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Etat des cours de l’Europe pour l’annee 1788. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 112, as above.
PONCELIN de la ROCHE-TILHAC, Jean Charles.
État des Cours de l’Europe et des Provinces de France. Pour l’année m. dcc. lxxxviiii. Publié pour la premiere fois en 1783. Par M. l’abbé de la Roche-Tilhac, Conseiller du Roi à la Table de Marbre . . . Prix 5 liv. broché. A Paris: chez l’Auteur, rue Garancieres, Le Roy, libraire, rue S. Jacques, et chez les principaux libraires de l’Europe. m. dcc. lxxxviii . Avec approbation, & privilege. [1788.]
DC35 .P7
8vo. 2 parts in 1, 121 and 124 leaves, separate signatures and pagination, no title-page to the second part which has a caption title only.
This edition not in Quérard.
Not in Backer.
Jefferson bought a copy from Froullé on April 25, 1789, price 15.
Jean Charles Poncelin de la Roche-Tilhac, 1747-1827, was educated as a Jesuit, and took ecclesiastical orders. During the Revolution he established a libraire and printing press and became the first journalist of the Revolution. He was eventually proscribed but escaped.
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J. 78
La ville et la republique de Venise. par D. S. D. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 99. no. 40, as above.
[LIMOJON de St. DIDIER, Alexandre Toussaint.]
La ville et la repvbliqve de Venise. A Paris: chez Guillaume de Luyne, m. dc. lxxx . Avec Privilege du Roi. [1680]
DG673 .L73
First Edition. 12mo. 270 leaves.
Barbier IV, 1034.
Brunet IV, 165.
Old calf (repaired), sprinkled edges. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. The name of the author written on the title-page and a manuscript correction at the end of the Epistre are not by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
Alexandre Toussaint Limojon de St. Didier, French diplomat, was born circa 1630 and perished at sea in 1689. This is the first of three editions of this work published in 1680.
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J. 79
Almanac des Ambassades par Wedekind. 1802. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 93. no. 113, Almanac des Ambassadeurs, par Wedekind, 8vo.
WEDEKIND, Antoine Christian.
Almanac des Ambassades ou liste générale des ambassadeurs, envoyés, ministres, résidens, chargés d’affaires, conseillers et secrétaires de légation, drogmans, consuls, commissaires des relations commerciales et agens diplomatiques et commerciaux près les puissances et dans les villes et ports de l’Europe. L’An 1803 par Antoine-Chretien Wedekind. A Bronsvic: chez Frederic Vieweg [ 1803].
25.9 5501
First Edition. 12mo. 108 leaves in twelves and sixes, including the first blank.
This edition not in Quérard.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt back, blue silk bookmark, by John March, the marbled endpapers renewed, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Not initialled by Jefferson.
Bought from Reibelt on January 23, 1805, price $ 1.35. The binding was done on March 7, 1805, cost 75 cents.
Antoine Christian Wedekind, 1763-1845, German historian.
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