English historical and geographical writer, travelled widely and wrote this book, first published in 1725 in 32 vol. 8vo., partly from his own observation. Pages 138 to 636 in the third volume of this edition relate to America.
Herman Moll, d. 1732, Dutch geographer and map maker, established himself in London in 1698, and published numerous geographies and maps." "01560","24","","","","Thuani historia.","7. v. fol. (1545-1608.","","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 165, as above.","Thou, Jacques Auguste de.","Jac. Augusti Thuani Historiarum sui Temporis. Tomus Primus [-Sextus] . . . [Sylloge Scriptorum Varii generis et argumenti . . . Tomus Septimus.] Londini: excudi curavit Samuel Buckley, 1733.","D228 .T52","
7 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 484 leaves; vol. II, 427 leaves; vol. III, 432 leaves; vol. IV, 453 leaves; vol. V, 427 leaves; vol. VI, 405 leaves; vol. VII, 526 leaves; in twos; titles of volumes I-VI printed in red and black, of volume VII in black, engraved portrait frontispiece of De Thou in volume I by J. Cheveau, engraved vignette on each title, head and tail pieces by G. Vertue, R. Baron and others; printer's imprint at the end of the first five volumes, the last two unsigned; volume I printed by Henry Woodfall, volume II by Samuel Richardson, volume III by James Bettenham, volume IV by James Roberts and volume V by Thomas Wood. In the Library of Congress copy collated above the first volume has a half-title, the other volumes, with the exception of the last, have only one leaf (the title) in the first sheet.
Lowndes V, page 2679.
Jacques Auguste de Thou, 1553-1617, French historian, statesman and bibliophile. His Historiarum, written in Latin for the sake of impartiality, was first published in 1604-1608. This London edition of 1733 was inspired by Dr. Mead (q. v. no. 904) who bought the materials collected by Thomas Carte, and paid Samuel Buckley to edit the work. According to Nicholls, the unsigned sixth volume and the last part of the seventh were printed by Edward Owen, and the first six books of the seventh by Bowyer." "01570","25","","","","De Thou. Histoire universelle avec la suite par Rigault.","","11. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 142, as above.","hou, Jacques Auguste de.","Histoire Universelle de Jacques Auguste de Thou, depuis 1543. jusqu'en 1607. Traduite sur l'édition Latine de Londres, avec la suite de l'Histoire de Jacques Auguste de Thou par N. Rigault. Basel, 1742.","","
11 vol. 4to.
According to the Library of Congress catalogues printed after 1815 Jefferson's copy of this work was printed in Basel in 1742. No example of such an edition has been located for collation, and no edition of 1742 is mentioned in the bibliographies.
Barbier II, 837.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, II. v. 4to. without information as to place or date of imprint, with the price 55.0. (livres.)
The Histoire Universelle is a translation from the Latin edition printed by Samuel Buckley in London, 1733.
The first edition of the translation into French was printed in Londres [Paris], in 1734, 16 vol. 4to. The first edition in 11 volumes appeared in La Haye in 1740. The translation was the work of several scholars, of which the chief were: Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier 1697-1760, Charles Le Beau, the author of Le Bas Empire, q. v. no. 102, Pierre-François Guydot Desfontaines, 1685-1745, and others.
Nicolas Rigault, 1577-1654, French scholar, was the author of the Suite de l'Histoire de Jacques de Thou, which consisted of three books, and covered the period from 1607-1610." "01580","26","","","","Introduction à l'histoire de l'Univers de Puffendorf.","","4. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 8, as above.","von Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr.","Introduction à l'historie générale de l'univers . . . par M. le baron de Pufendorf. Nouvelle édition [publiée par Bruzen de La Martinière] . . . Amsterdam: Z. Chatelan, 1732.","","
4 vol. 12mo. No copy of this edition was located for collation. The complete set is in 7 volumes, Jefferson's copy was without the last three with the Histoire de Suède.
Quérard VII, page 371. Graesse V, page 504.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 15.0. (livres).
Freiherr Samuel von Pufendorf, 1632-1694, German jurist and historian. The first edition of this work, written when von Pufendorf was historiographer royal at Stockholm, was published in Utrecht in 1685. For a note on Bruzen de la Martinière, the editor, see no. 304." "01590","27","","","","Perizonii historia seculi sextidecimi.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 9, as above.","Perizonius, Jacobus.","Jac Perizonii rerum per Europam maxime gestarum ab ineunte saeculo sexto decimo usque ad Caroli V. mortem, &c . . . commentarii historici. Lugduni Batavorum: apud J. Van den Linden, 1716.","","
8vo. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
Not in Brunet. Not in Graesse. This edition not in Van der Aa.
For a note on Perizonius see no. 10. The first edition was published in Leyden in 1710." "01600","28","","","","Tablettes chronologiques de l'histoire universelle de Langlet du Fresnoy.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 6, as above, 2 v 12mo.","Lenglet du Fresnoy, Nicolas.","Tablettes Chronologiques de l'Histoire Universelle, Sacrée et Profane, Ecclésiastique et Civile, depuis la Création du Monde jusqu'à l'an 1775 . . . Par M. l'Abbé Lenglet du Fresnoy. Tome Premier; contenant l'Histoire Ancienne. [Tome Second. Contenant l'Histoire Moderne.] Nouvelle Édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée, par J. L. Barbeau de la Bruyère. Paris: chez les Frères De Bure, P. M. Delaguette, 1778.","D11 .L6","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 440 leaves; the last a blank; vol. II, 446 leaves.
Brunet 21257. Quérard V, page 159.
Entered on Jefferson's manuscript catalogue, price 15.0.
Jefferson bought a copy from Pougens, June 8, 1803, at the same price (reduced for him from 18) intended for the Library of Congress.
Nicolas Lenglet du Fresnoy, 1674-1755, French scholar and historian, wrote several introductions to history, some under a pseudonym. The Tablettes chronologiques first appeared in 1729 and later editors have made the necessary additions of subsequent events. The short description, under date 1774, the latest in this edition, of the troubles of the Colonies Angloises d'Amérique ends with the information that (ces troubles durent encore en 1776.) The discovery of America by Christoph Colombe, Génois, is recorded under the date 1492. The invention of printing is described under the year 1442: Jean Mentel, Gentilhomme de Strasbourg, à qui on a fait l'honneur de l'invention de l'Imprimerie, si utile aux Lettres & aux Sciences. Pierre Schoiffer, de Gernsheim, travaillant à cette recherche avec Jean Fust & Jean Guttemberg, à Mayence, inventa vers 1450. les lettres mobiles, & ainsi il peut être regardé comme le véritable inventeur de l'Imprimerie, quoique Guttemberg eût fait le premier des essais.
Jean Louis Barbeau de la Bruyère, 1710-1781, French scholar and author, was the editor of this edition." "01610","29","","","","Russell's History of Modern Europe.","","5. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 94, as above.","Russell, William.","The History of Modern Europe. With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a View of the Progress of Society. From the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763. In a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son. A New Edition, enlarged and greatly improved. Vol. I. [-V]. London: Printed for G. G.J. and J. Robinson [and others], 1786.","","
4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 300 leaves; vol. II, 288 leaves; vol. III, 282 leaves; vol. IV, 284 leaves; vol. V, 283 leaves.
Lowndes IV, page 2156.
Russell's History of Modern Europe is listed without price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, and is included on almost all reading lists and schedules of work prepared by him for others.
William Russell, 1741-1793, Scottish historian and miscellaneous writer. This is the first complete edition of this work. The first edition of the first two volumes was issued anonymously in 1779, followed in 1786 by the remaining three volumes, with the name of the author." "01620","30","","","","Tableau chronologique de l'histoire de l'Europe de 476 à 1648.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 93, as above.","[Linguet, Simon Nicolas Henri.]","Esprit de l'Histoire Générale de l'Europe. Depuis l'An 476, jusqu'à la Paix de Westphalie . . . A Londres: de l'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury, 1783.","","
First Edition. 8vo. in fours, 252 leaves; list of Subscribers on the last 5 pages.
Barbier II, 187. Not in Quérard.
Entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 12f.
Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, 1736-1794, French avocat and publicist. On account of his political opinions he was compelled to live abroad for some years and was in England at the time this book was published. He was guillotined in France in 1794." "01630","31","","","","Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 112, Coup d'oeil politique sur le Continent, par Satadin, 8vo.","[Saladin, Charles.]","Coup-d'oeil politique sur le Continent . . . Londres: de l'imprimerie de W. et C. Spilsbury, et se trouve chez J. Deboffe, A. Dulau, et T. Boosey, Janvier, 1800. [prix cinq shellings.]","AC901 .M5 Misc. Pamph. 784.","
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 103 leaves, separate pagination for the Notes; printer's imprint at the end. Au lecteur dated from Londres le 18 Décembre, 1799; dated at the end of the book Du 30 Décembre 1799.
Barbier I, 784. Quérard VIII, 396.
Charles Saladin, dit Saladin-Egerton, 1757-1814, Swiss writer and politician, left Geneva after the insurrection and settled in London. The Coup d'oeil was published in Paris simultaneously with the London edition." "01640","32","","","","Gazette de Leyde.","","7. v. 4to. 1781-1793.4.5.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 143, 11 v 4to. 1781-1793, 4, 5.","","Nouvelles Extraordinaires de divers endroits. Leyden: [Etienne Luzac] 1781-1795.","AP25 .N6","
11 vol. 4to. Published bi-weekly, on Tuesday and Friday; caption titles; bound in yearly volumes, with an added half-title: Nouvelles politiques publiées à Leyde.
Hatin, Les Gazettes de Hollande, page 146, seqq.
Jefferson subscribed to the Gazette de Leyde from 1781 to 1795, and frequently referred to it in his correspondence, particularly during the period of his residence in Paris. In a letter to John Jay, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the United States, written from Paris on June 17, 1785, Jefferson mentioned:
I send you herewith the gazettes of Leyden and that of France for the last two months, the latter because it is the best in this country, the former as being the best in Europe . . .
Similarly on August 3, 1788, at the close of a letter on European affairs to the same correspondent, he wrote:
The gazettes of France to the departure of my letter will accompany it, & those of Leyden to the 22d. of July, at which time their distribution in this country was prohibited. how long the prohibition may continue I cannot tell. as far as I can judge it is the only paper in Europe worth reading . . .
On February 12 of the same year, Jefferson wrote of the Gazette de Leyde to C. W. F. Dumas, the American consul at The Hague:
the paper is much read & respected. it is the only one I know in Europe which merits respect.
References to Jefferson occur in the text of several of the news letters relative to the United States.
The Nouvelles Extraordinaires de divers endroits, usually known as the Gazettes de Leyde, was established in 1680, and, with various suppressions and revivals, survived until 1814." "01650","33","","","","Istoria d'Italia del Guicciardini.","","2. vol. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 166, as above.","Guicciardini, Francesco.","Della Istoria d'Italia di M. Francesco Guicciardini Gentiluomo Fiorentino Libri XX. Tomo Primo [Secondo]. In Venezia: Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1738,9.","","
2 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 392 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece by Jo. Ferretti after Jo. Mich. Liotard, engraved genealogical tree; vol. II, 414 leaves; titles printed in red and black, engraved printer's device on both titles and on the last leaf of vol. II (otherwise blank) and engraved head-pieces by Ant. Visentini, engraved pictorial initials and tail-pieces signed A. F.; the imprint on both titles and the colophon in vol. I are dated 1738; the dedication by Pasquali to Francesco III in that volume and the colophon in vol. II are dated 1739 (the former the 31 Gennario). The copy collated was without the 12 pages mentioned by Brunet as having been printed à Venise sous la date de la Haye, 1740.
Brunet I, page 485.
It is possible that this book was not delivered to Congress in 1815 with the rest of the library. In a working copy of the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue, it is not checked as present, and is included in the manuscript list made after 1815, of Congress Library Books Missing.
Francesco Guicciardini, 1483-1540, Florentine historian and diplomat. This work was written during the last years of his life, and originally printed in 1561-1564." "01660","34","","","","Il Sacco di Roma del Guicciardini.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 12, as above..","Guicciardini, Luigi.","Il Sacco di Roma descritto in due libri da Francesco Guicciardini Edizione Seconda. In cui trovasi aggiunta la Capitolazione tra il Pont. Clemente VII. e gli agenti dell' Imp. Carlo V. In Colonia, 1758.","","
8vo. 130 leaves.
Brunet II, page 1805.
Luigi Guicciardini, 1521-1589, was the brother of Francesco Guicciardini, the Italian historian and statesman, to whom this work was formerly attributed. The first edition, printed in 1644, was without the capitolazione tra il Pont. Clemente VII. Although the imprint is Colonia, the book was probably printed in Lucca, Italy." "01670","35","","","","Istoria di Napoli del Giannone.","","5. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 145, as above.","Giannone, Pietro.","Istoria civile del regno di Napoli di Pietro Giannone . . . Tomo Primo. [-Quinto]. Palmyra [Geneva], 1760, 62, 63.","","
5 vol. 4to. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
This edition not in Haym. Tipaldo VII, page 321.
Listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 45 (livres).
Giannone's History of Naples was one of the books intended for the original Library of Congress. It does not appear in the first Library catalogue, April, 1802, and is one of twelve entries on an undated manuscript list headed Articles not yet obtained, endorsed by Jefferson recd. May 2, probably from Cadell & Davies, 1801.
Pietro Giannone, 1676-1748, Italian historian, spent twenty years in the compilation of this work, which, soon after publication (Naples, 1723) was put on the Index. The author died a prisoner in the citadel of Turin." "01680","36","","","","Rerum Venetarum historia Justiniani.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 167, Rerum Venetarum historio Justiniani, fol.","Giustiniani, Pietro.","Rervm Venetarvm ab Vrbe Condita ad annvm MDLXXV. Historia. Petri Ivstiniani, Patritii Veneti. Aloy. F. Senatorii Ordinis Viri Ampliss. Nvnc ab eodem denvo revisa, & rerum memorabilium additione exornata. Cum Indice locupletissimo. Cvm Privilegio. Venetiis: apud Ludouicum Auantium, 1576.","","
Folio. 274 leaves; printer's device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, otherwise blank, colophon on the penultimate leaf.
Cicogna, Saggio di Bibliografia Veneziana, 595.
Listed on Jefferson's undated catalogue with the price 3/-.
4323. Justiniani 3/. is one of a list of books from the 2d. Part of Lackington's catalogue for 1787, ordered by Jefferson in a letter to Stockdale from Paris, July 1, 1787. This listing is amplified in a memorandum in Jefferson's handwriting:
4323. Justiniani historia Veneta. fair. gilt. fol. 3/.
Pietro Giustiniani, 1490-1576, Venetian scholar and politician. The first edition of this work was published in 1560." "01690","37","","","","Opere Istoriche del Machiavelli.","","2. v. 12mo. [2d. wanting]","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 13, as above, 1st v 12mo.","Machiavelli, Niccolo.","Opere di Niccolò Macciavelli, coll'aggiunta delle inedite. Tomo I. Londra: si trova in Parigi Appresso Marcello Prault, 1768.","","
Vol. I only. 12mo. 216 leaves; engraved title by J. M. Moreau after F. Godefroy, engraved portrait of the author by Littret.
Brunet III, page 1275.
The entry on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue does not record the loss of a volume: Opere Istoriche del Machiavelli. 2 v. 12mo. 8.0 (livres). These two volumes, though separately priced as above, form a part of an edition in 8 volumes. Jefferson, followed by the 1815 and later Library of Congress catalogues, divided the set, the remaining volumes of which will be found in chapter 24, Politics.
Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Florentine statesman and historian." "01700","38","","","","Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de'Medici.","","8vo. 3. vols.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 95, as above.","Roscoe, William.","The Life of Lorenzo de'Medici, called the Magnificent. By William Roscoe. The First American, from the Fourth London Edition, Corrected, in Three Volumes. Vol I [-III]. Philadelphia: Printed for Bronson & Chauncey, 1803.","","
3 vol. 8vo. in fours. Vol. I, 229 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece of Laurentius Medices by D. Edwin; vol. II, 216 leaves; vol. III, 228 leaves; engraved vignettes on the title-pages (the Medici arms and the device of Lorenzo), engraved medallion head and tail pieces.
This edition not in Lowndes. This edition not in Moreni, Serie d'Avtore di Opere risgvardanti la celebre Famiglia Medici.
Jefferson's copy was bound by J. March on September 30, 1805, at a cost of $3.00 ($1.00 each volume).
William Roscoe, 1753-1831, English historian, writer of verses for children, and banker. The first edition of this work was published in Liverpool, 1796, and the Fourth London edition in 1800. See the next entry." "01710","39","","","","Roscoe's life of Leo X.","","4. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 144, as above.","Roscoe, William.","The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth. In Four Volumes. By William Roscoe. Vol. I [-IV]. Liverpool: Printed by J. McCreery; for T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1805","","
First Edition. 4 vol. 4to. vol. I, 249 leaves; vol. II, 241 leaves; vol. III, 265 leaves; vol. IV, 234 leaves; deMedici arms on each title-page, 4 engraved portrait frontispieces, vignette headpieces and medallion tailpieces.
Lowndes IV, page 2128.
Jefferson's copy was bound for him in calf, gilt, by John March in 1807, cost $12.00. It was sent to him by the author, who wrote from Allerton near Liverpool, 4th June, 1805:
It is with particular pleasure that I avail myself of the opportunity afforded me by the publication of my history of The Life & Pontificate of Leo X. of requesting you will do me the honour of accepting a Copy, as a humble but very sincere token of the respectful esteem & attachment of the author . . . I also flatter myself with the hope that the principles avowed in this work will be found in unison with those sentiments of enlightened toleration, liberal policy, & universal benevolence, which have been no less strikingly evinced in your practice, than energetically recommended & enforced in your public addresses to the great & increasing Nation over which you so deservedly preside.
On June 8, 1806, Jefferson received the following letter from E. Bronson, Philadelphia, written June 6:
I have this day received from Mr. Roscoe of Liverpool a letter dated the 4th of June 1805 accompanying two copies of his Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, one of which he presents to me, and requests me to forward the other to ''His Excellency Thomas Jefferson President of the United States by the earliest conveyance.'' By some accident the package containing the books and the letter has lain in the custom house ever since August last without my knowledge . . .
This letter was acknowledged by Jefferson and one from him despatched to General Muhlenberg, the Collector of Customs for Philadelphia, on the same day, June 9, from Washington:
Since writing my letter of yesterday I learn from m[???] Bronson that there was lodged some time ago in the custom house of Philadelphia, a book from m[???] Roscoe of Liverpool intended for me but sent under cover to m[???] Bronson, who has left it with you for me. as I presume it is too bulky to come by post, I will pray you to send it with the wines & place it's duty on the same account . . .
On July 1 Jefferson wrote to Roscoe (under cover to Mr. Maury, United States Consul) at Liverpool:
By some accident which has not been explained to me your letter of June 4. 05. & the copy of your history of the Pontificate of Leo X. which you were so kind as to destine for me have laid in one of our custom houses near a twelvemonth. the letter is now recieved, & the book expected by the first conveyance. I pray you to recieve my thanks for this mark of your attention, and I anticipate with pleasure the reading of a work which, for it's taste and science, will, I doubt not stand worthily on the shelf with the Life of Lorenzo de Medici. and both will continue to mark honorably the age we live in . . .
Mr. Maury acknowledged from Liverpool on October 22, 1806, the receipt of the letters and his ''great pleasure in the execution of the commission.'' He supplied Jefferson with an account of Mr. Roscoe, explaining that he, ''besides being an author, is also (what you would hardly suppose) a banker, and happens to be mine . . .''
Roscoe wrote concerning the delay on April 25, 1809 (received by Jefferson on August 6):
It was with great concern that I found from the Letter with which you some time since honour'd me, that the volumes of the Life of Leo X. had been so long in arriving at their destination. If however they should have the good fortune to afford you any amusement, and particularly if the sentiments on political & moral subjects, which unavoidably obtruded themselves in its composition, should meet with your assent, it will much more than compensate me for the bigotted censures & illiberal remarks of those who assume to themselves the same intolerance as they condemn in the Church of Rome . . ." "01720","40","","","","Historia de Espana di Mariana y Miniana.","","16. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 14, as above.","Mariana, Juan de.","Historia general de España, compuesta, emendada, y añadida por el Padre Juan de Mariana. De la Compañia de Jesus. Tomo Primero. Nueva Edicion.—Historia General de España, o Continuacion de la Historia de España, del R. P. Juan de Mariana de la Compañia de Jesus. Dividida en Cinco Tomos . . . Traducida en Español de la Continuacion de la Historia que escriviò en Lengua Latina el R. P. Fray Joseph Manuel Miniana del Orden de la Santissima Trinidad. Tomo XII. de la Historia, y Primero de la Continuacion. En Amberes [Lyons]: A costa de Marcos-Miguel Bousquet y Compañia [1737-9].","","
First Edition with this imprint. Together 16 vol. 12mo. The above title was taken from a copy of the second ''Amberes'' edition, 1751-6, the only edition of that imprint of which a copy was located.
Brunet III, page 1423. Palau V, page 57. Salva II, 3017. Backer V, 551.
Entered in the undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 30 francs.
Juan de Mariana, 1536-1623, Spanish historian. This work was originally written in Latin, and published in Toledo in 1592. The author himself translated it into Castilian.
José Manuel de Miniana, 1671-1730, Spanish historian." "01730","41","Tracts historical. viz . . . . . . . . . Portrait de Philip. II. par Mercier. La destruction de la ligue . . . . . 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 96, Tracts historical of Philip II, and the league, 8vo.","","Portrait de Philip. II. par Mercier.","i.","","","[Mercier, Louis Sébastien.]","Portrait de Philippe II, roi d'Espagne. A Amsterdam, 1785.","","8vo. 162 leaves; no copy was seen for collation. Barbier III, col. 957. Palau V, page 160." "01740","41","Tracts historical. viz . . . . . . . . . Portrait de Philip. II. par Mercier. La destruction de la ligue . . . . . 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 96, Tracts historical of Philip II, and the league, 8vo.","","La destruction de la ligue.","ii.","","","","La Destruction de la Ligue, ou la Réduction de Paris, Pièce Nationale en Quatre Actes. A Amsterdam, [i. e. Paris] 1782.","PQ 2207 .M6A7","
First Edition. 8vo. 117 leaves.
Barbier I, 913. Quérard VI, page 60.
These two tracts entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 4.0 each tract.
Louis Sébastien Mercier, 1740-1814, French dramatist and miscellaneous writer, corresponded with Jefferson in 1802 and 1803, signing himself as Mercier membre de l'Institut national de France." "01750","42","","","","Obras de Stockler.","","tomo Imo. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 16, as above.","Stockler, Francisco de Borja Garcão, Barão de Villa da Praia.","Obras de Francisco de Borja Garcão Stockler, Secretario de Academia Real das Sciencias &c. Tomo I. Lisboa: na Typografia da mesma Academia, 1805.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 210 leaves.
Silva II, page 355, no. 622.
Jefferson's copy was bound by J. March, on October 7, 1806, in calf, gilt, price .87½ cents.
The book was a presentation from the author. On June 20, 1806, John Vaughan wrote to Jefferson from Philadelphia:
In a Box of Books forwarded to the Socy. from the Lisbon Academy, thro' the instance of the Chevalier Freire—I found two from the Secretary of that Academy Mr. Stockler—one entitled a letter to Editor of the Monthly review &c—the other the first Vol. of his ''Obras''—They are a present from the author to yourself, he has sent another copy to the Society . . . I send the Books in separate Packets by the Mail . . .
Jefferson replied from Washington on June 24:
. . . I recieved by post the books you were so kind as to forward from m[???] Stockler. would it be against rule to mix my thanks with those of the society in your letter to him?
Vaughan answered on July 8:
I shall with pleasure add your acknowledgem8 to that of the Society to Mr. Stockler.
Francisco de Borja Garcão Stockler, Barão de Villa da Praia, 1759-1829, Portuguese scholar and poet. The second volume of the Obras was published in Lisbon, 1826." "01760","43","","","","Historia del luxo y de las leyes suntuarias de España por Sempere.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 17, as above.","Sempere y Guarinos, Juan.","Historia del Luxo, y de las Leyes suntuarias de España. Por Don Juan Sempere y Guarinos . . . Tomo I [II]. Madrid: en la Imprenta Real, 1788.","","
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 112 leaves; vol. II, 112 leaves.
Palau VI, 488. Ballester, Bibliografia de la Historia de España, p. 104, no. 480.
Listed as 2 v. 12mo., without price, on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Juan Sempere y Guarinos, 1754-1830, Spanish lawyer and writer. This work is dedicated to Don Joseph Moñino, conde de Floridablanca." "01770","44","","","","Expedicion de los Catalanes y Aragoneses contra Turcos y Griegos. por de Moncada Conde de Osona.","","small 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 15, Expedicion de los Catalanes y Aragoneses contra Turcos et Griegos por Moncada de Osona, p 8vo.","Moncada, Francesco de","Expedicion de los Catalenes y Aragoneses contro Turcos y Griegos, dirigida a D. Juan de Moncada, arzobispo de Tarragona, Por D. Francisco de Moncada, conde de Osona, su sobrino. Con Licencia. Madrid: Por D. Antonio de Sancha. Año de M DCC LXXVII. [1777.]","","
8vo. 201 leaves, no copy was seen for collation.
Palau V, 211.
Listed without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
Francesco de Moncado, Conde de Osona, 1586-1635, Spanish general, diplomat and author. This is the second edition of this work, first published in Barcelona in 1623." "01780","45","","","","Robertson's hist. of Charles V.","","3. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 152, as above.","Robertson, William.","The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. In Three Volumes. By William Robertson, D.D. . . . Vol. I [-III]. London: Printed by W. and W. Strahan, for W. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, 1769.","DD179 .R6","
First Edition. 3 vol. 4to. vol. I, 212 leaves, errata slip at the end; vol. II, 242 leaves; vol. III, 250 leaves; errata for vol. II, and III on the recto of the last leaf.
Lowndes IV, page 2106.
An early owner of the copy in the Library of Congress collated above, was Ja. Key, who has signed his name on sig. K, in Jefferson's manner though more fully; using the printed K, he has written Ja. before it, and ey after.
William Robertson, 1721-1793, Scottish historian. See also no. 469.
Charles V, 1500-1558, Roman emperor, and (as Charles I) King of Spain." "01790","46","","","","Watson's hist. of Philip II.","","3. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 15. no. 128, as above.","Watson, Robert.","The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain. By Robert Watson, LL.D. . . . In Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III]. The Third Edition. London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell in The Strand; and J. Balfour, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1779.","","
3 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 228 leaves; vol. II, 216 leaves; vol. III, 208 leaves.
Lowndes V, page 2856. Palau VII, page 226.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 15/-.
Robert Watson, ?1730-1781, Scots historian. This history, which deals with the period 1548-1598, was originally issued in 4to in 1777. It was frequently reprinted and translated into various languages until superseded by the work of William Prescott.
Philip II, 1527-1598, King of Spain." "01800","47","","","","Watson & Thomson's hist. of Philip III.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 15. no. 129, as above, with reading history for hist.","Watson, Robert.","The History of the Reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain. The First Four Books. By Robert Watson, LL.D. Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrew's. The Two Last by William Thomson, LL.D. Second Edition. Vol. I [-II]. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, J. Robson, and J. Sewell, 1786.","DP182 .W34","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 232 leaves; vol. II, 206 leaves.
Lowndes V, page 2856. Palau VII, page 226.
Jefferson's copy was purchased in September 1787 from Stockdale, to whom the former wrote from Paris on October 10, 1787:
Your favor of Sep. 21. inclosing your account came safely to hand. I observe one error in it, a History of Philip 3d. charged as a quarto edition 25/. whereas it was the 8vo. edition in 2. volumes which I presume was cheaper . . .
On July 17, 1788, Jefferson again wrote to Stockdale concerning his bill for this book:
. . . I must refer you to my letter of Oct. 10. 1787. for an explanation of the credit I state on the next leaf for Watson's Phil. III . . . I put this letter under cover to m[???] Trumbull who will be so good as to pay you the balance of £13-12. should I have mistaken the price of . . . the octavo edition of Phil. III. which was the one you sent me, he will be so good as to accede to your correction . . .
For a note on Robert Watson, see the previous number. The first edition of this book was published in 1783.
William Thomson, 1746-1817, Scottish miscellaneous writer.
Philip III, 1578-1621, King of Spain." "01810","48","","","","Abreg' Chronologique de l'histoire d'Espagne et de Portugal.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 18, as above.","[Henault, Charles Jean François; Lacombe, Jacques; and Macquer, Philippe].","Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire d'Espagne et de Portugal, divisé en huit Périodes . . . Tome Premier [-Second]. A Paris: chez Jean-Thomas Herissant fils, 1765.","YA 20262","
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 376 leaves; vol. II, 355 leaves; printer's imprint at the end of the Privilège in vol. II.
Quérard IV, page 63. Bernandes Branco I, 198. Palau IV, page 16.
This work was originally issued in 1765, and remaindered in 1777 with a new title-page. Jefferson's copy was of the latter issue. The title-page of the first issue has been given above, as no copy with the date 1777 was available for examination. The 1777 title-page is not mentioned by Quérard nor by Bernandes Branco.
Jefferson bought two copies of this work from Froullé, both on September 24, 1787, price 10 livres for the two.
A copy is listed on his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 5 (livres).
At the end of the Evenemens Remarquables of the year 1492 (Vol. II, page 8), is the passage: Cette année si mémorable pour l'Espagne par la prise de Grenade, ne l'est pas moins pour le monde entier, par la premiere découverte de l'Amérique, qui est entièrement due à Christophe Colomb, Génois, quoique cette partie du monde ait pris le nom d'Americ Vespuce, Florentin, qui n'y alla que cinq ans après.
Other references to America occur.
Charles Jean François Henault, 1685-1770, French historian.
For a note on Jacques Lacombe and Philippe Macquer see no. 123 and 67." "01820","49","","","","Revolutions de Portugal de Vertot.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 19, as above.","Vertot, René Aubert de.","Revolutions de Portugal. Par M. l'Abbé de Vertot, de l'Académies des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres. Nouvelle Edition, revue & corrigée. A Paris: Chez les Libraries Associés, 1786.","","
12mo. 204 leaves, the verso of the half-title leaf, facing the title, has the list of the Associés, numbering 13, beginning with Didot le jeune.
Querard X, page 130. This edition not in Palau.
Purchased from Froullé on November 6, 1788, price 2 (livres).
