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Fabbroni dell’ arte di fare il vino. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 54. no. 21, as above.
FABBRONI, Adamo.
Dell’ Arte di fare il vino, ragnionamento di Adamo Fabbroni. Firenze, 1787.
First Edition. 12mo; no copy was seen for collation.
Simone, page 45.
Jefferson’s copy was a gift to him from the author, whose brother, Jean [Giovanni] Fabbroni, wrote to Jefferson from Florence on March 25, 1789: “. . . Mr. Short a bien voulu se charger d’un Livre de mon frere pour vous. Le sujet est assez interessant, car il s’agit de la Theorie de la fermentation des vins. Cela pourroit-il lui meriter l’honneur d’être admis dans la Societé de Phyladelphie? . . .”
Jefferson replied from Paris on May 24: “ . . . be so good also as to convey to your brother my acknoledgements for the present of his book on the subject of wine, a subject interesting to me, and which had not before been philosophically treated . . . ”
The book is entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Other works by Fabbroni are in other chapters in this catalogue. This work was not printed by the American Philosophical Society and its author was not made a member.
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Cyder.
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Knight on the culture of the apple & pear, cyder & perry. 12 mo. 1801. Ludlow. Proctor. Longman & Rees Paternoster row. White Fleetstreet.
1815 Catalogue, page 51. no. 22, as above, omitting imprint.
KNIGHT, Thomas Andrew.
A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry. By T. A. Knight, Esq. Second Edition, enlarged. Ludlow: Printed and sold by H. Proctor; sold also by T. Hurst, Pater-Noster-Row, London; and all other Booksellers, 1802.
SB356 .K7
12mo. 91 leaves, printer’s woodcut device on the title-page.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Bradley III, 426 (London, 1802).
This edition not in Bitting.
Not in McDonald.
The above title is from the copy in the Library of Congress. Jefferson’s copy was of an earlier issue with a different title-page also reading Second edition, enlarged, but with White, Fleetstreet included in the imprint, and the date 1801.
The book was recommended to Jefferson by Colonel Pickering, who on December 3, 1804 lent him his copy and wrote: “Agreeably to the conversation of last Saturday, Col o. Pickering presents for Mr. Jefferson’s perusal, Knight’s treatise on the culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the making of Cider & Perry; persuaded that he will derive some useful information from his facts and practical details, and much pleasure from his ingenious theories . . .”
Jefferson returned Pickering’s copy, and obtained one for himself through Mr. Tunnicliffe, to whom Jefferson wrote from Washington on April 25, 1805, sending a list of articles he wished him to procure in London. The postscript, dated April 26, read: “ Th: Jefferson asks the favor of m( ~ r) Tunnicliff to add one other book to the list he sent him yesterday. Knight on the culture of the apple and pear, cider and perry, 12 mo. printed in 1801. by Ludlow, Proctor, Longman and Rees, paternoster row, white Fleetstreet. ”
On December 6 of that year, 1805, Jefferson wrote to Colonel Pickering:
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