First Edition. 8vo. in fours, 92 leaves including the last blank.
Not in Sabin.
Not in the Virginia State Library Catalogue.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled endpapers, by John March in April, 1806 (cost $1.00).
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America. The dedication contains a quotation from the
Notes on Virginia: . . . should what I have wrote be deemed Heresy. I learn from your Notes on Virginia
[
Eighth American Edition, page 215]
that I must “Be pitied, not punished.” . . .
Other references to the
Notes on Virginia occur in the text.
Joshua Peel, emigrant from England to the United States, gives biographical details in the dedication and preface. He was born at Rotherhithe,
London, on March 9, 1753, published volumes of Hymns at Whitby, Gilling and York, and with his wife and six children embarked
from Great Britain in the year 1800, arriving at Philadelphia on August 23 after a passage of about eight weeks.
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Allen’s Reason the only Oracle of man.
8
vo.
Bennington.
1784.
1815 Catalogue, page 55. no. 105, as above, without the imprint.
ALLEN,
Ethan.
Reason the only Oracle of Man, or a Compenduous System of Natural Religion. Alternately adorned with Confutations of a variety
of Doctrines incompatible to it; Deduced from the most exalted Ideas which we are able to form of the Divine and Human characters,
and from the Universe in General. By Ethan Allen, Esq
;
Bennington: State of Vermont; Printed by
Haswell & Russell,
m,dcc,lxxxiv
. [1784.]
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First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 235 leaves.
Sabin 802.
Evans 18322.
Gilman, page 6.
Spargo, page 248, no. 12.
Rebound in red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Ethan Allen, 1737-1789, Revolutionary soldier and author of Vermont, was a native of Litchfield, Connecticut.
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Palmer’s principles of nature.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 45, as above.
PALMER,
Elihu.
Principles of Nature; or, a Developement of the moral causes of Happiness and Misery among the Human Species. The
Second Edition, with the Addition of five new Chapters. By Elihu Palmer . . .
New-York. Printed in the year of the Christian Æra
1802, and in the Twenty-sixth year of American Independence. Copy Right secured according to Law.
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