First Edition. 8vo. 28 leaves including the half-title, which has the price,
One Shilling and Sixpence.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 32637.
Not in McCulloch.
On the title-page Jefferson has written the name of the author, M
r. Ruston. Some corrections in the text in another hand.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Thomas Ruston, a Philadelphia physician.
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3.
Swan on the Finances of Massachusets.
[SWAN,
James.]
National Arithmetick: or, Observations on the finances of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: with some hints respecting financiering
and future taxation in this State: tending to render the Publick Contributions more easy to the People. By a Late Member of
the General Court . . .
Boston: Printed by
Adams and
Nourse [
1786].
First Edition. 52 leaves in fours, including the last blank; the dedication to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives,
dated from Dorchester, 2d October, 1786.
Halkett and Laing IV, 155.
Sabin 94008.
Evans 20016.
Not in McCulloch.
This copy has on the title-page a presentation inscription from the author, most of which, including the name, is cut away by the binder. The author’s name,
Mr. Swan, is written on the title-page; and there are numerous corrections in ink in the text; a leaf of table cut into at the head.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
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4.
Reflections on encouraging the commerce of the U. S.
[TUCKER,
St. George.]
Reflections on the Policy and Necessity of encouraging the Commerce of the Citizens of the United States of America, and of
granting them exclusive privileges in Trade.
Richmond: Printed by
Dixon & Holt [
1785].
First Edition. 8vo. 8 leaves. Signed at the end Columbus, and with a Postscript dated Virginia, July 16, 1785.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
This edition not in Sabin.
Evans 19214.
On the title-page Jefferson has written in ink the chapter number,
24.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
In his notice of the second edition, printed in New York in 1786, Evans ascribes the authorship to St. George Tucker.
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5.
Coxe’s address to the friends of American manufactures.
[COXE,
Tench.]
An Address to an Assembly of the Friends of American Manufactures, convened for the Purpose of establishing a Society for
the Encouragement of Manufactures and the useful Arts, read in the University of Pennsylvania, on Thursday the 9th of August
1787, by Tench Coxe, Esq. and published at their Request.
Philadelphia: Printed by
R. Aitken & Son,
m.dcc.lxxxvii
. [1787.]
First Edition. 16 leaves including the last blank.
Sabin 17293.
Evans 20305.
Sent to Jefferson by John Brown Cutting, with his autograph inscription on the first page of text (cut into at the fore-margin):
His Excellency Thomas Jefferson Esquire from his respectful and most obed ser J. B. Cutt[
ing]. The upper margin of the title-page is cut away.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Tench Coxe, 1755-1824, political economist, was a native of Philadelphia. Originally a Federalist, he joined the Republican party in
1797 and became a friend of Jefferson who in 1803 appointed him Purveyor of Public Supplies. In 1775 he was a member of the
United Company of Philadelphia for promoting American manufactures, and in 1787 became the first President of the Society
for whose establishment this Address was written.
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