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le Guide d’Amsterdam. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 125, as above.
Guide, ou Nouvelle Description d’Amsterdam; enseignant aux Voyageurs, et aux Negocians, son Origine, ses Aggrandissemens, et son Etat actuel. Amsterdam, 1772.
8vo. 170 leaves; no copy was available for collation.
Not in Barbier.
This edition not in the Algemeene Aardrijkskundige Bibliographie van Nederland.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue without price.
This Guide seems to have been originally published in 1701, and was frequently reprinted; the title varies in the different editions. There is a copy of the edition of 1722 in the Library of Congress, which has four leaves of engraved plates at the end, the engravings in compartments and on both sides of the leaf.
Jefferson visited Amsterdam in March, 1788, and wrote (with illustrative drawings) a commentary on whatever struck his fancy.
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Voiage en Angleterre par Faujas. 2. v. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 121, as above.
FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélémy.
Voyage en Angleterre, en Écosse et aux Iles Hébrides; ayant pour objet les Sciences, les Arts, l’Histoire naturelle et les Mœurs; avec la Description minéralogique du pays de Newcastle, des montagnes du Derbyshire, des enviorns [ sic -- Ed. ] d’Édinburgh, de Glasgow, de Perth, de S.-Andrews, du duché d’Inverary et de la grotte de Fingal. Avec Figures. Par B. Faujas-Saint-Fond. Tome Premier. [-Second.] A Paris: chez H. J. Jansen, 1797.
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. 216 and 218 leaves including the half-titles, list of errata at the end of both volumes, and at the end of volume II the Avis au relieur; 7 engraved plates, folded, by various engravers and after various artists, including the author.
Quérard III, 69.
Not in De Ricci-Cohen.
Brunet 20315.
Boucher de la Richarderie III, 289.
Jefferson retained a copy of this book from a consignment sent by Reibelt of Baltimore to him and to the Secretary of State to make their selections. His letter to Reibelt is dated from Washington, December 24, 1804. The book (in two volumes) is included in the list made by Jefferson of books purchased from Reibelt during the year 1804, price $ 4.00.
Jefferson’s copy, in two volumes, was bound for him by John March, on February 15, 1805, in calf, gilt, price $2.00. On March 7 in the same year he had another copy bound, in one volume, price $1.00.
For other works by Faujas de Saint-Fond, 1741-1819, French geologist and traveller, see the Index.
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The Ambulator. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 11, as above.
The Ambulator; or, The Stranger’s Companion in a Tour round London; Within the Circuit of Twenty-five Miles: describing whatever is remarkable, either for Grandeur, Elegancy, Use, or Curiosity; and comprehending Catalogues of the Pictures by eminent Artists. To which is prefixed, A Concise Description of London, Southwark, and Westminster, shewing their Antiquity, Remarkable Buildings, Extent, &c. &c. &c. Not only of Use to Strangers, but the Inhabitants

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