Entered without the price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
René Aubert de Vertot, 1655-1735, French historian. The first edition was published in 1689, see the following entry." "01830","50","","","","Conjuration de Portugal en 1640.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 20, as above.","[Vertot, René Aubert de.]","Histoire de la Conjuration de Portugal. A Paris: chez la veuve d'Edme Martin, Jean Boudot, & Estienne Martin, et chez Claude Barbin, 1689.","DP537 .V56","
First Edition. 12mo. 140 leaves, engraved frontispiece; the last has the Privilege, and the date: Achevé d'imprimer pour la première fois le 18. Juin, 1689.
Barbier II, 683. Quérard X, page 129.
This is the first edition of the Révolutions de Portugal described above." "01840","51","","","","Epitome de las historias Portuguesas por Manuel de Feria & Sousa.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 97, Epitome de las historicas Portuguesas, por Feria and Sousa, p 4to.","Faria e Sousa, Manuel de.","Epitome de las Historias Portvgvesas. Primero i Segundo Tomo. Divididos en quatro partes. Por Manvel de Faria 1 Sovsa . . . En Madrid: por Francisco Martinez. A costa de Pedro Coello, Mercader de Libros, 1628.","DP537 .F22","
First Edition. 2 vols. in 1. 4to. in eights. 158 and 202 leaves; woodcut arms on the verso of both title-pages, woodcut initials and illustrations in the text, continuous pagination.
Silva V, page 415, no. 496. Palau III, page 186.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price: 7-0.
Manuel de Faria e Sousa, 1590-1649, Portuguese historian and scholar." "01850","52","","","","Anecdotes de Pombal.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 98, as above.","Pombal, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, Marquez de.","Anecdotes du Ministere de Sébastien-Joseph Carvalho, comte d'Oyeras, Marquis de Pombal, sous le Regne de Joseph I, Roi de Portugal. Nouvelle Edition revue & vérifiée sur les Décrets émanés du Trône, sur d'autres Pièces justificatives & sur le témoignage des Auteurs impartiaux . . . A Varsovie: chez Janosrovicki, 1784.","","
8vo. 232 leaves.
Sabin 63909. Silva VII, page 213, no. 4. Estreicher XIV, page 72.
Listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 1-15.
Sebastião José De Carvalho e Mello, Marquez de
Pombal, 1699-1782, Portuguese statesman, who from 1750 to 1770 during the reign of King Joseph, exercised the powers of a dictator in Portugal. This is the second edition of the Anecdotes which were first published in Warsaw in 1783. A portion of the work relates to Brasil and to the expulsion of the Jesuits." "01860","53","","","","Histoire de France du P. Daniel.","","10. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 146, Histoire de France du Pere Daniel, 10 v 4to.","Daniel, Gabriel.","Histoire de France, depuis L'Etablissement de la Monarchie Françoise dans les Gaules, Dediée au Roi, Par le P. G. Daniel, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Nouvelle Édition . . . Tome Premier [-Dixième] . . . Paris: chez Denys Mariette, Jacques Rollin, Jean-Baptiste Delespine, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, fils, 1729.","DC37 .D178","
10 vol. 4to. Engraved frontispiece in vol. I by Thomassin after Verdier, folded engraved maps and plans, engraved headpieces, some signed by Baquoy after Boucher, small engravings in the text, woodcut initials and other ornaments; vol. III and V have at the end the imprint of Jean-Baptiste Delespine, 1729; vol. VI, VII, and X that of Jean-Baptiste Coignard Fils, 1728, and vol. VIII and IX that of Jacques Vincent, 1728.
In the copy in the Library of Congress from which this collation was made vol. I ends on HHhh4 verso, and has the catchword Table.
This edition not in Quérard, not in Monad, and not in Backer. Not in De Ricci-Cohen.
Gabriel Daniel, 1649-1728, historiographer of France, was a Jesuit abbé." "01870","54","","","","Histoire de France de Mezeray.","","7. v. 12mo. [1st. wanting]","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 21, as above.","Mézéray, François Eudes De.","Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire de France, par François de Mézéray . . . Nouvelle édition, augmentée de quelques pièces originales, et de l'Abrégé de la Vie des Reynes par l'Auteur. Amsterdam: H. Schelte, 1701.","","
No copy was located for collation. The 1701 edition which, according to the Library of Congress catalogues subsequent to that of 1815, was in Jefferson's collection, had only six volumes, not seven as described by Jefferson above.
Quérard VI, page 104.
François Eudes De Mézéray, 1610-1683, French historian. His family name was Eudes, and the name Mézéray was adopted by him from the name of a village in which he owned land." "01880","55","","","","Histoire de France de Velly . . . . . 1315. de Villaret 1314-1469. de Garnier 1469-1560.","","1-7. vols, 8-17., 17-30, 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 22, as above, but with the spelling Vilaret.","Velly, Paul François—Villaret, Claude—Garnier, Jean Jacques.","Histoire de France depuis l'Establissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV. Par. M. l'Abbé Velly [-M. Villaret, M. Garnier]. Nouvelle Edition. Tome Premier [-Trentième]. Paris: chez Desaint & Saillant, 1760-1786.","DC37.V44","
30 vol. only. 12mo. All volumes were printed for Desaint and Saillant, either in partnership or separately, and some during the partnership of Saillant and Nyon. Six volumes (VI, XI, XIV-XVI, XVIII) have the imprint of P. A. Le Prieur; vol. XII has that of Moreau, and vol. XXIII to the end that of J. G. Clousier; the words Nouvelle Edition are omitted from some of the titles; from vol. VII to the end the title includes the prix: 3. liv. relié.
Quérard X, page 92.
Listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 77.0 (livres).
Jefferson had only the 30 volumes of text. The complete work had an additional three volumes of Tables and engraved plates in 15 volumes quarto.
Paul François Velly, 1709-1759, French historian, planned the history of France, but died before the completion of the work. His name is on the titles of vol. I-VII.
Claude Villaret, 1715-1766, continued the work, and carried the history to 1469 (volumes VIII to XVIII; on the last mentioned the title reads: Commencé par M. Villaret & achevé par M. Garnier).
Jean Jacques Garnier, 1729-1805, completed the work to the year 1564, ten years before the death of Charles the IX." "01890","56","","","","Millot. Histoire de France.","","3. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 23, as above.","Millot, Claude François Xavier.","Elémens de l'Histoire de France, depuis Clovis jusqu'à Louis XV. Par M. l'Abbé Millot, de l'Academie Françoise. Sixième Edition. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. A Paris: Chez P. E. G. Durand neveu, [De l'Imprimerie de P. Fr. Gueffier] 1787.","","
3 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 216 leaves; vol. II, 225 leaves; vol. III, 230 leaves; printer's imprint at the end of Tome II.
Quérard VI, page 141.
Jefferson bought several copies of this work from Froullé between 1787 and 1791. His first copy was bought on June 27, 1787, shortly after publication. The copy entered on the undated manuscript catalogue is priced 9-15 which may have been inclusive of the binding. The price on Froullé's bill was 7.10 (livres).
This work is usually included on Jefferson's lists of recommended reading.
For a note on Millot see no. 126. The first edition of this work was published in 1767-1769." "01900","57","","","","Instructions sur l'histoire de France par Vetour.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 24, as above.","Vetour.","Instructions (nouvelles) sur l'histoire de France, à l'usage de la jeunesse. Paris: Servière, 1786.","","
First Edition. 12mo. No copy of this work was located for collation.
Quérard X, page 133.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 3 (livres)." "01910","58","","","","Varila hist. de St. Louis et Louis Xme.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 25, Verila. histoire de France de St. Louis a Charles IX, 9 v. 12mo.","Varillas, Antoine.","La Minorité de Saint Louis, avec l'Histoire de Louis XI et de Henri II. Par le Sieur Varillas. Seconde Edition, revüe & corrigée. A La Haye: chez Adrian Moetjens, 1687.","","
12mo. 270 leaves, printer's woodcut device on the title-page.
Quérard X, page 55.
The Library of Congress 1815 catalogue has one entry only, as above, for this and the four following books, 9 volumes in all.
Antoine Varillas, 1624-1696, French historian. The first edition of this work was printed in 1685." "01920","59","","","",". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Francis Ire.","","3. v. 12mo.","","Varillas, Antoine.","Histoire de François I. Par Monsr. Varillas. Nouvelle Edition, revüe, augmentée & divisée en trois Tomes. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. A La Haye: chez Arnout Leers, 1686.","","
3 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 183 leaves; vol. II, 223 leaves; vol. III, 166 leaves; the last two blank; printer's woodcut device on each title-page.
This edition not in Quérard.
First printed in Paris in 1685." "01930","60","","","",". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henri IIde.","","2. v. 12mo.","","Varillas, Antoine.","Histoire de Henri Second, par Monsieur Varillas . . . Paris: C. Barbin, 1691, 2.","","
2 vol. 12mo. No copy was seen for collation.
Henri II, 1503-1555, titular king of Navarre." "01940","61","","","",". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Francis. IIde.","","12mo","","Varillas, Antoine.","Histoire de François Second par Monsieur Varillas. A La Haye: chez Adrian Moetjens, 1693.","","
First Edition. 12mo. 152 leaves; printer's woodcut device on the title (Haeghen II. Moetjens 2).
Quérard X, page 54. 194" "01950","62","","","",". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles IXme.","","2. v. 12mo.","","Varillas, Antoine.","Histoire de Charles IX. Par le Sieur Varillas. Nouvelle Edition, enrichie à la fin de chaque Tome des principaux endroits qu'on a retranché dans l'Edition de Paris. Tome Premier [-Second]. A Cologne: chez Pierre Marteau, 1686.","","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 220 leaves; vol. II, 195 leaves; sphere device on the title-pages.
Quérard X, page 55.
First printed in Paris in 1684." "01960","63","","","","Histoire de France de Comines.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 169, as above.","Comines, Philippe de, Sieur d'Argenton.","Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Comines, Seignevr D'Argenton, Contenans l'Histoire des Roys Lovys XI. & Charles VIII. depuis l'an 1464. iusques en 1498. Revues & corrigez sur diuers Manuscrits, & anciennes Impressions. Augmentez de plusieurs Traictez, Contracts, Testaments, autres Actes, & de diuerses Obseruations. Par Denys Godefroy, Conseiller, & Historiographe ordinaire du Roy. A Paris: [Sebastien Cramoisy] de L'Imprimerie Royale, 1649.","","
Folio. 324 leaves and 2 double leaves with genealogies of the Kings of France and of Philip de Comines respectively, engraved royal arms on the title-page, engraved headpieces, initials and vignettes; Cramoisy's name occurs in the colophon.
Brunet II, page 191. This edition not in Quérard.
This book was evidently not delivered to Congress with the rest of the library in 1815. In a working copy of the Library catalogue, 1815, it is not checked as present, and is one of a contemporary manuscript list headed: Congress Library Books Missing.
Philippe de Comines, Sieur d'Argenton, c. 1445-c. 1511, French statesman and chronicler, was a native of Flanders. His Memoires were first printed in part in 1525. This is the first edition edited by Denis Godefroy, 1615-1681, French historian." "01970","64","","","","Histoire de Henri le grand de Prefixe.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 26, as above.","Péréfixe, Hardouin de Beaumont de.","Histoire dv Roy Henry le Grand. Composée par Messire Hardovin de Péréfixe, Evesque de Rodez, cy-devant Precepteur du Roy. A Paris: chez Thomas Iolly, 1662.","YA 10396","
12mo. 232 leaves: ã, A-S12, T4. This edition not in Brunet and not in Quérard.
Hardouin De Beaumont De Péréfixe, 1605-1670, Archbishop of Paris, and member of the Académie Française, was at one time tutor to Louis XIV. The first edition of this Histoire was published in Paris by Edme Martin, in 4to., 1661. The book was frequently reprinted in Paris and in Amsterdam.
Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610." "01980","65","","","","Istoria delle guerre civili di Francia del Davila.","","5. v. small 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 99, as above.","Davila, Enrico Caterino.","Istoria delle guerre di Francia (dopo l'anno 1559 al 1598). Venezia, 1745.","","
5 vol. 8vo. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 21.0 (livres).
Davila's history of the civil wars of France is on most of Jefferson's lists of recommended reading in history. In a letter to George Otis written from Monticello on December 25, 1820, Jefferson stated:
Mr Adams's criticism on Davila and Hume is just; that the former is an apology for Catherine of Medicis, and the latter of the Stuarts . . .
Enrico Caterino Davila, 1566-1631, Italian historian. The first edition of this work was printed in Venice in 1630." "01990","66","","","","Memoires de Sully.","","8. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 27, as above.","Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de.","Mémoires de Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, Ministre de Henri IV, mis en ordre, avec des Remarques, par M. L. D. L. D. L. [l'abbé P. M. de l'Ecluse des Loges] Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigée & Augmentée. Tome Premier [-Huitième]. A Londres [Paris]: 1778.","","
8 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 232 leaves; vol. II, 278 leaves; vol. III, 278 leaves; vol. IV, 228 leaves; vol. V, 244 leaves; vol. VI, 238 leaves; vol. VII, 236 leaves; vol. VIII, 186 leaves; engraved portrait of Sully and of Henry IV at the beginning of vol. I.
Barbier III, 206. Quérard IX, page 290.
Purchased from Froullé in September 1788; billed as 1. Suilly 8 vol. in 12, br. 16.
Entered without the price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Sully's Memoires are usually included in Jefferson's lists of recommended historical reading.
Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, 1559-1641, French statesman. His memoirs, which are valuable source material for the history of the period, were originally published in 1638. The first edition of the adaptation by l'Ecluse was issued in 1747. Two supplementary volumes were added to the edition of 1778, not in the Jefferson collection." "02000","67","","","","Lettres de Louis XIVme. par Morelly.","","2. v. 16s.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 33, as above.","Louis XIV.","Lettres de Louis XIV. aux Princes de l'Europe, à ses Généraux, ses Ministres, &c. Recueillies par Mr. Rose, Sécrétaire du Cabinet; Avec des Remarques historiques, par Mr. Morelly. Tome I [-II]. Paris & Francfort, en Foire: chez Bassompierre, 1755.","DC129 .A2","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 111 leaves; vol. II, 152 leaves; titles printed in red and black; each volume with a page of Corrections.
Quérard V, page 366. Monod 3996.
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715. These letters were written between 1661 and 1678, and according to Morelly in his preface, formeroient une Histoire très-fidèle de la vie de Louis XIV.
Morelly, b. 1769, French political writer.
Toussaint Rose, 1611-1701, secretary to Louis XIV, and a clever forger." "02010","68","","","","Histoire militaire du regne de Louis le grand. par le Marquis de Quincy.","","7. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 148, as above.","Quincy, Charles Sévin, Marquis De.","Histoire Militaire du Regne de Louis le Grand, Roy de France, où l'on trouve Détail de toutes les Batailles, Sieges, Combats particuliers, & generalement de toutes les actions de Guerre qui se sont passées pendant le cours de son Regne, tant sur Terre que sur Mer, Enrichie des Plans Necessaires. On y a joint un Traité Particulier de Pratiques & de Maximes de l'Art Militaire. Par M. le Marquis de Quincy . . . Tome I. [-VII.] Paris: chez Denis Mariette, Jean-Baptiste Delespine, Jean-Baptiste Coignard fils, 1726.","DC127 .6Q7","
First Edition. 7 vol. 4to. vol. I, 359 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by Duflos after Martin; vol. 377 leaves; vol. III, 380 leaves; vol. IV, 353 leaves; vol. V, 315 leaves; vol. VI, 342 leaves; vol. VII, 426 leaves, on Ai the title-page for Maximes et Instructions sur l'Art Militaire . . . with the same imprint and date, separate pagination; folded and double-page printed tables inserted in each volume, 2 engraved portraits in circular compartments as head-pieces on the first page of text in each volume, numerous engraved double-page and folded plans.
Quérard VII, page 405.
Charles Sévin, Marquis de Quincy, c. 1660-c. 1729, was the Brigadier of the Armies of France.
Louis XIV, 1638-1715." "02020","69","","","","Histoire de Turenne.","","2. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 149, as above.","[Ramsay, Andrew Michael.]","Histoire du Vicomte de Turenne, Maréchal Général des Armées du Roy. Tome Premier. [Tome Second. Contenant les Preuves en trois Parties.] Paris: chez la Veuve Mazieres & J. B. Garnier, 1735.","DC130.T9R17","
First Edition. 2 vol. 4to. vol. I, 360 leaves; vol. II, 176 leaves; titles and half-titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume I by N. De Larmessin after Meissonier, engraved arms on both titles, engraved initials, engraved head-pieces and culsde-lampe by J. B. Scotin, 13 engraved folded maps and plans by le Sr. Coquart. In the Library of Congress copy from which this collation was made, the engraved head-piece on sig. Ai is printed upside down.
Barbier II, 797. Brunet IV, 1097. Quérard VI, 449.
Andrew Michael Ramsay, 1686-1743, a Scot by birth, emigrated to the Netherlands and thence to France, where he was known as the Chevalier Ramsay. He lived with Fénélon until the death of the latter, after which he became tutor to the sons of the Pretender and others." "02030","70","","","","Memoires du Cardinal de Retz.","","5. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 29, as above.","Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de.","Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz, contenant ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable en France, pendant les premières Années du regne de Louis XIV. Augmentez considerablement en cette presente édition. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. A Amsterdam [without name of printer], 1718—Memoires de Mr. Joli, Conseiller au Parlement: contenant l'Histoire de la Regence d'Anne d'Autriche, & des premières années de la Majorité de Louis XIV. jusqu'en 1666. avec les intrigues du Cardinal de Retz à la Cour. Tome Premier [Seconde]. A Amsterdam: chez Jean Frederic Bernard, 1718.","DC130.R4 DC130.J7A18","
Together 5 vol. 12mo. and 8vo.; titles in red and black.
Quérard VII, page 549.
Two editions of the Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz were published in Amsterdam in 1718, without name of printer. Copies of both are in the Library of Congress, but it is not possible to know which edition was in the Jefferson collection.
Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, 1614-1679, French churchman and agitator. The first edition of his Mémoires appeared in Nancy in 1717.
Guy Joly, fl. 1648-1665, French historian. The Mémoires de Mr. Joli are usually found with this edition. In later editions of the Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz the memoirs of Gui Joli and of Marie de Longeville, duchesse de Nemours, were added, 7 volumes in all." "02040","71","","","","Memoires de comte de Forbin.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 30, as above.","Forbin, Claude, Comte de.","Mémoires du comte de Forbin, chef d'escadre, chevalier de l'Ordre Militaire de Saint Louis. Tome Premier [-Second]. A Amsterdam: chez François Girardi, 1730.","DC 130 .F6A3 1730","
First Edition. 2 vols. 12mo. vol. I, 194 leaves; vol. II, 174 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I; phoenix device on the titles, titles and half-titles printed in red and black.
Quérard III, page 160.
Claude, Comte de Forbin, 1656-1733, French naval commander. His Memoirs, edited by Simon Reboulet and Louis Daniel Lecomte, and first printed in 1729, supply interesting information with regard to the navy in the time of Louis XIV.
Simon Reboulet, 1687-1752, French historian.
Louis Daniel Lecomte, 1655-1728, French abbé and historian." "02050","72","","","","Memoires de Brantome des Capitaines François.","","2. v. 24s.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 32, as above, 2 v 16.","Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de.","Mémoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme, Contenant les Vies des Hommes illustres & grands Capitaines François de son temps. Premiere [-Quatrième] Partie. A Leyde: chez Jean Sambix le Jeune, à la Sphere, 1699.","","
4 parts in 2 vol. 12mo. part I, 212 leaves; part III, 223 leaves; part IV, 177 leaves; woodcut sphere device on the title-pages; no copy of part II was available for collation.
This edition not in the Elzevirian bibliographies and not in Quérard.
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur et abbé de Brantôme, c. 1540-1614, French historian and biographer. Les Vies des Hommes illustres et grands Capitaines François was first published with the Sambix imprint, actually by Daniel Elzevir, in 1666. It forms part of a set of which the other volumes contain Les Vies des dames illustres, Les Vies des dames galantes and Les Vies des hommes illustres & grands capitaines estrangers de son temps." "02060","73","","","","Pauli Jovii sui temporis historia.","","2. v. in 1. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 168, as above, omitting 2. v. in I.","Jovius, Paulus.","Pavli Iovii Novocomensis Episcopi Nvcerini, Historiarvm svi Temporis Tomvs Primvs [Secvndvs], XXIIII Libros complectens, cvm indice plenissimo. Lvtetiæ Parisiorum: ex officina typographica Michaelis Vascosani, 1558, 1560.","","
2 vol. in 1. Folio. vol. I, 258 leaves; vol. II, 368 leaves; woodcut initials and headpieces.
Graesse III, page 490. Ebert II, 10970. Not in Quérard. Listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 6 (livres).
This book was evidently not delivered to Congress with the rest of the library in 1815. In the contemporary working copy of the 1815 catalogue, it is not checked as present, and is included in a manuscript list headed Congress Library Books Missing.
Paulus Jovius (Paolo Giovio), 1483-1552, Italian historian and biographer. This history, which covers the period from about 1494 to 1547, was first published in Florence in 1550-1552, and is dedicated to Andreas Alciatus." "02070","74","","","","Vie privée de Louis XV.","","4. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 35, as above.","[Moufle D'Angerville.]","Vie privée de Louis XV, ou principaux Evénemens, Particularités et Anecdotes de son Regne . . . Tome Premier [-Quatrieme]. Orné de Portraits. Nouvelle Edition. A Londres: chez John Peter Lyton, 1784.","","
No copy was seen for collation.
Barbier IV, 991. This edition not in Quérard and not in Monod.
Listed, with the price, 15.0 (livres) on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Moufle d'Angerville, d. 1794, French avocat, scholar and author, was an anti-revolutionist. His Vie privée de Louis XV was originally published anonymously in England in 1781. A modern edition of this work is cited as one of the authorities in the life of Louis XV in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Louis XV, 1710-1774, King of France." "02080","75","","","","Memoires de Pompadour.","","2. v. in 1. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 34, as above.","Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson le Normant D'étioles, marquise de.","Memoires de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour. Où l'on découvre les Motifs des Guerres, & des Traités de Paix, les Ambassades, les Négociations dans les différentes Cours de l'Europe . . . Ecrits par elle-même. Tome Premier [Second]. Liege: 1768.","DC135 .P8M5","
Second Edition. 2 vol. in 1. 8vo. vol. I, 80 leaves; vol. II, 68 leaves.
This edition not in Quérard. Bibliothèque Impériale, Histoire de France, II, page 324, no. 46B. Monod 4228. Theux, Bibliographie Liégeoise, I, 272.
This book is listed on Jefferson's undated catalogue, with the price 2.0. In a letter to Maria Cosway, from Paris, October 12, 1786, Jefferson quotes the lines on Madame de Pompadour for which Masers de Latude was imprisoned in the Bastille (see no. 219):
you know this was for making four verses on Mme. de Pompadour. but I think you told me you did not know the verses, they were these. ''Sans esprit, sans sentiment, Sans etre belle ni neuve, En France on peut avoir le premier amant: Pompadour en est l'epreuve''.
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour [Madame Le Normant d'étioles], 1721-1764. These Mémoires, originally published in 1766, are now ascribed to Crébillon fils, though at one time were considered authentic. According to Theux they were printed abroad.
Claude Prosper Jolyot Crébillon, 1707-1777, French novelist, was appointed to the office of censor in 1759 through the influence of Madame de Pompadour." "02090","J. 76","","","","Memoires de la Comtesse du Barri.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 36, as above.","[Mairobert, Mathieu François Pidanzet de.]","Anecdotes sur M. la Comtesse Du Barri . . . A Londres: [i. e. Paris] 1775.","DC135 .D8M2","
First Edition. 12mo. 176 leaves; in this copy the last sheet has been inserted from another copy, with lower edges uncut, and is printed on differently water marked paper with the wire-lines vertical. This edition is complete without the portrait mentioned in some bibliographies, and which first appeared in the edition of John Adams, 1776.
Barbier I, 59. Tourneux 22512. This edition not in Quérard.
Rebound in red buckram by the Library of Congress in 1921. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. On the title is written in ink par Mathieu Franc. Pedanzet de Mairobert.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 6.0 (livres).
Marie Jean Bécu, comtesse du Barri, 1746-1793, mistress of Louis XV, was guillotined on December 7, 1793.
Mathieu François Pidanzet de Mairobert, 1727-1799, French writer, and reputed author of this work, committed suicide in 1799. The preface states that quoique cet Ouvrage soit une vie très complette de Madame la Comtesse Dubarri, l'Auteur, pour lui ôter tout air de prétention, a préféré le titre modeste d'Anecdotes." "02100","77","","","","Histoire de la guerre des Alpes de 1744. par le M. de St. Simon.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 147, as above.","Saint-Simon, Maximilien Henri, Marquis de.","Histoire de la guerre des Alpes, ou Campagne de 1744, par les armées combinées d'Espagne et de France, commandées par l'Infant don Philippe et le prince de Conti . . . Amsterdam, 1770.","","
4to. No copy of this edition was located for collation. The first edition was published in the previous year, 1769, and to this second edition had been added l'Histoire de Coni, depuis sa fondation en 1200 jusques en 1744.
Quérard VIII, page 376.
Listed without price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Maximilien Henri, Marquis de Saint-Simon, 1720-1799, was at one time aide-de-camp to the Prince of Conti." "02110","78","","","","Vie de Voltaire.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 15. no. 100, as above.","[Du Vernet, Théophile Imarigeon.]","La Vie de Voltaire, par M * * *. A Geneve, 1786.","YA 3472","
First Edition. 8vo. 130 leaves.
Barbier IV, 1018. Quérard, Bibliographie Voltarienne, 966.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 6+rel.
Théophile Imarigeon Du Vernet, 1734-1796, French historian and man of letters, was a friend of Voltaire and of the Encyclopédistes. His Vie de Voltaire was written while he was confined in the Bastille for his opinions. François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher, dramatist, historian and man of letters.
During the debate on the purchase of Jefferson's library in the House of Representatives in October 1814, the works of Voltaire (with Callender's Prospect Before Us, see chapter 24) were the books specifically mentioned as ''objectionable'' by the opponents of the purchase.
See Annals of Congress, vol. 28, page 398." "02120","79","","","","Memoires de Voltaire.","","2. v. in I. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 38, as above, but omitting 2. v. in 1.","","Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire de M. de Voltaire; dans lesquels on trouvera divers Ecrits de lui, peu connus, sur ses différends avec J. B. Rousseau & d'autres Gens-de-Lettres: Un grand nombre d'Anecdotes: Et une Notice critique de ses Pièces-de-Théatre. Ire. [-II[???]] Partie. A Amsterdam, 1785.","","
First Edition. 12mo. 2 parts in 1. 136 and 122 leaves.
Barbier III, 242. Quérard II, page 159.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 3 f 12.
According to Barbier this work was written by the Baron de Servières, revised and edited by Louis Mayeul Chaudon. Quérard stated this to be an error and that Chaudon was the author.
For a note on Chaudon see no. 147.
The Baron de Servières, fl. 1785, was an officer in an Orleans cavalry regiment, and a member of several learned societies." "02130","80","","","","Soirees de Ferney","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 101, as above.","[Despréaux de la Condamine, Simeon.]","Soirées de Ferney, ou Confidences de Voltaire, recueillies par un ami de ce grand homme. Paris: Dentu, An X.-1802.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 170 leaves.
Barbier IV, 512. Quérard II, page 529.
Jefferson's copy was bound by John March, in calf, gilt, on March 7, 1805, price $1.00. It was bought from Reibelt in 1804, listed on the January bill, 1805, price $1.00.
Simeon Despréaux de la Condamine, born c. 1755, fl. 1818, French man of letters. Ferney, a village in the department of Ain, was presented to Voltaire in 1759 by his niece, Madame Denis, the widow of Nicolas Charles Denis." "02140","81","","","","Legende de Charles Cardinal de Lorraine.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 37, as above.","[La Planche, Louis Regnier, Sieur de.]","La Legende de Charles, Cardinal de Lorraine, & de ses frères, de la maison de Guise. Descrite en trois liures, par François de l'Isle. A Reims: de l'Imprimerie de Iaques Martin, 1576.","DC112.G83 L2","
First Edition. 8vo. 125 leaves.
Barbier II, 9215. Brunet III, page 1095. Not in Quérard. Bibliothéque de Reims, Catalogue des Imprimés du Cabinet de Reims, IV, 596.
Entered without price in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Louis Regnier, Sieur de la Planche, c. 1530-c. 1580, French historian and politician. This work is attributed to him by Barbier, and is included in the lists of his works in various biographies of him. Brunet puts the book under Lisle, but explains that it is attribué à L. Regnier de la Planche. At the end of the book is Fin du premier liure but the rest of the work remained in manuscript and was not published. This appears to be the first edition, and Barbier to be in error in listing an edition of 1574, Reims, Martin (ou Geneve). The book is omitted from the 1872 edition of Barbier.
Charles de Lorraine, 1525-1574, archbishop of Reims and Cardinal." "02150","82","","","","Abregé chronologique de l'histoire de France par Henault.","","3 parts in 2 v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 28, Abrege Chronologique de l'histoire de France, par Henault, 2 v 12mo.","[Henault, Charles Jean François.]","Nouvel Abregé chronologique de l'Histoire de France; contenant les Evénemens de notre Histoire depuis Clovis jusqu'à Louis XIV. les Guerres, les Batailles, les Sièges, &c. nos Loix, nos Moeurs, nos Usages, &c. Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigée, & augmentée . . . [Seconde—Troisième Partie.] Paris: Chez Prault père, Prault fils aîné, Desaint, Saillant, Durand, 1775, 4.","DC35. H42","
3 parts in 2. 8vo. Part I, 200 leaves; part II, 158 leaves; part III, 194 leaves; pagination continuous.
Quérard IV, page 63.
Listed on Jefferson's undated catalogue, with the price, 14-8.
Jefferson bought a copy from Pougens for the Library of Congress, June, 1803, at the special price of 25, reduced from 30 (livres).
For another work by Henault see no. 181." "02160","83","","","","Memoire sur la vie et les ouvrages de Turgot par Dupont.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 102, as above.","[Dupont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel.]","Mémoires sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. Turgot, Ministre d'État. Première Partie [Seconde Partie]. Philadelphie [Paris: Barrois l'aîné], 1782.","DC137.5.T9D8","
First Edition. 8vo. 2 parts in 1; Part I, 79 leaves (including 4 leaves of errata); Part II, 134 leaves.
