geographer. The first edition of this work, which takes the form of a tour into the Peloponnesus and part of northern Greece,
was printed in Venice in 1516. This edition of 1583 is the
second, and was edited by Frideric Sylburg (q.v.) with the notes of Gulielmus Xylander (q.v.) and Joachimus Camerarius.
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The Description of Greece by Pausanias.
Eng. by Taylor.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 137, as above.
PAUSANIAS--[TAYLOR,
Thomas].
The Description of Greece, by Pausanias. Translated from the
Greek. With Notes, in which much of the Mythology of the Greeks is unfolded from a Theory which has been for many Ages unknown.
And Illustrated with Maps and Views Elegantly Engraved. In
Three Volumes. Vol. I. [-III.] . . .
London: Printed for
R. Faulder,
mdccxciv
. [1794.]
DE27 .P4 1794
First Edition of this translation. 3 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 230 leaves, vol. III, 214 leaves; the only available copy of the second
volume was imperfect at the end.
Halkett and Laing II, page 41.
Lowndes IV, 1807.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 762.
For Pausanias see the preceding number.
Thomas Taylor, 1758-1835, English Platonist.
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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 237, Memoire Idraulo-Storiche sopra la Val. di Chiana, dal Fossombroni 4to.
FOSSOMBRONI,
Vittorio, Conde.
Memorie Idraulico-Storiche sopra la Val-di-Chiana compilate dal Cavaliere Vittorio Fossombroni Uno dei Quaranta della Società Italiana. Firenze
mdcclxxxix
. Per
Gaetano Cambiagi Stampatore Granducale. Con Approvazione. [1789.]
First Edition. 4to. 172 leaves, 5 engraved plates, folded, by A. Gio. Canocchi.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by Joseph Correa de Serra, with a letter dated from Philadelphia September 6, 1813: “Together with this Letter i forward to you by the post office the book of Senator Fossombroni. The 1
st. part of the book is wholly antiquarian, and though highly curious to Italian readers, is of Little interest to any other;
the second part will give you an idea of that ingenious and experimented practice. If it was judged proper to familiarize
the Americans with it then it would be necessary to extract and translate what relates to it, in Fossombroni’s memoir on this
matter (which is printed in the 3
d. vol. of the transactions of the Italian society) and in the tracts of the Florentine collection of hydraulic books . . .”
Conde Vittorio Fossombroni, 1754-1844, Tuscan statesman and mathematician. Five years after the publication of this book he was entrusted by the Grand
Duke of Tuscany with the direction of the works for the drainage of the Val di Chiana.
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BOOKS LISTED IN THE 1783-1814 CATALOGUE WHICH WERE NOT SOLD TO CONGRESS
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Nugent’s travels,
2. v.
8
vo.
Voiages de Dubois.
12
mo.
Vues d’un Gallophile.
12
mo.
Essai sur les isles Fortunies par Bory-S
t. Vincent
4
to.
