J. 205
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 198, Etat de la Grande Bretagne, 1804, O’Connor 8vo.
O’CONNOR,
Arthur.
État actuel de la Grande-Bretagne, par Arthur O’Connor. A
Paris: chez les marchands de nouveautés, an
xii
.--
1804.
DA520 .O3
First Edition. 86 leaves.
Original boards, uncut and unopened, morocco label on the back lettered
Etat /
Actuel /
de la G. /
Bretagne /, and the date 1804 written in ink, possibly by Jefferson. Not initialled by Jefferson; with the Library of Congress 1815
bookplate.
Presentation copy to Jefferson from the author, who has written on the half-title:
pour Thomas Jefferson President des E. U. de l’Amerique de la part de l’Auteur.
Arthur O’Connor, 1763-1852, Irish rebel, was a lieutenant general in the French army, and married to the daughter of Condorcet. Other works
by him appear in this catalogue.
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J. 206
European pamphlets. 1794-1805.
1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 118, as above, 8vo.
Seventeen pamphlets bound together in one volume, half calf, 8vo.; original bookmark; now lettered on the back on labels:
Political /
Pamphlets. /
Vol. 19. / With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. The tracts are listed on the fly-leaf by Jefferson as follows:
JA36 .P8 vol. 19
| 1
Considerations on the French war.
1794.
London.
|
| 2
The Prospect before us, or State of France. Publicola. Lond.
1794.
|
| 3
Reflessioni su i mali provenienti dalla questua. Mazzei.
Pisa.
99.
|
| 4
Sulla natura della moneta et del cambio. dal Mazzei.
Pisa.
1803.
|
| 5
Carta sobre Contribuciones.
1800.
|
| 6
Trial of Hevey.
Dublin
1802.
|
| 7
Carta sobre las Colonias a gran distancia. Philadã
1803.
|
| 8
Pictet sur les douanes.
|
| 9
Parallele de Bonaparte avec Charlemagne.
|
| 10
Discours par General Moreau au tribunal criminel.
Paris.
|
| 11
Justification of Moreau.
Norfolk.
1804.
|
| 12
Seconde Rapport du Grand Juge relatif au nommé Drake.
|
| 13
Origine des malheurs de S
t. Domingue.
Bordeaux an.
13.
|
| 14
Essai sur l’avantage des richesses fictives.
|
| 15
De la possibilité d’eteindre les dettes publiques.
Paris.
1804. S
t. Paul.
|
| 16
The present state of G. Britain by Arthur O’Connor.
Paris
1804.
|
The tracts are numbered serially in ink on the first page of each. Jefferson has omitted an entry between no. 9 and 10 so
that the subsequent numbering on the list is not in agreement with that on the pamphlets.
1.
Considerations on the French war.
1794.
London.
Considerations on the French war, in which the circumstances leading to it, its object, and the resources of Britain for carrying
it on, are examined, in a letter, to the R
t. H
onble. William Pitt, by a British merchant . . .
London: printed for
D. I. Eaton,
m,dcc,xc,iv
. [1794.]
38 leaves, including the half-title; signed at the end: A British Merchant.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
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