First Edition. 4to. 28 leaves.
Not initialled by Jefferson.
Seigneur Jean de Meerman, 1753-1815, the only son of Gerard de Meerman, was Director of Fine Arts and of Public Instruction in Holland.
In a letter to the editor of the
Journal de Paris
, written from Paris on August 29, 1787, Jefferson mentions the book with a similar title, published in that year by Charles
Joseph de Mayer: “
. . . in your Journal of this day you announce & criticise a book under the title of ‘les ligues Acheenne, Suisse, & Hollandoise,
et resolution des etats unis de l’Amerique par M. de Mayer.’ I was no part of the Acheen, Swiss or Dutch confederacies & have
therefore nothing to say against the facts related of them . . .
”
A copy of Mayer’s book in the Library of Congress has the 1815 Library of Congress bookplate, but seems not to have been part
of the Jefferson Collection sold to Congress in 1815.
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De Lolme on the Union of Scotland & England, & the present situation of Ireland.
2. LOLME,
Jean Louis de.
An Essay, containing a few strictures on the Union of Scotland with England; and on the present situation of Ireland. Being
an introduction to De Foe’s History of the Union. By J. L. de Lolme, Adv.
London: printed for
John Stockdale,
mdcclxxxvii
. Entered at Stationers Hall. [1787.]
49 leaves and 2 leaves at the end, one with
Stockdale’s advertisement, the other blank.
Not initialled by Jefferson.
Other works by Jean Louis de Lolme, 1740-1806, appear in this catalogue.
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J. 268
Tracts on English Foreign possessions. viz.
}
Politique Angloise dans l’Inde.
}
8
vo.
Sundry pieces relative to Ireland.
}
La cause de l’Irlande.
1815 Catalogue, page 106. no. 231, Tracts on the English Foreign Possessions, 8vo.
Six tracts (numbered as 8) bound together in one volume 8vo., mottled calf, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges, later labels
on the back lettered
Colonial /
Pamphlets. /
Vol. 21. / The tracts numbered serially in ink on the title-pages. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
E187 .C72 vol. 21
1.
Politique angloise dans l’Inde. A
Chattam.
m dcc lxxxv
. [1785.]
8 leaves; uncut.
The chapter number,
24, written in ink on the title-page possibly by Jefferson.
The heading reads:
Dans le courant de Septembre, il arriva aux isles de France une prise faite à la côte Malabar par M. Labutte, commandant le
Guillois. On y trouva des réflexions politiques d’un Conseiller de Bombay, sur la position de sa nation aux Indes en 1779.
En voici la traduction.
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2-3. O’BRIEN,
Sir Lucius Henry.
Letters concerning the trade and manufactures of Ireland, principally so far as the same relate to the making Iron in this
Kingdom, and the manufacture and export of Iron Wares, in which certain facts and arguments set out by Lord Sheffield, in
his Observations on the trade and present state of Ireland, are examined. By Sir Lucius O’Brien, Bart. With a letter from Mr. William Gibbons of Bristol, to Sir Lucius O’Brien, Bart. and his answer. To which is added, The Resolutions of
