First Edition. 12mo. 88 leaves collating in sixes; title for the
Letter to Mr. Channing on 12
2, separate pagination.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back and a red morocco label lettered
English’s /
Letters /
to /
Cary & /
Channing, marbled end papers, white silk bookmark. Initialled by Jefferson with a T at sig. 1*. The front end papers have been pasted
down, and probably conceal the 1815 bookplate.
William Ellery Channing, 1780-1814, Unitarian Congregational minister, published the two sermons on Infidelity in the same year, 1813.
[1710]
J. 186
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 63. no. 92, Buchannan’s Eras of Light and Christian Researches in Asia, 8vo.
BUCHANAN,
Claudius.
Two Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810. And a Sermon preached before
the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at their tenth anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are added Christian Researches
in Asia. By the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D. Late vice-provost of the College of Fort-William in Bengal.
Cambridge, (Eng.). Printed at the
University Press.
Boston: Reprinted and sold by
Samuel T. Armstrong,
1811.
DS12 .B8
8vo. 132 leaves: [ ]
4, 2-33
4, title for
Christian Researches on 11
4, printer’s imprint at the end, on the recto of the second leaf is printed:
The profits of this Work will be devoted to Missionary Purposes; publisher’s advertisement on the verso.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Not in Sabin.
Original sheep. Signed at the foot of the title-page by Jefferson, who has inserted in ink the signature 1, and his initial T before it. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
The gift of Robert Patterson, who wrote to Jefferson from Philadelphia on November 11, 1811: “Presuming that you may not as yet have seen a little tract, by Doctor Buchanan, on “Christian Researches in Asia”, lately
republished in Boston; and not doubting that you would find it highly interesting, I have taken the liberty of sending you
a copy, of which I most respectfully request your acceptance . . .”
Claudius Buchanan, 1766-1815, Church of England clergyman, was a native of Cambuslang near Glasgow. In 1796 he was appointed to a chaplaincy
in Bengal, and in 1799 became vice-provost of the college of Fort William.
[1711]
J. 187
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 65. no. 99, Furneaux’ letters to Blackstone on Toleration and Religious Liberty, 8vo.
FURNEAUX,
Philip.
Letters to the Honourable Mr. Justice Blackstone, concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative
to Religious Liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the Laws of England. By Philip Furneaux, D.D. The
Second edition with Additions, and an Appendix, containing authentic copies of the Argument of the late Honourable Mr. Justice Foster
in the Court of Judges
