J. 359
Gallatin’s sketches of the finances of the US.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 269, Gallatin’s Sketches of the Finances of the United States, 1796, 8vo.
GALLATIN,
Albert.
A Sketch of the finances of the United States. By Albert Gallatin.
New-York: Printed by
William A. Davis. (Copy-right Secured.)
1796.
HJ247 .G3
First Edition. 8vo. 100 leaves and four folded tables; sig. M misprinted K.
Sabin 26394.
Evans 30469.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
For a biographical note on Gallatin see no. 3230. At the time of writing this treatise Gallatin was a member of the Federal House of Representatives.
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J. 360
Monroe’s view of the foreign affairs of the US. 2. copies.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 267, Monroe’s View of the Foreign Affairs of the United States, 8vo.
MONROE,
James.
A View of the conduct of the Executive in the foreign affairs of the United States, as connected with the Mission to the French
Republic, during the Years 1794, 5, and 6. By James Monroe, late Minister Plenipotentiary to the said Republic. Illustrated by his Instructions and Correspondence, and other Authentic
Documents. The
third edition, with additions.
Philadelphia, Printed.
London: Reprinted for
James Ridgway,
1798. [Price
2s. 6d.]
E313 .M7632
8vo. 68 leaves: a
4-b
4, B
4-Q
4; 3 pages of advertisement at the end. The Preface (concerning Robert Goodloe Harper’s address to his constituents) dated
from London, April 25th, 1798.
Sabin 50020.
Cronin and Wise, 94.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress in 1903; uncut, initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
James Monroe, 1758-1831, fifth President of the United States, was appointed minister to France in 1794. He was recalled in 1796 by the
Secretary of State, Timothy Pickering, and immediately prepared and published this vindication of his conduct.
This edition contains little more than a third of the matter of the first edition, published in Philadelphia in 1797. Copyright
for the first edition was issued to Benjamin Franklin Bache on December 21, 1797, on which day Jefferson wrote to John Wayles
Eppes: “
. . . Monroe’s book appears this day. it is of near 500. pages, consequently too large to go by post. Bache will send on 2.
or 300 copies to Richmond . . .
”
On January 2, 1798, in a letter to John Page, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . I imagine you will have seen Monroe’s work, as many copies were sent to Richmond by Bache. we hourly expect Fauchet’s
pamphlet from the same press . . .
”
More than three weeks later, on January 27, Monroe wrote from Richmond to Jefferson: “. . . It is surprising that only one copy of my book has yet reached this place. It wo
d. have been well to have had the quota intended for this place during the session. I hope M
r. Bache will still send them on, as there still remains sufficient curiosity to induce people to read them. I hear there is
an attack made on it under the signature of Scipio, supposed to be Ch
s. Lee. I hope some one will refute him in the gazette, as it may otherwise produce an ill effect. Is he supposed to be the
author with you . . .”
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