Barbier III, 257. Quérard II, page 707. Hildeburn 4194. Not in Evans.
Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1739-1817, French economist and statesman, was the intimate friend and confidential adviser of Turgot, whose works he edited, see chapter 24. He became a friend of Jefferson, who described him as one of the ablest men in France, and with whom he was in correspondence for almost twenty years.
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, 1727-1781, French statesman and economist." "02170","84","","","","Vie de Turgot par Condorcet.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 15. no. 103, as above.","[Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de.]","Vie de Monsieur Turgot . . . Londres [i. e. Paris, or Utrecht]: 1786.","DC137.5.T9C7","
First Edition. 8vo. 163 leaves.
Barbier IV, 1015. Quérard II, page 270.
The Vie de Mr. Turgot. 8vo. Broche. price 4. 10., was purchased by Jefferson from Froullé on June 27, 1787. No details of edition or date are given, but it seems probable that the reference is to the recently published book by Condorcet here described. It is listed without price on Jefferson's undated catalogue. Several editions or issues of Condorcet's work appeared in 1786, and it is not possible to know which was in the Jefferson collection. The copy collated is one of two issues in the Library of Congress.
In a letter to C. W. F. Dumas, United States Consul at the Hague, dated from Paris, September 22, 1786, Jefferson wrote:
I thank you for the copy of Turgot's life, & will forward those directed to Mr. Jay, Dr. Franklin & Mr. Morris . . .
Marie Jean-Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, 1743-1794, French savant and revolutionary, repudiated his aristocratic background and identified himself with the encyclopédistes. In his Avertissement to the life of Turgot, of whose physiocratic doctrines he was a follower, Condorcet mentions that the mémoires sur la vie de M. Turgot, qui ont paru en 1783 [i. e. those of Dupont above] auroient dû sans doute m'empêcher d'écrire, but explains that he has approached the matter from un point de vue différent." "02180","85","","","","Bastille devoilée.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 105, as above.","","La Bastille Dévoilée, ou Recueil de Pieces Authentiques pour servir a son Histoire . . . Paris: chez Desenne, 1789-90.","DC167.5.C48","
First Edition. 8vo. 9 livraisons in 2 vol.; folded plates Barbier I, 1638. Bibliothèque Nationale, Catalogue de l'Histoire de la Révolution Française, 6884. Tourneux, Bibliographie de l'Histoire de Paris pendant la Révolution Française, III, 12398a.
Jefferson's copy was purchased for him at his request by William Short in Paris. In a letter to the latter from New York, May 27, 1790, Jefferson wrote:
. . . send me if you please the records of the Bastile which they had begun to publish . . .
Short obtained the 9 livraisons from Goldsmith at 1/16 each, 16.4 in all, paid on August 2, 1790.
Jefferson was present at the fall of the Bastille and wrote an account of it in his autobiography, and in letters to his friends.
This source book for the history of the Bastille and its prisoners has been variously ascribed to Charpentier, and to Louis Pierre Manuel (born in 1751, beheaded in 1793), the author of La Police devoilée. According to Tourneux neither of these was the compiler of the work. Tourneux' number 12398a, the edition in 9 livraisons, is dated 1790, and not 1789-90 as this copy. His no. 12398 is an edition of 1789 of which he knew of one copy only. Each livraison has a notice to the effect that the proceeds were destined au soulagement des hommes blessés au siége de la Bastille, aux veuves & aux enfans de ceux qui y ont péri, ou qui sont morts des suites de leurs blessures.
The book contains interesting source material for the affair of the Diamond Necklace, see chapter 23." "02190","86","","","","Histoire de L'Etude.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 106a, Histoire de Latude, 8vo.","[Latude, Jean Henri Masers de.]","Histoire d'une Détention de Trente-Neuf Ans, dans les Prisons d'état, écrite par le Prisonnier lui-même. A Amsterdam: 1787.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 56 leaves: A-G8.
Barbier II, 660. Quérard I, 243 and V, 594.
Jefferson's copy was in his possession before March 1802, at which time it was borrowed from him by Benjamin Rush.
On March 12 Rush wrote to Jefferson:
. . . For several years I have been engaged in investigating the Causes, Seats, and remedies of madness, & other diseases of the mind. Before I commit the results of my inquiries and Observations to the press, I wish to read every thing that has been published upon those Subjects. Le Tude's history of the Bastile, and of a Lunatic hospital in which he was confined under pretence of madness, I have heard contains many curious facts upon that disease. In my inquiries for this curious book I was informed that you had a Copy of it. Could you favour me with the reading of it, you would add greatly to my Obligations to you. It shall be returned in a week or ten days after I receive it . . .
Exactly one year later on March 12, 1803, Benjamin Rush returned the book:
I return Latude with many thanks. It is I find an Abridgment only of a large work in which is contained an account of a hospital of deranged people with whom he lived for some time after he left the Bastile.
After the death of Latude, Jefferson received a copy, at the former's request. The Postscript of a letter from Fulwar Skipworth to Jefferson, written from Paris on January 15, 1805, reads:
P.S. Poor old Latude, who passed more than a third of the last century in dungeons & in Irons, & who I believe you know, died about a month ago. Not long before his death he left with me two of his Books containing the memoirs of his captivity, & two prints of his picture, requesting that I should forward the whole to you, & that you should present one of each to the House of Representatives in Congress. I therefore avail myself of the opportunity offered me by M. Randolph of complying with one of the last & most earnest desires of that singular old man . . .
In a letter to Maria Cosway, written from Paris on October 12, 1786, Jefferson described his acquaintance with the author, imprisoned from 1749-1784 for an offence against Madame de Pompadour (q. v. no. 208.):
De la Tude comes sometimes to take family soupe with me, & entertains me with anecdotes of his five & thirty years imprisonment. how fertile is the mind of man, which can make the Bastile and dungeon of Vincennes yield interesting anecdotes. You know this was for making four verses on Mme. de Pompadour . . . I have read the memoir of his three escapes . . .
Jean Henri Masers de Latude, 1725-1804, also known as Danry, famous prisoner of the Bastille, is said to have disavowed this work. It is attributed by Barbier to the Marquis de Beaupoil. Quérard lists the book under Beaupoil, and again under Masers, with reference to the Beaupoil entry." "02200","87","","","","Moore's Journal of 1792. in France","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 41, as above.","Moore, John.","A Journal during a Residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792, to which is added, An Account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late King of France. By John Moore, M.D. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II] . . . Philadelphia: Printed by Henry & Patrick Rice, and James Rice, & Co. Baltimore, 1793,4.","DC26.M812","
2 vol. 12mo. Vol. I, 119 leaves; vol. II, 162 leaves; publishers' advertisement on 5 pages at the end.
Evans 27342. This edition not in Lowndes.
John Moore, 1729-1802, Scottish physician and man of letters. The first edition of this book was published in London in 1793." "02210","88","Tracts in foreign history. viz . . . . . . . . . . . . Vie de Voltaire par luimeme Memoire pour servir à l'histoire du siege de Gibraltar. par le Duc de Crillon Mirabeau contre Cagliostro et Lavater Correspondence secrette sur la Prusse Memoire d'un François sorti de l'esclavage des Barbaresques par Follié Eloge de l'Abbé de Mably par Brizard . . . . . . 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 104, Tracts in Foreign history, to wit, Voltaire, Crillon, Mirabeau, La Prusse, les Barbaresques, l'Abbe de Mably, 8vo.","Six tracts bound together in 1 volume, 8vo. (no longer in the Library of Congress).","Vie de Voltaire par luimeme.","i.","","","Voltaire, François Arouet Marie de.","Mémoires pour servir a la Vie de M. de Voltaire, ecrits, par lui-meme. A Geneve, 1784.","","8vo. 86 leaves; Epitre au maréchal Keith, in verse, on 23 leaves at the end. No copy was seen for collation." "02220","88","Tracts in foreign history. viz . . . . . . . . . . . . Vie de Voltaire par luimeme Memoire pour servir à l'histoire du siege de Gibraltar. par le Duc de Crillon Mirabeau contre Cagliostro et Lavater Correspondence secrette sur la Prusse Memoire d'un François sorti de l'esclavage des Barbaresques par Follié Eloge de l'Abbé de Mably par Brizard . . . . . . 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 104, Tracts in Foreign history, to wit, Voltaire, Crillon, Mirabeau, La Prusse, les Barbaresques, l'Abbe de Mably, 8vo.","Six tracts bound together in 1 volume, 8vo. (no longer in the Library of Congress).","Memoire pour servir à l'histoire du siege de Gibraltar. par le Duc de Crillon.","ii.","","","[Le Michaud D'Arçon, Jean Claude éléonore.]","Histoire du Siege de Gibraltar, sous les ordres du Capitaine Général Duc de Crillon . . . Contenant les événemens mémorables qui s'y sont passés pendant l'été de 1782, & le séjour de Monseigneur Comte d'Artois & du Prince de Bourbon. Par un Officer de l'Armée Françoise . . . A Cadix: chez Hermil, Frères, 1783.","","
8vo. in fours. 51 leaves, 4 folded printed tables at the end.
Barbier II, 792. This edition not in Quérard. Abbott 76.
In Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, this is the first entry in his Chap. 3. Modern history, British, with the price, as follows: Memoire de seige de Gibraltar (par le Duc Crillon) [Tracts-2-10.
Louis de Berton des Balbes de Quiers, duc de Crillon-Mahon, 1718-1796, French general.
Jean Claude éléonore Le Michaud d'Arçon, 1733-1800, French engineer." "02230","88","Tracts in foreign history. viz . . . . . . . . . . . . Vie de Voltaire par luimeme Memoire pour servir à l'histoire du siege de Gibraltar. par le Duc de Crillon Mirabeau contre Cagliostro et Lavater Correspondence secrette sur la Prusse Memoire d'un François sorti de l'esclavage des Barbaresques par Follié Eloge de l'Abbé de Mably par Brizard . . . . . . 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 104, Tracts in Foreign history, to wit, Voltaire, Crillon, Mirabeau, La Prusse, les Barbaresques, l'Abbe de Mably, 8vo.","Six tracts bound together in 1 volume, 8vo. (no longer in the Library of Congress).","Mirabeau contre Cagliostro et Lavater.","iii.","","","Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de.","Lettre du Comte de Mirabeau à * * * sur M. M. de Cagliostro et Lavater . . . à Berlin: chez François de Lagarde, 1786.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 32 leaves: A-C8, *8, the last a blank; the last signature is for the Appendix, with separate pagination, dated from Berlin, 25 Mars 1786.
Not in Brunet. Not in Graesse. Not in Quérard.
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, French statesman.
Count Alessandro Cagliostro [i. e. Guiseppe Balsamo], 1743-1795, Italian alchemist and impostor. He was implicated in 1785 in the affair of the Diamond Necklace, q. v., chapter 23.
Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1741-1801, Swiss poet and physiognomist, author of Pontius Pilatus, published in 1782, discussed in this work." "02240","88","Tracts in foreign history. viz . . . . . . . . . . . . Vie de Voltaire par luimeme Memoire pour servir à l'histoire du siege de Gibraltar. par le Duc de Crillon Mirabeau contre Cagliostro et Lavater Correspondence secrette sur la Prusse Memoire d'un François sorti de l'esclavage des Barbaresques par Follié Eloge de l'Abbé de Mably par Brizard . . . . . . 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 104, Tracts in Foreign history, to wit, Voltaire, Crillon, Mirabeau, La Prusse, les Barbaresques, l'Abbe de Mably, 8vo.","Six tracts bound together in 1 volume, 8vo. (no longer in the Library of Congress).","Correspondence secrette sur la Prusse.","iv.","","","","Correspondence secrète, concernant la Constitution de la Prusse, dupuis la règne de Frédéric-Guillaume II. Potsdam, 1788.","","8vo. No copy of this work was located for collation." "02250","88","Tracts in foreign history. viz . . . . . . . . . . . . Vie de Voltaire par luimeme Memoire pour servir à l'histoire du siege de Gibraltar. par le Duc de Crillon Mirabeau contre Cagliostro et Lavater Correspondence secrette sur la Prusse Memoire d'un François sorti de l'esclavage des Barbaresques par Follié Eloge de l'Abbé de Mably par Brizard . . . . . . 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 104, Tracts in Foreign history, to wit, Voltaire, Crillon, Mirabeau, La Prusse, les Barbaresques, l'Abbe de Mably, 8vo.","Six tracts bound together in 1 volume, 8vo. (no longer in the Library of Congress).","Mémoire d'un François sorti de l'esclavage des Barbaresques par Follié.","v.","","","Follie, Louis Guillaume.","Mémoire d'un François qui sort de l'Esclavage. Par M. Follie, officier d'administration dans les colonies. A Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris: chez Laporte, 1785.","","
First Edition. No copy was located for collation.
Quérard III, page 148. Not in Gay. Rouard de Card, page 34.
Jefferson bought a copy of this book, listed in his undated manuscript as a separate entry, with the price 1-4.
Louis Guillaume Follie, b. 1761, fl. 1792, French traveller and colonial administrator, embarked on the Deux-Amis at the end of 1783, and was shipwrecked at Cape Noun, where he and his fellow passengers were taken by the Moors and kept as slaves for more than a year." "02260","88","Tracts in foreign history. viz . . . . . . . . . . . . Vie de Voltaire par luimeme Memoire pour servir à l'histoire du siege de Gibraltar. par le Duc de Crillon Mirabeau contre Cagliostro et Lavater Correspondence secrette sur la Prusse Memoire d'un François sorti de l'esclavage des Barbaresques par Follié Eloge de l'Abbé de Mably par Brizard . . . . . . 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 104, Tracts in Foreign history, to wit, Voltaire, Crillon, Mirabeau, La Prusse, les Barbaresques, l'Abbe de Mably, 8vo.","Six tracts bound together in 1 volume, 8vo. (no longer in the Library of Congress).","Eloge de l'Abbé de Mably par Brizard.","vi.","","","Brizard, Gabriel, Abbé.","Eloge historique de l'abbé de Mably, discours qui a partagé le prix au jugement de l'Academie royale des Inscriptions et belles-lettres en 1787, par M. l'abbé Brizard. Paris: Demonville, 1787.","","
First Edition. 8vo. Portrait by St. Aubin. No copy of this separate edition was located for collation.
Jefferson's copy was a presentation from the abbé Brizard to whom the former wrote from Paris, on December 4, 1787:
Monsieur Jefferson a l'honneur de remercier Monsieur de Brizard de l'excellente ouvrage sur feu l'Abbé Mably qu'il a eu la bonté de lui envoyer. L'eloge est vraiment digne de cet auteur celebre, et estimable autant que celebre. ses ouvrages y sont analysés et characterisés de sorte à faire voir que l'analyste en feroit d'excellentes dans le meme genre s'il le voudroit. M. Jefferson prie très ardemment que sa patrie pourroit remplir toutes les esperances que Monsieur Brizard a la bonté d'en former . . .
Gabriel Brizard, 1730-1793, French man of letters and juriconsulte. This Discours divided the prize with that of Lévesque at the Académie Française. It is reprinted in the collected works of Mably.
For the Abbé de Mably see chapter 24.
These six tracts are listed together, without price, on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue." "02270","89","","","","Vie de Jeanne de St. Remy de Valois Contsse de la Motte.","","2 v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 15, unnumbered [Vie de la Comtesse de la Motte, 2 v 8vo, see Book of Kings].","La Motte, Jeanne de Saint Remy de Valois, Comtesse de.","Vie de Jeanne de St. Remy de Valois, ci-devant Comtesse de La Motte . . . avec plusieurs particularités ultérieures, propres à éclaircir les transactions mystérieuses relatives au Collier de Diamans, a son emprisonnement, & à son evasion presque miraculeuse, &c., &c.; & sa Requête à l'Assemblée Nationale, à l'Effet d'obtenir une Révision de son Procès. écrite par elle-même. Tome Premier [-Second]. Deuxieme Edition. A Paris: chez Garnéry, l'An Premier de la République Française. [1793.]","DC137.5.L3A2","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 234 leaves; vol. II, 216 leaves.
Quérard IV, page 510. Tourneux 21153. Hayn 146.
These two volumes form vol. III and IV of Jefferson's Book of Kings, see no. 411.
Jefferson was in Paris at the time of the imprisonment of the Cardinal de Rohan for his connection with the affair of the Diamond Necklace and several times mentioned it in his correspondence. For an account of this, and Jefferson's pamphlets on the subject, see chapter 23.
Jeanne de Saint Remy de Valois, Comtesse de la Motte, 1756-1791, French adventuress. The first edition of this work which contains her version of the affair of the Diamond Necklace, was printed in London in 1791, and, according to Tourneux, was bought up by de Laporte, intendant de la Liste civile, and burnt on the 26 May, 1792, with the exception of one copy which escaped destruction." "02280","90","","","","Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.","","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 45, Sketches of the history of France, by an American,","12mo","","Sketches of the History of France, from the earliest historical accounts, to the present time—1806: with some remarks concerning the life and achievments of the celebrated Napoleon Bonaparte, now Emperor of France. By an American . . . Richmond: Printed by Seaton Grantland, February-1806.","DC39.S63","
12mo. 52 leaves: []6, B-H6, I4.
Not in Halkett and Laing. Not in Sabin. Not in the Richmond Library Catalogue. Not in the Virginia State Library Catalogue.
Jefferson's copy was bound by John March, on April 26, 1806, in calf, gilt, cost .75.
Contains references to the American Revolution and the affairs of the United States." "02290","91","","","","Impartial history of the revolution in France.","","2. v. in 1. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 106b, as above, omitting 2. v. in 1.","[Rabaut Saint étienne, Jean Paul.]","An Impartial History of the late Revolution in France, from its Commencement to the Death of the Queen, and the Execution of the Deputies of the Gironde Party. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. [Translated by James White.] Philadelphia: Printed for M. Carey, July 17, 1794.","DC161.I34","
2 vol. in I. 8vo. in fours. Vol. I, 143 leaves; vol. II, 121 leaves; the first 2 leaves in the first volume have the publisher's advertisements.
Evans 27588.
Jefferson may have bought his copy from Dufief, to whom he wrote from Washington on January 9, 1800:
I am much obliged to you for thinking of me when you got the copies of Rabaut and [name obscured] Mayer . . .
This book is the first on the list of missing books sent by Jefferson to Milligan, on March 28, 1815, after the sale and before the delivery of his library to Congress, with a request that Milligan try to get and bring on.
A copy was purchased by Milligan on April 7, price $2.50, and billed to Jefferson with other books on July 13, 1815.
This work frequently has a place on Jefferson's recommended reading lists.
Jean Paul Rabaut Saint étienne, 1743-1793, French Huguenot patriot and author, was a native of Nîmes; he met his death by execution after having been proscribed. The first French edition of this work was published in Paris in 1792.
James White, d. 1799, English scholar and novelist. The first edition of this translation was published in London in 1792; editions were printed in 1794 in New York and Boston as well as in Philadelphia." "02300","92","","","","Essai sur la Revolution Française par Paganel.","","3. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 107, as above.","Paganel, Pierre.","Essai historique et critique sur la Révolution Française, dédié à M. le comte de Lacépède, ministre d'Etat . . . Par M. P. Paganel . . . Paris: Plassan, 1810.","","
First Edition. 3 vol. 8vo. No copy of this edition has been located for collation. According to a statement on the title-page of the second edition, issued anonymously in 1815, the first edition was destroyed by order of the government: La 1ère. édition fut enlevée entière, par ordre de l'ancien gouvernement, en 1810, et détruite en totalité en 1813. The totalité was not complete and several copies escaped destruction.
Quérard VI, page 545. Tourneux I, page 101.
Jefferson's copy was a gift from the author, who wrote to him in November 1810:
Lorsque, par la foi d'un approbation ministérielle et d'une censure légale, je me décidai á faire imprimer mon essai historique sur la revolution française je destinai le premier exemplaire qui sortiroit de l'empire a Monsieur jefferson à l'expresident de sa république. j'attachois un grand prix et meme quelque gloire pour moi à le distingue parmi les chefs des gouvernemens et des peuples . . .
Jefferson replied from Monticello on April 15, 1811:
I recieved through m[???] Warden the copy of your valuable work on the French revolution, for which I pray you to accept my thanks, that it's sale should have been suppressed is no matter of wonder with me. the friend of liberty is too feelingly manifested not to give umbrage to it's enemies . . . the perusal of this work has given me new views of the causes of failure in a revolution of which I was a witness in it's early part, & then augured well of it . . . the art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason & information . . .
Pierre Paganel, 1745-1826, French historian." "02310","93","","","","Revolution de France de Desodoards.","","2. v. in I. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 108, as above, but omitting 2. v. in I.","Fantin Des Odoards, Antoine Etienne Nicolas.","Histoire Philosophique de la Révolution de France, Depuis la convocation des notables, par Louis XVI, jusqu'à la séparation de la convention nationale; Par Antoine Fantin-Desodoards, citoyen français . . . Tome Premier [-Second]. À Paris: [chez G. Bridel] de l'Imprimerie de l'Union, ct se trouve chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1796 (n. st.) IV.","","
First Edition. 8vo.
Quérard III, 64. Tourneux I, 51. Backer III, 542, no. 7.
Jefferson bought a copy from Reibelt, in February 1805, price 2.40.
Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin des Odoards, 1738-1820, French publicist and historian. This work is frequently included by Jefferson in his lists of recommended reading." "02320","94","","","","Abregé chronologique de la revolution de France. par Desodoards.","","3. v. 12mo. 1802.","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 40, as above.","Fantin Des Odoards, Antoine Etienne Nicolas.","Abrégé chronologique de la Révolution de France, a l'Usage des écoles publiques; Par Ant. Fantin Desodoards . . . Tome Premier [-III] . . . A Paris: chez Barba, An X. (1802)","","
First Edition. 3 vol. 12mo. Vol. I, 266 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, publisher's advertisement on the back of the half-title; vol. II, 252 leaves; vol. III, 249 leaves; the last 3 leaves with the publisher's Catalogue.
Quérard III, page 63. Tourneux I, 82. Backer III, page 543, no. 11." "02330","95","","","","Memoires de Dumouriez, 2. v. in 1.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 110, Memoires de Dumouriez, 8vo.","Dumouriez, Charles François Dupérrier.","Mémoires du Général Dumouriez, Ecrits par lui-meme . . . [Tome Second.] Hambourg et Leipzig, 1794.","DC 146 .D9A23 (Vol. I.)","
First Edition. 2 vol. in 1. 8vo. Vol. I, 92 leaves; vol. II, 127 leaves.
Quérard II, page 681. Tourneux 26634.
On January 9, 1800, Jefferson wrote from Washington to Dufief in Philadelphia:
. . . should you possess Doumourier's account of his campaigns, Carnot's or Madame Roland's books, I will thank you for them, by the stage . . .
Jefferson expressed his opinion of Dumouriez in a letter to Doctor Gilmer, written from Philadelphia, June 28, 1793:
. . . Dumourier was known to be a scoundrel in grain. I mentioned this from the beginning of his being placed at the head of the armies: but his victories at length silenced me. his apostacy has now proved that an unprincipled man, let his other fitnesses be what they will, ought never to be employed . . .
Charles François Dupérrier Dumouriez, 1739-1823, French general at the time of the Revolution. Jefferson's criticism refers to his attempt to overthrow the Revolutionary government after his defeat at Neerwinden in January 1793." "02340","96","","","","Memoires de Marmontel.","","4. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 39, as above.","Marmontel, Jean François.","Oeuvres posthumes de Marmontel, Historiographe de France, Secrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie Française. Imprimées sur le manuscrit autographe de l'Auteur. Mémoires. Tome Premier [-Quatriéme]. A Paris: Chez Xhrouet, Déterville, Lenormant, Petit [de l'Imprimerie de Xhrouet], 1807, 1804.","","
First Edition. 4 vol. 12mo. Vol. I, 200 leaves; vol. II, 166 leaves; vol. III, 178 leaves; vol. IV, 173 leaves; printer's imprint at the end of vol. II, III, and IV. The half-titles read: Memoires d'un Père pour servir à l'Instruction de ses enfans.
Quérard V, page 552.
Jefferson's copy was purchased from P. & C. Roche, Philadelphia, in a letter dated April 3, 1807:
I some considerable time ago wrote to ask that if a copy of the Memoires de Marmontel in French should come to your hands, I should be glad to get it . . .
The book was sent on April 26 (the letter endorsed recd. May 7), price $6.00, broché.
These volumes were either not delivered to Congress with the rest of the Library in 1815, or were lost at an early date. In the working copy of the Library of Congress catalogue of the Jefferson books, 1815, the entry is checked but the check mark is crossed through. The volumes are included in the manuscript list, made after 1815, of books headed Congressional Library Books Missing.
Jean François Marmontel, 1723-1779, French writer, dramatist, and historiographer of France. These Mémoires, nominally written for the instruction of his children, form the first four volumes of the Oeuvres Posthumes in eleven volumes." "02350","97","","","","Reponse de Carnot sur la conjuration du 18. Fructidor.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 42, as above.","Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite.","Réponse de L. N. M. Carnot, Citoyen Français, l'Un des Fondateurs de la République, et Membre Constitutionnel du Directoire Executif: au Rapport fait sur La Conjuration du 18 Fructidor, An 5e. au Conseil des Cinq Cents, par J. Ch. Bailleul, au Nom d'une Commission Spéciale. 18e Floréal, An 6e. Londres: chez J. Wright, 1799.","","
Sm. 8vo. 116 leaves.
Tourneux I, 4882d. This edition not in Quérard.
Jefferson ordered a copy from Dufief in January 1800, see no. 233.
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, 1753-1823, French general, politician, and regicide. This pamphlet was written in answer to accusations of conspiracy against the republic, and was first printed in Paris in 1798. This London edition is signed at the end: L. N. M. Carnot. 18 Floréal, an. 6. Reference is made to French possession de la Louisiane et de la Floride, que le roi d'Espagne nous auroit cédées . . . non pas de créer un nouveau royaume en Europe, mais au contraire de républicaniser une vaste et belle contrée de l'Amérique, qui nous eût donné une si grande influence sur les Etats-Unis . . ." "02360","98","","","","Appel a la posterité par Made. Roland.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. III, as above.","Roland de La Platière, Marie Jeanne Phlipon.","Appel a l'Impartiale Postérité, par la Citoyenne Roland, Femme du Ministre de l'Intérieur, ou Recueil des Ecrits qu'elle a rédigés, pendant sa détention, aux prisons de l'Abbaye et de Sainte-Pélagie; Imprimé au profit de sa Fille unique, privée de la fortune de ses père et mère, dont les biens sont toujours sequestrés. Première [-Quatrieme] Partie . . . A Paris: chez Louvet [1795].","DC146 .R7A2","
4 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Part I, 69 leaves; Part II, 55 leaves; Part III, 60 leaves; Part IV, 72 leaves; each part with separate title-page and pagination.
Quérard VIII, page 123. Tourneux 25113.
Jefferson ordered a copy from Dufief in January, 1800, see no. 233.
Marie [Manon] Jeanne Phlipon Roland de La Platière, 1754-1793, was the wife of the French statesman Jean Roland. This Appel was written in prison, where she was thrown after the death of the King, and edited by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc whose Avertissement is dated Paris, 20 germinal, an 3e de la Republique. Madame Roland was executed by the guillotine in 1793, and her husband committed suicide shortly afterward." "02370","99","","","","Tableau des operations de Bonaparte par Chas.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 113, as above but omitting 8vo.","Chas, Jean.","Tableau Historique et Politique des Opérations militaires et civiles de Bonaparte, Premier Consul de la République Française; orné de son Portrait. Par J. Chas, de Nîmes. Ouvrage dedié a Madame Bonaparte. A Paris: chez Arthus Bertrand, de l'Imprimerie de Guilleminet, An X—1801.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 152 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece of Bonaparte by J. B. F. Massard after J. B. L. Massard Fils; publisher's advertisement on the last two leaves.
Quérard II, page 144.
Jefferson's copy was bound for him in calf by John March, billed on October 11, 1802, price $1.00. It was a gift from the author who wrote to Jefferson from Paris, December 12, 1801 (received Feb. 25, 1802):
. . . Daignez, monsieur le president, accepter un exemplaire du tableau historique et politique des operations civiles, et militaires de bonaparte premier consul de la republique francaise. ce n'est point un vrai eloge que j'ai entrepris, & j'ecris pour tous les siecles et pour tous les peuples . . .
In this letter Chas mentioned that he was working on a new edition of his Histoire politique et philosophique de la revolution de l'amérique septentrionale [see no. 485].
Jean Chas, c. 1750-c. 1830, French juriconsulte and author, was born in Nimes and died in Paris of misery and starvation. This work contains a reference to, and a quotation from, the grand et vertueux Washington." "02380","100","","","","Campagne de la grande armée (1805) par Castillon.","","2. tom. in I. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 43, as above.","Castillon, Bernard.","Campagne de la Grande Armée, précédée d'une introduction préliminaire depuis le 18 brumaire an VIII jusqu'au traité de Presbourg, suivie des différentes conventions passées entre les cours d'Angleterre, de Russie, d'Allemagne et de Suède. Ouvrage publié par B. Castillon. Bordeaux: Castillon, 1806.","","
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. No copy of this work was located for collation, the above title was taken from the catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
The book was issued in 2 volumes. Jefferson's copy was apparently bound in 1.
Not in Quérard. Labadie, Imprimeurs et Libraires Bordelais, page 148.
Bernard Castillon, d. 1837, printer of Bordeaux." "02390","101","","","","Chateauneuf Histoire des Generaux de la revolution.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page II. no. 44, Histoire des Generaux de la revolution, par Chateauneuf, 5 v 12mo.","Lapierre de Chateauneuf, Agricole Hippolyte De.","Histoire des Generaux qui se sont illustres dans la Guerre de la Révolution par A. Chateauneuf. Première [-Vingt-quatrième] Partie. Paris: chez l'Editeur [de l'Imprimerie de P. Guefier], 1809-10.","","
24 parts in 5 vol. 12mo. Jefferson had the edition of 1809-10, as above, of which no copy has been located for collation.
Quérard II, page 155. Not in Tourneux.
The first edition, with the title Cornelius Nepos français, ou Notices historiques sur les généraux, les marins . . . was published in 1804.
