126
Stewart’s Moral or Intellectual last will & testament.
p.f.
1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 62, as above,
32s.
STEWART,
John.
The Dawn of Sense. The moral or intellectual last will and testament of John Stewart, the only man of nature that ever appeared in the world.
London,
1810.
First Edition. 16mo. 248 leaves. No copy was located for collation.
John Stewart [Walking Stewart], 1749-1822, philosopher, the friend of De Quincy.
[1375]
J. 127
Condorcet sur l’esclavage des negres.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 56. no. 125, as above.
[CONDORCET,
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de.]
Réflexions sur l’Esclavage des Nègres. Par M. Schwartz, Pasteur du saint-Évangile à Bienne, Membre de la Société économique de B***. Nouvelle Edition revue & corrigée. A
Neufchatel: et se trouve à
Paris, chez
Froullé.
m. dcc. lxxxviii
. [1788.]
HT891 .C6
8vo. 50 leaves: [ ]
2, A-F
8, the last a blank.
Not in Barbier.
Quérard II, 269.
Sabin 15192.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt back. On the title Jefferson has written
par le Marquis de Condorcet. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson bought 2 copies from
Froullé on August 6, 1788, price
3. the two.
The book is entered without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, 1743-1794, French philosopher and revolutionist. This work, issued under the pseudonym of Schwartz, was originally published
in Neuchâtel in 1781.
[1376]
J. 128
Ramsay on African slaves.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 63, as above.
RAMSAY,
James.
An Essay on the Treatment and conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies. By the Reverend James Ramsay, M.A. Vicar of Teston, in Kent . . .
Dublin: Printed for
T. Walker,
C. Jenkin . . .
P. Byrne.
m. dcc.-lxxxiv.
[1784.]
HT1091 .R3
12mo. 140 leaves, the last a blank.
Sabin 67713.
Jones, page 68.
Old calf, gilt back, marbled end papers, m.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
James Ramsay, 1733-1789, Scottish divine and philanthropist. The first edition of this work, one of the most important events in the anti-slavery
movement, was published in London earlier in the same year.
[1377]
