Tiverton . . .
Dublin: printed by
R. Marchbank, for the
Company of Booksellers,
m. dcc. lxxix
. [1779.]
50 leaves--no copy was seen for collation.
Bradshaw 2238.
Not in Jones.
For another work by Sir James Caldwell, Irish baronet, see no. 2932.
[2801]
J. 195
Political pamphlets. English. 1800. 1801.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 103. no. 197, as above.
A collection of seven pamphlets bound together for Jefferson in one volume, 8vo., half calf (front cover gone). Label on the
back lettered
Political /
Pamphlets /
English / and a later label with
Vol. 31.; original silk bookmark.
JA36 .P8 vol. 31
On the fly-leaf Jefferson has listed the tracts as follows (the numbering probably by a different hand):
| 1
The petition of the Sharks of Africa to the British parlia[
ment].
|
| 2
Cooper’s reply to Burke’s invective.
|
| 3
Cooper’s Political arithmetic.
|
| 4
Keith on the excellence [
of the]
British constitution.
|
| 5
Keith’s examination of the French constitution.
|
| 6
Morgan’s view of the finances.
|
| 7
Boyd’s letter to Pitt.
|
1.
The petition of the Sharks of Africa to the British parlia
[ment
].
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled. The Petition of the Sharks
of Africa.
Without name of place or printer, n.d.
Broadside, folded.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Begins:
Sheweth,
That your petitioners are a numerous body, and at present in a very flourishing situation, owing chiefly to the constant visitation
of the shipping of your island.
That by hovering round these floating dungeons your petitioners are supplied with large quantities of their most favorite
food--human flesh.
That your petitioners are sustained, not only by the carcases of those who have fallen by distempers, but are frequently gratified
with rich repasts from the bodies of living negroes who voluntarily plunge into the abodes of your petitioners, preferring
instant destruction by their jaws, to the imaginary horrors of a lingering slavery . . .
[2802]
2.
Cooper’s reply to Burke’s invective.
COOPER,
Thomas.
A Reply to Mr. Burke’s invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons, on the 30th of April, 1792. By Thomas Cooper.
London: printed for
J. Johnson, and
M. Falkner and Co.
Manchester,
m, dcc, xcii
. [1792.]
44 leaves: A-C
12, D
8 [some leaves cut into].
Presentation copy from the author who has written on the half-title:
M
r Cooper to M
r Jefferson
.
This pamphlet was occasioned by the criticism by Edmund Burke of the visit to the democratic clubs of France by James Watt,
the inventor of the steam engine, and Thomas Cooper, who allied himself with the Girondists but eventually fled to England.
Several works by Cooper occur in this catalogue.
[2803]
3.
Cooper’s Political arithmetic.
COOPER,
Thomas.
Political arithmetic, by Thomas Cooper, Esq. of Northumberland. [Without name of place or printer, n.d.]
