vi. [DUPONT
de NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel.]
Reflexions sur l’écrit intitulé: Richesse de l’État . . . édition de l’auteur. A
Londres.
dcc.xliii
[i.e.
Paris,
1763].
8vo. 16 leaves in eights, a folded table inserted between pp. 28 and 29. [The author’s name written in ink on the title-page.]
Barbier IV, 142.
Quérard II, 707.
Many works by Dupont de Nemours appear in this catalogue.
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vii. [COYER,
Gabriel François.]
Chinki, histoire cochinchinoise qui peut servir à d’autres pays . . . A
Londres [
Paris]
m.dcc.lxviii
. [1768.]
First Edition. 8vo. 48 leaves in eights. [The name of the author written on the title-page.]
Barbier I, 586.
Quérard I, 327.
For another work by the abbé Coyer, see no. 253.
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viii. [
De CERFVOL.]
Mémoire sur la population, dans lequel on indique le moyen de la rétablir, & de se procurer un corps militaire toujours subsistant
& peuplant . . .
A
Londres. [
Paris]
m.dcc.lxviii
. [1768.]
8vo. 58 leaves in eights, folded table.
Barbier III, 163.
Quérard II, 100.
De Cerfvol, French polemical writer of the eighteenth century. This tract is ascribed to him by all the authorities consulted. On the
title-page the authorship is ascribed in ink by a contemporary hand to Faiguet [de Villeneuve].
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J. 92
Oeuvres de Turgot. 2
d. to 9
th. vol.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 99. no. 317, Les Oeuvres de Turgot, 9 v 8vo.
TURGOT,
Anne Robert Jacques, baron de l’aulne.
Oeuvres de M
r. Turgot, ministre d’état, précédées et accompagnées de mémoires et de notes sur sa vie, son administration et ses ouvrages . . .
Tome premier [-neuvième]. [Edited by Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours.]
Paris: de l’imprimerie de
Delance [chez
Firmin Didot,
Cocheris,
Delance]
1808-1811.
H33 .T8
First Edition. 9 vol. 8vo. Vol. I [the last published, 1811, with
Delance replaced by
A. Belin], 216 leaves; vol. II, 221 leaves; vol. III, 230 leaves; vol. IV,
236 leaves; vol. V, 232 leaves; vol. VI, 231 leaves; vol. VII,
256 leaves; vol.
VIII, 278 leaves; vol. IX, 232 leaves; the signatures denoted by
numerals.
Quérard IX, 578.
Seligmann XV, 132.
Tree calf, y.e., repaired, the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved under the new endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. 1 in each volume.
Presentation copy from Dupont de Nemours, the editor, to Jefferson.
In a letter to Jefferson dated from Paris September 8, 1805, Dupont de Nemours mentioned his projected edition of the works
of Turgot as a reason for delaying his arrival in the United States: “. . . Mais je vous ai déjà dit qu’un grand devoir envers la mémoire de M
r Turgot ne me permet pas d’exposer de nouveau à la mer les papiers qu’il m’a laissés. Il faut absolument que je les donne
au Pays qu’il servait avec tant de lumieres et de vertu . . .”
Jefferson replied on February 12, 1806: “
. . . the purpose of publishing the works of Turgot, which detains you in France, is a very legitimate one. we shall be doubly
happy therefore on your return, as, with yourself, it will give us the valuable work you have edited . . .
”
In the following year, on May 6, 1807, Dupont wrote to Jefferson:
