The
Lettres d’un bourgeois was published by Froullé in 1788, the year before Jefferson purchased from him the copy of the Essai sur la constitution
in which it is bound. The
citoyen de Virginie was Mazzei and the
bourgeois de New-Heaven, Condorcet.
Filippo [better known as Philip]
Mazzei, 1730-1816, was born in Tuscany in Italy. In 1773 he came to Virginia to raise grapes, and stayed with Jefferson at Monticello.
He acquired a neighbouring estate which he called Colle. Mazzei was for a time employed by the state of Virginia as its agent
in Europe. He died in Pisa in 1816. For Jefferson’s copy of the
Recherches historiques see no. 3005.
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J. 97
Hauterive’s state of the French republic.
1801.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 149, Goldsmith’s State of the French Republic, 1801, 8vo.
HAUTERIVE,
Alexandre Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, comte d’--
GOLDSMITH, Lewis.
State of the French Republic at the end of the year
viii. Translated from the
French of citizen Hauterive, chef de relations exterieurs. By Lewis Goldsmith, author of “The Crimes of Cabinets.”
London: printed for
J. S. Jordan [by
T. Davison],
1801.
DC192 .H3
First Edition. 8vo. 160 leaves: A
4, B-U
8, X
4, printer’s imprint on the verso of the title leaf and at the end; the Advertisement is dated from Thavies-Inn, February 7,
1801. A
4 recto has Goldsmith’s advertisement of The Crimes of Cabinets, published
this day, with the announcement that
The author finds it necessary to inform the public, that in consequence of his bookseller’s refusal to sell this work, he
is under the necessity of becoming his own publisher.
Not in Lowndes, the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit., Watt or Allibone.
Red straight grain morocco, gilt, ornamental borders on sides, ornamental back, inside borders, marbled endpapers, g.e., probably
a presentation binding. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On the title the given names and title of the author are written in ink (not by Jefferson). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
This book is placed by Jefferson in chapter 2. In the Library of Congress 1815 and subsequent catalogues it is reclassified into chapter 24.
Presentation copy from the translator, who on May 20, 1801, wrote to Jefferson, from 5 Thavies-Inn, London (received July
28): “The great & important Situation in which you are plac’d induces me to take the Liberty to address Two Books to you--
"One consists of a collection of facts & anecdotes tending to exposed the base & unjust Measures of certain European cabinets,
whose conduct cannot fail to be view’d with horror in any country which like yours is blessed with a free Government. [see
no. 404.]
"The other is a Translation of a Work, the original of which I presume is known to you, as it is publish’d under the auspices
of the french Government & treats of those neutral rights; which are not less interesting to the united States than to the
other Nations of Europe. I hope you will do me the honor to accept these trifles. since I offer them only as a Testimony of
the respect I entertain for your character & for the sincere attachment I bear towards the united Republics of the New World.”
A postscript states that the books have been entrusted to a Mr. Carne of Falmouth, who on June 9 wrote to say that he had sent them.
Alexandre Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, Comte d’Hauterive, 1754-1830, French diplomat. De l’Etat, from which this book is translated, was Napoleon’s manifesto to the foreign nations
after the 18 brumaire and was written at his request. The first edition was published anonymously.
Lewis Goldsmith, 1763?-1846, English political writer of Portuguese-Jewish descent, was at first a supporter, later an enemy of the French
revolution.
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