perpétuels & des annuités de quinze années, en Angleterre; par le même auteur. Le tout traduit de l’
Anglois [par H. Jansen]. Avec douze planches enluminées. A
Paris: chez
Barrois l’âiné,
1789.
HC254.5 .P7
First Edition of this translation. 4to. 52 leaves including the half-title, 12 folded color plates.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt back, pale blue endpapers, red silk bookmark. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library
of Congress 1815 bookplate.
William Playfair, 1759-1823, English publicist, lived in France for a number of years where in 1789 he succeeded Joel Barlow as agent to the
Scioto (Ohio) land companies. This work was first published in English in 1786. The dedication to the Baron de Breteuil in
the French edition is dated ce premier Mars 1789.
Henri Jansen, 1741-1812, was for a time librarian to M. de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent, and later became the imperial censor.
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Playfair’s Statistical Breviary
8
vo.
1801. &
Commerc
l. & Politic
l. Atlas.
1815 Catalogue, page 102. no. 330, Playfair’s Statistical Breviary and Commercial and Political Atlas, 8vo.
PLAYFAIR,
William.
The Statistical breviary; shewing, on a principle entirely new, the resources of every state and kingdom in Europe; illustrated
with stained copper-plate charts, representing the physical power of each distinct nation with ease and perspicuity. By William Playfair. To which is added, a similar exhibition of the ruling powers of Hindoostan.
London: printed by
T. Bensley for
J. Wallis [and others],
1801.
HA46 .P7
First Edition. 8vo. 64 leaves, 5 folded plates in color; publisher’s advertisement on page 63.
Originally bound with the next following entry, the two books rebound together in ruby buckram by the Library of Congress.
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PLAYFAIR,
William.
The Commercial and political atlas, representing, by means of stained copper-plate charts, the progress of the commerce, revenues,
expenditure, and debts of England, during the whole of the eighteenth century. The
third edition, corrected and brought down to the end of last year. By William Playfair.
London: printed by
T. Burton for
J. Wallis [and others],
1801.
8vo. 57 leaves, 26 plates in color, advertisement of the
Statistical Breviary
at the end.
Bound with the above. Initialled by Jefferson with the letter T on page xiii before the figure 1 in the lower margin.
First published in 1786.
Jefferson bought a copy from William Duane on November 23, 1803, price $7.51.
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Tracts in English finance. viz..............................................
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The E. of Stair’s state of the public debts in 1784.
}
8
vo.
Craufurd’s essay on the actual resources of Gr. Brit
}
1815 Catalogue, page 106. no. 362, Tracts on English Finance, by the Earl of Stair and Craufurd, 8vo.
Three tracts bound together in one volume, 8vo., French calf, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges, red silk book-
