périté, et de rendre le sort des Nègres préférable à celui d’aucun peuple de l’Europe. Par M. Barré Saint-Venant, ancien capitaine d’artillerie, ex-lieutenant-colonel de cavalerie, membre et correspondant de plusieurs sociétés savantes,
et Colon de Saint-Domingue. A
Paris: chez
Brochot père et compagnie [De l’imprimerie d’
Ant. Bailleul], An
X. (
1802.)
JV201 .B3
First Edition. 8vo. 268 leaves, including one for the errata list, folded table, map, printer’s imprint at the end.
Quérard I, 192.
Sabin 3592.
Not in Hazard.
Bissainthe 4608.
This may be Jefferson’s copy, but it is not initialled by him, and any marks of provenance have been lost in rebinding.
Purchased by Jefferson from
Reibelt, Baltimore, on December 24, 1804, price $
2.50.
Jean Barré Saint-Venant, 1757-1810, was sent with his regiment to St. Domingo, where he remained for some years, and was made a member of the chambers
of agriculture and of the commerce of the colonies. On his return to France he became a member of the Société d’Agriculture
de Department de la Seine, of which Jefferson was an honorary member.
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119
Brougham: on the Colonial policy of Europe.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 233, as above.
BROUGHAM,
Henry Peter, baron brougham and vaux.
An inquiry into the colonial policy of the European Powers. In
two volumes. By Henry Brougham Jun. Esq. F.R.S. Vol. I [-II].
Edinburgh: printed by
D. Willison for
E. Balfour,
Manners & Miller, and
Archibald Constable; and
T. N. Longman &
O. Rees,
London,
1803.
JV171 .B8
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 196 leaves, vol. II, 197 leaves, printer’s imprint at the end of each volume.
Lowndes I, 284.
Sabin 8409.
McCulloch, page 92.
Thomas, no. 3.
Jefferson purchased a copy in 1804; it is included in a list of books in his handwriting purchased in that year (in the Jefferson papers in the Library of Congress).
Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1778-1868, Lord Chancellor. This work, written before he was of age, relates largely to America, and contains résumés of
the colonial policies of the various European governments.
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J. 120
Calonne d l’etat de la France present et a venir.
8
vo.
Lond.
1790.
1815 Catalogue, page 95. no. 123, Colonne de l’etat de la France, present et a venir, 8vo, 1790.
CALONNE,
Charles Alexandre de.
De l’état de la France, présent & à venir. Par M. de Calonne, Ministre d’Etat . . . A
Londres: de l’imprimerie de
T. Spilsbury & fils,
Octobre 1790.
JN2485 1790 .C32
First Edition. 8vo. 240 leaves, with the starred signatures G and I.
Contemporary tree sheep; not initialled by Jefferson; a correction in ink on page xv. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
A copy in the Rare Books Division in the Library of Congress in the original boards has on the inside cover an autograph inscription by William Temple Franklin reading:
M
r. Adams is desired after perusing this Work to lend it to M
r. Jefferson and M
r. Sec
y. Hamilton. W. T. F.
For a note on Calonne see no. 2303.
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