First Edition. 8vo. Vol. II. only, 185 leaves, plates.
Halkett and Laing III, 320.
Lowndes IV, 2215.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 157.
This edition not in Gough.
Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue has another and fuller entry (unchecked) for what appears to be the same work, partially erased:
Letters from a gentleman in the North of Scotl
d. 2.v. 8
vo.
Edward Burt, d. 1755, wrote these letters in 1725 and 1726, though they were not published until 1754. They were used by both Sir Walter
Scott and Lord Macaulay. For a discussion of the authorship and an account of the author see Gough,
British Topography, II, 573, and
Notes and Queries, I, xii. 496, and 2. vii. 128 and 174.
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8
Voyage en Angleterre par Pictet.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 122, as above.
PICTET,
Marc Auguste.
Voyage de Trois Mois en Angleterre, en Ecosse, et en Irlande pendant l’Eté de l’an IX. (1801 v. st.) Par Marc-Auguste Pictet . . . A
Genève: de l’Impr. de
la Bibliothéque Britannique, et se trouve chez
Manget;
J. J. Paschoud; et à
Paris [chez]
Magimel, An
XI. (
1802. v. st.)
DA11 .P5
First Edition. 8vo. 344 leaves including the half-title, list of errata on the verso of a
1, engraved portrait of the Comte de Rumford as frontispiece.
Quérard VII, 149.
Boucher de la Richarderie III, 225.
Jefferson purchased his copy from
Reibelt, Baltimore, in January 1803, paid for in March 1805, price $
1.60.
Marc Auguste Pictet (
or
Pictet-Turrettini), 1752-1825, Swiss meteorologist and scientist. This work, as explained in the Avertissement at the beginning, contains a
reprint of letters written during the voyage and first published in the
Bibliothèque Britannique
(Vol. XVII to XXI), founded by Pictet after the fall of Robespierre. For the Comte de Rumford, whose portrait is at the beginning,
and with whom the author stayed in London; see no. 1182. Reference is made also to Dr. Jenner, De Saussure, Kirwan, and other scientists whose works are in this collection.
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9
Phipps’s voyage (in 1773) towards the North pole.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 116, as above, but reading
Voiage.
PHIPPS,
Constantine John, Baron Mulgrave.
A Voyage towards the North Pole: undertaken by His Majesty’s Command, 1773. By Constantine John Phipps.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs.
Sleater,
Williams,
Wilson,
Husband,
Walker and
Jenkin,
mdcclxxv
. [1775.]
8vo. 142 leaves, including a number of folded leaves of tables included in the signatures and pagination, folded engraved
map as frontispiece, engraved plates.
This edition not in Lowndes, not in Watt, not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. and not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
Jones, page 82.
Constantine John Phipps, second Baron Mulgrave, 1744-1792. In 1773 he commanded the
Racehorse, on which Nelson was a midshipman, and set out with the
Carcass to discover the northern route to India. North of Spitzbergen the sea was blocked with ice and the vessels had to return,
with valuable information concerning the natural products of Spitzbergen. This
Voyage is reprinted in Hawkesworth and Pinkerton’s Collections.
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10
Itineraire de Dutens.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 13, as above.
DUTENS,
Louis.
Itinéraire des Routes les Plus Fréquentées, ou Journal de Plusieurs Voyages aux Villes Principales de l’Europe, depuis 1768
jusqu’en 1783; où l’on a marqué en
