J. 100
Bacon’s Essays.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 55. no. 53, as above.
BACON,
Sir Francis, viscount st. albans.
The Essays, or Counsels, civil, & moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St-Alban: whereunto is added by himself A Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. Enlarged in many
Places, since the first Edition, by the Honourable Authour himself; and now more exactly published then formerly. To which
is prefixed A Preliminary Discourse containing sundry remarkable Memoirs concerning this Noble Authour, his Works, and particularly
this of his Essaies.
London: Printed by
J. Redmayne for
Thomas Palmer,
1663.
PR2206 .A3
12mo. 193 leaves only, lacks the portrait (collates A
2, with catchword
A Prelim, B-R
12);
Of the Colovrs of good and evil begins on P
11 with separate pagination.
STC B284.
This issue not in Lowndes, Hazlitt, or the
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt back, marbled end papers, sprinkled edges, by March. Initialled by Jefferson at sig.
I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
9d.
Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, 1561-1626, Lord Chancellor of England. The original edition of the
Essayes was published in 1597, and contained ten essays only. The first edition in this form, with fifty-eight essays, appeared in
1625. Thomas Palmer’s edition is usually dated 1664; the Imprimatur is dated June 6, 1663.
[1339]
J. 101
Breviaire des Politiques de De Salmoren.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 56. no. 114, Breviaire des Politiques, par de Salmozen, 8vo.
GALLIEN
de SALMORENC.
La Breviaire des Politiques. Par M. Gallien de Salmorenc, ancien secretaire de la residence de France pres la Republique de Geneve . . . A
Londres: chez
J. Robson,
P. Elmsley. De l’Imprimerie de
G. Scott,
1769.
PQ1985 .G36 B7
First Edition. 8vo. 76 leaves: *
4, A-S
4.
Not in Brunet.
Not in Quérard.
Calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
9.0.
At the beginning is an
Epitre Dedicatoire in verse, addressed to M. de Voltaire.
[1340]
J. 102
Essais de Montaigne. 2
d & 3
d vols.
16
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 52, Essais de Montaigne, 3 v 12mo, Bruxelles, 1659.
MONTAIGNE,
Michel Eyquem de.
Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne: Nouuelle Edition. Livre Second [-Troisieme] . . . A
Paris: chez
Lavrent Rondet,
Christophe Iovrnel et
Robert Chevillion,
m.dc.lxix
. [1669.]
PQ1641 .A1
