Jefferson bought a copy from Reibelt of Baltimore, price $ 8.00. This was one of the books kept by Jefferson for his own use, from a consignment sent by Reibelt to the Secretary of State, explained in a letter to Reibelt dated from Washington, December 24, 1804. The title appears on several lists made by Jefferson at that time of books bought during the year 1804. His copy was bound by John March of Georgetown, on Feb. 15, 1805, in calf, gilt, price $3.00 for the three volumes and $2.00 for the Atlas of maps and plates “( very difficult).”

Jean Baptiste Lechevalier, 1752-1836, French classical archaeologist. From 1784 to 1786 he was secretary to the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier, whom he assisted in archaeological researches in the plains of Troy. Lechevalier believed the site of Troy to be on the hills above Bunarbashi, and that the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by Ulysses. His Voyage de la Troade was first published in 1800 (second edition 1801) and at the end of the third volume is a list of Auteurs qui croient à la réalité de la ville de Troye en Phrygie, and another of Écrivains qui ont refusé de croire entièrement à l’histoire de Troye.

The Voyage de la Troade is an enlargement by the author of his Memoir read on February 21 and 28, and March 21, to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and printed in English with the title Description of the plain of Troy translated from the original, and accompanied with notes and illustrations by And. Dalzel, London, 1791.