8 leaves.
The copy in the Library of Congress, which in all probability was this one from Jefferson’s library, has disappeared. The
first word of the title was mutilated by trimming.
The subject of the pamphlet was a prize offer for the solution of a
problema:
Pro omni possibili instrumentorum specie, quibus quis se obstringere, suumue dominium in alterum, quibuscunque ex motiuis
& quibuscunque subconditionibus transferre potest, formulas tales inuenire, quae omnibus casibus indiuiduis conueniant, atque
in quouis casu singulis duntaxat terminis, iisque peruulgatis expleri opus habeant, qui termini, aeque ac ipsae formularum,
expressiones eiusmodi sint, vt, quemadmodum in mathesi, nullum dubium, nullum litigum locum habeat.
Reichsgraf, Joseph Niklas Windisch-Grätz, 1744-1802, German writer.
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Sur l’etat primitif de l’homme, le desir de l’immortalité et l’heroisme.
v. [
Peyroux de La Coudreniere.]
Lettres sur l’État primitif de l’Homme; jusqu’a la naissance de l’Esclavage; sur le Désir de l’Immortalité, et sur l’Héroisme
militaire. Par M. P. D. L. C. Nouvelle Édition.
A
Amsterdam: et se trouve à
Paris, chez
Royez,
m.dcc.lxxxv
. [1785.]
CB301 .P4
27 leaves: a
4, A
2-8, B-C
8; the text is perfect, the missing leaf in sig. A is probably a half-title.
Not in Barbier.
Sabin 61319.
Unbound. The name
M. Peyroux de la Coudreniere is inserted in ink by Jefferson below the initials on the title.
For the first edition see no. 1378.
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Enquiry into the effects of stopping the African slave trade.
vi. [RAMSAY,
James.]
An Inquiry into the Effects of putting a stop to the African Slave Trade, and of granting Liberty to the Slaves in the British
Sugar Colonies. By the Author of The Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies.
London: Printed and Sold by
James Phillips,
1784.
HT1162 .R28
First Edition. 22 leaves.
Halkett and Laing III, 156.
Sabin 67715.
Ragatz 541.
James Ramsay, 1733-1789, Scottish divine and philanthropist, held livings in the West Indies for a number of years. This work is dated
at the end August 10, 1784. For the
Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies
, see no. 1377.
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Benezet’s caution to Gr. Brit. & her colonies on y
e enslav
d negroes.
vii. BENEZET,
Anthony.
A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved negroes in
the British Dominions. A New Edition. By Anthony Benezet.
Philadelphia printed:
London reprinted and sold by
James Phillips,
1785.
HT1091 .B4 1785
24 leaves; the last with the publisher’s advertisement.
Sabin 4670.
Smith, page 241.
Anthony Benezet, 1713-1784, was born in France, lived in England, and emigrated to America in 1731. He was a member of the Society of Friends,
and interested himself in the negro slaves of America. His pamphlets on the subject were published at his own expense, and
it was through their perusal that Clarkson first took an interest in the emancipation of the negroes. The first edition of
this pamphlet was printed in Philadelphia in 1766.
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