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Fragmens sur Paris par Meyer.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 132, as above.
MEYER,
Friedrich Johann Lorenz.
Fragments sur Paris, par Frederic Jean Laurent Meyer, Docteur en Droit à Hambourg. Traduits de l’
Allemand, par le Général Dumouriez. Tome Premier. [-Second.]
Hambourg,
1798.
DC731 .M62
First Edition of this Translation. 2 vol. 8vo. 150 and 154 leaves including first and last blanks. The
Preface du Traducteur, signed by Dumouriez, is dated 26 Décembre, 1797.
This may be the book by Meyer referred to by Jefferson in his letter to N. G. Dufief, dated from Washington January 9, 1800,
particularly as he mentions a work by Dumouriez in the same letter: “
I am much obliged to you for thinking of me when you got the copies of Rabault & Meyer, and I now inclose you John Barne’s
check on the bank of the US. for four dollars, the sum noted. should you possess Dumourier’s account of his campaigns, Carnot’s
or Madame Roland’s books, I will thank you for them . . .
”
Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer, 1760-1844, German man of letters, travelled in France (and in Switzerland and Italy) in 1782. The original German edition
of this work was published in Hamburg earlier in the same year. For General Dumouriez, and Jefferson’s opinion of him see
no. 233.
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Introduccion a la historia natural, y a la geographia fisica de España. por Guillermo Bowles.
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 134, as above, but omitting
Guillermo.
BOWLES,
William.
Introduccion a la Historia Natural, y á la Geografía Física de España, por D. Guillermo Bowles.
Segunda edicion, corregida. Con Superior Permiso.
En
Madrid: En
la Imprenta Real. Ano de
1782.
4to. 322 leaves.
Palau 34228.
Boucher de la Richarderie III, 294.
Entered on the undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
10.5.
William Bowles, 1705-1780, was Irish by birth, but spent the greater part of his life in Spain, where he held the appointment of superintendant
[
sic
--
Ed.
] of the state mines, and was requested to form a natural history collection and to fit up a chemical laboratory. This work
was first published in 1775.
José Nicolas de Azara y Perera, Marqués de Nibbiano, 1730-1804, was the editor of the second edition.
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Dalrymple’s travels thro Spain & Portugal.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 236, as above.
DALRYMPLE,
William.
Travels through Spain and Portugal, in 1774; with a short Account of the Spanish Expedition against Algiers, in 1775: By Major
William Dalrymple . . .
London: Printed for
J. Almon,
m,dcc,lxxvii
. [1777.]
DP34 .D15
First Edition. 4to. 96 leaves, engraved folded map as frontispiece, list of errata at the end of the Preface;
A Short Account of the Spanish Expedition against Algiers, in 1775 occupies 6 leaves at the end, with caption title.
Lowndes II, 583.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 746.
Foulché-Delbosc 170 B.
Brunet 20141.
Boucher de la Richarderie III, 381.
Jefferson’s copy was purchased for him by Thomas Barclay in 1786, price
12 (livres).
