2 vol. in 1. 8vo. Vol. I, 148 leaves; vol. II, 191 leaves.
Lowndes V, 2838 (the London edition only).
This edition not in Marvin.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 180, 13.
Calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I in vol. I, and at I and T in vol. II.
Robert Ward, later Robert Plumer Ward, 1765-1846, English politician and novelist. This book on international law was his first publication
and was originally printed in London in the same year, 1795. Ward added the surname Plumer to his name in 1828 on his marriage
to Mrs. Plumer Lewin.
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Treaties. viz. Portugal & Russia.
1787. Spain & Algiers.
1786. France & Gr. Britain.
1786.--France & Russia.
1787.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 61. no. 46, Treaties of Portugal, Russia, Spain, Algiers, France and Great Britain of 1786, 7, 4to.
Jefferson’s copy of the collection of treaties listed by him as above is not in the Library of Congress.
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J. 168
Chalmers’ Collection of treaties between Gr. Brit. & other powers.
1784.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 60. no. 32, Chalmer’s Collection of Treaties, 2 v 8vo. 1784.
CHALMERS,
George.
A Collection of Treaties between Great Britain and other powers. By George Chalmers, Esq. Vol. I [-II].
London: Printed for
John Stockdale,
1790.
JX636
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 290 leaves; A-Z, Aa-Nn
8, Oo
2; vol. II, 273 leaves: A
4, B-Z, Aa-Ll
8, Mm
5; bound in at the end of this copy are 26 leaves: [ ]
1, B-F
4, D
4; the unsigned leaf for the title:
Authentic Copies of Treaties . . . London: Printed for J. Debrett
, 1793, with 20 leaves of text; the sig. D at the end for 4 leaves of advertisement of Ogilvy and Spears.
Lowndes I, 405.
Myers 1108.
Marvin, page 181.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 179, 1.
Rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes.
This book was sent to Jefferson by George Joy of London, through James Madison, to whom Joy wrote from No. 56 Hatton Garden
on May 1, 1794, a long letter in which he commented on and quoted from a letter from Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney on September 7, 1793, on the subject of treaties, and mentioned: “. . . having met with a Collection of Treaties in a convenient form (published by Chalmers) I have thought it might not be
unacceptable to Mr. Jefferson; but as I have not the honor to be known to him at all I have presumed on your friendship to
transmit the Books to him . . .”
Jefferson acknowledged the books in a letter to Madison from Monticello, December 28, 1794: “
I have kept m(
~
r)
Joy’s letter a post or two, with an intention of considering attentively the observations it contains: but I have really now
so little stomach for anything of that kind that I have not resolution enough even to endeavor to understand the observations.
I therefore return the letter, not to delay your answer to it, and beg you in answering for yourself, to assure him of my
respects and thankful acceptance of Chalmer’s treaties, which I do not possess: and if you possess yourself of the scope of
his reasoning, make any answer to it you please for me. if it had been on the rotation of my crops, I would have answered
myself, lengthily perhaps, but certainly
con gusto
. . .”
In that Jefferson stated in the above letter that he did not possess a copy of this work, it is to be assumed that he either
did not receive the one mentioned by Benjamin Vaughan in a letter written from London on November 4, 1790, or that it was left at the State Department.
Vaughan’s letter (now in the Jefferson Papers in Library of Congress) was not addressed to Jefferson but to “My dear sirs”, and read in part: “. . . By the first ship I shall send a copy of Chalmers’s treaties for the use of Mr. Jefferson, & I shall desire Mr. Johnson
to send the like for Congress.--It is very superior to others . . .”
George Chalmers, 1742-1825, Scottish antiquary and historian, practised law for a short time in Baltimore, but returned to London in 1775.
He was the author of many books and was one of those deceived by the Ireland forgeries concerning which he published several
pamphlets.
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