First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 108 leaves, the last a blank, pasted down.
Palau III, 264.
Palgrave II, 120.
Colmeiro, no. 193.
Original Spanish calf, gilt, marbled endpapers, r.e., green silk bookmark. On the blank leaf at the end is a manuscript continuation of the errata printed on the last page. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the
Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Valentin de Foronda, Spanish diplomat, was from 1802 to 1809 the Spanish consul in Philadelphia, and was in correspondence with Jefferson.
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Foronda de Hospitales.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 105, as above.
FORONDA,
Valentin de.
Memorias leidas en la Real Academia de las Ciencias de Paris sobre la edificacion de hospitales, y traducidas al
Castellano por Don Valentin de Foronda.
Madrid: en la imprenta de
Manuel Gonzalez,
mdccxciii
. [1793.]
RA967 .M4
First Edition. Sm. 4to. 40 leaves, folded engraved plan.
Not in Salva.
Not in Palau.
Not in the Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue.
Spanish calf, gilt, marbled endpapers, blue silk bookmark. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
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Colquhoun on the Police of London.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 95. no. 104, as above.
[COLQUHOUN,
Patrick.]
A Treatise on the police of London; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private
property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. The
first American edition. By a Magistrate . . .
Philadelphia: printed for
Benjamin Davies, by
Henry Sweitzer,
mdccxcviii
. [1798.]
HV8198 .L7 C6
8vo. 194 leaves, the last a blank, folded table.
Halkett and Laing VI, 93.
Evans 33538.
Seligman III, 639 (not this edition).
Palgrave I, page 334.
Original calf, marbled endpapers (repaired). Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Patrick Colquhoun, 1745-1820, British economist. Colquhoun was born in Scotland, lived in Virginia from the ages of fifteen to twenty-one,
returned to Scotland and eventually went to London where in 1789 he was appointed to office in the city magistracy of London.
The first edition of this work was printed in 1795.
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Bentham’s Panopticon.
3. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 94, no. 17, Bentham’s Panopticon or Penitentiary, 3 vol 12mo.
BENTHAM,
Jeremy.
Panopticon; or, the Inspection-House: containing the idea of a new principle of construction applicable to any sort of establishment,
in which persons of any description are to kept under inspection: and in particular to penitentiary-houses . . . with a plan
of management adapted to the principle: in a series of letters, written in the year 1787, from Crecheff in White Russia, to
a friend in England. By Jeremy Bentham, of Lincolns Inn, Esquire.
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