Printed for
A. Millar [by
James Bettenham],
1745.--
An Appendix to the first part of the Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul . . . By the Author of the Enquiry into the
Nature of the Human Soul.
ib.
Printed for the Author, and sold by
A. Millar,
1750.
BT740 .B3
Together 3 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 220 leaves; vol. II, 224 leaves; Appendix, 144 leaves; 2 folded plates, publisher’s advertisement
on the verso of the first leaf.
Halkett and Laing II, 173.
Lowndes I, 132.
Jessop, pages 95, 96.
Rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress in 1903. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in all volumes.
Andrew Baxter, 1686-1750, Scottish philosopher. The first edition of the Enquiry was undated and appeared in October 1733. This is the
first edition of the Appendix, which is dedicated to John Wilkes.
[1245]
J. 9
Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l’homme, par Cabanis.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 59, no. 99, as above, with the reading
Rapport.
CABANIS,
Pierre Jean Georges.
Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l’Homme, Par P. J. G. Cabanis, Membre du Sénat Conservateur, de l’Institut National, de l’Ecole et Société de Médecine de Paris, de la Société Philosophique
de Philadelphie, etc . . . Tome Premier [-Second].
A
Paris: chez
Crapart,
Caille et
Ravier, de l’Imprimerie de
Crapelet, An
x
. 1802.
BF152 .C16
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 264 leaves; vol. II, 314 leaves.
Rebound in red buckram by the Library of Congress in 1929. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. 1 and 20 (corresponding to I and
T) in both volumes.
Presentation copy from the author who wrote to Jefferson from “
Auteuil près Paris, le 28 Vendémiare, an 11 de la R. F.”: “je prends la liberté de vous offrir un exemplaire d’un ouvrage que je viens de publier en france, et dont le sujet forme la
base de toutes les sciences morales. au milieu des importans objets qui vous occupent, je n’ose espérer que vous puissiez
prendre le tems de lire deux gros volumes . . . je me flatte aussi que vous n’aurez pas oublié les personnes qui ont eu le
bonheur de vous voir chez la très bonne mad
e helvétius, & chez le digne Docteur franklin. nous avons perdu mad
e helvétius; & le cit. La Roche & moi, nous occupons sa maison . . .”
Jefferson replied from Washington on July 13, 1803: “
I lately recieved your friendly letter of 28. Vendem. an. 11. with the two volumes on the relations between the Physical &
moral faculties of man. this has ever been a subject of great interest to the inquisitive mind, and it could not have got
into better hands for discussion than yours . . .
"
It is with great satisfaction too I recollect the agreeable hours I have passed with yourself and M. de la Roche, at the house
of our late excellent friend Madame Helvetius, & elsewhere and I am happy to learn you continue your residence there . . .
”
In his letter to Thomas Cooper, July 10, 1812 (see no. 1239 above), Jefferson explained: “
. . . Tracy should be preceded by a mature study of the most profound of all human compositions, Cabanis’s Rapports du Physique
et du Moral de l’homme . . .
”
In the letter to John Adams, March 14, 1820 (quoted above, no. 1244), after discussing Stewart and Destutt de Tracy, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . and Cabanis, in his Physique et Morale de l’homme, has investigated anatomically, and most ingeniously, the particular
organs in the human structure
”
