. . . A
Londres: de l’imprimerie de
T. Spilsbury, se trouve chez
P. Elmsley,
m. dcc. lxxxv
. [1785.]
HF1013 .C3
First Edition. 201 leaves.
Contemporary calf, gilt back, marbled endpapers. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Charles, Marquis de Casaux, d. 1796, French economist and writer. This is the first part of a work which extended to five, and was published from 1785
to 1788.
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257
Gale’s essay on public credit.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 361, as above.
[GALE,
Samuel.]
An Essay on the nature and principles of public credit.
London: printed for
B. White,
m. dcc. lxxxiv
. [1784.]
HJ8013 .G2
First Edition. 8vo. 120 leaves. The Preface is signed S. Gale. Charles-Town, South Carolina, October 1782.
Sabin 26361.
McCulloch, page 333.
A rebound copy in the Library of Congress of this
Essay has had all marks of provenance destroyed but may have been from Jefferson’s library.
Samuel Gale published altogether four Essays on Public Credit between the years 1784 and 1787. An autograph presentation inscription to Sir Henry Clinton, K. B., in which the author describes himself as
late Acting Itinerant Dep
y Paymaster to His Majesty’s Forces in the Southern Provinces
, states that the principal part was written in America during his Excellency’s command there.
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Political tracts on the finances of France, Engl
d. & the U. S. 89. 90.
4
to.
viz. Finances de France et de l’Angleterre.
Income & expenditure of Gr. Br. by Rayment.
Essai encyclopedique sur les Etats U. par Demeunier.
1815 Catalogue, page 103. no. 409, Political Tracts on the Finances of France, England and the United States, 1789, 90, 4to.
Three tracts bound together for Jefferson in one volume, 4to., half-calf, numbered serially in ink on the title-pages.
HG139 .F5 vol. 18
Jefferson referred to this volume in a letter to L. H. Girardin written from Monticello on August 28, 1814: “
. . . the Article ‘Etats Unis’ of the Encyclopedie which article I have separately bound with some pamphlets on the Finances
of France & England, and now send you . . .
”
i. [MAISONCELLE,
de.]
Situation actuelle des finances de la France et de l’Angleterre. A
Paris: chez
Briand,
1789.
First Edition. 70 leaves.
Barbier IV, 499.
Quérard V, 451.
Many leaves with uncut edges. Marginal annotations in ink by Jefferson.
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