12mo. 282 leaves, engraved frontispiece, Sphere device on the printed title.
Old calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the library of John Carey, who has written on the back of the frontispiece:
Si vous prenez la peine de lire les Calomies du lache menteur Maimbourg, prenez aussi celle de lire la critique generale de
cette histoire, imprimée a Villefranche l’an 1683. J. Carey, 1787
. Other manuscript notes in an earlier hand occur, including the name Houquiers.
Louis Maimbourg, 1610-1683, French Jesuit and historian.
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J. 102
Critique de l’hist. du Calvinisme de Maimb. par Bayle.
16
s.
Ville-Franche.
1683.
1815 Catalogue, page 64. no. 45, as above.
[BAYLE,
Pierre.]
Critique générale de l’histoire du Calvinisme de M
r Maimbourg.
Seconde édition. Revûë & beaucoup augmentée [-Tome second].
A
Ville-Franche: chez
Pierre le Blanc,
mdclxxxiii
. [1683]
BX9421 .M3 B3
12mo. 2 vol. in 1, with continuous signatures and pagination; 347 leaves collating in twelves; the title page for the Tome
Second on an unsigned leaf following R
12.
Barbier I, 824.
aag II, 64.
Not in Quérard.
Rebound in half red morocco, with the original sprinkled edges, red silk bookmark. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Par M
r Bayle
written on the title-page, some passages underscored.
Pierre Bayle, 1647-1706, French philosopher and man of letters. The first edition of this work was published in 1683. For Maimbourg’s
Histoire du Calvinisme
, and John Carey’s manuscript reference to Bayle’s book see the previous entry.
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J. 103
Witherspoon’s works.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 69. no. 144, as above.
WITHERSPOON,
John.
The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D. L.L.D. late President of the College, at Princeton New-Jersey. To which is prefixed An account of the author’s life,
in a sermon occasioned by his death, by the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, of New York. In
three volumes. Vol. I [-II].
Philadelphia: Printed and published by
William W. Woodward,
1800. [Copy Right Secured.]
BX8915 .W5
First Edition. 8vo. Vol. I and II only. 304 and 316 leaves collating in fours.
Original tree sheep. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
John Witherspoon, 1723-1794, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Scotland. In 1768 he accepted the Presidency of the College
of New Jersey, and came to America. It was Witherspoon who, in 1781, noting the differences in the English language as spoken
in America, coined the word “Americanism”.
John Rodgers, 1727-1811, Presbyterian clergyman.
Jefferson had only the first two volumes. The title-page calls for three, though the complete work is in four volumes. Volume
IV was added in 1801, too late to change the title-pages on the other three.
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