First Collected Edition. Vol. I-III only. 12mo. vol. I, 185 leaves; vol. II, 193 leaves; vol. III, 216 leaves, collating in alternate
eights and fours, engraved frontispieces and plates.
Dieckmann, Bibliographical data on Diderot, no. 11.
Original French mottled calf, gilt backs (scorched), marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. From the title-page of each volume
the portion containing the words
et dramatiques has been neatly cut away and repaired with blank paper, so that the title reads:
Oeuvres Philosophiques de Diderot. On the title for
Principes de la Philosophie ou Essais de M. S***
, the name
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3d Earl of Shaftesbury is supplied in ink; vol. II and III with the numerals 2. 3. written in ink below the imprint. Initialled by Jefferson in all volumes. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
Entered without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Denis Diderot, 1713-1784, French man of letters, philosopher and encyclopedist. The complete work described above was in 6 volumes.
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J. 26
Philosophie de la nature.
3. v.
12
mo.
par de Lisle.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 43, as above.
[DELISLE
de SALES, Jean Claude Izouard,
called.]
De la Philosophie de la Nature . . . Tome Premier [-Troisième]. A
Amsterdam: chez
Arkstée & Merkus,
m.dcc.lxx
. [1770.]
BD581 .D3
First Edition. 3 vol. 12mo. Vol. I, 235 leaves; vol. II, 281 leaves; vol. III, 246 leaves; engraved frontispiece by Fessard in each volume.
Barbier III, col. 876.
Quérard II, 457 (with date 1769).
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress in 1901. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On the half-title of vol. I Jefferson has written:
Par de Lisle, voyez Lettres de Voltaire au roy de Prusse. 3. pa. 284. 287. 304. 306[
.]
308.
On the title-page is written in ink (not by Jefferson)
Par J. B. Claude Isouard de Lisle de Sales.
Jean Claude Izouard,
called
Delisle de Sales, 1741-1816, French philosopher.
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J. 27
Philosophie de l’Univers par Dupont.
8
vo.
2. copies.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 102, as above, omitting
2 copies.
[DUPONT
de NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel.]
Philosophie de I’Univers
[
sic
--
Ed.
] . . .
Second Édition corrigée et augmentée.
A
Paris: de l’Imprimerie de
Du Pont, Fructidor.=An
IV [1796].
B2019 .D83 P5
8vo. 152 leaves, the last a blank.
Barbier III, col. 876.
Quérard II, page 707.
Schelle page 421, no. 64.
Original tree calf. Not initialled by Jefferson.
par Dupont written in ink on the title-page. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Presentation copy from the author who has written on the half-title:
A Jefferson / Président du Senat des Etats unis / d’Amérique / de la part / de l’Auteur / Du Pont (de Nemours) /
The book was sent to Jefferson with the letter written from Paris, 10 Fructidor de l’an 6, in which Dupont de Nemours announced
his forthcoming voyage to the United States: “Je vous envoie . . . ma
philosophie que, je l’espere, ne déplaira point à la votre.”
In a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph from Philadelphia on January 17, 1799, Jefferson wrote of Dupont de Nemours that he “
always considered him as the ablest man in France.”
Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1739-1817, French philosopher, emigrated to America in 1799, landing at Newport, Rhode Island on January 1, 1800. He was
a close friend of Jefferson with whom he was in constant correspondence.
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