First Edition. 8vo. 46 leaves: [ ]
2, B-H
4, [ ]
1, A-B
4, [ ]
1, A
6; the second and third alphabets for Reports on the new academical institution; the recto of the second leaf (verso blank)
has
Cadell’s advertisement of 2 books just published by the same author; the
last leaf with
Cadell’s list of books (XII numbered) by the same author.
These pamphlets were probably sent to Jefferson by the author with his other sermons and pamphlets, q.v. The two
Reports are listed as separate entries by Jefferson on the fly-leaf.
An undated letter from Price to Jefferson reads: “Dr Price presents his best respects to Mr Jefferson and takes the liberty to introduce to him (Mr Ashburnham) the young person
who is the bearer of this note . . . The Book and the Pamphlet w
ch. accompany this note Dr Price presents to Mr Jefferson not from any opinion of their value, but merely as a testimony of
the high respect which he always feels for Mr Jefferson, and of his gratitude to him for the satisfaction and instruction
he has received from Mr Jefferson’s
Notes on the State of Virginia
.”
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Trial of Elwall for heresy & blasphemy.
vii. [PRIESTLEY,
Joseph.]
The Triumph of Truth; being an account of the trial of Mr. E. Elwall, for heresy and blasphemy, at Stafford Assizes, before
Judge Denton. To which are added, Extracts from William Penn’s Sandy Foundation Shaken. And a few additional illustrations.
By the Author of An Appeal to the serious and candid Professors of Christianity. &c. The
second edition . . .
London: Printed for
J. Johnson. [Price
one penny.] n.d.
12mo. 12 leaves; advertisement on the verso of the title-leaf.
Halkett and Laing VI, 102.
Fulton and Peters,
Addenda, page vi.
Edward Elwall, 1676-1744, English Sabbatarian, published in 1724
A True Testimony for God
, which led eventually to his prosecution for blasphemy. This tract by Priestley served to keep alive Elwall’s name, and became
a stock tract with the unitarians.
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J. 118
Philo Judaeus.
Gr.
Lat. Pfeiffer.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 67. no. 91, as above.
PHILO
Judaeus.
Philonis Ivdaei Opera Omnia
Graece et
Latine ad Editionem Thomae Mangey collatis aliqvot MSS. edenda cvravit Avgvstvs Fridericvs Pfeiffer . . . Vol. I [-IV].
Erlangae: svmtv
Wolfgangi Waltheri, [
Norimbergae, Typis
Stiebnerianis]
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PA4268 .A2
4 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 236 leaves; vol. II, 237 leaves; vol. III, 263 leaves; vol. IV, 223 leaves.
Greek and
Latin text on opposite pages; printer’s imprint at end of each volume.
Graesse V, 269.
Goodhart and Goodenough, no. 407.
Originally bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt vase ornaments on the back; vol. III in this binding, with remains of the 1815
bookplate; vol. I, II, and IV rebound in ruby buckram by the Library of Congress.
Purchased by Jefferson from
Armand Koenig of Strassburg. Ordered in a letter dated from Paris June 29, 1789; sent from Strassburg on July 8; price
28 livres. Entered without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
Philo Judaeus, fl. B.C. 20-A.D. 20, Jewish philosopher.
Thomas Mangey, 1688-1755, English divine. His first edition of Philo was published in London in 1742, 2 vol. folio.
August Friedrich Pfeiffer, 1748-1817, German scholar. This is his first edition of Mangey’s Philo; a fifth volume was published in 1792.
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