moulée, pour faciliter l’échange des petits assignats. Par M. l’Abbé Rochon, de l’Académie des Sciences, Membre de la Commission des Monnoies. A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
m. dcc. xci.
[1791.]
First Edition. 8vo. 18 leaves.
Quérard VIII, 100.
Tourneux III, 13268.
On the title-page is written:
For the Secretary of the Treasury [Alexander Hamilton].
Jefferson “
was intimate” with the abbé Rochon “
in France,” and several times mentioned him in his correspondence. In a letter to William Short dated from Monticello, April 26, 1812,
he wrote: “
. . . from the Abbé Rochon I never recieved either letter or book. indeed having never been able to hear of him, tho’ I have
often enquired, I had concluded he was no longer inter vivos. whatever he has written, whether on coins or anything else,
must be sensible. I found him a very sound-headed man . . .
”
Abbé Alexis Marie Rochon, 1741-1817, French astronomer and scientist.
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3.
Rapport sur la repartition de la Contribution.
Rapport fait an nom du Comité des Contributions Publiques, sur la répartition de la contribution foncière & de la contribution
mobiliaire entre les Départemens; imprimé par ordre de l’Assemblée Nationale.
A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Nationale,
1791.
First Edition. 16 leaves and 2 folded leaves of tables and 2 leaves with the
Projet de Décret. The 2 leaves preceding the Projet, with
Notes a joindre au rapport, have separate pagination. The Rapport is signed by La Rochefoucauld, Defermon, Roederer, d’Allarde, Dauchy, Dupont, de Nemours [sic].
On the title-page is written in ink
For the Secretary of the Treasury by the same hand as in the previous number.
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4.
la Constitution Monetaire par Mirabeau.
MIRABEAU,
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de.
De la Constitution Monétaire. Précédé d’observations sur le Rapport du Comité des Monnoies, & suivi d’un Projet de Lois Monétaires.
Présenté à l’Assemblée Nationale, par M. Mirabeau l’Ainé. N. B. On a placé en notes, à la suite de cet ouvrage, ce qui doit servir de preuve, donner plus de développement,
ou exiger plus d’attention.
A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Nationale,
1790.
First Edition. 92 leaves, folded table. On sig. K, page [137], begins:
Post-Scriptum, ou Observations sur une Brochure Apologétique de M. Solignac.
Tourneux III, 13228.
McCulloch 188.
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, French statesman. A number of his works appear in this catalogue.
This pamphlet was sent to Jefferson by William Short, for whom it was obtained by Louis Ramond.
On December 23, 1790, Short, writing from Amsterdam to Ramond in Paris, mentioned:
“I observe the Bishop of Autun quoted lately le savant ouvrage de M. Mirabeau sur les monnoies. I will thank you to sent it together with the Bishop’s memoire which he apparently wished to be presented to Mr. Jefferson. I am waiting with a good deal of impatience for the pamphlets which I asked the favor of you to send me. . .”
Ramond replied from Paris on December 31: “J’enverrai ces jours cy en amérique les livres dont vous me chargez de faire envoyer à M. Jefferson.”
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5.
Observñs sur le rapport du comité des Monnoies par Mirabeau.
MIRABEAU,
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de.
Observations sur le Second Rapport du Comité des Monnoies; par M. Mirabeau l’Ainé. [A
Paris: chez
Baudouin, Imprimeur de
l’Assemblée Nationale,] n.d. [
1791.]
8 leaves, caption title, no title-page, printer’s imprint at the end.
Tourneux 13230.
This pamphlet was sent to Jefferson by William Short, for whom it was obtained by Louis Ramond.
On December 23, 1790, Short, writing from Amsterdam to Ramond in Paris, mentioned:
“I observe the Bishop of Autun quoted lately le savant ouvrage de M. Mirabeau sur les monnoies. I will thank you to sent it together with the Bishop’s memoire which he apparently wished to be presented to Mr. Jefferson. I am waiting with a good deal of impatience for the pamphlets which I asked the favor of you to send me. . .”
Ramond replied from Paris on December 31: “J’enverrai ces jours cy en amérique les livres dont vous me chargez de faire envoyer à M. Jefferson.”
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6.
l’Eveque d’Autun sur la fabrication des petites monnoies.
TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD,
Charles Maurice de, Prince de Bénévent.
Opinion de M. l’Evêque d’Autun sur la Fabrication des Petites Monnoies,
