2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 120 leaves, the last a blank; vol. II 118 leaves.
Barbier II, 1340.
Quérard I, 86.
Bound for Jefferson in French mottled calf, marbled endpapers, r.e., blue silk book marks. Initialled by Jefferson at sig.
I in both volumes. On the title of vol. I in a contemporary hand in ink is written:
Par René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d’Argenson, and the name
Michel supplied before
Montagne. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Bought from
Froullé on August 30, 1787, price
6. broché. Entered without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d’Argenson, 1694-1757, French lawyer. The
Essais dans le gout de ceux de Montagne was published posthumously in 1785 by Argenson’s son, and reprinted with the later title as above in 1787.
[1350]
J. 112
Le Bonnet de nuit de Mercier.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 120, as above.
MERCIER,
Louis Sebastien.
Mon Bonnet de Nuit. Par M. Mercier . . . Tome Premier [-IV]. A
Neuchatel: de l’Imprimerie de
la Société Typographique [vol. II se vend a
Versaille, chez
Poinçot, vol. III and IV a
Lausanne: chez
Jean-Pierre Heubach et Comp.]
m.dcc.lxxxiv-v
. [1784-5.]
PQ2007 .M6 A75
4 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 202 leaves; vol. II, 206 leaves; vol. III, 181 leaves; vol. IV, 174 leaves.
French mottled calf, gilt backs, marbled end papers, m.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
7-0.
Louis Sebastien Mercier, 1740-1814, French man of letters, was a resident of Switzerland at the time of the publication of this book, having lived
there from 1781 to the time of the French Revolution.
[1351]
J. 113
L’an 2440. de Mercier.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 121, as above.
[MERCIER,
Louis Sebastien.]
L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante. Rêve s’il en fût jamais . . . A
Londres,
mdcclxxi
. [
Paris, 1771.]
PQ2007 .M6 A62
First Edition. 8vo. 212 leaves.
Barbier I, col. 161.
Quérard VI, 58.
Rebound in brown buckram by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Par Mercier is written on the title-page in an early nineteenth century hand.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
7-0.
Jefferson mentioned this book in a letter to Mrs. Abigail Adams written from Monticello on January 11, 1817: “
. . . Mercier has given us a vision of the year 2440. but prophecy is one thing, history another . . .”
[1352]
J. 114
Lettres de Brutus. par Mercier.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 122, as above.
[DELISLE
de SALES, Jean Claude Izouard,
called.]
Lettre de Brutus, sur les Chars anciens et modernes . . . A
Londres.
m. dcc. lxxi
. [
Paris, 1771.]
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