J. 20
Hutchinson’s ideas of beauty & virtue.
8
vo.
2 copies.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 89, as above, omitting 2 copies.
[HUTCHESON,
Francis.]
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. In Two Treatises. I. Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design.
II. Concerning Moral Good and Evil. The
Fifth Edition, Corrected . . .
London: Printed for
R. Ware,
J. and P. Knapton,
T. and T. Longman,
C. Hitch [and others],
1753.
BJ604 .H8
8vo. 168 leaves, publishers’ advertisement on the last.
Halkett and Laing III, page 157.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 947.
Jessop, page 144.
Contemporary sheep, gilt line borders on the sides. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
From the library of Reuben Skelton, with his bookplate.
The first edition was published in 1725, the dedication to John, Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, reprinted in this
edition, dated from Dublin June 19, 1725.
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J. 21
id.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 113, Shaftesbury’s Characteristics, 3 v 8
vo
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
COOPER,
Anthony Ashley, earl of shaftesbury.
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In
Three Volumes. The
Second Edition corrected. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury.
m. dcc. xiv
. [
London: Printed by
John Darby, 1714,
15.]
B1385 .A3 R6
3 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 118 leaves; vol. II, 222 leaves; vol. III, 210 leaves: engraved vignettes on the titles, engraved portrait
and headpieces by Sim. Gribelin; the portrait and title to vol. I backed, some leaves repaired. Printer’s imprint at the end dated M. DCC. XV.
Rebound in half red morocco, by the Library of Congress with the Library 1815 bookplates preserved. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I and T in each volume[.] Passages marked in pencil by another hand.
Jefferson’s entry in his manuscript catalogue as above refers to the previous entries which call for
Shaftesbury’s characteristics.
Foul. 3. v. 12
mo.--id. 3 v. 16
s.
. Neither of these editions was sold to Congress.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, 1671-1713. The first edition of this book was published in 1711.
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J. 22
Fable of the Bees.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 100, as above,
2d v 8vo.
[MANDEVILLE,
Bernard.]
The Fable of the Bees. Part II. By the Author of the First . . .
London: Printed and Sold by
J. Roberts,
1729.
BJ1520 .M4
First Edition. 8vo. vol. II only. 245 leaves: A
4, a-c
4, d
1, B-Z, Aa-Ff
8, Gg
4.
Halkett and Laing II, 248.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 599.
Seligman V, 94.
Rebound in brown buckram by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Jefferson’s entry calls for both volumes of the work; only the second was received by Congress in 1815.
Bernard Mandeville, 1670?-1733, a native of Holland who settled in England. The first part of this work, which is in the form of a dialogue,
was published in 1714, and frequently reprinted. This is the first edition of the second part, the preface dated from London,
October 20, 1728.
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