8vo. 236 leaves.
Rebound in half brown morocco with the 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in the first book.
Gilbert West, 1703-1736, English author. The original edition of this work, frequently reprinted, was published in Dublin in 1747.
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With this is bound:
[LYTTELTON,
George, baron Lyttelton.]
Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul. In a Letter to Gilbert West, Esq; The
Fourth Edition.
London: Printed for
R. Dodsley, and sold by
M. Cooper,
1749.
8vo. 56 leaves.
Halkett and Laing IV, 219.
This edition not in Lowndes.
The author’s name written in ink on the title-page (not by Jefferson). Not initialled by Jefferson (whose initials occur in West’s
Observations
above).
George Lyttelton, First Baron Lyttelton, 1709-1773, was a friend of Gilbert West to whom this letter, first published anonymously in 1747 and frequently reprinted,
is addressed.
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J. 167
Donne on Self-homicide.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 64. no. 130, as above.
DONNE,
John.
βιαθανατος. A Declaration of that Paradox, or Thesis, that Self-Homicide is not so naturally Sin, that it may never be Otherwise.
Wherein, The Nature, and the Extent of all those Laws, which seem to be Violated by this Act, are Diligently Surveyed. Written
by John Donne; who afterwards Received Orders from the Church of England; and died Dean of St. Paul’s, London . . .
London: Printed in the Year,
1700.
HV6544 .D7 1700
8vo. 116 leaves including the last blank, collating in eights.
Lowndes II, 661.
STC D1860.
Keynes, no. 49.
Old calf (repaired), gilt ornaments on the back. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
John Donne, 1574-1631, English poet and divine, Dean of St. Paul’s. This work was first published in 1644.
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J. 168
Traité de Suicide par Jean Dumas.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 68. no. 131, as above.
DUMAS,
Jean.
Traité du suicide ou du meurtre volontaire de soi-meme. Par Jean Dumas . . . A
Amsterdam: chez
D. J. Changuion,
mdcclxxiii
. [1773]
HV6544 .D8
First Edition[.] 8vo. 230 leaves, the last a blank, the penultimate with
Fautes a corriger, engraved vignette on the title-page.
Quérard II, 66.
Haag V, 398.
Calf, gilt line borders, gilt ornaments on the back, blue silk bookmark. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of
Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jean Dumas, 1725-1799, Protestant theologian.
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