Agricole Hippolyte De Lapierre De Chateauneuf, 1765-1842, French historian." "02400","102","","","","Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 150, Histoire de France depuis la revolution de 1789 a 1793, par Toulongeon, 2 v 4to a la mort de Robespierre.","Toulongeon, François Emmanuel, Vicomte De.","Histoire de France depuis la Révolution de 1789, écrite d'après les memoires et manuscrits contemporains, recueillis dans les depôts civils et militaires. Par le citoyen F.-Emmanuel Toulongeon, ancien militaire, ex-constituant de l'Institut national de France. Avec des Cartes et Plans. Paris: Treuttel et Wurtz, an IX (1801)-1803.","","
2 vol. 4to. No copy of the quarto edition was located for collation. The complete work was in 4 volumes, 1801-1806. From the letters of David Baillie Warden quoted below, which show also that Jefferson's copy was sent to him unbound, and from the entry in the 1815 catalogue, as above—the death of Robespierre occurs at the end of vol. IV—it is clear that Jefferson's copy was complete, and that he had it bound in 2 volumes.
Quérard IX, page 513. Tourneux 76.
Jefferson obtained his copy in 1815 from Paris through David Baillie Warden.
On November 1, 1812, Warden wrote to Jefferson from Paris (received at Monticello September 14, 1813):
By the Hornet, I forwarded Toulongeons' Work, some brochures, and a Box of garden-seeds, from the Garden of Plants . . .
The postscript of a letter from Warden to Jefferson, written on April 1, 1813 (received September 17) reads: P. S. Having ascertained that the Captain of the Hornet left several trunks and cases, at Strasburg, which he refused to take on board, belonging to the Philadelphia Society &c. and learning that the copy of Toulongeons' work to be forwarded by this opportunity was left at Cherburg, I send, by Mr. Hasler another copy. The author died lately—much regretted—the sudden departure of Mr. Hasler does not allow me time to have it bound.
On December 29, 1813, Jefferson wrote from Monticello to Warden, in Paris:
I need much of your indulgence for the want of punctuality in acknoleging the reciept of your several favors . . . the copy of Toulongeon, mentioned in the letter of Nov. 1. 13. to have been sent by the Hornet, was not recieved . . . Dr. Stevens forwarded safely the Codes de France, and m[???] Hasler the second copy of Toulongeon you were so kind as to send, as mentioned in your letter of last April . . . on the observation, in your last, that time had not permitted you to have Toulongeon bound, permit me to pray the omission of that circumstance on your favors, not only as unnecessarily increasing the burthen on you, but as they come lighter & safer by the mail when unbound . . .
Warden acknowledged the receipt of this letter on May 5, 1814:
Yesterday I had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 29th of December last . . . The first copy of Toulongeon was left with other volumes at Cherburg, the Captain of the Hornet refusing to take the case which contained them on board . . .
On February 27, 1815, Jefferson acknowledged the receipt of the book to Warden, with his comments:
. . . I send you a copy of my Parliamentary Manual, and am to acknolege the reciept of Toulongeon, whom I have read with great satisfaction and information. he has given me the first luminous view of the course of the French revolution to the death of Robespierre, of which till then my ideas had been entirely chaotic, he has solved to me the riddle of the Jacobins. many of the earlier set of them had been personally known to me, and altho' I knew them disposed to establish a republic on the ruins of the constitution of 91. yet I could never recognize them in the anarchical proceedings which overthrew all government, a history of that club would be curious, & valuable. but what we now want especially is a history of the Directory, and one of Bonaparte. I hope some well-informed, candid, plain narrator is engaged in it. no one would do it better than M. Toulongeon . . .
On August 10 of the same year, in answering a query of John Adams on Dumouriez (see no. 233) Jefferson wrote:
you will find his character in the most excellent revolutionary history of Toulongeon.
François Emmanuel, Vicomte de Toulongeon, 1748-1812, French historian and author. The first edition was published at Strassburg and Paris, by Treuttel and Wurtz, 2 vol. 8vo." "02410","103","","","","Biographia Gallica.","","2. v. 12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 31, as above.","","Biographia Gallica: or, the Lives of the most eminent French Writers of Both Sexes, in Divinity, Philosophy, Mathematics, History, Poetry, &c. From the Restoration of Learning under Francis I. to the Present Time . . . Vol. I [-II]. London: Printed for R. Griffiths and L. Davis, 1752.","","
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. Vol. I, 150 leaves; vol. II, 156 leaves; the first leaf in vol. I has the half-title on the recto and the advertisement of Lockyer Davis on the verso. The second volume has no half-title; the second and third leaves contain a list of Books and Pamphlets sold by M. Cooper and G. Woodfall; errata list in both volumes.
Lowndes I, page 205. Not in Halkett and Laing.
Biographia Gallica, an anonymous publication, was possibly compiled by the publisher, Lockyer Davis, 1719-1791." "02420","104","","","","Pelloutier histoire des Celtes.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 46, as above.","Pelloutier, Simon.","Histoire des Celtes, et particulierement des Gaulois et des Germains, depuis les Tems fabuleux, jusqu'à la Prise de Rome par les Gaulois: Par Mr. Simon Pelloutier. Tome Premier. [Second.] A La Haye: chez Isaac Beauregard, 1750.","DC62.P386","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 310 leaves; vol. II, 215 leaves; titles printed in red and black; at the beginning of each volume is a list of the authorities cited and the editions used in compiling the book.
This edition not in Quérard and not in Graesse. According to Quérard the first edition was printed in 1740-1750.
Purchased in 1785. In a letter dated from Paris, March 3, 1785, addressed to the Rev. Samuel Henley, concerning the purchase of his library, Jefferson wrote:
From miss Digges I purchased Pelloutiere's history of the Celts. 2 vols. 12mo. belonging to mr Gwatkin. I shall be obliged to you to add their worth to your draught on me, & to permit me to make you the channel of it's communication to mr Gwatkin . . .
Simon Pelloutier, 1694-1757, German historian of French descent." "02430","105","","","","Wotton's view of Hicke's thesaurus.","","4to","Not in the 1815 Catalogue.","","","","This book was possibly not sold to Congress in 1815. Wotton's name is listed in the Index of the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue with reference to this chapter, which contains no title by him." "02440","106","","","","Olai Magni gentium Septentrionalium historiae.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 47, as above.","Magnus, Olaus.","Olai Magni Gentium septentrionali[???] historiæ breviarum. Amstelodami: apud Ioannem à Ravesteyn, 1669.","","
12mo. 276 leaves, engraved title-page.
Brunet III, page 1302. Graesse IV, page 359.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, in Chapter 1, with the price, 1.16.
Olaus Magnus, 1490-1558, archbishop of Upsala.
The Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus was originally published in Rome in 1555.
Cornelius De Schryver, 1482-1558, a native of Amsterdam, was the author of this abridgment of the work of Olaus Magnus, first published in Antwerp in 1558." "02450","107","","","","[Jornandes de rebus G[???]ticis. in Cassiodorus.]","","","1815 Catalogue, page 12 as above, cross-reference, unnumbered.","","","","For the Opera of Cassiodorus see chapter 44. It contains Jornandis seu Jordani episcopi ravennatis De G[???]tarum sive Gothorum origine et rebus gestis, ad Castalium, a compression by Jornandes (fl. c. 550) of the twelve books of Cassiodorus, now lost." "02460","108","","","","Histoire des Goths de Jornandes par Maupertuis.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 48, as above with reading Maupertius.","Jordanes.","Histoire Generale des Goths, traduite du Latin de Jornandes, archevêque de Ravenna [par Drouet de Maupertuis]. A Paris: chez la veuve de Claude Barbin, M. DCIII. [i. e. 1703.]","","
First edition of this translation. 12mo. 168 leaves.
Quérard IV, page 245.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue (in chapter I), with the price, 1.4.
Jordanes, fl. 6th century, the historian of the Gothic nation. De Rebus G[???]ticis, based on the work of Cassiodorus, was written by Jordanes in 551.
Jean Baptiste Drouet de Maupertuis, 1650-?1730, French religious writer." "02470","109","","","","Schefferi Lapponia.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 114, as above, but with reading p 4to.","Scheffer, Johann.","Joannis Schefferi Argentoratensis Lapponia id est, Regionis Lapponum et Gentis nova et verissima Descriptio. In qua multa de origine, superstitione, sacris magicis victu, cultu, negotiis Lapponum, item Animalium, metallorumque indole, quae in terris eorum proveniunt, hactenus incognita praeduntur, & eiconibus adjectis cum cura illustrantur. Francofvrti: ex Officina Christiani Wolffii typis Joannis Andreae, 1673.","","
First Edition. 4to. 197 leaves; engraved title frontispiece, folded engraved map, title printed in red and black, woodcut on the printed title (repeated on page 300), numerous woodcut illustrations.
Graesse VI, page 279. Qvigstad and Wiklund, Bibliographie der Lappischen Litteratur, page 15.
Johann Scheffer, 1621-1679, German antiquarian, a native of Strassburg, was a descendant of Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim, the partner of Johann Fust." "02480","110","","","","Histoire ancienne du gouvernement de Cherson. par Potocki.","","3. v. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 151, as above.","Potocki, Jan, Comte.","Histoire ancienne du Gouvernement de Chèrson, pour servir de suite à l'histoire Primitive des peuples de la Russie. Par le Comte Jean Potocki . . . St Pétersbourg: Imprimé à l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1804.—Histoire Ancienne du Gouvernement de Podolie . . . Avec Permission de la censure, ib. de l'Imprimerie de F. Dreschler, 1805.—Histoire ancienne du Gouvernement de Wolhynie . . . Avec permission de la Censure. ib. de l'Imprimerie de l'Academie, 1805.","","
Together 3 vol. 4to. First Editions. Part I, 30 leaves; the advertisement of a projected translation into German is pasted down on the back of the title; Part II, 26 leaves; Part III, 12 leaves; the last two leaves with the errata for parts I and II.
Quérard VII, page 296. Bibliothèque Imperiale de St. Petersbourg, 1142, 1145, 1146.
Presentation copy from the author, sent through Levett Harris, the United States Consul at St. Petersburg, on August 10, 1806, see no. 3." "02490","111","","","","Memoires secrets sur la Russie.","","2. v. 8vo. Amsterdam. 1800.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 117, as above.","[Masson, Charles François Philibert.]","Mémoires secrets sur la Russie, et particulièrement sur la fin du règne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui de Paul I. Formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Pétersbourg à la fin du XVIIIe siècle . . . Tome Premier [-Second]. Amsterdam: An VIII. [1800.]","DK171 .M41","
First Edition, first issue. 8vo. A later issue in the same year has Charles Pougens' Paris imprint.
Barbier III, col. 253. Quérard V, page 609. Jefferson's copy was bound in calf, gilt, by John March, in June 1807, price $2.00.
The work was issued anonymously. It was introduced to Jefferson by Reibelt, who, writing from New Orleans in February, 1807 (the letter endorsed by Jefferson recd. Feb. 23. 07), revealed the authorship:
. . . Les Memoirs Secretes de la Russie sont l'ouvrage le plus interessant, qui n'a jamais paru sur ce pays. L'auteur en est Masson—Professeur d'Alexandre sous les ordres de mon ami Laharpe.—Vous lui permetterez par ce Motif d'habiter votre Bibliotheque . . .
This work usually has a place in Jefferson's recommended reading lists.
Charles François Philibert Masson, 1762-1807, French soldier and author, held various military and other appointments in Russia until 1797 when he was exiled from that country and returned to France.
The Empress Catherine's opinion of the American Revolution and of George Washington is given in a note on page 121 of the first volume. Two additional volumes of this work were published in 1802, 3. The name of the author is given in the last volume of the second edition, from which some of the more secret of the memoirs were omitted." "02500","112","","","","Histoire de Catharine II. par Austera.","","3. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 116, Histoire de Catharine II, par Castera, 3 v 8vo.","Castéra, Jean Henri.","Histoire de Catherine II, Impératrice de Russie. Par J. Castéra . . . Avec seize Portraits ou Cartes, gravés en taille-douce. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. Paris: chez F. Buisson, An VIII. [1800.]","","
3 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 228 leaves; 6 engraved plates including the portrait frontispiece; vol. II, 208 leaves, 4 engraved plates of portraits; publisher's advertisement on the back of the half-title; vol. III, 256 leaves, engraved portraits, folded engraved map.
Quérard II, page 77. Bibliothèque Imperiale de St. Petersbourg I, page 205, no. 188.
Bought from Reibelt in 1804, billed on January 23, 1805: Hist. de Catherine II. Austera. 6. 78. In his manuscript catalogue Jefferson follows Reibelt's spelling of the author's name. The name is correctly printed in the Library of Congress catalogues.
Catherine II was the only exception made by Jefferson in his anti-monarchical diatribe written to Governor John Langdon of New Hampshire from Monticello on March 5, 1810:
. . . there remained then none but old Catharine who had been too lately picked up to have lost her common sense . . .
Catherine II, 1729-1796, empress of Russia.
Jean Henri Castéra, born c. 1755, French author and translator. This work was first published in 1797 with the title Vie de Catherine II . . . and contains references to the American Revolutionary War and to John Paul Jones and his employment by Catherine." "02510","113","","","","Tooke's life of Catharine II.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 115, as above.","Tooke, William.","The Life of Catharine II, Empress of all the Russias: with an elegant Portrait of the Tzarina, and a correct Map of the Russian Empire. By W. Tooke, F. R. S. Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and of the Free Economical Society of St. Petersburg. First American Edition. Vol. I [-II]. Philadelphia: Published by William Fry. H. Maxwell, Printer, 1802.","DK170 .T6","
2 vol. 8vo. in fours, vol. I, 285 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece by D. Edwin, folded engraved map; vol. II, 286 leaves; engraved plate with musical notation; the last sheet with the List of Subscribers, which includes Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States.
This edition not in Lowndes. Not in Sabin. This edition not in the Catalogue of the Bibiliothèque Imperiale Publique de St. Petersburg.
This work is on most of Jefferson's recommended reading lists in history.
William Tooke, 1744-1820, English historian of Russia, was for a time chaplain to the English merchants in St. Petersburg. His Life of Catharine II is founded on that of Castéra, and was first published in London in 1798." "02520","114","","","","Vie de François Le fort de Russie par Basseville","","8vo. (given by the author).","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 118, Vie de François Lefort de Russie, par Basseville, 8vo.","Bassville, Nicolas Jean Hugon de.","Précis Historique sur la Vie et les Exploits de François Le Fort, Citoyen de Genève, Général & Grand-Admiral de Russie, Président de tous les Conseils de Pierre-Le-Grand, Empereur de Moskovie . . . Par Mr. De Bassville . . . Seconde Edition, corrigée des fautes de la première. A Lausanne: chez Grasset et Comp., 1786.","","
12mo. 86 leaves.
This edition not in Quérard. This edition not in Barth. Bibliothèque Imperiale de St. Petersbourg I, page 80, no. 302.
Jefferson's copy was a presentation from the author, and is so described by Jefferson in both his dated and his undated catalogues. In August 1786 Jefferson was in correspondence with de Bassville, for whom in his official capacity he had performed some small service, and, this edition having been published in that year, it may have been presented at that time.
François Le Fort, 1656-1699.
Nicolas Jean Hugon De Bassville, 1753?-1793, French author and diplomat, was secretary to the legation at Naples in 1792 and assassinated by the populace of Rome on January 13, 1793. The first edition of this book was published in Geneva, 1784." "02530","115","","","","Histoire de Sobieski roi de Pologne par l'Abbé Coyer.","","3 v. in 2. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 51, as above.","Coyer, Gabriel François.","Histoire de Jean Sobieski, Roi de Pologne. Par M. l'Abbé Coyer. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. A Varsovie, et se trouve à Paris: chez Duchesne, 1761.","DK431 .C88","
First Edition. 3 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 226 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece by Chenu after Garand; vol. II, 193 leaves; vol. III, 204 leaves; in the imprint of vol. II the name Warsovie is so spelled; the fleuron on the title-page of vol. I differs from that on vol. II and III. At the end of vol. III is a list of Livres Nouveaux, ou nouvellement réimprimés, Depuis l'Année 1759, jusqu'à la présente Année 1761. Qui se vendent chez Duchesne, preceded by a list of the Ouvrages de M. l'Abbé Coyer, in which the present work is the last: Historie de Jean Sobieski, Roi de Pologne, avec son Portrait, 1761. 3 vol. in 12. 7l. 10 s.
Quérard II, page 328.
Jefferson had his copy bound in 2 volumes; the entry in the undated manuscript catalogue includes the price 6.0. In 1803 Jefferson tried to purchase from Pougens for the Library of Congress a copy of the Abregé chronologique de l'histoire de Pologne, by the same author. On June 9 in that year that work was included by Pougens in a list of books he had been unable to procure for Jefferson and reported that it was rare, attendre le hazard d'une vente.
John III (Sobieski), 1624-1696, King of Poland.
Gabriel François Coyer, 1707-1782, French author, was a member of the academies of Nancy, Rome and London." "02540","116","","","","Abregé chronologique de l'histoire de Pologne.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 50, as above.","[Schmidt, Fryderyk August.]","Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de Pologne. Varsovie et Dresdè: Michel Groell, 1763.","","
First Edition. 12mo. (according to some bibliographies, 8vo.) No copy of this book was available for collation.
Barbier I, 16. Quérard VIII, page 526.
This book is entered without the price in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Fryderyk August Schmidt, d. 1807, Polish historian." "02550","117","","","","Histoire de l'anarchie et du demembrement de Pologne. par Rulhiere.","","4. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 119, as above.","Rulhière, Claude-Carloman De.","Histoire de l'Anarchie de Pologne, et du Démembrement de cette République, par Cl. Rulhière. Suivie des Anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie, en 1762, par le même auteur. Tome Premier [-Quatrième]. Paris: Desenne; à la Librairie Stéréotype, chez H. Nicolle; et Desenne jeune, [De l'imprimerie des Annales des Arts et Manufactures] 1807.","DK434 .R9","
First Edition. 4 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 213 leaves; vol. II, 255 leaves; vol. III, 237 leaves; vol. IV, 218 leaves; printer's imprint on the verso of each half-title.
Quérard VIII, page 281. Estreicher, Bibliografia Polska X, 23. Finkel, Bibliografia Historyi Polskiej, 9386. Chevalier, Claude Carloman de Rulhière, page 425.
An Histoire de Pologne, 4 vols. 8vo. was bound for Jefferson by Milligan on April 30, 1808, cost $4.00.
This work is included in Jefferson's lists of recommended reading.
Claude-Carloman De Rulhière, 1734-1791, French poet and historian, was secretary to the legation of St. Petersburg at the time of the Russian revolution. The Histoire de l'Anarchie de Pologne was posthumously published under the editorship of P. C. F. Donau. Of the three issues of the first edition it is not possible to know which was in the Jefferson collection. The copy in the Library of Congress described above is of the first issue." "02560","118","","","","Coup d'oeil sur la décadence de la Pologne par Komarzewski.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 120, as above.","Komarzewski, Jan Chrzciciel.","Coup-d'Oeil rapide sur les causes réelles de la Décadence de la Pologne; par M. de Komarzewski . . . A Paris: chez Bertrand-Pottier, 1807.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 135 leaves, the last with the errata.
Quérard IV, page 312. Estreicher II, 411.
This may be the book referred to by D. B. Warden, in a letter to Jefferson written from Paris on September 17, 1809 (received at Monticello November 22):
I have the honor of sending you, to the care of Mr. Bullus, a history of Poland, and a brochure, which are presented to you, by the author—a Polish General. I lately sent a copy of the same, via Holland: if you receive both, please to give one to the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia . . .
In a letter to William Duane dated from Monticello July 25, 1811, Jefferson wrote:
. . . I have been lately reading Komarzewski's Coup d'oeil on the history of Poland. tho' without any charms of stile or composition, it gives a lesson, which all our countrymen should study; the example of a country erased from the map of the world by the dissensions of it's own citizens. the papers of every day read them the counter lesson of the impossibility of subduing a people acting with an undivided will . . .
Jan Chrzciciel [Jean Baptiste] Komarzewski, 1748-1810, Polish general under King Stanislas-Auguste, and author of several books." "02570","119","","","","Revolñs de Hongrie.","","6. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 52, Revolutions de Hongrie, 6 v 12mo.","[Brenner, Domokos Antal Ignácz.]","Histoire des Revolutions de Hongrie, où l'on donne une idée juste de son Legitime Gouvernement. Tome Premier [-Sixieme] . . . A la Haye: chez Jean Neaulme, 1739.","DB932.3 .B76","
6 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 227 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of François Rakoczy by Folkema, 1739, folded engraved map; vol. II, 178 leaves; vol. III, 198 leaves; vol. IV, 184 leaves, the last a blank; vol. V, 207 leaves; vol. VI, 238 leaves; engraved device on each title, the titles, printed in red and black, vary in each volume according to the contents; in the copy collated there was no half-title in vol. I, present in the other volumes.
Barbier II, 114. Quérard I, page 501.
Domokos Antal Ignácz Brenner, Hungarian abbé and historian. Little seems to be known of him, and the bibliographies are for the most part ignorant of his given names, referring to him only as abbé. The first edition of this book was published earlier in the same year in two volumes quarto.
Prosper Marchand, 1675-1756, French scholar, the editor of the work, states in the Avertissement that L'Auteur, qui n'a pas jugé à propos de se nommer, est sans doute Hongrois de naissance . . ." "02580","120","","","","Loccenii rerum Suecicarum historia.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 53, as above, but with reading p 8vo.","Loccenius, Johannes.","Johannis Loccenii Rerum Svecicarum Historia a Rege Berone tertio usque ad Ericum decimum quartum deducta, & pluribus locis, quam antehac, auctior edita. Accedunt Antiquitates Sveo-Gothicae. Holmiae: ex officina Johannis Janssonii, 1654.","DL646 .L8","
First Edition. 306 leaves, separate title for the Antiquitatium Sveo-Gothicarvm . . . Libri Tres. Editio Seconda emendatior & auctior; printer's woodcut device on both titles.
This edition not in Graesse. Ebert II, 12160.
Johannes Loccenius, 1598-1677, a German by birth, became professor of German at Upsala University and historiographer of Sweden. According to Graesse the first edition of the Antiquitatum Sveo-Gothicarum was published in Upsala in the same year, 1654." "02590","121","","","","Voltaire's history of Charles XII. of Sweden.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 15, unnumbered: [Voltaire's history of Charles XII, of Sweden, 12mo, in his works ch. 44]","Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de.","The History of Charles XII. King of Sweden. By M. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. The Seventh Edition. With a complete index, London: Printed for C. Davis, in Pater-Noster-Row. MDCCXL. 1740","","
Bound in the original calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I [the signatures run to P only], and on the fly-leaf is his signature Thos. Jefferson, 1774. On the title-page is the signature J. Wayles.
The 1815 catalogue was in error in referring this number
to the Works of Voltaire in chapter 44, which is a French edition.
This book was apparently missing at the time of the sale to Congress; it is now in a private library." "02600","122","","","","Histoire de la derniere guerre de Suede. de Peleus.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 54, as above but with de la Suede.","[Peleus, Julien.]","L'Histoire de la derniere Gverre de Svede, en laquelle sont amplement décrits, tous les Sieges, combats rencontres, & batailles des Suedois, contre les Dannois: Ensemble leur Paix, par l'entremise du Roy de la Grand' Bretagne. A Paris: chez François Pomeray, 1622.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 174 leaves: ã4, A-X8, Y2, printer's woodcut device on the title; the dedication signed Pelevs.
Not in Barbier, Brunet, Graesse, or Quérard.
Julien Peleus [Pilieu], d. 1625, French lawyer and man of letters. According to Brunet his historical works are tout à fait oubliés." "02610","123","","","","Sheridan's revolution of Sweden.","","12mo","Not in the 1815 Catalogue.","Sheridan, Charles Francis.","A History of the late Revolution in Sweden: containing an Account of the Transactions of the three last Diets in that Country; preceded by a short Abstract of the Swedish History, so far as was necessary to lay open the true Causes of that remarkable Event. By Charles Francis Sheridan, Esq; of Lincoln's-Inn, and Secretary to the British Envoy in Sweden, at the Time of the late Revolution. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778.","DL766 .S5","
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with price, 2/-.
The author of this book is listed in the Index of the 1815 Library Catalogue, with reference to chapter 2, but his book is not entered in that chapter. The copy described has the eagle stamp on the back in use by the Library of Congress in 1815, and has the 1822 bookplate. It is not in any of the Library of Congress printed catalogues, and was apparently first catalogued for the card catalogue made in 1904, though the early form of the eagle on the back, and the bookplate, make it clear it was in the Library many years before that date. In the circumstances it is not possible to know whether the book was delivered to Congress or not.
Since writing the above, the volume has been rebound in brown buckram (in March 1948) and the eagle and the bookplate lost." "02620","124","","","","Lord Molesworth's account of Denmark.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 56, as above.","[Molesworth, Robert, Viscount Molesworth.]","An account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692. Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie, MDCCLII. 1752.","","
12mo. 111 leaves. No copy was seen for collation.
Robert Molesworth, Viscount Molesworth, 1656-1725, was born in Dublin. This book was written after the abrupt termination of Molesworth's mission to Denmark in 1692 as envoy extraordinary to that country.
The first edition appeared in 1694." "02630","125","","","","Histoire de Dannemarc. par Mallet.","","6. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 55, as above.","Mallet, Paul Henri.","Histoire de Dannemarc. Geneva, 1763.","","
6 vol. 12mo. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
Graesse IV, 354. Quérard V, 471. Vaucher, Catalogue de la Bibliothéque Publique de Genève, II, 824.
Listed in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price: 15.0.
Paul Henri Mallet, 1730-1807, Swiss historian, was a native of Geneva. The first edition of this book was published in Copenhagen, where the author occupied the chair of belles lettres, in 1758. The Geneva edition of 1763 is the second edition, and according to Graesse and Quérard was actually published in Paris. The first two volumes contain the Introduction, which was originally published as a separate work in 1755, and later reprinted separately under various titles; the translation into English was issued by Bishop Percy with the title Northern Antiquities." "02640","126","","","","Vie de Frederic II. roi de Prusse par Treuttel.","","4. v. 8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 121, as above.","[Laveaux, Jean Charles Thibault de.]","Vie de Frédéric II. Roi de Prusse. Accompagnée de Remarques, Pièces justificatives et d'un grand nombre d'Anecdotes dans la plupart n'ont point encore été publiées. Tome I [-IV] . . . A Strasbourg: chez J. G. Treuttel & à Paris, 1788.","","
First Edition. 4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 153 leaves; vol. II, 184 leaves; vol. III, 168 leaves; vol. IV, 173 leaves; engraved title-pages with a different medallion portrait in each volume; the Vie finishes on K7 verso, vol. IV, and is followed by Remarques, Anecdotes, Pièces Justificatives et autres particularités, sig. L-Q, with continuous pagination; the last alphabet contains Autres Anecedotes et Particularités . . . with separate pagination. Vol. I has the imprint of Levrault at the end, and vol. II that of J. H. Heitz. The titles vary after the volume number according to the contents of the volume.
Barbier IV, 979. Quérard IV, page 637.
Jefferson bought a copy of this book from Froullé immediately after its publication, listed on the latter's bill on May 10, 1788. The books were broché and the price 13. 4 livres. The price as entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue was 13 .4+8. The additional 8 livres may have been for the binding, or Jefferson may have bought the three volumes of Lettres sur la vie de Frédéric II which were published later and added to this edition of the Vie.
Frederic II [Frederick the Great] 1712-1786, King of Prussia.
Jean Charles Thibault de Laveaux, 1749-1827, French grammarian, lexicographer, historian, journalist and translator." "02650","127","","","","Tableau de la vie et du regne de Frederic le Grand. par Grimoard.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 122, as above.","Grimoard, Philippe Henri, Comte de.","Tableau Historique et Militaire de la Vie et du Regne de Frédéric le Grand, Roi de Prusse. Par M. Le Comte de Grimoard, Colonel d'Infanterie. A Londres: et se trouve a Paris, chez Didot fils aîné, 1788.","","
First Edition, 8vo. in fours. 179 leaves, the last with the Fautes essentielles à corriger, and the Avis au Relieur; 28 engraved maps by Bernard on 18 numbered folded plates.
Quérard III, page 481.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 8 livres.
Philippe Henri, comte de Grimoard, 1753-1815, French soldier and author. This book was founded on the French translation by Laveaux of the German work by Muller." "02660","128","","","","Traits characteristiques et Anecdotes de Frederic II.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 123, as above.","Frederic II.","Traits characteristiques et Anecdotes de Frédéric II. Strassburg: J. G. Treuttel, 1788.","","
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. No copy was located for collation.
Not in Barbier. This edition not in the Gesamtkatalog der Preussischen Bibliotheken.
Bought from Froullé, on December 13, 1788, for 1 f 10. and listed with the price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
The work is a translation of Anekdoten und Karakterzüge aus dem Leben Friederich des Zweiten first published in Berlin, 1786. A translation into English was published also in 1788." "02670","129","","","","Segur's history of Frederic-William II.","","3. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 126, as above.","Ségur, Louis Philippe, Comte de.","History of the Principal Events of the Reign of Frederic William II. King of Prussia; and a Political Picture of Europe, from 1786 to 1796. Containing a Summary of the Revolutions of Brabant, Holland, Poland, and France. In Three Volumes. By L. P. Ségur, the Elder . . . Translated from the French. Vol. I [-III]. London: Printed for T. Longman and O. Rees, vol. I. and II. by G. Woodfall, vol. III. by H. Baldwin and Son, 1801.","DD414 .S4","
3 vol. 8vo. Vol. I,204 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Chapman; vol. II, 195 leaves; vol. III, 185 leaves.
Lowndes IV, page 2236. Not in Halkett and Laing.
This book was recommended to Jefferson by Caspar Wistar, Jun., who also sent him a copy. On March 22, 1804, Wistar wrote from Philadelphia to Jefferson:
. . . Have you met with a work of the ci devant Count de Segur (who I believe was the French Minister at Berlin when you were in France) entitled a History of the principal events of the reign of Frederic William 2. It has been much commended by several very intelligent gentlemen here . . .
To this Jefferson replied from Washington on March 27:
I recieved last night your favor of the 22d . . . I have heard of Segur's work with great commendation, but never saw it.
On May 4, Caspar Wistar sent the book:
. . . I took the liberty of placing in this box [i. e. containing La Cepede's work upon Fishes] Segur's Account of Fk. William of Prussia which I believe you will read with great interest . . .
Jefferson replied from Washington on June 7:
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to Doctr. Wistar for the copy of Segur's Frederic which he shall read with great satisfaction knowing the author to be a man of talents and information . . .
