“With this I send you a copy of the History of the Life of our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ &c. which I hope you will find
interesting and instructive, equal to your expectations.
"You have no doubt learned the liberty I have taken, of publishing your kind favor to me; for which I feel bound to offer
no apology, conscious that it would do honor to the Head and Heart, of any Man on Earth . . .”
Jefferson acknowledged the receipt of the book in a letter dated from Washington March 13, 1805: “
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the rev
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Pryce, acknoleges the reciept of his book, and prays him to inform him of the price, and whether to remit it to himself or
to pay it to any one here. he is in the moment of a short visit to Monticello; but m
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Pryce’s note will find him in either place.”
Pryce replied from Wilmington on March 20, that the price was $
4.00.
On July 15, 1805, Pryce wrote to Jefferson: “. . . I take it for granted that some accident has happened my letter, or your answer, but it would be satisfactory to know
which . . .”
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Newman’s Concordance.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 66. no. 174, as above, with the reading
Neuman’s.
NEWMAN,
Samuel.
A large and complete Concordance to the Bible, in
English, according to the last Translation. (A like work formerly performed by Clement Cotton.) Now this second impression corrected
and amended in many things formerly omitted, for the good both of Scholars and others: far exceeding the most perfect that
ever was extant in our Language, both in ground-work and building. By Samuel Newman, now teacher of the Church at Rehoboth in New-England . . .
London: Printed for
Thomas Downes, and
Andrew Crook,
1650.
BS425 .N5
Folio. 676 leaves collating in sixes.
Not in Lowndes.
STC N929.
This edition not in Sprague.
Original binding of boards covered with calf of which only the back remains, 2 leaves from a Koberger Biblia [?1480] as end
leaves. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Samuel Newman, 1600-1663, English non-conformist clergyman, emigrated to New England in 1636 and in 1644 became the first minister of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts. The first edition of his Concordance was printed in London in 1643. The
Advertisement to the Christian Reader is signed by Daniel Featley (1582-1645), English controversialist. The first complete edition of Clement Cotton’s
Concordance
was published in London in 1631.
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Cruden’s Concordance.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 64. no. 157, as above.
CRUDEN,
Alexander.
A Complete Corcordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament: in two Parts . . . By Alexander Cruden, M.A. . . .
London: Printed for
D. Midwinter,
A. Bettesworth and
C. Hitch [and others],
1738.
BS425 .C8
