Politique et Physique de la Suisse . . . Tome I. [-II.] A
Amsterdam, et se trouve a
Paris: Chez
Leroy, Successeur du Sieur Lottin le jeune,
m. dcc. lxxxvi
. [1786.]
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. each with 184 leaves, publishers’ advertisements in Volume I on the verso of the half-title and on the
last leaf; list of errata at the end of the second volume.
Quérard V, 656.
Boucher de la Richarderie II, 424.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Froullé in Paris on June 19, 1787, price
7.4. It is entered by him, with this price, in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Charles Joseph de Mayer, 1751-1825?, French man of letters. The
Lettre qui peut tenir lieu de Préface at the beginning of the first volume contains an account and a criticism of the work of William Coxe; see the previous number.
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Voiage dans les Alpes de Saussure.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 129, as above, but reading
Voyage.
SAUSSURE,
Horace Bénedict de.
Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d’un Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle des Environs de Geneve, par Horace-Bénedict De Saussure, Professeur de Philosophie dans l’Académie de Geneve. Tome Premier [-Quatrieme]. A
Neuchatel: chez
Samuel Fauche [et a
Geneve: chez
Barde, Manget & Compagnie]
m. dcc. lxxx-mdcclxxxvi.
[1780-1786.]
DQ823 .S245
4 vol. 8vo. These volumes are a reprint in octavo of the first two volumes of the first edition, printed in
Neuchâtel and
Geneva in quarto. The third and fourth volumes of the first edition were
published in
Geneva in 1796.
This edition not in Quérard.
Lonchamp, page 302.
A copy is in the Bibliothèque Nationale.
This edition not in Brunet, and not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
Jefferson bought his copy from
Froullé in Paris on June 27, 1787, price
18. broché. The book is entered without price in the undated manuscript catalogue.
Horace Bénedict de Saussure, 1740-1799, Swiss naturalist, was one of the most eminent scholars of his day. He was professor of philosophy at Geneva,
and of natural history for the central schools of France. De Saussure was a member of a number of learned societies in various
cities in Europe.
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Voiage dans le Jura par Lequinio.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 128, as above, but reading
Voyage.
LEQUINIO,
José-Marie.
Voyage pittoresque et physico-économique, dans le Jura, par J.-M. Lequinio, Agent Forestier. Tome Premier. [-Second.] A
Paris: Chez
Caillot;
Desenne;
Debray;
Henrichs;
Fuschs;
15 Frimaire, An IX. [December 6, 1800.]
DC611 .J83 L6
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. 500 and 254 leaves, engraved map of the Jura by Tardieu in both volumes.
Quérard V, 201.
Brunet 20120.
Boucher de la Richarderie III, 169.
José-Marie Lequinio, d. 1813, was a member of several legislative assemblies during the French Revolution and was
député from Morbihan in the Legislative and at the Convention. He voted for the death of the King, but was an adversary of Robespierre,
and, although implacable in bringing his enemies to the scaffold was himself only saved by the amnesty of August 1796. He
was eventually appointed
Sous-Commissaire des Relations Commerciales at Newport, Rhode Island, where he resided for some years.
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