J. 121
Answers to Burke by Priestly and Mackintosh.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 148, Answers to Burke, by Priestly and M’Intosh, 8vo.
PRIESTLEY,
Joseph.
Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c. The
third edition, corrected. By Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S. . . .
Birmingham: printed;
New-York: re-printed by
Hugh Gaine . . .
m,dcc,xci
. [1791.]
DC150 .B9 P72
8vo. 40 leaves in fours.
Evans 23716.
Ford, Journals of Hugh Gaine, I, page 164.
Fulton and Peters, page 15.
Bound for Jefferson in sheep, a red label on the back lettered
Answers to Burke, and a later label added with the names of the two authors included in the volume:
Priestley /
and /
Mackintosh /[.] Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
This pamphlet, in which Priestley vindicated the principles of the French Revolution, was first published in Birmingham on
January 1, 1791.
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With this is bound:
MACKINTOSH,
Sir James.
Vindiciæ Gallicæ. Defence of the French Revolution and its English admirers against the accusations of The Right Hon. Edmund
Burke; including some strictures on the late production of Mons. de Calonne. By James Mackintosh.--[The French Constitution, revised, amended, and finally decreed, by the National Assembly. Presented to the King on the
3d, and accepted by him on the 13th of September, 1791.]
Philadelphia: Printed by
William Young,
m,dcc,xcii-i
. [1792, 1.]
8vo. 2 parts in 1. 88 and 14 leaves in fours, separate title-pages, signatures and pagination;
Young’s advertisement, dated April 9, 1792, on the verso of the last
leaf of the first tract.
Presented to Jefferson by John Brown Cutting with an inscription in his handwriting on the title-page:
Mr Jefferson from his respectful aff[ ]
and most obed
t. ser
t. J. B. C
[the rest cut off by the binder].
Sir James Mackintosh, 1765-1832, Scottish philosopher. This tract was considered one of the most effective defences of the Whig sympathizers of
the Revolution. The first English edition was published in April 1791, and contains passages suppressed from the later editions.
All copies do not have the French Constitution at the end.
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J. 122
Sur l’administration de M. Necker. par luimeme.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 124, as above.
NECKER,
Jacques.
Sur l’administration de M. Necker. Par lui-même . . . Prix
4 liv. 10 sols.
A
Paris:
Hôtel de Thou,
1791.
HJ1082 .N8
8vo. 240 leaves, including the half-title.
This edition not in Quérard.
Not in McCulloch.
Palgrave III, 14.
Rebound in buckram in 1944 and the proofs of provenance removed. Not initialled by Jefferson.
For a note on Necker see no. 2437.
The first edition was published in Amsterdam earlier in the same year.
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