“
one to receive from him the Letters of
Fernand Cortez published by the Archbishop of Mexico (afterwards Toledo) as
mentioned in 3
d
Borgoyne’s travels 303. which he so much wishes to get. if m
r Short will send it by
m
(
~
r)
Blake & note the price it shall be added to the first
investment to be made by his broker here. better to send it
unbound.
”
The copy in the Library of
Congress has the number 135 written on the half-title of the first volume,
which number corresponds with Jefferson’s shelf list and the 1815 Library of
Congress catalogue. Other marks of provenance make it seem unlikely that this
was Jefferson’s copy, though it is interesting that the leaf to which he
referred in his letter to William Short has been torn and mended.
Baron
Jean François de Bourgoing
, 1748-1811, French author and diplomat,
spent some years in Madrid as chargé d’affaires and as minister plenipotentiary
from France. In the first issue of the first edition of the
Nouveau Voyage en Espagne the
date in the imprint is 1788.
Jefferson was
acquainted with Bourgoing. In a letter to Peter S. DuPonceau, dated from
Monticello, November 6, 1817, he wrote: “
. . . While I resided in Paris I learn
d. that a company of capitalists
was formed there, to associate with others in Spain to undertake a navigable
passage thro’ the Isthmus of Darien, and that for this purpose they had
presented a memorial to the Spanish government. the subject being interesting,
I availed myself of my acquaintance with the Chevalier Bourgoyne, (author of
the Travels in Spain) then resident at Madrid as Chargé des affaires for
France, to endeavor to get a copy of the Memorial. he procured and sent me that
which I now inclose . . . should any early use be made of it, I beg that the
Chevalier Bourgoyne’s name may be suppressed,
if he be still
living.
of that fact
I am uninformed . . .
”
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Voiage en Portugal par Link.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 136, as
above.
LINK,
Heinrich
Friedrich
.
Voyage en
Portugal, depuis 1797 jusqu’en 1799. Par M. Link, Membre de plusieurs Sociétés
savantes. Suivi d’un Essai sur le Commerce du Portugal, Traduit de l’
Allemand.
Tome Premier [-Second.]
A
Paris: chez
Levrault, Schoell et C
gnie
, An
XII.-
1803.
DP524 .L75 1803
First Edition of this Translation. 2 vol. 8vo. 224 and
202 leaves, publishers’ announcement on the back of both half-titles; on
0
8 in the second volume is
the half-title for
Essai Politique sur
le Commerce du Portugal et celui de ses Colonies, par Joze Joaquim da Cunha de
Azeredo Coutinho, Evêque de Fernambouc, et membre de l’Académie royale des
Sciences de Lisbonne. Traduit du
Portugais
, in three parts, each with
a half-title.
Quérard
V, 319.
Graesse IV, 215.
Foulché-Delbosc 215 C.
Not in Boucher de la
Richarderie.
Jefferson’s copy was one of a number of books purchased by
him from
Reibelt of Baltimore in December, 1804, retained for his own use from
a quantity sent on approval to the Secretary of State, as explained by
Jefferson in a letter to Reibelt dated from Washington on December 24th. The
price was $
2.25. The title later appears on the list made by Jefferson of books
purchased during the year 1804. Jefferson had the copy bound by John March of
Georgetown on February 15, 1805, in calf, gilt, price $2.00.
Heinrich
Friedrich Link
, 1767-1851, German botanist, was for a time professor
of botany at Breslau, and later succeeded Willdenow at Berlin. In 1797 he
accompanied Count Hoffmansegg to Portugal and wrote an account of his travels,
published in Kiel, the first volume in 1799, and the third and last in 1804. A
translation into English appeared in 1801.
José Joaquim da
Cunha de Azeredo Coutinho
, 1742-1821. For an account of him and his
work on the commerce of Portugal and of her colonies, see Silva,
Diccionario Bibliográfico
Portuguez
, IV, 384, and the
Monthly Review
for August, 1803, page 425.
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