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Clarke on Saxon Roman & Eng. coins
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 95. no. 398, Clarke on Saxon, Roman and English Coins 4to.
CLARKE,
William.
The Connexion of the Roman, Saxon, and English Coins; deducing the antiquities, customs, and manners of each people to modern
times; particularly the origin of feudal tenures, and of Parliaments: illustrated throughout with critical and historical
remarks on various authors, both sacred and profane. By William Clarke, A.M. Chancellor of the Church of Chichester, Residentiary of it, and Vicar of Amport, Hants . . .
London: Printed for
W. Bowyer and
J. Nichols,
mdcclxxi
. [1771.]
HG936 .C63
4to. 284 leaves, engraved head-pieces and numismatic engravings in the text, some signed by J. Lodge; lists of errata at the end, and the Preface dated from Chichester, March 25, 1767.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Not in McCulloch.
Original calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate (evidently over a name).
William Clarke, 1696-1771, English antiquary and clergyman, was for a time domestic chaplain to Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle, to whom
this work is dedicated. The first edition appeared in 1767.
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Tracts on weights & measures & coins.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 400, Mesures, monnoies, poids, extraits de l’Encyclopedie Methodique, 4to.
[
Encyclopédie Méthodique. Commerce. Tome III. Part I [-II].
Paris:
Charles Pancoucke,
1784.]
QC88 .M6
4to. A fragment only of 130 leaves, being portions of Parts I and II of Tome III. Commerce.
Old calf, labels on the back lettered:
Mesure /
Monno /
Poids /, silk bookmark. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson mentioned this fragment of the Encyclopédie in a letter to John Quincy Adams, written in answer to one from Adams
dated from Washington on October 4, 1817. Adams’s letter referred to a report on weights and measures made by Jefferson to
the Senate in 1790, and explained that in view of the Senate’s present desire for uniformity he was proposing “
an implicit adoption of the new French Metrological System, as already established in France.” He then wrote: “. . . I shall feel myself particularly obligated to you, if your leisure and convenience will permit, to be favoured with
your ideas on the subject, and with the loan of any work or Treatise upon Metrology which you may possess. I have made some
unsuccessful search for the Reports of the Committees of the House of Commons in 1758 and 1789. and for the Report of Machain
and Delambre, on their measurement of the Arc of the Meridian between Dunkirk and Barcelona. I have as yet been unable to
procure them either in England or France. I have found in the Library which was yours, a valuable collection of Tracts on
the general subject, which I have no doubt will prove useful to me . . .”
Jefferson wrote a long letter in reply on November 1, and stated: “
. . . the volume of tracts which you have noted in the library of Congress contains every thing which I had then been able
to collect on this subject. you will find some details which may be of use in two thin 4
to. vols. N
os: 399. 400. of Chap. 24. the latter being a collection of sheets selected from the Encyclopedie Methodique on the weights,
measures & coins of all nations, bound up together & alone, and the former a supplement by Beyerle. Cooper’s Emporium too
for May 1812. & Aug. 1813. may offer something. the reports of the Committees of parliament of 1758.9. I think you will find
in Postlethwait’s Dict
y. which is also in the library Chap. 20. N
o. 10. that of Mechain & Delambre I have not, nor do I know who has it . . .
”
For Beyerlé’s work see the next number.
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