J. 121
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 56. no. 104, De l’Esprit des Religions, par Bonneville, 2 v 8vo.
BONNEVILLE,
Nicolas de.
De l’Esprit des Religions, par Nicolas Bonneville. Ouvrage promis et nécessaire a la Confédération universelle des Amis de la Vérité . . . Nouvelle Edition. A
Paris: a l’Imprimerie du
Cercle Social, et chez les principaux Libraires de l’Europe. (
1792.) L’an 4 de la Liberté--
Appendices de la
Seconde Édition de l’Esprit des Religions; pour servir a l’Entretien, a la Propagation des Bons Principes, et a la Confédération
Universelles des Amis de la Vérité. 14 Juillet (1792).
ib.
l’An 4
e. de la Liberté. [
1792]
BL48 .B6
3 parts in 2 vol.
First edition of the Appendices. 8vo. Vol. I: pt. i, 48 leaves, pt. ii; 127 leaves, diagrams in the text; vol. II, 227 leaves,
the colophon dates the book: L’an quatrième de la Liberté, et le premier de l’Egalité.
Original half binding. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Presentation copy from the author. On the half-title of vol. I is written
To M
r. Jefferson, from the author
with his initials in a monogram.
Nicolas de Bonneville, 1760-1828, French publicist and man of letters, Électeur du Département de Paris. The first edition of
De l’Esprit des Religions was printed in 1791.
[1361]
122
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 58, no. 80, Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding, 8vo.
1831 Catalogue, page 107, no. J. 106: -----, 2d v. 8vo; London, 1748.
LOCKE,
John.
An Essay concerning Human Understanding. By John Locke, Gent. The
Thirteenth Edition. Volume II.
London: Printed for
S. Birt,
D. Browne,
C. Hitch [and others],
1748.
B1290 .1748
8vo. Vol. II only. 192 leaves: A-Z, Aa
8.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Volume I of this work was either not delivered to Congress or was lost at an early date. It is marked
missing in the contemporary working copy of the 1815 catalogue and the second volume only is called for in the later catalogues.
Jefferson on occasion referred to the theories contained in this work to his correspondents. To Thomas Cooper, answering a
letter from him on fanaticism, Jefferson wrote on August 14, 1820: “
. . . altho’ spiritualism is most prevalent with all these sects, yet with none of them, I presume, is materialism declared
heretical. m
(
~
r)
Locke, on whose authority they often plume themselves, openly maintained the materialism of the soul; and charged with blasphemy
those who denied that it was in the power of an almightly
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
creator to endow with the faculty of thought any composition of matter he might think fit . . .”
Again, to August B. Woodward, on March 24, 1824 Jefferson wrote: “
. . . the modern philosophers mostly consider thought as a function of our material organisation; and Locke particularly among
them charges with blasphemy those who deny that Omnipotence could give the faculty of thinking to certain combinations of
matter . . .
”
Jefferson ranked Locke with Bacon and Newton as “
the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception.” [Letter to John Trumbull, February 15, 1789.]
John Locke, 1632-1704, English philosopher.
A copy of the edition of 1700 in folio, initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T, is in the library of Dr. Joseph E. Fields, of Joliet, Illinois.