This work is included in Jefferson's lists of recommended historical reading.
Louis Philippe, Comte de Ségur, 1753-1850, French diplomat and historian, ambassador for Louis XVI at St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna. This is the first edition in English of his Histoire . . . de Frédéric-Guillaume II, originally published in 1800. In his preface, dated London, March 31, 1801, the translator gives an account of the Comte de Ségur, and explains that the spelling of the proper names in his translation is in accordance with the usage of the Rev. W. Tooke (see no. 251). References to the American Revolution occur." "02680","130","Tracts of foreign hist. viz. Vie privée du Prince Henri de Prusse. Apologia por los Agotes de Navarra por de Lardizabel. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 57, as above.","","Vie privée du Prince Henri de Prusse.","","","","[Guyton de Morveau, N.]","La Vie privée d'un prince célèbre, ou détails des loisirs du prince Henri de Prusse, dans sa retraite de Reinsberg. Berlin, 1785.","","
8vo. No copy was located for collation. Barbier IV, 984. Quérard III, page 562. N. Guyton de Morveau was the brother of the chemist,
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, q.v. This work, which has been erroneously attributed to Mirabeau, was published under the name Brumore by which the author was known at the court of Prince Henri." "02690","130","Tracts of foreign hist. viz. Vie privée du Prince Henri de Prusse. Apologia por los Agotes de Navarra por de Lardizabel. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 57, as above.","","Apologia por los Agotes de Navarra por de Lardizabel.","","","","Lardizabal y Uribe, Miguel.","Apologia por los Agostes de Navarra, y los Chuetas de Mallorca con una breve digression à los Vaqueros de Asturias. Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, 1786.","","
First Edition. 8vo. No copy was located for collation.
Palau IV, page 184. Cejador y Frauca VI, page 245.
The two tracts are entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Miguel Lardizabal y Uribe, b. 1714 in Mexico, was the brother of Manuel Lardizabal y Uribe, to whom this work is attributed by Palau. He was a correspondent of Jefferson, and his agent for the purchase of Spanish Americana, see chapter 29." "02700","131","","","","Oeuvres de Frederic roi de Prusse.","","17. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 124, as above.","Frederic II, King of Prussia. [Frederick the Great.]","Oeuvres Complettes de Frédéric II, Roi de Prusse. Tome Premier [-dix septieme]. Without name of place or printer [Berlin?] 1790.","DD405.","
17 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 176 leaves; vol. II, 220 leaves; vol. III, 198 leaves; vol. IV, 206 leaves; 7 folded engraved plates; vol. V, 194 leaves; vol. VI, 216 leaves; vol. VII, 192 leaves; vol. VIII, 196 leaves; vol. IX, 170 leaves; vol. X, 262 leaves; vol. XI, 229 leaves; vol. XII, 215 leaves; vol. XIII, 174 leaves; vol. XIV, 170 leaves; vol. XV. 234 leaves; vol. XVI, 209 leaves; vol. XVII, 174 leaves.
This edition not in Quérard; not in Brunet; not in the Bibliothèque Nationale; not in Droysen, Beiträge zu einer Bibliographie der prosaischen Schriften Friedrichs des Grossen. British Museum Catalogue, col. 189.
Purchased from Goldsmith, Paris, in June 1790, through William Short. In an undated letter to Short, written in that year, Jefferson sent a list of his requirements, including
Les oeuvres du roi de Prusse. best edition. I believe that of Bâle was the best. I do not know if a better is come out since.
Short procured the work from Goldsmith on June 20 and sent it to Jefferson with a copy of Goldsmith's memoire (marked pd. June 29, 1790), the cost being 60 (livres).
Jefferson mentioned the publication of the first edition of the works of Frederic II in the letter he wrote to Doctor Currie of Richmond, from Paris, December 20, 1788, previously quoted relative to Barthelemy's Anacharsis, no. 41:
. . . in the literary way we are like, after a very long dearth of good publications, to have some things worth reading. the works of the late K. of Prussia in 16. vols 8vo. appear now. they contain new and curious historical matter . . .
Again in the letter to Madison on January 12, 1789:
. . . the works of the K. of Prussia, in 16 vol[???]. 8vo. these were a little garbled at Berlin before printed. the government lais it's hands on all which come here, and change some leaves. there is a genuine edition published at Basle, where even the garblings of Berlin are reestablished. I doubt the possibility of getting a copy, so vigilant is the government as to this work. I shall obtain you one if it be possible . . .
Similarly on March 24 to Doctor Willard, Jefferson included this as one of
The most remarkable publications we have had in France for a year or two past . . . the Berlin edition is in 16. vol[???]. 8vo. it is said to have been gutted at Berlin: and here it has been still more mangled. there are one or two other editions published abroad, which pretend to have rectified the maltreatment both of Berlin & Paris. some time will be necessary to settle the public mind as to the best edition . . .
Jefferson originally subscribed for three copies of the Oeuvres Posthumes of Frédéric II, but it is doubtful whether he took the copies. On January 23, 1787, he wrote to Wurtz at the Hotel de Lyons:
J'avois souscrit, Monsieur, pour les oeuvres posthumes du roi de Prusse, edition de Berlin qui auroit du m'etre delivré aussitot qu'elle a paru. à peu près unan après qu'elle a paru, on me propose, non pas les ouvrages du roi de Prusse, mais ce qu'on a substitue ici à leur place par des cartons. vous sentez bien Monsieur que les propriétaires n'ayant pas rempli leur engagement ni pour le tems ni pour la chose, la justice ne vaut pas que je reçoive un tout autre objet que celui pour lequel j'avois souscrit, et que ne me disposerait pas d'acheter la veritable edition ne me vaudroit rien. ainsi, Monsieur, je vous prie de trouver juste que je ne la reçoive pas, comme assurement je ne le ferai . . .
Exactly two years later, on January 21, 1789, Wurtz wrote to Jefferson:
Je vous prie de vouloir bien faire prendre les Trois Exemplaires des Oeuvres posthumes du Roi de Prusse en 15 voll in 8o. pour lesquels vous avez souscrit, & d'en faire payer le montant de 180—à raison de 60—l'Example prix de Souscription. P. S. Vous etes prié d'envoyer le matin.
This work is on many of Jefferson's recommended reading lists.
Frederic II, King of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great, 1712-1786. The first edition of his complete works appeared in 1788.
Jefferson's undated catalogue has an entry for the Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans souci 4 v. 12mo. 8f." "02710","132","","","","Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 27 [Memoires de la Margrave de Bareith ecrits de sa main, 2 v 8vo, see Book of Kings, ch 3].","Wilhelmine, Consort of Frederick William, Margrave of Bayreuth.","Mémoires de Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Bareith, Soeur de Frédéric-le-Grand; Ecrits de sa main. Tome Premier [-Second]. A Paris: chez F. Buisson et Delaunay [vol. I. de l'Imprimerie de Me Ve Jeunehomme, vol. II. de Feugueray], 1811.","","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 206 leaves; vol. II, 177 leaves.
Quérard X, page 514.
These two volumes form vol. I and II of Jefferson's Book of Kings, see no. 411. They were sent to Jefferson in April, 1812, by Madame Noailles de Tessé. A letter to William Short dated from Monticello April 26, 1812, mentions:
. . . the letter from Made de Tessé with the Memoires of the Margrave came to hand only the last week . . .
On December 8, 1813, Jefferson wrote to Madame de Tessé:
While at war, my dear madam and friend, with the Leviathan of the ocean there is little hope of a letter's escaping his thousand ships; yet I cannot permit myself longer to withold the acknolegement of your letter of June 28 of the last year, with which came the Memoirs of the Margrave of Bareuth. I am much indebted to you for this singular morsel of history which has given us a curtain view of kings, queens & princes disrobed of their formalities. it is a peep into the stable of the Egyptian god Apis. it would not be easy to find grosser manners, coarser vices, or more meanness in the poorest huts of our peasantry. the princess shews herself the legitimate sister of Frederic, cynical, selfish, and without a heart. notwithstanding your wars with England, I presume you get the publications of that country. the Memoirs of m[???]s Clarke and of her Darling prince, and the Book, emphatically so called, because it is the Biblia Sacra Deorum et Dearum sub-coelestium, the Prince regent, his Princess and the minor deities of his sphere, form a worthy sequel to the Memoirs of Bareuth; instead of the vulgarity and penury of the court of Berlin, giving us the vulgarity & profusion of that of London, and the gross stupidity and profligacy of the latter, in lieu of the genius and misanthropism of the former. the whole might be published as a Supplement to M. de Buffon, under the title of the 'Natural history of kings & Princes', or as a separate work & called 'Medicine for Monarchists' . . .
Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Bayreuth, 1709-1758. The first edition of these Mémoires was published in 1810." "02720","J. 133","","","","Constitution of the Germanic body.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. No. 127, as above.","[Necker, Karl Friedrich.]","The Constitution and Government of the Germanic Body. Shewing how this State has subsisted for Three Hundred Years past, under the Emperors of the House of Austria. . . Compiled from the Fundamental Laws of Germany; the Histories of the Empire, and the best Authorities. Translated from the Original [by Stephen Whatley]. London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1745.","JN3233 .N4","
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. 154 leaves; publisher's advertisement on the last leaf.
Halkett and Laing I, page 422 [translator's name spelt Whailey].
Old calf, gilt back, plain end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. The autograph signature of Thomas M. Randolph. Cost 4/ stg. on the inside cover.
With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Karl Friedrich Necker, d. 1760, was born in Custrin in Pomerania. In 1724 he became Professor of German law at Geneva, and in 1726 a citizen of Switzerland. The original edition of this work was published in French at Geneva, in 1742.
Stephen Whatley [or Whately], fl. 1712-1741, English author and translator." "02730","134","","","","Abregé chronologique de l'hist. et du droit publique d'Allemagne par Pfeiffel.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 58, as above but with the reading Pfeiffer.","Pfeffel, Chretien Frédéric.","Nouvel Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire et du Droit public d'Allemagne, par M. Pfeffel, Jurisconsulte du Roi au Départment des Affaires Etrangeres. Tome Premier [-Second.] A Paris: chez Delalain, 1777.","","
2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 368 leaves; vol. II, 348 leaves; the last with list of Errata.
Graesse V, page 247. Quérard VII, page 113.
On June 27, 1787, Jefferson bought a copy in Paris from Froullé, price 12 (livres). It is listed without price on the undated manuscript catalogue. He also bought for the Library of Congress a copy from Pougens on June 8, 1803, at the special price of 10, reduced from 30 (livres).
Chrétien Frédéric Pfeffel, 1726-1807, French historian and juriconsult. This is the fourth edition of this work, originally published in Paris in 1754." "02740","135","","","","Histoire de l'empire par le sieur Heiss.","","3. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 59, as above.","Heiss Von Kogenheim, Johann. ","Histoire de l'Empire, Contenant son Origine, ses Progrès, ses Révolutions, la forme de son Gouvernement, sa Politique, ses Négociations, & les nouveaux Réglemens, faits dans les Traités de Westphalie, &c. par Mr. Heiss . . . La Haye: A. Moetjens, 1685.","","
Second Edition. 3 vol. 12mo. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
This edition not in Quérard.
Johann Heiss von Kogenheim, d. 1688, German historian. The first edition of this work was published in 1684, 2 vol. 4to." "02750","136","","","","Tableau des revolñs d'Allemagne par de B.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 60, as above.","[Briel, J. H. D.]","Tableau des Révolutions de l'Empire d'Allemagne depuis Othon-le-Grand jusqu'à nos jours, par J.-H.-D. B. auteur des Nouveaux contes moraux sous le titre d'Heures de loisir. Paris: Froullé, 1787.","","
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. No copy was located for collation.
Barbier IV, 642. Quérard I, page 512.
Entered without price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue. The volumes were issued when Jefferson was in Paris and making large purchases from Froullé.
J. H. D. Briel, fl. 1787, French author. 275" "02760","137","","","","Brief acct. of the hospital of St. Elizabeth. Lat. Eng.","","8vo. grand.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 154, Brief account of the hospital of St. Elizabeth, Lat. Eng. Gr. 8vo.","St. Elizabeth.","Historia succincta Hospitalis S. Elizabethae, extra Muros Imperialis Monasterii S. Maximi Ordinis S. Benedicti, prope Treviros.—A brief Account of the Hospital of St. Elizabeth, annexed to the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, of the Benedictines, in the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin. With Notes, and Miscellaneous Observations [by Capell Lofft] . . . London Sold by C. Dilly; and Punchard and Jermyn, Ipswich, 1786.","","
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. According to Jefferson's manuscript and the Library of Congress catalogues his copy contained the original Latin version and the translation into English; no copy of the Latin work has been located for collation; the English edition collates as follows: 86 leaves: []1, a-g4, B-O4, P5; the preliminary matter, in the first alphabet of signatures, contains the Preface to the Translation, the dediction to Your Imperial Majesty, Protector of the Church, signed and dated The Advocate of the Poor, London, Jan. 1, 1786, and a Note to the Author's Preface of which sig. fiii verso to giii have Extracts from the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States of America and the King of Prussia: confirmed unanimously in Congress, May 17, 1786; A Brief Account begins on sig. B; sig. Li verso to Miv verso, contain Extracts from the American Constitutions, taken from Jackson's Constitutions of the American Independent States; sig. N begins A Sketch of the Life of Father Paul of Venice.
Not in Sabin. Not in Barbier. Halkett and Laing I, page 232. The London Catalogue of Books for 1786 lists the Latin edition (price 7/-).
Jefferson's copy was sent to him by Thomas Brand Hollis, from London on April 17, 1787. In his letter Hollis described the book as having ''many singular notes & circumstances.'' Jefferson wrote to thank Hollis from Paris, on July 2. This reply and Hollis's presentation letter are quoted in no. 389, q. v.
On the last leaf of the book is a list of References Omitted including on the part of the United States,
Tho. Jefferson, Paris, July 28, 1785.
B. Franklin, Passy, July 9, 1785.
John Adams, London, Aug. 5, 1785.
Entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Capell Lofft, 1751-1824, the translator, English miscellaneous writer." "02770","138","Tracts historical. viz. Eloge de Marie Therese par Frisi. Histoire de la guerre et des negociañs qui ont precedé le traité de Teschen 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 130, Tracts historical, to wit, Marie Therse, et la guerre et traité de Teschen, 8vo.","Two tracts, bound together in 1 volume 8vo (no longer in the Library of Congress).","Eloge de Marie Therese par Frisi.","i.","","","Frisi, Paolo.","Eloge de l'imperatrice reine Marie-Thérèse, par M. l'abbé Frisi, traduit de l'Italien, par M. l'abbé M***. Amsterdam, et Paris: Leroy, 1785.","","
First Edition. 8vo. No copy was located for collation.
Not in Barbier. Not in Quérard.
Paolo Frisi, 1727-1784, Italian mathematician, and a member of the Barnabite order. In addition to the mathematical works for which he is celebrated he wrote several Eloges including this one of his patron, the Empress Marie-Thérèse." "02780","138","Tracts historical. viz. Eloge de Marie Therese par Frisi. Histoire de la guerre et des negociañs qui ont precedé le traité de Teschen 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 130, Tracts historical, to wit, Marie Therse, et la guerre et traité de Teschen, 8vo.","Two tracts, bound together in 1 volume 8vo (no longer in the Library of Congress).","Histoire de la guerre et des negociañs qui ont precedé le traité de Teschen.","ii.","","","","Histoire de la Guerre et des Négociations qui ont précedé le Traité de Teschen. A Neuchatel, de l'Imprimerie de la Société Typographique, & a Geneve: chez Barthélemi Chirol, 1783.","","
8vo. 76 leaves; the half-title for the Traité de Paix . . . conclu & signé a Teschen . . . on G7 recto.
Not in Barbier. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de Neuchatel II, 13025.
Reference is made to the American Revolution.
These two tracts are entered together on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 1.16." "02790","139","","","","Antiquitates Fuldenses.","","folio. small.","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 153, Antiquitates Fuldenses, p. fol.","[Brouwer, Christoph.]","Fvldensivm Antiqvitatvm Libri IIII. Avctore R. P. Christophoro Brovvero Societatis Iesv Presbytero. Antverpiae: ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam & Filios Ioannis Moreti, 1612.","","
First Edition. 4to. 200 leaves, including the engraved frontispiece and full page and smaller engravings in the text, engraved vignette on the title-page, woodcut initials and ornaments, woodcut Plantin device (Haeghen no. 80) on the recto of the last leaf, otherwise blank.
Van der Aa II, 1424. Backer II, 219.
Listed without price in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue: Antiquitates Fuldenses (Germany) fol.
Christoph or Kristoffel Brouwer, 1560-1617, native of Arnheim, was for some time rector of Jesuit College in Fulda, to the abbot of which this work is dedicated." "02800","140","","","","Historia delle guerre della Germania inferiore del Conestaggio.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 61, Istoria della guerre della Germania inferiore del Conestaggio, 12mo.","Conestaggio, Girolarno Franchi.","Historia delle Guerre della Germania inferiore. Di Jeronimo Conestaggio Gentil'huomo Genouese, Divisa in dieci Libri. Con la Tauola delle cose notabili. Without name of place or printer [Leyden: Typographia Erpeniana], 1634.","","
8vo. 268 leaves; printer's woodcut device on the title; the dedication is dated Di Colonia il dì primo Aprile. M.DC.XV. and signed G. B. B.
Haym I, page 163. Not in Brunet.
Listed without price in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Girolarno Franchi di Conestaggio, d. 1635, Genoese historian. The first edition of this work was printed in Venice in 1614." "02810","141","","","","Histoire secrete de la cour de Berlin par Mirabeau.","","2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 125, as above.","[Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de.]","Histoire Secrete de la Cour de Berlin, ou Correspondance d'un Voyageur françois, depuis le 5 Juillet 1786 jusqu'au 19 Janvier 1787. Ouvrage Posthume. Tome Premier [-Second]. [Paris] 1789.","DD414.M6","
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 120 leaves; vol. II, 141 leaves. Barbier II, 831. Quérard VI, page 158. Jefferson bought a copy from Froullé on January 23, 1789, price 9 livres. Listed without the price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, French statesman. The Histoire Secrete, in the form of letters, is an account of his secret mission to the court of Prussia in July, 1786. The first edition was published in Alençon earlier in the same year." "02820","142","","","","Relationi del Cardinal Bentivoglio.","","12mo. Brusselles. Meerbecq. 1632.","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 62, as above, omitting Brusselles.","Bentivoglio, Guido, Cardinal.","Relationi del Cardinal Bentivoglio. Brussels: Giovanni de Meerbeecq, 1632.","","
8vo. 256 leaves, woodcut portrait on the title-page.
This edition not in Brunet, not in Graesse, not in Ebert, not in Pirenne.
Possibly bought from Lackington. The book is listed in a memorandum by Jefferson: 4923 Relation del Cardinal Bentivoglio. 12mo. 1/-
Listed without price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Guido Bentivoglio, 1579-1644, Italian cardinal, statesman and historian, was for a time nuncio to Flanders. The first edition of this work was published in 1629." "02830","143","","","","Della guerra di Fiandra dal Bentivoglio. 1ma. parte. 12mo. Colonia. 1635. Dell Historia di Fiandra del Bentivoglio. 2da. parte. 12mo. Colonia. 1636. Della guerra di Fiandra dal Bentivoglio. 3a. parte. 12mo. Colonia. 1640.","","3. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. nos. 63, 64, 65, as above.","Bentivoglio, Guido, Cardinal.","Della Guerra de Fiandra, descritta dal Cardinal Bentivoglio, Parte Prima [-Terza]; con le aggiunte fatteui dall' Avtore. Colonia: [i. e. Leyden: Typis Erpeniana] 1635, 1636, 1640.","","
3 vol. Sm. 8vo. vol. I, 312 leaves; vol. II, 208 leaves; vol. III, 296 leaves; titles printed in red and black, printer's woodcut device on each title-page.
Brunet I, page 778. Pirenne 2376.
Ordered by Jefferson when in Amsterdam, on March 23, 1788, from Van Damme, from his catalogue, vol. I, page 52: Bentivoglio della guerra di Fiandra. Cologne, Elzevir 1635. 3 v. 12mo.
Listed without price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
The first editions of these three volumes, which cover the history from 1559 to 1607, appeared in 1632, 1636 and 1639. The edition of 1635, 1636 and 1649 has the imprint Colonia but the device of the Leyden press founded by Thomas Erpenius." "02840","144","","","","Strada de bello Belgico.","","2. v. 16s. 1648.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 66; The same, Lat. 2 v 12mo.","Strada, Famianus.","Famiani Stradae Romani, è Soc. Ies. de Bello Belgico Decas Prima [Secunda] . . . [Amsterdam: J. Blæu] Iuxta Exemplar Romæ impressum [vol. I] apud Hermannum Scheus, [vol. II] apud Hæredes Francisci Corbelletti, 1648.","","
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 311 leaves; vol. II, 351 leaves; 12 engraved plates of portraits in each volume, titles printed in red and black. The titles differ in the two volumes; in vol. I, after Decas Prima the title reads ab Excessu Caroli V Imp. Vsque ad initia Praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae placentiaeqve Dvcis III. Editio postrema, correctior & accuratior; in vol. II after Decas Secunda the reading is ab initio Praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae placentiaeqve Dvcis III. An. MDLXXVIII, Vsque ad An. MDXC. Editio passim correctior, praecipue in Indice, qui in Romana, aliisque, mendis scatet.
Bibliotheca Belgica S. 37. Pieters, L'Imprimerie des Elsevier, page 415. Backer VII, 1610.
Jefferson's copy was ordered from Van Damme's catalogue—vol. 2, pa. 235, in a letter dated March 23, 1788. The book was sent with others on June 25, 1788, price 4. 10. It is entered at this price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, but as 2 v. 16s instead of 2 v. 12mo.
In Jefferson's dated manuscript catalogue the entry for this book is followed immediately by the translations into Italian and French. In the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue the three books have become widely separated. The entry for this book is the last instead of the first and, owing to a mistake on the part of the compositor, it is separated by nine entries from the French edition to which it refers: The same, Lat. 2. v. 12mo.
Famianus Strada, 1572-1649, Italian historian. This is the second Amsterdam counterfeit edition of this work, distinguished from the first by the correct numbering of page 275 in vol. I. The work first appeared in Rome, in 1632, folio." "02850","145","","","","Guerras de Flandes de Strada por de Novar.","","7. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 67, as above.","Strada, Famianus.","Guerras de Flandes. Primera decada, desde la muerte del Emperador Carlos V. hasta el principio del Govierno de Alexandro Farnese, Tercero Duque de Parma y Placienca. Escriviòlas en Latin el R. P. Famiano Estrada, de la Compañia de Jesus. Y las traduxò en Romance el R. P. Melchor de Novar, de la misma Compañia. Nueva Edicion, enriquecida de lindissimas Estampas, en la qual se enmendaron essenciales Erratas. Tomo I, Part. I [-Tomo III, Part II]. En Amberes: por Marcos-Miguel Bousquet y Compañia, 1748.","","
3 vol. in 7. 12mo. [vol. I.] Tomo I, Part. I, 272 leaves; [vol. II.] Tomo I, Part. II, 299 leaves; [vol. III.] Tomo II, Part. I, 179 leaves; [vol. IV.] Tomo II, Part. II, 240 leaves; [vol. V.] Tomo II, Part. III, 258 leaves; [vol. VI.] Tomo III, Part I, 217 leaves; [vol. VII.] Tomo III, Part. II, 225 leaves; vols. I, II, and III have engraved frontispieces and the titles printed in red and black; numerous engraved portraits, folded plates.
This edition not in the Bibliotheca Belgica. Backer VII, 1613, mentions this Spanish translation without specifying any edition.
Ordered by Jefferson from Paris on September 9, 1789, in a letter to Lackington with a list of books from his last catalogue, to be packed very securely in a light box, 9876. Estrad's history of the wars of Flande, Span. 7. v. 12mo. £1.2.0.
Entered without the price, the last entry in chapter 2, in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Melchor de Novar, 1629-1707, Spanish jesuit. The first edition of his translation was published in Cologne in 1681. The Bibliotheca Belgica (Nijhoff) no. 83 has an edition of 1749, 3 vol. 4to. by the same printer with a note that the book was probably printed in Geneva or Lausanne, and not in Antwerp." "02860","146","","","","Strada. Histoire de la guerre de Flandres. traduit par Du Ryer, 2. v.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 68, Histoire de la guerre de Flandre, par Strada, 2 v 12mo.","Strada, Famianus.","Histoire de la guerre de Flandre, de Famianus Strada, traduite par P. Du-Ryer . . . A Anvers: chez la veuve de Barthelemy Foppens, 1705.","","
3 vol. in 2.? 12mo. No copy of this edition was located for collation. The edition was issued in 3 volumes. Jefferson calls for 2 vol. only in two manuscript catalogues.
Bibliotheca Belgica S 68. Backer VII, 1615.
Entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 5 f 8.
Pierre du Ryer, 1606-1658, French poet and translator. The first edition of his translation of Strada's work was published in 1644-49. 286" "02870","147","","","","id.","","2. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 171, Strada, Histoire de la guerre de Flandres, par du Ryer, 2v fol.","Strada, Famianus.","Histoire de la Gverre de Flandre, escrite en Latin par Famianvs Strada, de la Compagnie de Iesvs. Premiere [-Deuxiesme] Decade; mise en François par P. Dv-Rier . . . A Troyes: chez Nicolas Oudot, et se vendent à Paris: chez Avgvstin Covrbe, 1659, 61.","","
2 vol. folio, vol. I, 312 leaves; vol. II, 362 leaves; engraved device on each title-page, engraved portraits in the text in vol. I and 1 engraved portrait in vol. II; titles printed in red and black. Volume I is the third, volume II the second edition.
Bibliotheca Belgica, S 58. Backer VII, 1615.
These volumes are reimpressions of the Paris editions of 1650, 1651.
The books were evidently not delivered to Congress with the rest of the library in 1815. In a working copy of the 1815 catalogue the entry is not checked as present and is included in a manuscript list, made after 1815, headed Congress Library Books Missing.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price 7. 4." "02880","148","","","","Aitzema's Hist. of the united Netherlands.","","1650. 1651. small fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 155, Aitzema's history of the United Netherlands, 1650, 1651, p fol.","Aitzema, Lieuwe van.","Notable Revolutions; Beeing a True Relation of what hap'ned in the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the years MDCL and MDCLI. Somewhat before and after the Death of the late Prince of Orange. According to the Dutch Copie, collected and published at the Haghe 1652. By Lion Aitzema . . . The Principal matters handled herein, you shall have in a Table at the end of the Book. London: Printed by William Du-gard, by the Appointment of the Council of State, Anno 1653.","DJ171 .A28","
Sm. folio in fours. 370 leaves.
STC A821. Hazlitt IV, page 3. This edition not in Van der Aa.
Entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 2/6.
Lieuwe van Aitzema, 1600-1669, Dutch historian, was a native of Friesland. The original Dutch edition was printed in Gravenhage in 1652 and frequently reprinted." "02890","149","","","","De Witt's state of Holland.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 131, as above.","[La Court, Pieter de.]","Political Maxims of the State of Holland: comprehending a general View of the civil Government of that Republic, and the Principles on which it is founded; the Nature, Rise, and Progress of the Commerce of its Subjects, and of their true Interests with respect to all their Neighbours. By John De Witt, Pensionary of Holland. Translated from the Dutch Original, which contains many curious Passages not to be found in any of the French Versions. To which is prefixed, Historical Memoirs of the two illustrious Brothers Cornelius and John De Witt [by John Campbell]. London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1743.","","
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. 256 leaves.
This edition not in Lowndes. Watt I, 301e. Not in Halkett and Laing.
Pieter de la Court, 1618-1685, Dutch historian.
Jan de Witt, 1625-1672, Dutch statesman. This work is a translation into English, first printed in 1702, of the Aanwysing der heilsame politike Gronden en Maximen van de Republike van Holland . . . 1669, by Jan de Witt, a revised and enlarged edition of the Interest van Holland, 1662, of Pieter de la Court, published without his consent.
John Campbell, 1708-1775, English miscellaneous writer. The edition of 1746 has his name on the title-page." "02900","150","","","","Histoire de la Hollande 1609-1679. par Neuville","","4. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 69, as above.","[Baillet, Adrien.]","Histoire de Hollande. Depuis la Treve de 1609, ou finit Grotius jusqu'a Notre Tems [—Depuis la Mort du Prince Maurice.—Depuis la Mort du Prince d'Orange Frederic-Henri.—Depuis la revolution causée par les guerres qui ont précedé la Paix de Nimegue]. Par M. De La Neuville. Tome I [-IV]. A Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraries Associez, et se vend a Brusselles: Chez Josse de Grieck, 1702.","DJ155 .B15","
Second Edition. 4 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 165 leaves; vol. II, 161 leaves; vol. III, 114 leaves; vol. IV, 188 leaves; the titles of vol. I and III are printed in red and black, of vol. II and IV in black.
Barbier II, 7440. Quérard I, page 20.
Entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 4-16.
Adrien Baillet, 1649-1706, French author, was born in the village of La Neuville, whence he took his nom de guerre. The first edition of this work was published in 1693. This book is usually bound in two volumes, hence the red and black title pages in vol. I and III. Jefferson's copy was evidently in four volumes." "02910","151","","","","History of the United provinces.","","8vo. Lond. Johnson. 1788.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 132, as above.","","History of the Internal Affairs of the United Provinces, from the Year 1780, to the Commencement of Hostilities in June 1787. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787.","DJ201 .H6","
First Edition. 8vo. 180 leaves: []3, B-Z8, Aa1.
Not in Halkett and Laing. Not in Lowndes. London Catalogue of Books 1786-1791, page 114.
On January 16, 1788, Jefferson wrote from Paris to Stockdale, adding to a previous order two books, of which the second was
The history of the internal affairs of Holland since 1783. printed also by Robinson if I recollect rightly. send them in boards . . .
Jefferson's entry in both his manuscript catalogues dates the book 1788. The imprint is dated 1787, and the book was printed between June and December in that year; it was not reprinted in 1788. The 1815 catalogue repeats Jefferson's entry, but the mistake is corrected in the later Library of Congress catalogues, which give 1787 as the date but catalogue the book under Johnson as the author. In his order to Stockdale, Jefferson mentions no author, and in view of his treatment of proper names it is not out of order to suggest that by Johnson he meant Robinson. The book is listed without an author's name in the London Catalogue of books.
