First Edition. 8vo. 8 leaves without signature.
The three tracts bound together in half calf (rebacked) either for Jefferson or by the author.
By Samuel Fish is written in ink on the title of the first tract. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Sabin 24444, and Evans 30422, erroneously run the three titles together as one book, with the date 1796. The first tract is
in Trumbull-Bates, no. 2146.
The second tract could not have been printed before early 1804, as it refers to the Louisiana Purchase, and mentions Jefferson.
Some think Mr. Adams’ administration best; others that Mr. Jefferson’s is best. We are all fellow-citizens of the same country.
Let us judge the tree by the fruit . . . Some are pleased with the purchase of Louisiana and New-Orleans. Some think it worth
an immense sum of money; others think it worse than nothing. Time will determine this matter . . .
[page 49.]
The third tract likewise could not have been printed before 1805 as it contains a quotation from the
Windham Gazette
for April 11 of that year.
The tracts were sent to Jefferson by the author, and an autograph inscription on the fly-leaf dated 1806 probably refers to all three.
The inscription reads:
A present from the Author to the President the U. S. presents with the greatest humility humbly soliciting the approbation,
patronage, and kind assistance of the publishing and spreding abroad the doctrine of peace and union in the world, while we
enjoy the greatest blessing of peace, and at a time, when other nations are dreadfully involved in bloody wars; that the President,
in his exalted station, may be a promoter of peace among other nations; as well as in his own; that nations yet unborn may
rise up, and call thee blessed, for preventing the Sword being bathed in blood. Blessed are the peace makers. The Author
Columbia. Connecticut March 14
th. 1806.
Samuel Fish, fl. 1790-1806. The first edition of the
Humble Address was printed in Windham in 1790.
[1615]
J. 152
On wisdom.
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 64. no. 128, Charron on Wisdom, Eng. by Lennard, p 4to.
CHARRON,
Pierre.
Of Wisdome Three Bookes written in
French by Peter Charron Doct
r. of Lawe in Paris. Translated by Samson Lennard . . .
London: Printed for
Nathaniel Ranew and
Ionathan Robinson,
1670.
BJ1051 .C4
4to. 286 leaves collating in eights, including the engraved emblematic title, and the leaf with the Explication of the Frontispiece;
the last leaf with the publisher’s advertisement.
STC C3719.
Hazlitt II, 118.
Original sheep, new label on the back. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. Names of former owners appear:
Arthur Blackamore; Sam
l. Pond bought of Mr. Blackamore; Graves Packe 1714
; manuscript marginal notes are not by Jefferson. On the back of the title is pasted down the engraved armorial bookplate, signed
J. P. sc. [John Pine], designed and executed to be placed in the books from the library of Bishop Moore bought by George I in 1715
and presented to the University of Cambridge. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson purchased a copy of
Charron from the catalogue of
Louis Girardin on July 7, 1814.
Pierre Charron, 1541-1603, French philosopher, at first an orthodox Catholic, but later one of the founders of modern secularism.
De la Sagesse was originally published in 1601, and the sudden death of its author of apoplexy in 1603 was regarded as a judgment.
Samson Lennard, d. 1633, English genealogist and translator, published the first edition of this translation in 1612.
John Moore, 1646-1714, Bishop successively of Norwich and Ely. At his death, his library (29,000 books and 1,790 manuscripts) was sold
for six thousand guineas to King George I, who presented it to the University of Cambridge.
[1616]
J. 153
Charron of wisdom.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 64. no. 129, Charron of Wisdom, 2d and 3d books, Eng. by Stanhope, 8vo.
CHARRON,
Pierre.
[
Of Wisdom, Three Books: Written originally in
French, by the Sieur de Charron: with an account of the Author. Made
English by George Stanhope,
