first volume is written in ink:
Par George Louis Schmid, d’Avenstein.
Entered on the undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
12.0.
George Louis Schmid, 1720-1805, a Swiss by birth, was for some years legal adviser to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Later he was associated with Voltaire,
Diderot, d’Alembert, and the principal philosophers of the time.
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J. 17
Misrim. ou le Sage à la cour.
}
Le roi voiageur..........................
}par l’Abbé Aubert.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 98, Misrim, ou le Sage à la Cour, et le Roi Voyageur, par l’Abbe Aubert, 8vo.
[PERREAU,
Jean André.]
Mizrim ou le Sage à la cour, histoire Égyptienne. A
Neuchatel: de l’imprimerie de
la Société Typographique,
m.dcc.lxxxiii
. [1783.]
DC136.9 .P4
8vo. 62 leaves.
Barbier III, 318.
Quérard VII, 63.
Old calf, sprinkled, back defective, marbled endpapers.
The author’s name written on the title-page (not by Jefferson). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
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With this is bound:
Le roi voyageur, ou examen des abus de l’administration de la Lydie. A
Londres: chez
T. P. Cadel,
m. dcc. lxxxiv
. [1784.]
First Edition. 112 leaves including the half-title.
Barbier IV, 376.
Quérard VII, 63.
The two books entered on the undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
10.15.
Jean André Perreau, 1749-1813, French lawyer and writer, was the author of these two anonymously printed books, erroneously ascribed by Jefferson
to the abbé Aubert.
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J. 18
Lois de la nature par Poype.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 100, no. 99, as above, with reading
Loix.
[LA POYPE,
Jean François, baron de.]
Lois de la nature . . . Ouvrage divisé en deux parties. A
Nantes, à la
Syrène. Et se vend chez
Odé fils, et à
Paris: chez
Arnaud,
Le Normand, An
xi
. [1803.]
JC179 .P7
First Edition. 8vo. 2 parts in 1, 132 and 96 leaves, including a blank at the end of each part; separate alphabets and pagination
for the two parts.
Not in Barbier.
Not in Quérard.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I in the
first part. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
On the title-page Jefferson has written
M. Poype as the name of the author, which seems to be the only authority for ascribing the work to him.
Jean François, Baron de La Poype, 1758-1851, French general, was a native of Lyons.
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J. 19
Platonis respublica.
Gr.
Lat.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 102, no. 88,as above, with reading
Republica.
PLATO.
Πλατωνος Πολιτειων (’ή) περιδικαιου Βιβλοι I. Platonis de Republica, sive de Justo, libri X. Versionem emendavit Notasque adjecit Edmundus Massey, Trin. Coll. Cantab.