Several references to America occur in the book." "02920","152","","","","Revolution des Provinces unis. de Mandrillon.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 70, as above.","Mandrillon, Joseph.","Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire de la Révolution des Provinces-Unies, en 1787. Par M. Jh. Mandrillon . . . A Paris: chez Barrois l'aîné, 1791.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 133 leaves a4, A-K8 []1, L-Q8; on the last page is the publisher's list of works by Mandrillon, which includes Le Spectateur Américain see no. 497. The unsigned leaf between sigs. K and L is for the half-title of Remarques sur le Stadhoudérat. The dedication to Frédéric-Auguste, duc de Brunswic, is dated from Paris, le 1er. Décembre 1790.
Quérard V, page 486.
Joseph Mandrillon, 1743-1794 (died on the scaffold), French littérateur, was a member of the academies of Haarlem, Bresse, Philadelphia and others.
This work contains references to the American Revolution." "02930","153","","","","Vie de Ruyter.","","2. v. in 1. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 71, Vie de De Ruyter, 12mo.","Richer, Adrien.","Vie de Michel de Ruiter, Lieutenant-Amiral-Général de Hollande et de West-Frise. Par M. Richer, Auteur de plusieurs Ouvrages de Littérature. Tome Premier [-Second]. Prix 3 liv. les deux volumes brochés. A Paris: chez Belin [De l'imprimerie de Chardon], 1783.","DJ136 .R8R5","
First Edition. 2 vol. in 1. 12mo. vol. I, 115 leaves; engraved portrait of Michel de Ruiter by and after Pierron, publisher's advertisement of works by the same author on the back of the half-title; vol. II, 131 leaves; printer's imprint at the end. These volumes, whose half-titles read Vie des plus célebres Marins, form part of that set, issued in thirteen volumes 12mo., Paris, 1780-1786.
Quérard VIII, page 36.
The price as given on the title reads 3 liv. les deux volumes. On Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue he has entered the price 2 f rel. 15s.
Adrien Richer, 1720-1798, French historian.
Michel Adriaanszoon van Ruiter, 1607-1676, Dutch admiral." "02940","154","","","","Histoire du Prince d'Orange de Lamigue.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 72 ''. . . . 2v. 3mo.''","Lamigue, Isaac.","Historie du Prince d'Orange et de Nassau . . . Lewarde: F. Halma, 1715.","","
First Edition. 2 vol. Small 8vo.; engraved portrait, plates and plans.
No copy has been located for collation. There is a copy in the British Museum, listed in the catalogue under Lamigne, and in the Bibliothèque Nationale, of which the catalogue states that the Dedication is signed I. Lamigue." "02950","155","","","","Grotii annales et historiae de rebus Belgicis","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 170, as above.","Grotius, Hugo.","Hvgonis Grotii Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis. Amstelaedami: ex Typographejo Joannis Blaev, 1657.","","
First Edition. Folio. 302 leaves, engraved portrait of Hugo Grotius by W. Delff after M. Miereveld on the verso of *6; woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device on the title (Haeghen no. 7).
Graesse III, 163. Ebert II, 8977. Meulen, 30, no. 238.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 3 f 12.
This book was missing at the time of the sale of the library to Congress in 1815. In the working copy of the Library catalogue of 1815 the entry is not checked, and is one of a manuscript list headed Congress Library Books Missing.
During the years 1788 and 1789 Jefferson was trying to obtain a translation of this work. On March 18, 1788, when in Amsterdam, he wrote to Van Damme sending him a list of books that he wished him to procure á des prix assez raisonables, et de les faire passer á Paris á son adresse.
This list included Traduction des Annales Belgiques de Grotius, en Anglois, Italien ou François.
On January 25, 1789, Jefferson wrote to Van Damme from Paris, and sent him marked catalogues of books he required. This letter contained a postscript:
P. S. ayez la bonté d'observer que c'etoit une traduction en Anglois, Italien, ou François de Grotius de rebus Belgicis, et non pas l'ouvrage original en Latin que je vous ai demandé. je possede deja le Latin.
On January 29 Van Damme, in a letter concerning a forthcoming sale of books, wrote:
Je acquirai en attendent, un exemplair de H. Grotius, de Rebus Belgicis Folio de vostre commission.
The next entry in Jefferson's undated manuscript reads: Grotius de rebus Belgiciis. 2 v. p. f. This was not sold to Congress.
Hugo Grotius, 1583-1645, Dutch publicist and statesman. The Annales et historiae was begun by Grotius as an official duty after his appointment in 1603 as historiographer to the United Provinces. It was first published posthumously by his sons Peter and Cornelius. For other works by Grotius see chapters 16 and 17." "02960","156","","","","Stanyan's acct. of Switzerland.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 73, Stanyan's account of Switzerland, 12mo.","[Stanyan, Abraham.]","An Account of Switzerland. Written in the Year 1714. Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 1756.","DQ22 .S8","
12mo. 120 leaves.
Halkett and Laing I, 13 [By Temple Stanyan]. Lowndes V. 2494 (under Temple Stanyan). Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature II, 744 (under Abraham Stanyan).
Abraham Stanyan, 1669?-1732, English diplomat, went as envoy to the Swiss Cantons in 1705 and again in 1710. This book was written after his return to England in 1712, and originally issued anonymously in 1714. The author was the elder brother of Temple Stanyan (q. v.) to whom the book was for many years ascribed, owing to a mistake in the Bodleian Library catalogue, copied by other bibliographers." "02970","157","","","","Tableau des revolñs de Geneve par d'Ivernois.","","3to. in 2. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 133, as above, but omitting 3to.","[Ivernois, Sir Francis d'.]","Tableau Historique et Politique des Révolutions de Geneve dans le Dix-Huitième Siècle. Dédié à Sa Majesté Très-Chrétienne, Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, Par Mr. . . . A Geneve: [chez Quiby et Boisselier] 1782.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 212 leaves, including the half-title for the Seconde Partie.
Barbier IV, 649. Barth 3290. Rivoire I, 1135. Karmin 5a." "02980","","","","","","","","","Ivernois, Sir Francis d'.","Des Révolutions de France et de Genève. Par M. D'Ivernois. Londres: de l'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury & Fils, se vend chez P. Elmsley, J. Debrett, J. Deboffe, & chez les principaux Libraires, Octobre 1795.","","
2 parts in 1. 8vo. in fours. 252 leaves: []4, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Qqq4; on []4 is a half-title for La Révolution Française à Genève . . . Troisième édition; on Cc4 is the title for Réflexions sur la Guerre. Par M. D'Ivernois. En Réponse aux Réflexions sur la Paix, addressées à Mr. Pitt et aux Français . . . Seconde Edition, considérablement augmentée, 1795; on Aa4, recto, with caption title, begins, Lettre de M. Chauvet à un de ses Amis, habitant du Pays de Vaud; continuous pagination throughout.
Not in Sabin. This edition not in Barth. Rivoire II, 5327. Karmin 11g.
Jefferson's copies of these books were gifts from the author, with whom he was in correspondence during 1794 and 1795 concerning the proposal of d'Ivernois to remove the University of Geneva from that city to the State of Virginia. During this period d'Ivernois sent to Jefferson, in addition to the plans for the University, much manuscript material on the revolution in Geneva, including portions of his history and translations into English intended for the American papers. The letters and other manuscripts of d'Ivernois were all sent in duplicate, an original under cover to John Adams at Philadelphia, and the duplicate directly to Jefferson.
On November 21, 1794, John Adams wrote to Jefferson: I am desired by our old acquaintance Mr. D'Ivernois to transmit you the inclosed Papers for your inspection Opinion and Advice. The poor Fellow has been obliged to fly a Second time into Banishment. The first time, he was driven out as a Democrat: but it is now Day about as they say, in Geneva, and he is compelled to run as an Aristocrat. Shall we print his History? What shall we do with his Academy? . . .
D'Ivernois' letter was dated from London, October 11, 1794, and read in part:
J'ai l'honneur de vous addresser le tableau de la Révolution française à Geneve qu'on m'a fortement invité à faire imprimer dans ce pays cy, et où en rectifiant quelques erreurs legeres qui s'etaient glissées dans la premiere narration Anglaise, j'ai ajouté beaucoup de faits que j'ignorais encore lors que je vous l'adressai . . . Dès qu'il le sera, j'aurai l'honneur de vous en envoyer un exemplaire, et si vous pensiez que la réimpression de cette traduction Anglaise en Amérique put y etre de quelqu' utilité, j'en serais d'autant plus flatté . . .
On February 5, 1795 Adams wrote to Jefferson:
The inclosed Pamphlet and Papers I have received this week from the Author [d'Ivernois], with the request to transmit them to you . . .
This was acknowledged by Jefferson on the following day.
On January 31, 1796 Adams sent to Jefferson the copy of Des Revolutions de France et de Genève, with a letter beginning:
I have received from our old Acquaintance D'Ivernois the inclosed volume for you in the Course of the last Week . . .
Jefferson replied on February 28:
I am to thank you, my dear Sir, for forwarding Mr. D'Ivernois' book on the French revolution. I recieve everything with respect which comes from him. but it is on politics, a subject I never loved, & now hate. I will not promise therefore to read it thoroughly . . .
The first part of this work is written in the form o letters, and the Introduction, dated from Londres, ce 25 Juillet 1795, begins:
Les trois Lettres suivantes furent addressées à un Américain, à l'époque où les émissaires Français prêchaient ouvertement à la République du noveau monde les mêmes principes de soulèvement sous lesquels venait de succomber celle de Genève. Graces immortelles en soient rendues à Washington!
The copy collated is of the third edition; the second edition, published in July of the same year, was without the Refexions sur la Guerre. Jefferson's manuscript entry calling for 3. to. in 2. v. makes it clear that his must have been the third edition, which was published in London in October, and received in Philadelphia by John Adams in the following January.
Sir Francis D'Ivernois, 1757-1842, a Genevan, became a naturalized British subject when exiled from his native country, and was knighted by George III. He was introduced by Richard Price [q. v.] in 1785 to Jefferson, who thus describes him to Wilson Cary Nicholas, in a letter written from Monticello on November 23, 1794, for the discussion of the Geneva University proposal:
. . . a Mr. D'Ivernois, a Genevan, of considerable distinction for sciences and patriotism, & that too of the republican kind, tho you will see that he does not carry it so far as our friends of the National assembly of France. while I was at Paris, I knew him as an exile for his democratic principles, the aristocracy having then the upper hand, in Geneva. he is now obnoxious to the Democratic party . . ." "02990","158","","","","Le Philadelphien à Geneve.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 134, as above.","[Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre.]","Le Philadelphien à Genève, ou Lettres d'un Américain sur la dernière révolution de Genève, sa Constitution nouvelle, l'émigration en Irlande, &c. pouvant servir de tableau politique de Genève jusqu'en 1784 . . . Dublin [i. e. Carouge, Geneva], 1783.","","
First Edition. 112 leaves.
Not in Barbier. Not in Sabin. Quérard I, page 520. Barth 3306. Rivoire I, page 2631.
Jefferson's copy was sent to him by the author. The postscript of a letter written to him from Paris December 27, 1786, reads:
Voulez vous bien accepter l'exemplaire d'un ouvrage que j'ai fait en faveur des Genevois il y a 3 ans et qui vous donnera quelque de leurs afaires.
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, 1754-1793, French journalist, social reformer, and revolutionary leader, was a friend and correspondent of Jefferson. He came to the United States before the French revolution on behalf of a group of French financiers, and was executed in 1793 after his return to France. This is the first edition of this work, which appeared in Geneva in August, and was followed by another edition with the same imprint." "03000","159","","","","Histoire de l'empire Othoman par le Prince Cantemir.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 156, as above.","Cantemir, Dumitru, Prince of Moldavia.","Histoire de l'Empire Othoman, où se voyent les causes de son aggrandissement et de sa decadence. Avec des notes très-instructives. Par S. A. S. Demetrius Cantimir, Prince de Moldavie. Traduite en François par M. de Joncquières, Commandeur, Chanoine Régulier de l'Ordre Hospitalier du Saint Esprit de Montpellier. Tome I [-II]. Paris: chez Despilly, 1743.","DR439 .C23","
First Edition of this translation. 2 vol. 4to. vol. I, 178 leaves; vol. II, 197 leaves; titles and half-titles printed in red and black, text in double columns, an engraved headpiece and initial by F. G. Scotin on the first page of dedication in vol. I.
Graesse II, page 38. This edition not in Quérard.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 10f. Jefferson had either only one volume of this book, or had the two volumes bound together. His manuscript catalogues give no indication of more than one volume, nor do the Library of Congress catalogues which distinguish his collection.
Dumitru Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, 1673-1723. This work, a source book for Ottoman history, was originally written in Latin. At the end of the second volume is an account of the life of the author, with a list of his writings.
De Joncquières, ?fl. 1743, of Montpellier, translator.
Pierre Nicolas Desmolets, 1678-1760, French priest. Desmolets edited this translation, and dedicated it to le comte de Noailles, from Paris, 22 December, 1742." "03010","160","Tracts on the Turks. par Peyssonel & Volney. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 135, as above.","","","i.","","","Peysonnel, Charles de.","Lettre de M. de Peyssonnel, Ancien Consul-Général à Smyrne, ci-devant Consul de Sa Majesté auprès du Khan des Tartares, à M. le Marquis de N . . . Contenant quelques Observations relatives aux Mémoires qui ont paru sous le nom de M. le Baron de Tott. A Amsterdam, 1785.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 66 leaves, the last with the errata.
Quérard VII, page 111.
Charles de Peysonnel, 1727-1790, French political writer, succeeded his father as consul at Smyrna.
François, Baron de Tott, 1733-1793, French diplomat. The Mémoires to which this work refers were published in Amsterdam in 1784." "03020","160","Tracts on the Turks. par Peyssonel & Volney. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 135, as above.","","","ii.","","","Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de.","Considerations sur la Guerre actuelle des Turcs. Par Mr. de Volney . . . A Londres, 1788.","YA833","
First Edition. 8vo. 73 leaves: []1, for the engraved title, A-I8, the last a blank; according to Quérard there should be one map.
Quérard X, page 273.
For a note on Volney see no. 133. This work is dated at the end: Terminé le 26 Février 1788." "03030","160","Tracts on the Turks. par Peyssonel & Volney. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 135, as above.","","","iii.","","","Peysonnel, Charles de.","Examen du Livre intitulé Considérations sur la Guerre actuelle des Turcs, par M. de Volney. Par M. de Peyssonnel . . . A Amsterdam, [Paris] 1788.","YA833","
First Edition. 8vo. 170 leaves: []2, A-X8, the last a blank.
Quérard VII, page 111.
Bought from Froullé in October, 1788, price 3 .12.
The entry for these three tracts on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue is similar to that on the dated one, above, and is without the price." "03040","161","","","","Introduction à l'histoire de l'Asie, de l'Afrique et de l'Amerique par la Martinière.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 77, as above.","Bruzen La Martinière, Antoine Augustin.","Introduction a l'Histoire de l'Asie, de l'Afrique, et de l'Amerique. Pour servir de suite à l'Introduction a l'Histoire du Baron de Pufendorff. Par Mr. Bruzen La Martinière, Géographe de S. M. Catholique. Tome Premier [Second]. Amsterdam: chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1735.","D22 .B91","
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 265 leaves; vol. II, 286 leaves; engraved frontispieces by B. Picart and Folkema, engraved vignettes by Picart, 4 folded engraved maps; titles printed in black and red. In volume II 70 leaves at the end contain a Catalogue des Livres François et Latins, qui se trouvent . . . chez Zacharie Chatelain.
Quérard I, page 545. Sabin 8783.
Listed without price in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Antoine Augustin Bruzen La Martinière, 1662-1746, French man of letters, translated into French Von Pufendorf's Einleitung zur Historie der vornehmsten Reiche und Staaten, 1682, with the title Introduction a l'Histoire Générale et Politique de l'Univers (see no. 158 above), to which the two volumes here described were intended as an appendix." "03050","162","","","","Cambridge's history of the war in India.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 138, as above.","Cambridge, Richard Owen.","[History of the War in India, between the English and French . . . Dublin: Printed for George and Alexander Ewing, 1761.]","","
8vo. No copy of this edition has been located for collation.
This edition not in Lowndes, not in Grose, and not listed in the British Museum Catalogue. Not in the Bradshaw Irish Collection in the Cambridge University Library. Jones, General Catalogue of Books that have been printed in Ireland from 1700-1791, page 76.
This Dublin edition in octavo, which, according to Jefferson, the early Library of Congress Catalogues, and the Jones catalogue (where it is priced 6/6) is entitled History of the War in India, as above, was evidently a pirate. The Catalogue of the Bibliotheque Nationale has an entry for a Dublin edition in quarto for the same year, 1761, 385 pages, appendice de 64 p. et l'index. pl.
Richard Owen Cambridge, 1717-1802, English poet and historian, chiefly known for his poem The Scribleriad. His Account of the War in India is his most important prose work." "03060","163","","","","Parker's Evidence of British transactions in the E. Indies.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 158, as above.","Parker, —. of Lincoln's Inn.","Evidence of our Transactions in the East Indies, with an enquiry into the general conduct of Great Britain to other Countries, from the Peace of Paris, in 1763. By Mr. Parker, of Lincoln's-Inn. London: Printed for Charles Dilly, 1782.","","
First Edition. 4to. 177 leaves, An Enquiry into our National Conduct to Other Countries has separate pagination.
Not in Lowndes. Catalogue of the Library of the East India Company, page 23.
No information as to the author is available. His first name is not given in the book, nor in any of the bibliographies and catalogues consulted." "03070","164","","","","Historia de la Yndia Oriental por Antonio de San Roman.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 157, as above.","San Roman [de Ribandeneyra], Antonio.","Historia general de la Yndia Oriental los Descubrimientos, y Conquistas, que han hecho las Armas de Portugal, en el Brasil, y en otras partes de Africa, y de la Asia; y de la Dilatacion del Santo Euangelio por aquellas grandes Prouincias, desde sus principios hasta el Año de 1557. Compuesta por Fray Antonio de San Roman . . . En Valladolid: por Luis Sanchez acosta de Diego Perez, Año de 1603.","DS411 .7 .S19","
First Edition. Folio. 420 leaves; engraved title-page of architectural design with portrait at the head by Juan Baptista Morales, 2 plates in the text, text printed in double columns.
Sabin 76188. Palau VI, 425. Medina II, 488. Rodriques 3132. Salva 3396. Alcocer y Martinez 443.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 14.0.
Antonio San Roman [de Ribandeneyra], fl. 1603, Spanish historian, was a native of Palencia and a Benedictine. This work contains an account of the discoveries of Columbus and of the Portuguese explorations and conquests in Brazil." "03080","165","","","","Instituts de Tamerlan par Langles.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 137, Instituts de Tamerlan, par L'Anglés, 8vo.","Timur, The Great.","Instituts Politiques et Militaires de Tamerlan, proprement appellé Timour, ecrits par lui-même en Mogol, & traduits en François, sur la version Persane d'Abou-Taleb-Al-Hosse[???]ni, avec la Vie de ce Conquérant, d'après les meilleurs Auteurs Orientaux, des Notes, & des Tables Historique, Géographique, &c. Par L. Langlès . . . A Paris: chez Née de la Rochelle, Lottin de S.-Germain, Didot fils aîné, [De l'Imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné, & de Lottin de S. Germain] 1787.","DS23 .T593","
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. 265 leaves: []2, a-g8, h[???], A-Z, Aa-Bb8, Cc1; engraved portrait frontispiece of Timur d'après une peinture Indienne, folded plate at the end in three compartments, lettered Planche Iere, Planche 2[???]e, and Planche 3e. respectively. The first alphabet of signatures contains the life of Tamerlan. The text of the Instituts, with separate pagination, is in 2 parts, with a half-title for the second part on sig. K8, page 159; it ends on Rlv verso, page 264 and is followed by Tables, Historique, Géographique and des Matieres.
Quérard IX, page 477. Wilson, Bibliography of Persia, page 228.
Louis Mathieu Langlès, 1763-1824, French orientalist, and founder of the School of Oriental Languages in Paris." "03090","166","","","","Histoire de Genghizcan par m[???] Petis de la Croix.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 75, Histoire de Gengtrizcan, par Petis de la Croix, 12mo.","Pétis de La Croix, François.","Histoire du Grand Genghizcan Premier Empereur des Anciens Mogols et Tartares . . . Traduite et compilée de plusieurs auteurs orientaux & de voyageurs européens, dont on voit les noms à la fin, avec un abregé de leurs vies. Par feu M. Pétis de La Croix le pere, Secretaire Interprete du Roy és Langues Turquesque & Arabesque. A Paris: dans la Boutique de Claude Barbin. Chez la Veuve Jombert, 1710.","DS22 .P49","
First Edition. 12mo. 293 leaves: ã8, [???]3, A-Z, Aa-Zz in eights and fours alternately, Aaa[???]; on [???]3 is a Catalogue des Livres du fonds de Librairie de feuë la Veuve de Claude Barbin; on Xx[???] to Aaa5 is the Abregé de la Vie des Auteurs dont on a tiré l'Histoire de Genghizcan; errata at the end.
Quérard VII, page 85.
François Pétis de la Croix, 1622-1652, French Orientalist. This work, which was undertaken at the request of Colbert, occupied him for ten years, and was published by his son, François fils. A translation into English was published in 1722.
Jenghiz Khan, 1162-1227, Mongol emperor." "03100","167","","","","Histoire de Timur Bec. par Petis de la Croix.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 76, as above, with 4 vols.","Sharaf Ad-Din 'Ali, Yazdi—Pétis de la Croix, François, Fils.","Histoire de Timur-Bec, connu sous le nom du Grand Tamerlan, Empereur des Mogols & Tartares. En forme de journal historique de ses victoires & conquêtes dans l'Asie & dans l'Europe. Ecrite en Persan par Cherefeddin Ali, natif d'Yezd, Auteur contemporain. Traduite en François par feu Monsieur Petis de la Croix . . . Avec des Notes Historiques, & Cartes Geographiques. Tome Premier [-Quatrieme]. Paris: chez Robert-Marc d'Espilly, 1722.","DS23 .S5","
First Edition of this translation. 4 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 278 leaves; vol. II. 222 leaves; vol. III. 214 leaves; vol. IV. 156 leaves; five folded engraved maps, two in vol. III, and one each in the other volumes.
Quérard VII, page 85. Wilson, A Bibliography of Persia, p. 207. Schwab, Bibliographie de la Perse, 446.
Sharaf Ad-Din, [Ali Yazdi] fl. 1420, Persian author, completed his Zafarnama, the life of Timur-Bec, written under the personal supervision of the latter's grandson, in 1425.
François Pétis de la Croix, 1653-1713, French orientalist, the son of the author of the Histoire du Grand Genghizcan, made the translation which was published posthumously and was later translated into English. The Avertissement contains a list of twenty-one books translated or compiled by him.
Alexandre-Louis-Marie Pétis de la Croix, 1698-1751, the son of François fils, published this work, and dedicated it to the Abbé Bignon.
Timur Bec, commonly known as Tamerlane the Great, 1336-1405, Oriental conqueror." "03110","168","","","","Du Halde's history of China.","","1st. vol. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 136, as above.","Du Halde, Jean Baptiste.","The General History of China. Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea and Thibet. Including an Exact and Particular Account of their Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Religion, Arts and Sciences. The Whole adorn'd with Curious Maps, and Variety of Copper-Plates. Done from the French of P. Du Halde. [by R. Brookes.] Volume the First. London: Printed by and for John Watts, 1736.","DS708 .D86","
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. vol. I [only] 263 leaves; engraved frontispiece and plates by V. der Gucht, engraved folded map, title printed in red and black.
Lowndes II, page 693. Cordier I, 33. Backer IV, 37.
Jefferson owned only the first volume of this book, issued in four volumes, and it is possible it never reached the Library of Congress. It is listed in the 1815 catalogue, but not checked as present, and Du Halde's name does not appear in the index. The entry was dropped from subsequent catalogues. The book is on an early manuscript list headed Congress Library Books missing.
Jean Baptiste Du Halde, 1674-1743, French geographer, member of the Society of Jesus. The first edition of this work, in French, was published in 1735.
Richard Brookes, fl. 1750, English physician, author and translator." "03120","169","","","","Historia de la conquista de la China por el Tartaro. por Palafox.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 74, as above.","Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de.","Historia de la Conqvista de la China por el Tartaro. Escrita por el Illustrissimo Señor, Don Juan de Palafox y Mendoça, siendo Obispo de la Puebla de los Angeles, y Virrey de la Nueva-España y a su muerte Obispo de Osma. En Paris: Acosta de Antonio Bertier, 1670.","DS754 .P15","
8vo. 199 leaves, engraved frontispiece.
Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, I, col. 257.
Listed on Jefferson's undated catalogue, with the price 1.10 (livres).
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, 1600-1659, a Spaniard, was bishop of Puebla de los Angeles in Mexico where he antagonized the Jesuits by his efforts to protect the natives from Spanish cruelty. After his death Charles II petitioned for his canonization but was defeated by the Jesuits." "03130","170","","","","Kaempfer's history of Japan. Eng. by Scheuchzer.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 172, as above.","Kaempfer, Engelbert.","The History of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and present State and Government of that Empire; of its Temples, Palaces, Castles and other buildings; of its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes; of the Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular . . . Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam. Written in High-Dutch by Engelbertus Kaempfer, M.D. Physician to the Dutch Embassy to the Emperor's Court; and translated from his Original Manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer . . . With the Life of the Author, and an Introduction. Illustrated with many Copper Plates. Volume I [II]. London: Printed for the Translator, 1727.","DS808 .K127","
First Edition. 2 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 230 leaves; vol. II, 156 leaves; titles of both volumes printed in black and red, engraved title in vol. I enclosed in a border with symbolical designs in compartments; full and doublepage engraved illustrations by Van der Gucht, engraved folded maps and plans; subscribers' names on the last 2 unsigned leaves in vol. I.
Lowndes III, page 1252. Cordier, Bibliotheca Japonica, col. 413, 414. Pagès, Bibliographie Japonaise, no. 390.
Engelbert Kaempfer, 1651-1715, a native of Westphalia, originally wrote this book in the Dutch language. The manuscript was bought by Sir Hans Sloane, who caused it to be translated into English. The first edition in Dutch was published in 1777-8.
Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, English physician, president of the Royal Society. The imprimatur for this book is signed by him, April 27, 1727.
Johann Gaspar Scheuchzer, Swiss physician, the translator." "03140","171","","","","The revolt of Ali Bey. by S. L. Kosmopolitos.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 139, as above.","L[usignan], S[auveur].","A History of the Revolt of Ali Bey, against the Ottoman Porte, including an Account of the Form of Government of Egypt . . . To which are added, A short Account of the present State of the Christians who are Subjects to the Turkish Government, and the Journal of a Gentleman who travelled from Aleppo to Bassora. By S. L. Koσμoπoλ[???]της. London: Printed and sold for the Author, by James Phillips [and others], 1783.","DT98 .5.L8","
First Edition. 8vo. 137 leaves including the leaf of errata; on a[???] verso the author's advertisement: The Greek Language, both Ancient and Modern, Taught by the Author . . .
Halkett and Laing III, 89. Cushing, page 310. Ibrahim-Hilmy, The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan, I, page 396. Lorin, Bibliographie Géographique de l'Egypte, II, 2657.
Entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue (the name Cosmopolitos so written, not Kosmopolitos as above), with the price 4.15.
Sauveur Lusignan, born c. 1736 is described by Cushing as an English writer. According to his own account he went to live in the East at the age of ten, and in 1771 he was presented to Ali Bey in whose service he remained until the defeat of the latter.
The Journal of a Gentleman was begun on November 2 and finished on December 2, 1780, and not 1768 as stated by Ibrahim-Hilmy." "03150","172","","","","Histoire d'Algiers par Laugier de Tassey.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 84, as above, with the reading Algers.","Laugier de Tassy, N.","Histoire du Royaume d'Alger, avec l'Etat présent de son Gouvernement et ses Forces de Terre & de Mer, de ses Revenus, Police, Justice Politique & Commerce. Par Mr. Laugier de Tassy, commissaire de la Marine, pour sa Majesté Très-Chretienne, en Hollande. A Amsterdam: chez Henri du Sauzet, 1725.","","
First Edition. 12mo. 198 leaves, engraved vignette on the title, 2 folded maps, title printed in red and black.
Quérard IV, page 614. Gay 917. Rouard de Card, 19.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 3.0.
N. Laugier de Tassy, fl. 1725, was for a time attached to the French consulate at Algiers, and later held an appointment in Holland. Gay cites an edition, Amsterdam 1724, apparently in error." "03160","173","","","","Histoire des etats barbaresques traduite de l'Anglois.","","2. v. 12mo.","1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 78, as above.","[Laugier de Tassy, N.—Boyer de la Prébandier, Pierre.]","Histoire des Etats Barbaresques qui exercent la Piraterie, contenant l'origine, les Révolutions, & l'Etat présent des Royaumes d'Alger, de Tunis, de Tripoli & de Maroc, avec leurs forces, leurs revenus, leur politique, & leur commerce. Par un Auteur qui y a résidé plusieurs années avec caractere public. Traduite de l'Anglois. [By Boyer de la Prébandier.] Tome Premier [-Second]. A Paris: chez Chaubert, Herissant, 1757.","","
First Edition of this translation. 2 vol. 12mo. 204 and 148 leaves.
Barbier II, 750. Quérard IV, page 613. Gay, no. 451. Rouard de Card, page 14.
Entered in Jefferson's undated catalogue with the price 5.0.
Pierre Boyer de la Prébandier, fl. 1750, French physician on the faculty of Montpellier. This is not another edition of the previous number, but is a re-translation into French from a translation of that work into English." "03170","174","","","","Etat de l'empire de Maroc en 1694. par Pidou de St. Olon.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 79, as above.","[Pidou de St. Olon, François.]","Estat Present de l'Empire de Maroc. A Paris: chez Michel Brunet, 1694.","","
First Edition. 12mo. 122 leaves, 6 engraved plates and 1 folded plan by F. Ertinger, printer's woodcut device on the title-page.
Barbier II, 301. Not in Quérard. Gay 1264. Rouard de Card, page 27.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 3.0 (livres).
The copy described is without the name of the author on the title-page; that described by Rouard de Card has the name of the author which also is given by Jefferson, as above, making it probable that there were two issues of the book.
