Sowerby Catalogue Volume III : page 54

3 vol. 8vo. 1807: 434 leaves; 1808: 440 leaves; 1809: 449 leaves.

Marbled and sprinkled calf (not uniform), silk book marks, the volume for 1808 with sprinkled edges. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in each volume; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate in each volume.

The volume for 1808 has on the inside cover the ticket of Théophile Barrois, fils.

A volume for 1807 appears on the binding bill of John March under date June 30 of that year, price $1.00.

On the fly-leaf of the 1807 volume is written: For Mr Jefferson from John Armstrong [i.e. General John Armstrong, 1758-1843, at that time minister to France].

A copy was also sent to Jefferson by William Lee, who wrote from Bordeaux on April 10, 1807: “Wm. Lee presents his respects to the President of the United States & takes the liberty to send him an Imperial Almanac.”

Jefferson’s name occurs in each volume in the list of dignitaries, as President of the United States (pp. 51, 56, 56).

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J. 96

Essais sur la constitution des assemblées provinciales par Condorcet. 2. v. 8 ^vo.

1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 126, as above.

[ CONDORCET, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de .]

Essai sur la constitution et les fonctions des Assemblées Provinciales, où l’on trouve un plan pour la constitution & l’administration de la France. Tome premier [-second]. Without name of place or printer [ Paris] 1788.

JN2485 1788 .C8

2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 125 leaves in eights, the last 27 for the Notes, with separate signatures and pagination; vol. II, 217 leaves, 7 folded tables, separate signatures and pagination for the Notes.

Barbier II, 238.

Quérard II, 269.

Original French calf, gilt backs, pale blue endpapers, silk bookmarks. Not initialled by Jefferson, who has written on the title-page of vol. I: par M. le Marquis de Condorcet; some leaves discolored. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.

Jefferson bought a copy of this work from Froullé on January 10, 1789, price 7-4. It is entered without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.

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Bound at the end of the first volume are two additional pieces as follows:

i. [CONDORCET.]

Déclaration des droits, traduite de l’ Anglois, avec l’original à coté. A Londres, 1789.

8vo. 45 leaves including the half-title; English and French text on opposite pages.

Barbier I, 845, 6.

Quérard II, 268.

The phrase traduite de l’Anglois on the title-page is a misrepresentation. The English text is the translation, and is attributed by bibliographers to Philip Mazzei. On another copy in this collection Jefferson has corrected the title-page and written the name of the author and of the translator, the Marquis de Condorcet and Dr. Gem. See no. 2522.

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ii. [CONDORCET.]

Lettres d’un bourgeois de New-Heaven à un citoyen de Virginie, sur l’inutilité de partager le pouvoir législatif entre plusieurs corps. [A Colle, et se trouve a Paris: chez Froullé, 1788].

8vo. 53 leaves, consisting of sig. S ^2-8, T-Z ⁸, Aa ⁶, pages 267-372 from volume IV of the work by Philip Mazzei entitled: Recherches historiques et politiques sur les États-Unis de l’Amérique septentrionale; où l’on traite des établissemens des treize colonies, de leurs rapports & de leurs dissentions avec la Grande-Bretagne, de leurs gouvernemens avant & après la révolution, &c. Par un citoyen de Virginia. Avec quatre lettres d’un bourgeois de New-Heaven sur l’unité de la legislation .