en Théologie, Principal du Collége d’Andrinople . . . Premier [-Seconde] Partie. A
Londres
mdcclxxx
.
BP160 .C5
First Edition. 2 parts in 1. 12mo. 98 and 244 leaves, with continuous signatures and pagination; the second part has two starred
signatures inserted between O and P (O
*12, O
**9) with starred pagination; the title of the second part is on I
1 and differs from that of the first.
Not in Barbier.
Quérard II, page 230.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt back, marbled end papers; initialled by Jefferson in sig. I
2 (the title for part II being on I
1), and with
le baron Clootz written in ink on the title-page, not by him. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson bought a copy in 2 volumes, bound, from
Froullé on September 24, 1787, price
9. It is entered on his undated manuscript catalogue at this price, plus 1.10;
10.10 in all, the additional 1.10 being probably for the binding in 1 volume.
Jean Baptiste, Baron de Cloots,
known as
Anacharsis Cloots, 1755-1794 (in which year he was executed) German Utopian, was a noteworthy figure in the French Revolution. The pseudonym
Ali-Gier-Ber was an anagram of Bergier whose
La certitude des preuves du Christianisme
, 1768 was parodied in this work.
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58
Traité des trois Imposteurs.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 50, as above.
This book was either not delivered to the Library of Congress, or disappeared at an early date. In the contemporary working
copy of the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue it is not checked as having been received, and the entry is omitted from the
later catalogues. Jefferson’s copy was a duodecimo, it seems probable therefore that it was of the edition printed
En
Suisse, de l’Imprimerie Philosophique
, 1793. The work was put on the Index in 1783.
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J. 59
Analyse de l’Origine des cultes de Dupuis, par Tracy.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 55. no. 111, Analyse de l’Origine des Cuttes, de Dupuis, par Tracey, 8vo.
[DESTUTT
de TRACY, Antoine Louis Claude, comte.]
Analyse raisonnée de l’Origine de tous les Cultes, ou religion Universelle; Ouvrage publié en l’an III, par Dupuis, citoyen
français.
A
Paris: chez
Courcier, An
xii
. 1804.
BL75 .D4
First Edition. 8vo. 109 leaves, including a leaf of errata, inserted in this copy in duplicate between pages 38 and 39, F
4 and F
5.
Barbier I, col. 171.
Quérard II, page 539.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled end-papers; not signed by Jefferson. With the Library
of Congress bookplate.
This book was sent by the author to Jefferson and acknowledged by him in the letter written on February 14, 1806, in which
he thanked Destutt de Tracy for his volumes on
Idéologie
, sent on February 21, 1804 (no. 1239): “
I have to return you my thanks for . . . the two first parts of your work on Ideologie, & of the Analysis of Dupuis. both
are on subjects highly interesting.
”
In the letter to John Adams, written from Poplar Forest on November 25, 1816, in which he mentioned that Destutt de Tracy
had become blind so that he was no longer able to compose anything, Jefferson gave a list of his works, and added: “
his Analyse de Dupuys he does not avow.”
For a note on Destutt de Tracy see no. 1239. The
Origine de tous les cultes by Charles François Dupuis was first published in an III (1796), 4 vol. 4to.
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60
Locke’s conduct of the mind in search after truth.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 25, as above.
This book was probably not delivered to Congress in 1815. The entry is not checked, but is marked
missing in the contemporary working copy of the 1815 catalogue and is omitted from the later catalogues.
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