François Pidou de St. Olon, 1640-1720, French diplomat, was for a time ambassador extraordinary to Morocco. The dedication of this book Au Roi is signed Pidou de S. Olon." "03180","175","","","","Revolutions de Maroc. par Brathwaite. tradñ.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 80, as above.","Braithwaite, John.","Histoire des Révolutions de l'Empire de Maroc, depuis la mort du dernier Empereur Muley Ismael . . . Traduite du Journal Anglois, écrit par le Capitaine Braithwaite, qui a accompagné Mr. Jean Russel, Ecuyer, Consul-Général de Sa Majesté Britannique en Barbarie; & qui a été témoin oculaire des plus remarquables événemens mentionnez dans cet Ouvrage. Et enrichie d'une Carte de cette partie de l'Afrique. A Amsterdam: chez Pierre Mortier, 1731.","","
First edition of this translation. 12mo. 252 leaves, the first and last blanks, folded engraved map, title-page printed in red and black.
Gay 1218. Rouard de Card, page 31.
Entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 3 (livres).
John Braithwaite, 1700?-1768? was in the service of the Royal African Company, to the Governors of which the first edition (London 1729) of this book was dedicated. The diary of the narrative extends from March 1727 to February 1728, and is followed by a Suplément, and Observations naturelles, Morales, & Politiques sur le Pays & les Habitans. The English edition was quickly translated into Dutch, German and French." "03190","176","","","","Memoire sur le royaume de Tunis. par de St. Gervais.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 81, as above.","Saint Gervais, de.","Memoires Historiques qui concernent le Gouvernement de l'ancien & du nouveau Royaume de Tunis. Avec des Reflexions sur la Conduite d'un Consul, & un détail du Commerce. Dédiés à Mr. le Comte de Maurepas, Commandeur des Ordres du Roi, Ministre & Secretaire d'Etat de la Marine. Par Monsieur de Saint Gervais . . . [Genève] A Paris: chez Ganeau, fils, Henry, 1736.","","
First Edition. 12mo. 178 leaves.
Quérard VIII, page 337. Gay 1383. Ashbee, Bibliography of Tunisia, page 57. Rouard de Card, page 22. de Saint Gervais, was at one time the French consul at Tunis." "03200","J. 177","","","","Ray's American Tars in Tripoli.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 82, as above.","Ray, William.","Horrors of Slavery: or, The American Tars in Tripoli. Containing an account of the loss and capture of the United States frigate Philadelphia; treatment and sufferings of the prisoners . . . public transactions of the United States with that Regency, including Gen. Eaton's Expedition . . . Written during upwards of nineteen months' imprisonment and vassalage among the Turks. By William Ray . . . Troy: Printed by Oliver Lyon, for the Author, 1808.","HT1345 .R3","
First Edition. 12mo. 150 leaves: A-Z6 (in a 24 letter alphabet), Aa6, the last a blank: Z3 is a blank with the sig. Z2 faintly printed; Z4 has the title for: Poetry, published in The Albany Register, during the summer of 1807. By William Ray. The copyright slip is pasted on the back of the first title-page; woodcut at the head of the Exordium, and on the first page of Poetry; several leaves foxed and one leaf damaged by damp.
Sabin 68034.
Original sheep with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T, a minor correction in ink.
Jefferson's copy was originally a presentation from the author. On March 24, 1809, immediately after his retirement from office, Jefferson wrote to the President, James Madison:
I inclose you several letters which must have been intended for the office, & not the person named on the back . . . Among these letters is one from Ray author of the War of Tripoli. he sent me one of his books, & in answering him with thanks I used the complimentary phrase he quotes. he lays hold of it to beg 100.D. of which I shall not be the dupe. I inclose it to you, as I think he has too much genius for the low station in which he was in the navy . . .
The book, which for the most part is in the form of a diary, in prose interspersed with verse, contains references to the negotiations of Jefferson, as President of the United States, with the Bashaw of Tripoli, and quotes in full the letter, dated May 21 [1801], in which he suggests to the Bey that the apparent truculence of his letter of the 25th of May last, was rather that in rendering into another language those expressions . . . which seem to imply purposes inconsistent with the faith of that transaction, your intentions have been misconstrued . . .
An original manuscript draft of this letter by Jefferson is in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress.
The first poem in the Poetry at the end, dated Amsterdam, July 4, 1807, is entitled: Independence. Tune—''Anacreon in Heaven'' [The Star-Spangled Banner], of which the second stanza reads:
While Jefferson o'er us sublimely sits head,
No treason the league-union'd states can dissever;
Of freedom the guardian—of tyrants the dread,
His name will grow dearer and dearer forever;
When worlds cannot save—
Green garlands shall wave,
And Liberty blossom o'er Jefferson's grave,
To prove nature's equal eternal decree—
Heav'n ne'er form'd us slaves—man was born to live free.
The rhymed Exordium has a tribute to Jefferson in 17 lines beginning:
Amongst our worthies, count as one,
The great, the peerless Jefferson.
This was one of the missing books at the time of the sale to Congress in 1815. On March 28, 1815, Jefferson sent a report to Milligan of the missing books, including Ray's American tars in Tripoli. 12mo. printed in the U S., with a request that he try to get copies and bring them in.
On December 7, 1815 George Watterston wrote to Jefferson:
. . . I find, on reexamining the book [i. e. the catalogue] that there are two works which have not been received viz—''Rays American Tars in Tripoli & Morris' Accounts''. These are the only deficiencies I know of . . .
This letter was endorsed by Jefferson:
Morris. C. 24. 439.
Ray's Tripoli. C. 2. 82. marked---
On March 2, 1816, Jefferson wrote to Watterston:
. . . I remember that Ray's Tripoli C. 2. 82. was missing . . .
In the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue the book is not checked as present. It is included in a later manuscript list headed Congress Library Books Missing, and it is not known when it was delivered to the Library. William Ray, 1771-1827, one of the Algerine captives, gives his full biography in the Exordium. Of Litchfield County's mud and clay /was form'd the flesh of William Ray/ and Salisbury the very place. He went to sea in 1802, and in 1803 joined the U. S. frigate Philadelphia. The ship ran aground off Tripoli, and the officers and crew were made prisoners, being treated with great cruelty until June 3, 1805, when articles of peace were signed and the men returned home. His verses won for Ray the honor of laureate for the next Fourth of July." "03210","178","","","","Etat de Tripoly, Tunis et Algers.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 83, as above.","[La Faye, Jean Baptiste de.]","Etat des royaumes de Barbare, Tripoly, Tunis et Alger, contenant l'histoire naturelle et politique de ce pays; la manière dont les Turcs y traitent les esclaves, etc.; avec la tradition de l'Eglise pour le rachat et le soulagement des captifs. Rouen: G. Behourt, 1703.","","
First Edition. 12mo. No copy of this book was located for collation.
Barbier III, 297. Quérard IV, page 390. Gay, page 41. Not in Rouard de Card.
On Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue this book is entered with the price 3 [livres].
Jean Baptiste de La Faye, fl. 1703, French author, was a mathurin friar." "03220","179","","","","Voiage dans les etats barbaresques.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 15. no. 85, as above.","","Voyage dans les États Barbaresques de Maroc, Alger, Tunis et Tripoly; ou Lettres d'un des Captifs qui viennent d'être rachetés par MM. les Chanoines réguliers de la Sainte-Trinité; suivies d'une Notice sur leur rachat, & du Catalogue de leurs noms . . . A Paris: chez Guillot, 1785.","","
First Edition. 12mo. 102 leaves; on 4 leaves at the end, with separate pagination, is a Liste des trois cents treize Esclaves François rachetés à Alger en 1785 . . .
Playfair, Bibliography of the Barbary States, 117. Not in Barbier. Rouard de Card, page 15." "03230","180","","","","Ludolphus's history of Ethiopia.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 173, as above.","Ludolf, Hiob.","A new history of Ethiopia. Being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia. Vulgarly, though erroneously, called the Empire of Prester John. In four books . . . illustrated with copper plates. By the learned Job Ludolphus . . . The second edition. To which is added, A new and exact map of the country: as also, a preface . . . with the life of Gregorius Abba; and the author's opinion of some other writers concerning Ethiopia. Translated out of his learned manuscript Commentary on this history. Made English by J. P., gent. London: Printed for Samuel Smith, bookseller, 1684.","","
Folio. No copy was seen for collation.
STC L3469.
It is possible this book was not delivered to Congress. It is not checked as having been received in the working copy of the 1815 catalogue, and is on the manuscript list of books missing from the Congressional Library.
Hiob Ludolf, 1624-1704, German orientalist. The first edition of this work, written in Latin, was published in Frankfort in 1681." "03240","181","","","","Rycaut's history of Turkey.","","8vo","Not in the 1815 Catalogue.","Rycaut, Sir Paul.","The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire . . . In three Books. By Sir Paul Ricaut, &c. London: Printed for I. Cleave, A. Roper, R. Basset, and A. Bosvile, 1701.","","
This book is in Jefferson's dated manuscript catalogue as above. The author's name appears in the Index to the Library of Congress 1815 catalogue, but the book is not entered in the body of the work.
Sir Paul Rycaut or Ricaut, 1628-1700, English traveller and author. This work was originally published in folio in 1668. The octavo edition is an abridgment, and is attached to Savage's History of the Turks, 2 vol. 8vo. 1701." "03250","1","","","","Domesday book.","","2. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. B., as above.","","Domesday-Book, seu liber censualis Willelmi Primi regis Angliæ, inter Archivos Regni in Domo Capitulari Westmonasterii asservatus: jubente rege augustissimo Georgio Tertio prælo mandatus typis. Vol. I [-II]. [London: Joseph Jackson] 1783.","DA190.D4","
First Edition. 2 vol. Folio. 384 and 240 leaves.
Lowndes II, page 659. Nichols, Anecdotes of William Bowyer, page 318. Johnson, Typographia, 248.
The Domesday Book, the record of the survey of England made for William the Conqueror, was finished in 1086.
This is the first printed edition of the whole of Domesday, and took ten years to print. A volume of Indexes was added in 1811, and a supplementary volume in 1816.
The date of Jefferson's copy is omitted from all the Library of Congress catalogues; this however is the only possible edition." "03260","2","","","","Cambden's Britannia. Lat.","","4to. 2. copies.","1815 Catalogue. page 18. no. 22, Cambden's Britannia, Lat. p 4to.","Camden, William.","Britannia sive Florentissimorvm Regnorvm, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et Insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate Chorographica descriptio. Authore Gvilielmo Camdeno. Nunc postremo recognita, & magna accessione post Germanicam editionem adaucta. Londini: [Eliot's Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600.","","
Fifth Edition. 4to. in eights. 452 leaves; engraved title with the Map of England by William Rogers. This edition has a postscript, separately paged, in answer to Ralph Brooke's Discovery of certain errors . . .
STC 4507. Lowndes I, page 357. Hazlitt II, page 78. Johnson, A Catalogue of Engraved . . . English Title-Pages, page 52, no. 4.
Jefferson's manuscript catalogue calls for 2 copies; only one was sold to Congress in 1815.
William Camden, 1551-1623, English antiquary and historian. The first edition of Britannia was published in 1586, and Ralph Brooke's attack on Camden, answered in this edition of 1600, was founded on the fourth edition, 1594." "03270","3","","","","id. Eng. by Gibson.","","2. v. fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 76, Cambden's Britannia, Eng. by Gibson, 2 v fol.","Camden, William.","Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent Islands. Written in Latin by William Camden, Clarenceux, King at Arms: and Translated into English, with Additions and Improvements. Revised, Digested, and Published, with large Additions, by Edmund Gibson, D.D. Late Lord Bishop of London. The Third Edition. Illustrated with Maps of all the Counties, and Prints of the British, Roman, and Saxon Coins. Vol. I [II]. London: Printed for R. Ware, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman [and others], 1753.","DA610.C17","
2 vol. Folio. vol. I, 275 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of William Camden by R. White; vol. II, 297 leaves; titles printed in red and black, numerous engraved double-page maps, plates of coins, etc., woodcut illustrations and ornaments, text in double columns. Sigs. N to P in vol. I contain a list of Books and Treatises relating to the Antiquities of England.
Lowndes I, page 357.
Edmund Gibson, 1669-1748, bishop of London, was for a time librarian at Lambeth. His first edition of Camden's Britannia was published in 1695." "03280","4","","","","Horsley's Britannia.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 77, as above.","Horsley, John.","Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain: in Three Books. The I. Contains the History of all the Roman Transactions in Britain . . . II. Contains a compleat Collection of the Roman Inscriptions and Sculptures . . . III. Contains the Roman Geography of Britain . . . To which are added, A Chronological Table, and Indexes to the Inscriptions and Sculptures after the manner of Gruter and Reinesius. Also Geographical Indexes both of the Latin and English names of the Roman places in Britain, and a General Index to the work. The whole illustrated with above an hundred Copper Plates. By John Horsley M. A. and F. R. S. London: Printed for John Osborn and Thomas Longman, 1732.","DA145.H81","
First Edition. Folio. 302 leaves, engraved headpiece by Vander Gucht, 105 copperplate engravings of maps, inscriptions, etc.
Lowndes II, page 1122.
John Horsley, 1685-1732, English archaeologist. The dedication of this work to Sir Richard Ellys is dated from Morpeth, Jan. 2, 1731/2; the author died on January 12, 1731/32, the day before the publication of the book." "03290","5","","","","Monumenta Anglicana.","","4. v. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 23, as above.","Le Neve, John.","Monumenta Anglicana: being Inscriptions on the Monuments of several eminent persons deceased in or since the Year 1650, to the end of the Year 1679 [the years 1680 to the end of 1699; 1700 to the end of 1715; 1650 to the end of 1718]. Deduced into a Series of Time by way of Annals. By John Le Neve, Gent. London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for the Editor, [vol. III and IV sold by Henry Clements] 1718, 17, 19.","CB411L5","
First Edition. Together 4 vol. 8vo. in fours. [I] 114 leaves; [II] 114 leaves; [III] 172 leaves; [IV] 154 leaves; the titles of vol. [III] and [IV] vary from those of vol. [I] and [II].
Lowndes III, page 1341.
John Le Neve, 1679-1741, English antiquary. The subscribers' names in the first part of this work include Narcissus Luttrell and Sir Isaac Newton; in the third part, Thomas Baker, D.D. of St. John's College in Cambridge, and White Kennet, D.D. Dean of Peterborough. Another volume was issued covering the period from 1600 to 1649." "03300","6","","","","Verstegan's antiquities.","","8vo. do. p. 4to.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 24, Verstegan's Antiquities, 8vo.","Verstegen, Richard [i. e. Richard Rowlands].","A Restitvtion of decayed intelligencies in antiquities, concerning the most noble and renowned English nation. By the studie and trauell of R. V. Dedicated vnto the Kings most excellent Maiestie. London: Printed by Iohn Bill, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1628.","DA152.V4","
4to. 187 leaves, engraving of the Tower of Babel lettered Nationum Origo on the title-page, engravings in the text, colophon on the last page, title printed in red and black.
Lowndes V, 2764. Hazlitt I, 438. STC 21362.
Jefferson's entry calls for two copies as above. The 1815 catalogue calls for an edition in 8vo; the later Library catalogues attribute to the Jefferson collection the edition in 4to here described.
Richard Rowlands, fl. 1565-1620, English antiquary, was the grandson of Theodore Roland Verstegen, whose family emigrated to England from the Gelderland about 1500. Richard Rowlands was brought up in England, but eventually moved to Antwerp where he changed his name to the paternal Verstegan. The first edition of this book was printed in Amsterdam in 1605. The edition of 1628 is the first one printed in England." "03310","7","","","","Antiquitates Albionensium Langhorne.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 17. no. 25, as above.","Langhorne, Daniel.","Elenchus Antiquitatum Albionensium Britannorum, Scotorum, Danorum, Anglosaxonum, &c. Origines & Gesta usque ad annum 449 quo Angli in Britanniam immigrârunt explicans. Unà cum brevi Regum Picticorum Chronico. Per Danielem Langhornium, S.T.B. London: B[ennet?] G[riffin?] for Ben. Tooke, 1673.","DA135.L279","
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 185 leaves.
Lowndes II, page 1308. Not in Hazlitt. STC L393.
Daniel Langhorne, d. 1681, English antiquary, was the author of several works on early English history of which this was the first." "03320","8","","","","Sheringham de Anglorum gentis origine.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 26, as above.","Sheringham, Robert.","De Anglorum Gentis Origine Disceptatio . . . Quâ etiam de Veterum Britannorum Origine aliquoties disceptatur. In Annotationibus Difficilia explicantur, & è re nata varia dubia Philologica discutiuntur. Authore Roberto Sheringhamo Cantabrigiensi, Collegii Gonvilii & Caii Socio. Cantabrigiae: Excudebat Joann. Hayes, Impensis Edvardi Story, 1670.","DA155.S552","
First Edition. 8vo. 272 leaves, errata on the last leaf.
Lowndes IV, page 2380. Hazlitt IV, page 356. A List of Books Printed in Cambridge at the University Press, 1521-1800, page 25. S. C. Roberts, A History of the Cambridge University Press 1521-1921, page 171.
Robert Sheringham, 1602-1678, English royalist divine, was one of the Fellows ejected from Cambridge University. 332" "03330","9","","","","Macpherson's introdñ to the hist. of Gr. Brit. & Ireland.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 64, Macpherson's introduction to the history of Gr. Britain and Ireland 4to.","Macpherson, James.","An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland. By James Macpherson; Esq. London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1771.","DA135.M172","
First Edition, 4to. 155 leaves, publishers' advertisement on the last page.
Lowndes III, page 1446.
James Macpherson, 1736-1796, a native of Invernessshire, chiefly known as the self-alleged translator of the Ossianic poems, travelled in the American colonies and was for a time secretary to Governor Johnstone at Pensacola, West Florida. An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, written for his private amusement, aroused opposition; a confutation of its statements was written by John Whitaker and published in the following year. [See the next entry.]" "03340","10","","","","Whitaker's refutation of Macpherson's introduction.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 27, as above.","Whitaker, John.","The Genuine History of the Britons asserted. In a Full and Candid Refutation of Mr. Macpherson's Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland. By the Rev. Mr. Whitaker, author of the History of Manchester. [London:] Sold by Dodsley, Payne, Baker and Leigh, Cadell, White, Lowndes, Davis, [and others] 1772.","","
First Edition. 8vo. 156 leaves.
Lowndes V, page 2895.
John Whitaker, 1735-1808, English historian." "03350","11","","","","Gildas. Eng.","","16s","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 1, Gildas. Eng. 16.","Gildas.","A Description of the State of Great Brittain, Written Eleven Hundred Yeares since. By that ancient and famous Author Gildas, sir-named the Wise, and for the excellency of the Work translated into English . . . With his sharpe and Christian Reproof to the Kings and Priests of those Times. London: Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock, 1652.","","
12mo. 231 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of
Gildas, by Will. Marshall.
Lowndes II, 892. Hazlitt II, 250. STC G727.
Gildas, c. 516-c. 570, historian of Britain, whose work is one of the source books of British history.
Thomas Habington, 1560-1647, made this translation, first printed in 1638, whilst undergoing imprisonment in the Tower." "03360","12","","","","Eadmerus Seldeni.","","fol.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 78, as above.","Eadmer.","Eadmeri Monachi Cantvariensis Historiæ novorvm siue Sui Sæculi Libri VI Res gestas (quibus ipse non modò spectator diligens sed comes etiam & actor plerunq interfuit) sub Guilielmis I & II & Henrico I Angliæ Regibus, ab anno nempè salutis MLXVI ad MCXXII potissimum complexi. In lucem ex Bibliotheca Cottoniana emisit Ioannes Seldenvs, & Notas porrò adjecit & spicilegium . . . Londini: Typis & Impensis Guilielmi Stanesbeij, ex officinis Richardi Meighen & Thomas Dew, 1623.","DA190.E12","
First Edition. Folio. 120 leaves, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations of seals, title printed in red and black.
Lowndes 11, page 707. Hazlitt IV, page 35. STC 7438.
Ordered by Jefferson on September 9, 1789, in a letter to Lackington, no. 8809 in his last catalogue price 5/6. Listed without price on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue.
Eadmer, d. 1124?, monk of Canterbury and English historian.
John Selden, 1584-1654, English jurist, edited Eadmer's work from a manuscript in the Cotton Library. The dedication to the Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Keeper, is dated V. Id. April, 1623." "03370","13","","","","Anonymi brevis relatio de Willielmo Normannorum comite. [in Taylor's Gavelkind]","","","1815 Catalogue, page 17. unnumbered, as above.","Taylor, Silas.","[Brevis Relatio de Willelmo, Nobilissimo Comite Normannorum, Quis fuit & unde Originem duxit, &c. Ab Authore Anonymo, Temp. Hen. Primi. Londini: Typis Guil. Wilson pro Johanne Starkey, 1663.] in The History of Gavel-Kind; with the Etymology thereof . . . London: for John Starkey, 1663.","","See chapter 18. The Brevis Relatio occupies the last four sheets of the History of Gavel-Kind, with title on Bb1." "03380","14","","","","Rerum Britannicarum scriptores vetustiores et praecipui. Heidelb.","","1587. fol. [TBE]viz. Galfridus Monumetensis. Ponticus Virunnius. Gildas. Beda. Gulielmus Neubricensis. Ioannes Frossardus.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 79, as above.","","Rervm britannicarvm, id est Angliæ, Scotiæ, vicinarvmqve insvlarvm ac regionvm: scriptores vetvstiores ac præcipvi. Galfredi Monvmetensis, cognomento: Arturi de origine & gestis Regum Britanniæ libri XII. Pontici Virvnnii Britannicæ historiæ libri VI . . . Gildæ Sapientis, de excidio & conquestu Britanniæ epistola. Bedæ anglosaxonis Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ gentis Anglorum libri V . . . Gvlielmvs Nevbricensis de rebus Anglicis libri V. Ioannis Frossardi Historiarum Epitome . . . Heidelbergæ: [apud Hieronymum Commelinvm,] 1587.","DA130.A2R4","
First Edition. Folio, 297 leaves; printer's woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut initials.
Burnet IV, page 69. Graesse VI, page 333. Gross 577.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 19.19.
Hieronymus Commelinus, c. 1550-1597, printer, a native of Douay, was the editor of this work, the first printed collection of English chroniclers." "03390","15","","","","Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui. edited by Henry Savile.","","fol. London. 1596. [TBE]viz. Gulielmus Malmesburiensis. Henricus Huntindoniensis. Rogerus Hovedenus. Chronicon Ethelwerdi. Ingulphus.[/TBE]","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 80, Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam praecipui, by Savile, fol Lond. 1596, sc. Gulielmus Malmsburiensis, Henricus Huntindoniensis, Rogerus Hovedenus, Chronicon Ethelwerdi, Ingulphus","[Savile, Sir Henry, Editor.]","Rervm Anglicarvm Scriptores Post Bedam Præcipvi, ex Vetvstissimis Codicibvs Manvscriptis Nvnc Primvm in Lvcem Editi . . . Londini: Excudebant G. Bishop, R. Nvberie, & R. Barker Typographi Regij Deputati. Anno ab incarnatione, cI[???] Ic xcvI. [1596.]","DA170 S26 1596","
First Edition. Folio. 522 leaves followed by 30 leaves of table, printer's woodcut device on the title, separate titles for each part within woodcut borders, woodcut initials.
Lowndes IV, 2195. Hazlitt II, 200. STC 21783.
Contains the chronicles of William of Malmesbury,
Henry of Huntington, Roger of Hoveden, Ethelwerd and Ingulph, the last named with the addition of the forged passage which makes Ingulph a student of Oxford in the twelfth century.
Sir Henry Savile, 1549-1622, provost of Eton and one of the most learned scholars of his day." "03400","16","","","","Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, Cambrica, a veteribus scripta ex bibliotheca G. Cambdeni.","","fol. Frankf. 1603. [TBE]viz. Asserius Menevensis. Anonymus de vita Gulielmi primi. Thomas Walsingham. Thomas de la More. Gulielmus Gemeticensis. Giraldius Cambrensis.[/TBE]","1815 Catalogue, page 17. no. 81, as above, with variations in spelling.","Camden, William.","Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, Cambrica, a Veteribvs scripta: ex quibus Asser Meneuensis, Anonymus de vita Gulielmi Conquestoris, Thomas VValsingham, Thomas de la More, Gulielmus Gemiticensis, Giraldus Cambrensis: Plerique nunc primum in lucem editi, ex Bibliotheca Gvilielmi Camdeni. Cvm Indice, tvm verborvm, tvm rervm in Opere hoc toto cum primis memorabilium locupletissimo. Francofvrti: Impensis Claudii Marnii, & haeredum Iohannis Aubrii, 1603.","","
Folio. 471 leaves; printer's woodcut device on the title-page.
Lowndes I, page 358. Not in Hazlitt. Not in STC.
The edition of 1603, collated above, is called for by Jefferson's manuscript catalogue, and by the Library of Congress catalogue of 1815. The later Library catalogues assign to Jefferson the earlier edition printed in Frankfort in 1602.
William Camden, 1551-1623, English antiquary and historian. This edition of the chronicles of the early English historians, first published in 1602, and dedicated to Sir Fulke Greville, grew out of the preparatory labors for his Britannia. The chronicle of Asser contains the interpolated passage regarding the foundation of Oxford University by Alfred the Great." "03410","17","","","","Historiae Anglo-Saxoniae scriptores decem. by Twisden, Selden, Usher & Somner.","","2. v. fol. Lond. 1652. [TBE]viz. Simeon Dunelmensis. Joannes Hagulstadensis. Richardus Hagulstadensis. Aluredus Rievallensis. Radulphus de Diceto. Joannes Bromptonus. Gervasius Dorobornensis. Thomas Stubbs. Gulielmus Thorne. Henricus Knighton.[/TBE]","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 82, as above, with reading X. for decem.","[Twysden, Sir Roger.]","Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores X, Simeon Monachus Dunelmensis. Johannes Prior Hagustaldensis. Ricardus Prior Hagustaldensis. Ailredus Abbas Rievallensis. Radulphus de Diceto Londoniensis. Johannes Brompton Jornallensis. Gervasius Monachus Dorobornensis. Thomas Stubbs Dominicanus. Guilielmus Thorn Cantuariensis. Henricus Knighton Leicestrensis. Ex Vetustis Manuscriptis, nunc primùm in lucem editi. Adjectis Variis Lectionibus, Glossario, Indicéque copioso. Londini: Typis Jacobi Flesher, sumptibus Cornelii Bee, 1652.","DA170.T97","
First Edition. Folio. 827 leaves, title printed in red and black, small engravings, text in double columns, half-titles before each part, continuous columnation.
Lowndes V, page 2731. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, I, page 843. Not in Hazlitt. Gross 599.
STC H2094.
Jefferson's copy was bound for him in 2 volumes. Entered on his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 40-19.
Sir Roger Twysden, 1597-1672, English antiquary." "","18","","","","Temple's introduction to the history of England.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 20. [Temple's Introduction to the history of England, in his works, No. 95]","","","","A separate edition in 8vo. is entered in Jefferson's undated catalogue, price 1/-. No separate edition was sold to Congress; in the 1815 catalogue the entry is as above." "03420","19","","","","Ld. Lyttleton's hist. of Henry II.","","4. v. 8vo.—1154.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 28, Lord Lyttleton's History of Henry II, 1154, 4 v 8vo.","Lyttelton, George, Baron Lyttelton.","The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which he lived, in Five Books: to which is Prefixed, a History of the Revolutions of England from the Death of Edward the Confessor to the Birth of Henry the Second: By George Lord Lyttelton. The Third Edition. Vol. I [-IV only]. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1769.","","
4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 248 leaves; vol. II, 261 leaves; vol. III, 250 leaves; vol. IV, 290 leaves; engraved arms of Lord Lyttelton on the title-pages.
This edition not in Lowndes. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, II, 321.
George Lyttelton, first Baron Lyttelton, 1709-1773, English scholar, statesman and author, is mentioned in the works of several contemporary authors, and caricatured as Gosling Scragg by Smollett in Peregrine Pickle. The first edition of this book was published in 4 vol. quarto in 1767. Two more volumes of the octavo edition were issued subsequently in 1772 and 1773 respectively." "03430","20","","","","Matthew Paris. Lat. fol. by Watts [William I. 1067-H. III. 1273]","","","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 84, as above, with reading W. I. for William I.","Paris, Matthew.","Matthaei Paris Monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia Major. Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa . . . Editore Willielmo Wats . . . -Vitæ Dvorvm Offarvm sive Offanorum, Merciorvm Regvm . . . per Mathæum Parisiensem. Londini: Excudebat Richardus Hodgkinson [part II. Milo Flesher], prostant apud Cornelium Bee & Laurentium Sadler, 1640, 1639.","","
2 parts in 1. Folio. 583 and 168 leaves, engraved frontispiece by T. Cecill.
STC 19210. Hazlitt III, suppl. 66.
Matthew Paris, d. 1259, English historian and monk. The Historia Major contains the St. Albans Chronicle to 1188, Roger de Wendover's chronicle, 1189-1235, both revised by Matthew Paris, whose own chronicle begins at 1235. The first edition was printed in 1571. This is the first edition edited by William Watts, 1590?-1649, chaplain to Prince Rupert." "03440","21","","","","Matthaei Westmonasteriensis flores historiarum.","","fol. 1-1307.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 85, as above.","Matthew Of Westminster.","Flores Historiarvm per Matthæum Westmonasteriensem collecti, præcipuè de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi vsque ad Annum Domini, 1307. Londini: ex officina Thomæ Marshij [secundo die Iunij], Anno Domini, 1570.","DA220.M438","
Folio. 2 parts in 1, each with 234 leaves, the last a blank; title within a woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials; the colophon gives the exact date of printing; Liber Secundus begins on Aaa, with separate pagination.
Lowndes III, page 1517. Hazlitt IV, page 166. STC 1765a. Gross 1774.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 12.0.
Matthew of Westminster is a fictitious name, derived from Matthew of Paris, whose chronicle was the basis of this work, and Westminster Abbey, where his manuscript was at one time kept.
