4 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 236 leaves; vol. II, 234 leaves; vol. III, 307 leaves; vol. IV, 356 leaves; the intercalated phrase in
the title occurs in vol. III and IV; titles printed in red and black; phoenix device on the title-pages.
Barbier III, col. 821.
Quérard I, 231.
French sprinkled calf, marbled end papers, r.e.; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. Initialled by Jefferson on sig.
I and T.;
Par Bayle written in another hand on the title-page.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
7.0.
Pierre Bayle, 1647-1706, French philosopher and man of letters. The two parts of this book were originally issued separately, the first
in 1683 and the second in 1705.
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Ruines de Volnay.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 103, Ruines de Volney, 8vo.
VOLNEY,
Constantin François Chasseboeuf, comte de.
Les Ruines; ou Méditation sur les Révolutions des Empires; Par M. Volney, Député à l’Assemblée Nationale de 1789 . . . Nouvelle édition corrigée. Prix, broché
5 livres, avec trois Planches gravées.
A
Paris: chez
Desenne,
Volland,
Plassan,
1792
D16.7 .V7
8vo. 152 leaves only (should be 154, lacks B
4, 5 and the 3 plates).
This edition not in Quérard.
Original sheep. Not initialled by Jefferson; numerous marginal corrections by the author. With the Library of Congress 1815
bookplate.
This was probably a presentation copy from the author, and may have been the “
petit ouvrage” referred to in the following letter, written by Volney to Jefferson from Paris, 16 November, 1793: “j’ai l’honneur de rappeller à monsieur jefferson le souvenir d’une personne pour qui le sien est lié à des tems et des événémens
qui en ont consacré l’intéret. je le prie d’agréer un petit ouvrage qui dumoins aura le merite de ne pas le distraire longtems
de ses occupations multipliées. si cette bagatelle obtenait son suffrage, si des élémens de ce genre, developpés sur plusieurs
sujets avaient des succés en amérique, j’aurais doublement à regretter d’avoir vu m’echapper le Voyage philosophique que le
conseil m’avait chargé d’y executer.”
Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney, 1757-1820, French savant. The first edition of this book was published in Geneva in 1791. For a note on Volney see no. 133.
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Volney’s ruins.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 44, as above.
VOLNEY,
Constantin François Chasseboeuf, comte de.
The Ruins: or a survey of the Revolutions of Empires. By M. Volney. One of the Deputies of the National Assembly of 1789, and author of Travels into Syria and Egypt. Translated from the
French . . .
New-York: Printed by
William A. Davis, for
E. Duyckinck & Co.,
T. & J. Swords [and others],
1796.
12mo. 153 leaves, plates and map.
The Library of Congress copy, which may have been Jefferson’s, has been missing since January 1907.
Jefferson had also a copy of the translation started by himself and finished by Joel Barlow, first published in Paris by Levrault
in 1802. This book is entered in his manuscript catalogue, but was not sold Congress in 1815.
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