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4 vol. 8vo. 269, 193, 188 and 121 leaves, frontispiece in volume I, full page and folded plates.
Quérard III, 560.
Brunet 20438.
Boucher de la Richarderie II, 217.
Jefferson bought a copy from Froullé in Paris, on August 16, 1787, price 21.0. A copy is entered by him on his undated manuscript catalogue with the price 16.
Pierre Augustin Guys, 1720-1799, merchant and traveller, lived in Constantinople and in Smyrna for some time before settling in Marseilles. This work was first published in 1771. In addition to the Voyage littéraire de la Grèce (written in the form of letters) this third edition contains the Journal d’un Voyage d’Italie; Le Bon Vieux Temps; the Eloge de René Duguay-Trouin; and the Essai sur les Elégies de Tibulle and other poems.
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Voiage en Grece et en Turquie par Sonnini. 2. v. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 139, as above.
SONNINI DE MANONCOUR, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert.
Voyage en Grèce et en Turquie, fait par ordre de Louis XVI, et avec l’autorisation de la Cour ottomane. Par C. S. Sonnini . . . Paris: F. Buisson, an IX. [1801.]
2 vol. 8vo. No copy was available for collation. The Atlas of plates in 4to which accompanied this work was not sold to Congress by Jefferson, and is not called for in his manuscript catalogues.
Quérard IX, 212.
Brunet 20441.
Boucher de la Richarderie II, 235.
Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncour, 1751-1812, French naturalist, agriculturist and traveller.
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Lady Mountague’s letters. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 36, as above, but reading Montague.
MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley.
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W-----y M------e: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. Which contain, among other Curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks. Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers. Complete in one Volume. London: Printed for M. Cooper, m,dcc,lxxxiii . [1783.]
12mo. 2 parts in 1, 144 leaves; pages 267, 268 contain Verses to the Lady Mary Worley Montague. By Mr. Pope.
This edition not in Lowndes.
This edition not in Boucher de la Richarderie, who in Vol. II devotes pages 69 to 79 to an account of Lady Mary and her Letters.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue (the name again written Mountague), with the price, 2/-.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1762, famous for her Letters and for having introduced inoculation for smallpox into England. At the end of his account of her Boucher de la Richarderie states that “Le baron de Tott, si connu par ses Mémoires, [q.v.] dont je donnerai dans la suite la notice, a vivement attaqué, dans un journal, la véracité de milady Montaguë; mais M. Guys l’a vigoureusement défendue dans son Voyage littéraire de la Gréce [q.v.], dont je rendrai compte aussi: cette défense se trouve aussi à la suite de la traduction des Lettres de milady Montaguë, édition de Paris . . .”
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Memoires du Baron de Tott sur les Turcs et les Tartares. 2. v. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 140, as above.
TOTT, François, Baron de.
Mémoires du Baron de Tott, sur les Turcs et les Tartares. Premiere [-Quatrieme] Partie. A Amsterdam: m. dcc. lxxxxiv. [1784.]
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