Matthew Parker, 1504-1575, archbishop of Canterbury, was the editor of the Flores Historiarum, of which the first edition was published in 1567. The second edition, with additions from other manuscripts, was published by Thomas Marsh in 1567, in 2 issues, both dated June 2, but with different titles, the other reading: Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis de rebus britannicis . . ." "03450","22","","","","Brady's hist. of England.","","2. v. fol. 59 A. C.-1216.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 83, Brady's history of England, 59 A C-1216, 2 v fol.","Brady, Robert.","A complete History of England, from the First Entrance of the Romans under the Conduct of Julius Caesar, unto the End of the Reign of King Henry III . . . [-A Continuation of the Complete History of England: containing the Lives and Reigns of Edward I. II. & III. and Richard the Second.] By Robert Brady, Doctor in Physic. [London] In the Savoy: vol. I. printed by Tho. Newcomb for Samuel Lowndes, 1685, vol. II. by Edward Jones for Sam. Lowndes, and Awnsham and John Churchil, 1700.","DA130.B81 and DA130.B82","
Together 2 vol. First Editions. Folio. vol. I, 541 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of James II by R. White after Saml. Lowndes; vol. II, 313 leaves, engraved frontispiece with the title and portraits of four kings in oval compartments by R. W[hite]; the text is followed by the Appendix with separate pagination.
Lowndes I, 253. Hazlitt III, page 23 (no collation).
Arber II, page 144 and III, page 70. STC B4187.
Robert Brady, d. 1700, English historian and physician. The tory and monarchical tendencies of his history were approved by Hume (q. v.) but provoked Sir James Tyrrell to write a whig history in opposition; see the following entry." "03460","23","","","","Tyrrel's hist. of England.","","5. v. fol. 1399.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 87, Tyrrel's history of England,—1399, 5 v fol.","Tyrrell, James.","The General History of England, both Ecclesiastical and Civil; from the earliest accounts of Time, to the Reign of his present Majesty, King William III. Taken from the most ancient records, manuscripts, and printed historians . . . Vol I [-III]. London: [vol. I. and II.] Printed, and are to be sold by W. Rogers, R. Knaplock, A. Bell, and T. Cockerill, 1700 [vol. III. i.] for W. Rogers, J. Taylor, J. Nicholson and A. Bell, [ii] for W. Rogers, J. Taylor, J. Sprint and A. Bell, 1704.","DA30.T992","
3 vol. in 5. Folio. vol. I, 356 leaves, 4 folded printed tables, engraved frontispiece by M. Burghers; vol. II, 608 leaves; vol. III, 667 leaves; the titles vary according to the period covered.
Lowndes V, page 2734. Hazlitt IV, page 390.
James Tyrrell, 1642-1718, English historical writer, shared the political views of his friend John Locke, and wrote the General History of England to confute the monarchical opinions of Robert Brady (see the previous number). The first volume was originally issued in 1696, and reissued in 1700 with a new title-page. The other volumes in Jefferson's copy were of the first edition. Tyrrell's intention, as stated on the first title, had been to bring the history to the reign of William III, but he died before completing the work which ends with the reign of Richard II." "03470","24","","","","History of Edw. II by E. F. written in 1627.","","fol. 1284-1307.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 86, as above.","[Cary, Sir Henry, Viscount Falkland.]","The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II. King of England, and Lord of Ireland. With the Rise and Fall of his great Favourites, Gaveston and the Spencers. Written by E. F. in the year 1627. and Printed verbatim from the Original . . . London: Printed by J. C. for Charles Harper, Samuel Crouch and Thomas Fox, 1680.","","
First Edition. Folio. 82 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black.
Halkett and Laing III, page 85 (attributed to Edward Farrant). Hazlitt III, page 77. STC F313.
Sir Henry Cary, Viscount Falkland, d. 1633, lord deputy of Ireland, states in his Preface, dated 20 Feb. 1627, and signed E. F., that he spent one month in writing this book." "03480","25","","","","Polydori Virgilii historia Angliae.","","8vo. 1060. A. C.-1538.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 29, as above.","Vergilius, Polydorus.","Historiæ Anglicæ xxvii. Autore Polydoro Virgilio . . . Ex nova editione Antonii Thysii, J. C. Lugduni Batavorum: J. Maire, 1651.","","
8vo. 490 leaves; the date at the end is 1649.
Hazlitt IV, page 393.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 4.0.
Polydore Vergil [Polydorus Vergilius], ?1470-1555, Italian historian who became a British subject by naturalization in 1510, was a close friend of King Henry VII at whose request this history was written. The first edition was printed in Basel in 1534, and dedicated to Henry VIII. The early editions brought the history to 1509, and further chapters, carrying the history to 1538, were later added.
Antonius Thysius [Antoine Thys], 1603-1665, Dutch scholar. In this, his first edition of this work, he overlooked the reign of Henry VIII while the book was passing through the press, and ultimately inserted it at the beginning of the book." "03490","26","","","","Habington's hist. of E. IV.","","fol. 1461-1483.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 88, Habingdon's History of Edward IV, 1461-1483 fol.","Habington, Thomas.","The Historie of Edvvard the Fovrth, king of England. By Wm. Habington Esquire. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, 1640.","DA258 .H2","
First Edition. Folio. 118 leaves, portrait in an escutcheon by Elstracke, printer's woodcut device on the title.
Lowndes I, page 966. Hazlitt I, page 196. STC 12586.
Thomas Habington, English antiquary. This work, published by his son William in 1640 at the command of Charles I to whom it was dedicated, was written during Habington's imprisonment in the Tower for complicity in the Babington plot. It is reprinted in Kennett's Complete History of England. see no. 377. See also Gildas, no. 335." "03500","27","","","","Moore's life of Richard III, 1483-1485.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 65, Moore's life of Richard III, 1483-1485, 4to.","Saint Thomas More.","[The history of king Richard the thirde (vnfinished) writen by Master Thomas More than one of the vndersheriffis of London: about the yeare of our Lorde. 1513 . . .] in The vvorkes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England, wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge. Printed at London at the costes and charges of Iohn Cawod, Iohn VValy, and Richarde Tottell. Anno. 1557.","PR2321.A1","
First Edition. Folio. Full collation as follows: ¶ ¶8, a-f, h-z, aa-zz, A-Z, AA-BB8, CC8+1, DD-YY8, ZZ[???]. The caption title for The history of King Richard the thirde as above is on cii recto, and the History extends to eiiii recto; black letter, double columns, title within a woodcut border, woodcut initials, colophon on the last page.
Lowndes III, page 1606. Hazlitt H. 401. STC 10876. Pforzheimer II, 743.
Jefferson's manuscript catalogue and the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue call for The history of King Richarde the thirde only. The later Library catalogues credit the Jefferson collection with the 1557 edition of the Workes as above.
Saint Thomas More, 1478-1535. As Sir Thomas More he was lord chancellor of England. The History of Richard the thirde was first printed in this collected edition of More's works, edited by Rastell, who states in the caption title quoted above that it was written in 1513. The work appears to be a translation from a Latin original, supposedly by another author." "03510","28","","","","Walpole's historic doubts of Richard III.","","4to. 1483-1485.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 66, as above.","Walpole, Horace.","Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third. By Mr. Horace Walpole . . . The Second Edition. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1768.","","
4to. 76 leaves, 2 engraved plates including the frontispiece by Grignion after Vertue.
Lowndes V, page 2821.
Entered on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 3/6 rel.
Horace (Horatio) Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797, English author and wit. The first edition of this work was published earlier in the same year." "03520","29","","","","Ld Bacon's hist. of Henry VII.","","fol. 1485-1509.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 89, as above, with the reading History.","Bacon, Sir Francis, Viscount St. Albans.","The Historie of the reigne of King Henry the Seventh. Written by the Right Hon: Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. Whereunto is now added a very usefull and necessary table. London: Printed by R[obert] Y[oung] and R[ichard] H[odgkinson] and are to be sold by R[ichard] Meighen, 1641.","","
Folio. 132 leaves, portrait frontispiece.
Lowndes I, page 95. STC B298. Pforzheimer, no. 33.
Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, 1561-1626,
Lord Chancellor of England. The first edition of this work, which is reprinted in Kennett's Complete History of England, was published in 1622." "03530","30","","","","Ld Herbert of Cherbury's hist. of Henry VIII.","","fol. 1509-1546.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 90, as above, with the reading History.","Herbert, Edward, Baron Herbert of Cherbury.","The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth. Written by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury. London: Printed by Mary Clark, for Ann Mearn, and are to be sold by Tho. Sawbridg, 1683.","DA332.H52","
Folio. 332 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of Henry VIII by W. F[aithorne].
Lowndes II, 1047. Hazlitt II, 277. STC H1507.
Edward Herbert, first Baron Herbert of Cherbury, 1583-1648. The first edition appeared in 1649. The book is reprinted in Kennett's Complete History of England, see no. 377." "03540","31","","","","Godwin, Bp of Hereford's annals of H. VIII. E. VI. & Mary.","","fol. 1507-1558.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 91, Godwin, Bishop of Hereford's Annals of H. VIII, E. VI, and Mary, 1509-1558, fol.","Godwin, Francis.","Annales of England. Containing the Reignes of Henry the Eighth. Edward the Sixt. Queene Mary. Written in Latin by . . . Francis Lord Bishop of Hereford. Thus Englished, corrected and inlarged with the Author's consent, by Morgan Godwyn . . . London: Printed by A. Islip, and W. Stansby, 1630.","","
Folio. First Edition of this translation. 178 leaves, woodcut borders, initials and headpieces, engraved portraits on the letter press by T. Cecill of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Queen Mary.
Lowndes II, 905. Hazlitt I, 186. STC 11947.
Francis Godwin, 1562-1633, bishop successively of Llandaff and Hereford. This book was written by him in Latin and first published in 1616; the translation is by his son, Morgan Godwin." "03550","J. 32","","","","Strype's annals.","","2. v. fol. 1558-1580.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 92, as above.","Strype, John.","Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and other various Occurrences in the Church of England; during the first twelve years of Queen Elizabeth's Happy Reign [-Commencing at the Thirteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth's Reign: And ending at the Conclusion of the Year of our Lord, MDLXXX] . . . Compiled faithfully out of Papers of State, authentick records, publick registers, private letters, and other original manuscripts. Together with an Appendix or Repository, containing the most important of them. By John Strype, M. A. Vol. I [-II]. The Second Edition, with large additions both in the History and Appendix. London: Printed by, and for, Tho. Edlin, 1725.","BR756.S87","
2 vol. Folio. vol. I, 342 leaves; vol. II, 430 leaves; titles printed in red and black, that for vol. II differing from that of vol. I and the imprint reading Printed for Thomas Edlin; the first leaf of vol. II (in this copy placed in vol. I) is for the Recommendation of Mr. Strype's Abilities for writing an Ecclesiastical History, and of his New Work (being the Second Volume of his Annals of the Reformation . . .); the Appendix in each volume has separate pagination; vol. II contains at the beginning a Catalogue of Manuscripts and other Old Books, made Use of, or Cited in these Annals, As well as in the former Volume, and at the end A Catalogue of all the English Popish Books, writ against the Reformation of the Church of England; from Queen Elizabeth's first Entrance to the year 1580. With the names of such Learned Divines, as answered them; list of subscribers in vol. I.
This edition not in Lowndes. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature II, 872.
Old calf (vol. I rebacked and with new endpapers, by the Library of Congress in 1901); initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes.
John Strype, 1643-1737, English ecclesiastical historian and biographer. This is the second edition of the Annals, originally published in 1708-9. A third volume, with continuation to 1588 was published in 1728. The subscribers to this edition include His Excellency, William Burnet, Esq., Governor of New York, the Rev. Tho. Baker, B.D., of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Henry Bradshaw, Esq." "","33","","","","[Mallet's life of Ld. Bacon. in Bacon's works.] 1560-1626.","","","1815 Catalogue, page 19. Unnumbered, as above.","","","","
For the Works of Sir Francis Bacon, see chapter 44.
David Mallet, 1705?-1765, Scottish poet and miscellaneous writer." "03560","34","","","","Speed's history of England.","","fol. 1060. A. C.-1605.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 93, as above.","Speed, John.","The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Warres, Coines & Seales: with ye Successions, Lives, acts & Issues of the English Monarchs from Iulius Caesar, to our most gracious Soueraigne King Iames. by John Speed. Imprinted at London [by H. Hall and J. Beale]: and are to be sold by Iohn Sudbury & George Humble, 1611.","","
First Edition. 416 leaves, engraved title in compartments by J. Hondius. This work was intended as a continuation of the author's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. No copy was seen for collation.
Hazlitt II, page 572. STC 23045. Johnson, page 32.
John Speed, ?1552-1629, English historian, dedicated this work to King James I." "03570","35","","","","Baker's chronicle.","","fol. 1060. A. C.-1625.","1815 Catalogue, page 17. no. 94, Baker's Chronicle, 1060, A. C.-1625, fol.","Baker, Sir Richard.","A chronicle of the kings of England, from the time of the Romans government unto the reign of King Charles. Containing all passages of state and church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle . . . The second edition, enlarged with divers additions, marginall notes, and the names of the severall mayors and sheriffes of London, added at the end of every king and queens reign. With an alphabeticall table containing the chief matters in this book. London: Printed by J. Flesher and E. Cotes: and are sold by L. Sadler and by T. Williams, 1653.","","
Folio. 336 leaves, engraved title-page in compartments by Marshall. No copy was examined for collation.
Lowndes I, page 101. STC B503.
Two issues were printed in this year, it is not known which was in Jefferson's library.
Sir Richard Baker, 1568-1645, first published his Chronicle in 1643. It was frequently reprinted and also appeared in a number of abridged, continued, and otherwise edited editions." "03580","36","","","","Osborn's narrative of Charles I's imprisonment in I. of Wight.","","p. 4to. pamph.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 30, Osborn's Narrative of Charles First's imprisonment in the I. of Wight, a pamphlet, p 4to.","Osborne, Richard.","Narrative of Charles First's Imprisonment in the Isle of Wight. London, 1662.","","
4to. No copy of this work was located for collation. It is not listed in the bibliographies nor entered in the Stationers' Register.
Richard Osborne, fl. 1648, was an attendant on the King in Carisbroke Castle, Isle of Wight, and was implicated in a plot to free His Majesty in 1648, for which he suffered imprisonment." "03590","37","","","","Eikων basilike.","","p. 8vo.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 2, as above.","Charles I, King of Great Britain.","E[???]κ[???]ν Bασιλικ[???]. The Pourtraicture of his sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings . . . Reprinted in R. M. An. Dom. 1648.","","
8vo.
Jefferson's entry, followed by that of the Library of Congress as above, calls for an edition in 8vo. The entry in the later Library catalogues reads: Eikòn Basiliké, 12mo.
Almack has 2 editions Reprinted in R. M. [i.e. in Regis Memoriam] no. 22 in 8vo., and no. 8 in 12mo.
The authorship of the Eikòn Basiliké has been attributed to Charles I, 1600-1649, and to John Gauden, 1605-1662, bishop of Worcester. For a full discussion of the subject, see Almack, A Bibliography of the King's Book or Eikon Basilike." "03600","38","","","","Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae.","","12mo. 1640-1648.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 4, as above.","Charles I, King of Great Britain.","Reliquiæ sacræ Carolinæ, Or the vvorks of that great monarch and glorious martyr King Charls the I. Collected together, and digested in order, according to their several Subjects, civil and sacred. The contents appear in the next ensuing Pages . . . Hague: Printed by Samuel Browne, 1650.","DA400.C47","
12mo. 3 parts in 1; 336 leaves, title of the Elκ[???]ν Bασιλκ[???] dated M. DC. XLIX.
This edition not in Lowndes. Hazlitt II, page 91. STC C2072.
Charles I, 1600-1649, King of Great Britain and Ireland. The imprint on the title of this book is fictitious." "03610","39","","","","A defence of the Eikων basilike.","","12mo","1815 Catalogue, page 17. no. 3, A defence of the Eikon Basiliké, 12mo.","[Hollingworth, Richard.]","Vindiciæ Carolinæ: or, a defence of Eικων Bασιλικη, the Portraicture of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings. In reply to a book Intituled Eικoνoκλαστης, written by Mr Milton, and lately re-printed at Amsterdam . . . London: Printed by J. L. for Luke Meredith, 1692.","DA400.C49H8","
8vo. 80 leaves, engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White.
Halkett and Laing VI, page 187. Lowndes II, page 723. Hazlitt II, page 287. Arber, Term Catalogues II, 429. STC H2505.
This work is usually ascribed to Richard Hollingworth, 1639?-1701, but has also been attributed to John Wilson, English playwright, 1627?-1696. This edition of 1692 is the first one in the bibliographies; Arber, Term Catalogues II, 386, no. 12 is an edition listed in the Reprints, November, 1691." "03620","40","","","","Relation veritable de la mort de Charles I.","","8vo","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 31, as above.","Charles I.","Relation véritable de la Mort cruelle et Barbare de Charles I, roi d'Angleterre; arrivée à Londres le huitième Février mil six cent quarante-neuf. Avec la Harangue faite par Sa Majesté sur l'échafaud. Traduite de l'Anglais en Français par J. Ango, sur l'imprimé à Londres chez F. Coles. Réimprimée a Paris: par Lepetit, 1792.","","
8vo. 80 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece; publisher's advertisement on the last leaf.
Not in Lowndes. Not in Quérard.
The first edition of this translation was published in London by F. Coles in 1649." "03630","41","","","","Historia della Grande Bretagna dal Leti.","","5. v. 12mo. 1060. A. C.-1649.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 5, as above.","Leti, Gregorio.","Il Teatro Brittanico o vero Historia della Grande Brettagna . . . Scritta da Gregorio Leti. Parte Prima [-Quinta] . . . Amsterdamo: Per Abramo Wolfgang, 1684.","DA615.L64","
5 parts. 12mo. Part I, 360 leaves; part II, 288 leaves; part III, 292 leaves; part IV, 292 leaves; part V, 316 leaves, the last two blanks; printer's woodcut device on each title-page; the name of the dedicatee is on each title-page except the last.
Lowndes III, 1347. Grose 217. Van der Aa, XI, 368. This edition not in the STC.
Listed on Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue, with the price 5/-.
Gregorio Leti, 1630-1701, Italian historian, was a native of Milan. He lived in London from 1680 to 1683, and was historiographer to King Charles II. This work was first published in London in 2 vol. 4to, 1683, but its publication gave offence to the English Catholics, and Leti was banished, fleeing to Holland, where he died in Amsterdam." "03640","42","","","","Ld. Clarendon's history of the rebellion.","","6. v. 8vo. 1625.-1660.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 32, as above.","Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon.","The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in 1641 . . . and the happy conclusion thereof by the King's blessed restoration in the year 1660 . . . Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1720.","","
3 vol. in 6. 8vo. No copy was seen for collation. Engraved portraits. This edition was issued in 3 volumes; Jefferson's copy was evidently bound in 6.
This edition not in Lowndes. This edition not in Wood-Bliss.
Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, 1609-1674. This book is one of the most valuable of all the contemporary accounts of the Civil War, and the manuscript was completed and revised by the author whilst in exile, where he passed the last few years of his life. The first edition was published in Oxford in 1702, 3, 4." "03650","J. 43","","","","Ludlow's memoirs.","","3. vols. 8vo. 1626.-1672.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 33, as above.","Ludlow, Edmund.","Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Esq; Lieutenant General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3, 1640. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.-Memoirs of Lieutenant General Ludlow. The Third and Last Part. With a Collection of Original Papers, serving to confirm and illustrate many important Passages of this and the preceding volumes. To which is added, a Table to the whole work. Switzerland, Printed at Vivay in the Canton of Bern [?London], 1698-9.","DA407.L9","
First Edition. Together 3 volumes. 8vo. vol. I, 221 leaves, the last a blank, lacking; [vol. II] 216 leaves, the last a blank, lacking; this volume has no title-page, the half-title for Part II is on Ff1, pagination as well as signatures are continuous; vol. III, 233 leaves. The portrait which should be in vol. I is lacking in this copy.
Lowndes III, page 1412. Hazlitt II, page 370. Grose 2875. STC L3460-3462.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled end papers by Joseph Milligan; initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in each volume (in vol. II at sig. Ii and Tt); waterstained throughout. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
The binding was executed for Jefferson on February 24, 1809, billed on March 8, price $3.00. This book is on most of Jefferson's lists of recommended historical reading.
Edmund Ludlow, ?1617-1692, English regicide, spent the last years of his life in exile at Vevey, where his Memoirs were nominally printed. The Preface to vol. III is dated from Bern, March 26, 1699. In vol. I is an account of the reduction of Barbadoes by Sir George Ayescue, with the aid of the Virginia fleet, in 1651." "03660","44","","","","Temple's works.","","2. v. fol. 1665-1679. insert ante.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 95, as above, omitting insert ante.","Temple, Sir William.","The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. In Two Volumes. Volume the First [-Second]. To which is prefixed, The Life and Character of Sir William Temple. Written by a particular Friend [Jonathan Swift]. London: Printed for T. Woodward, S. Birt [and others], 1750.","D273.A2T4","
2 vol. 4to. vol. I. 248 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Vertue after P. Lely; vol. II, 291 leaves, in twos. The book is technically a quarto, but measures 12 in. by 9 in. and has the appearance of a folio. The general title of volume II is differently set up from that in volume I and has only an ornament between the words Volume the Second and the imprint; each work has a separate title-page. On 6P1, page (525), at the end of the second volume is the title for An Introduction to the History of England . . .
Lowndes V, page 2602. This edition not in Grose.
Jefferson entered this work twice in his dated manuscript catalogue, the first to indicate its rightful place, between Ludlow's memoirs and the Account of the Rye House plot, with the indication see post; the second as above on the next leaf where he had plenty of room, with reference to the former entry.
Sir William Temple, 1628-1699, English statesman and author.
Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, dean of St. Patrick's, secretary and friend of Sir William Temple, whose papers and memoirs he prepared for publication." "03670","45","","","","Account of the Rye house plot.","","fol. 1683.","1815 Catalogue, page 17. no. 96, as above.","[Sprat, Thomas.]","A True Account and Declaration of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King, His Present Majesty, and the Government: As it was Order'd to be Published by His late Majesty. [London] In the Savoy: Printed by Thomas Newcomb, One of His Majesties Printers; and are to be sold by Sam. Lowndes, 1685.","DA430.S75","
First Edition. Folio. 160 leaves; the verso of the first leaf (recto blank) has the authorization of James II to Thomas Newcomb One of Our Printers, to Print this Account and Declaration; and that no other Person presume to Print the same, dated from Whitehall, 23 May, 1685, and signed by Sunderland. The second alphabet is for the relative tract Copies of the Informations and Original Papers relating to the Proof of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King . . . usually bound with Sprat's work.
Lowndes V, page 2483.
Thomas Sprat, 1635-1713, was made dean of Westminster in 1683 and bishop of Rochester in 1684. This work was published anonymously, and was compiled to express the author's gratitude for these preferments. A second edition was published in the same year." "03680","46","","","","Welwood's memoirs.","","12mo. 1603-1689.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 6, as above.","Wellwood, James.","Memoirs of the most material transactions in England, for the last hundred years, preceding the Revolution of 1688. By James Welwood M.D. London, 1718.","","
12mo. 179 leaves. No copy was seen for collation.
Lowndes IV, page 2872. This edition not in Grose.
James Wellwood, 1652-1727, English physician. The Memoirs, which contain a statement of the Whig case, were first published in 1700 and frequently reprinted, in authorized and pirated editions. This edition of 1718 contains a short introduction giving an account of how the memoirs came to be written." "03690","47","","","","Histoire d'Angleterre de Rapin.","","10. v. 4to. 59 A. C.-1689.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 67, as above.","Rapin Thoyras, Paul de.","Histoire d'Angleterre, par Mr. De Rapin Thoyras. Tome Premier [-Dixieme] . . . Seconde Edition. A La Haye: chez Alexandre de Rogissart, 1727.","DA30.R19","
10 vol. 4to. vol. I, 294 leaves; vol. II, 268 leaves; vol. III, 256 leaves; vol. IV, 282 leaves; vol. V, 238 leaves; vol. VI, 250 leaves; vol. VII, 226 leaves; vol. VIII, 370 leaves; vol. IX, 294 leaves; vol. X, 374 leaves; engraved frontispiece in the first volume by F. M. La Cave, and portrait of the author by Jacobus Houbraken after Brandon, engraved portraits of Kings of England by La Cave in vol. I, II, and III, engraved maps and head and tail pieces. The work of Rapin ends with volume VIII and includes the history of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of Charles I. The list of illustrations is in this volume. Volumes IX and X are the continuation by Durand and take the history to the accession of William III and Mary. These two volumes have no illustrations and the words Seconde Edition are omitted from the title. The title of each volume varies according to the period of history covered.
Quérard VII, page 445.
Jefferson considered this the best history of England. In his description of Jefferson's library during his visit to Monticello in 1815, Francis Calley Gray wrote in his Journal:
. . . Rapin was here in French, though very rare in that language. Mr. Jefferson said that after all it was still the best history of England, for Hume's tory principles are to him insupportable . . .
Ten years later (October 25, 1825) in a letter to George Washington Lewis concerning the books for the history course at the University of Virginia, Jefferson wrote that of England there is as yet no general history so faithful as Rapin's.
Paul de Rapin, sieur de Thoyras, 1661-1725, French historian. The first edition of his history of England was published in 1724 in eight volumes.
David Durand, 1680-1763, French Protestant theologian." "03700","48","","","","Hume's history of England.","","8. v. 8vo. Cadell. 1790. Lond. 59 A. C.-1688.","1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 36, Hume's history of England, 59 A. C.-1688, 8 v 8vo.","Hume, David.","The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. In eight volumes, illustrated with Plates. By David Hume, Esq. A new Edition, with the Author's last Corrections and Improvements. To which is prefixed, a short Account of his Life, written by Himself. Vol. I [-VIII]. London: Printed for T. Cadell, and sold by T. Longman, 1790-91.","","
8 vol. 8vo. No perfect copy of this edition has been located for collation.
Jefferson's copy was purchased from Lackington's catalogue for 1792, price £3. 0. 0.
The book was one of a list sent to A. Donald of London on November 23, 1791; Jefferson's original memorandum had specified catalogue no. 1843. Hume's H. of Eng. 8. v. new in a curious & very elegt. bind[???]. inlaid wth. moroc silk headbands, registers ib. 8.v. 8vo. 1790. The list actually sent to Donald read: No. 1843. Hume's £3.-or 1841. Hume's £2.-14.-or 1842. Hume's £3. The last mentioned, no. 1842 was the copy sent to Jefferson, and, to Lackington's bill, which contained only the number, the key word and the price, Jefferson has added that it was in 8 v. 8vo. 1790. Russia leather.
There had been a copy of this work in the Shadwell library, purchased from the bookshop of the Virginia Gazette on March 7, 1764. Jefferson had read it when young, and frequently expressed his opinion of it, both in speech and in writing.
On June 11, 1807, in a letter to John Norvell, of Danbury, Kentucky, who had written to ask advice on reading, Jefferson wrote:
History in general only informs us what bad government is. but as we have employed some of the best materials of the British constitution in the construction of our own government, a knolege of British history becomes useful to the American politician. there is however no generat history of that country which can be recommended. the elegant one of Hume seems intended to disguise & discredit the good principles of the government, and is so plausible & pleasing in it's style and manner, as to instil it's errors & heresies insensibly into the minds of unwary readers. Baxter has performed a good operation on it . . .
Again, to William Duane, on August 12, 1810, when trying to get Baxter's History reprinted, Jefferson wrote:
Our laws, language, religion, politics, & manners are so deeply laid in English foundations, that we shall never cease to consider their history as a part of ours and to study ours in that as it's origin. every one knows that judicious matter & charms of stile have rendered Hume's history the Manual of every student. I remember well the enthusiasm with which I devoured it when young, and the length of time, the research & reflection which were necessary to eradicate the poison it had instilled into my mind. it was unfortunate that he first took up the history of the Stuarts, became their apologist and advocated all their enormities. to support his work, when done, he went back to the Tudors, and so selected and arranged the materials of their history as to present their abitrary acts only, as the genuine samples of the constitutional power of the crown; and, still writing backwards, he then reverted to the early history, and wrote the Saxon & Norman periods with the same perverted view. altho' all this is known, he still continues to be put into the hands of all our young people, and to infect them with the poison of his own principles of government. it is this book which has undermined the free principles of the English government, has persuaded readers of all classes that these were usurpations on the legitimate and salutary rights of the crown, and has spread universal toryism over the land. and the book will still continue to be read here as well as there. Baxter, one of Horne Tooke's associates in persecution, has hit on the only remedy the evil admits . . .
Hume's History is not recommended by Jefferson to any enquirers for reading lists, but is replaced by Baxter's History with the information that this is Hume's text republicanized.
For Baxter's History, with further criticisms by Jefferson of Hume, see no. 405.
David Hume, 1711-1776, Scottish philosopher and historian. The History of England was first published in Edinburgh, 1754-1759." "03710","49","","","","Revolutions d'Angleterre par le P. d'Orleans.","","3. v. 12mo. 59. A.C.-1691.","1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 7, as above, with the reading Pere for P.","Orléans, Pierre Joseph d'.","Histoire des revolutions d'Angleterre depuis le commencement de la monarchie jusqu'à present. Par le Père d'Orléans de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et enrichie de cartes et des portraits des Rois de la Grande Bretagne. A La Haye: chez Pierre Grosse, 1719.","","
3 vol. 12mo. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
Quérard VI, page 502. Backer V, col. 1940, no. 16.
Pierre Joseph D'Orléans, 1641-1698, French Jesuit writer and preacher. This Histoire was first published in Paris in 1689, and frequently reprinted." "03720","50","","","","Dalrymple's memoirs of Gr. Brit. & Ireland.","","4to. 1681-1692.","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 68, Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, 1681-1692, 4to.","Dalrymple, Sir John.","Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland. From the Dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II. until the Sea-battle off La Hogue. By Sir John Dalrymple, Bart . . . The Second Edition. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1771.","DA435.D148","
4to. 264 leaves.
Lowndes II, page 583. Grose 2628.
Sir John Dalrymple, 1726-1810, Scottish historical writer and chemist. The first edition of these Memoirs was published in Edinburgh in 1771; a second and third volume, not in the Jefferson collection, were issued in 1773 and 1788." "03730","51","","","","D'Auvergne's hist. of the campaign in Flanders of 1695.","","4to","1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 69, as above, with the reading history.","D'Auvergne, Edward.","The History of the Campagne in Flanders, for the Year, 1695. With an Account of the Siege of Namur. By Edward D'Auvergne, M.A., Rector of St. Brelade in the Isle of Jersey, and Chaplain to His Majesty's Regiment of Scots Guards. London: Printed for Mat. Wotton and John Newton, 1696.","","
First Edition. 4to. 102 leaves; advertisements of both publishers at the end, and below