Reflections made of that Treatise in a late Socinian Pamphlet.
London: Printed by
J. H. for
Henry Mortlock,
1697.
B1294 .S8
First Edition. 8vo. 78 leaves, the last with
Mortlock’s list of books by the Bishop of Worcester; the work dated at the end from Worcester, April 26, 1697.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in Hazlitt.
Arber III, 36 (November).
STC S5557
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Edward Stillingfleet,
Bishop of Worcester, 1653-1699, engaged in a controversy with John Locke on the doctrine of the Trinity in three pamphlets, each of which was
answered by Locke.
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Bolingbroke on innate principles.
Fr.
Eng.
1815 Catalogue, page 55. no. 82, as above, 8vo.
SAINT-JOHN,
Henry, viscount bolingbroke.
Reflections concerning innate moral Principles. Written in
French by the late Lord Bolingbroke. And translated into
English.
London: Printed for
S. Bladon,
mdcclii
. [1752.]
BJ1005 .B7
First Edition. 8vo. 42 leaves: A-E
8, F
2,
French and
English text on opposite pages, last leaf defective.
Not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 613.
Contemporary tree sheep; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Henry Saint-John, Viscount Bolingbroke, 1678-1751, English statesman and political philosopher. These
Reflections are not included in the collected edition of his works, and are said to have been written for the ‘Entresol’ Club, founded
by the Abbé Alari.
The Entresol Club was founded by the Abbé Alari in 1724, and, owing to its influence on public opinion, was dissolved by Cardinal Fleury in 1751. The Club took its name from its place of meeting, in the entresol of the Hotel du Président Rénault in the Place Vendôme, where the abbé made his residence. The Club formed the embryo of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques; it met weekly, and among the members were Montesquieu, d’Argenson, the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, and other distinguished politicians and economists.
Pierre-Joseph Alari (or Alary), 1689-1770, the founder, was a French economist.
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Oeuvres de Helvetius
5. v.
8
vo.
edñ de
Deuxponts.
[ Londres
]
1781.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 98, Oeuvres d’Helvetius, 5 v 8vo edition de Deuxponts, 1781.
HELVÉTIUS,
Claude Adrien.
Oeuvres complettes de M. Helvétius. Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée sur les Manuscrits de l’Auteur, avec sa Vie & son Portrait. De l’Esprit . . . Tome
Premier [-Second.]--De l’Homme de ses Facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage Posthume de M. Helvétius . . . Tome Troisieme [-Cinquieme].
A
Londres,
m. dcc. lxxxi
. [1781.]
B2042 .A2
Together 5 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 197 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by F. D. P. after Vanloo; vol. II, 225 leaves; vol. III, 192 leaves; vol. IV, 195 leaves; vol. V, 205 leaves; titles printed in red and black; De
l’Homme ends on E
4 recto of vol. V and is followed by Le Bonheur, Poème allegorique; Lettres; Examen des critiques du livre intitulé de l’Esprit,
etc.
This edition not in Quérard.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt backs, blue silk bookmarks; initialled by him at sigs. I and T in each volume. On the fly-leaf of vol. III Jefferson has written:
57. Voltaire. lettre de Voltaire. pa. 193. 194. 195. 197. 199. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
According to Jefferson this edition was a Deux-Ponts publication.
Purchased from
Froullé on October 4, 1788, price
22.0. Entered at this price (unbound) on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Some years later, on March 23, 1802, Jefferson requested N. G. Dufief to bring him another edition from France: “
Oeuvres d’Helvetius
in petit format
. I have them in 8
vo. but wish the petit format edition.
”
The following year, on February 14, 1803, in a letter concerning books from Franklin’s library and others that he was sending,
Dufief mentioned: “. . . J’augmenterai cet envoi, d’un petit Helvetius, en 10 vol
s qui me serait parvenu de New ”
