Roi de Prusse. A
Berlin,
m. dcc.
lxx.
--
Défense des Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains, par M.
de P***. Tome Troisième.
A
Berlin,
m. dcc. lxxi.
] A
Londres [
Berlin]
m. d. cc. lxxi.
[1771.]
E58 .P315
3 vol. 12mo. I, 162 leaves, the last a
blank; II, 234 leaves (sig. Ff and Gg repeated); the text of the
Recherches Philosophiques
ends on Dd
i verso, page
304, and is followed by the
Table des
Matieres
, 16 leaves, unnumbered; on the next leaf Ff
6 is the title for the
Dissertation sur l’Amérique,
60 leaves, the last a blank, continuous signatures, separate pagination; III,
118 leaves. The imprint in the first title reads
Londres; in the other titles
Londres is replaced by
Berlin.
Quérard VI, 643.
Sabin 59243.
This edition not in
Boucher de la Richarderie.
Lama, no. 683.
This edition not in Van der Aa.
John
Carter Brown 1798.
Boimare 169.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Froullé in Paris on
November 6, 1788, described as 3 vol. mi-rel., price
9. The book is entered by
him in his undated manuscript catalogue without price.
Jefferson’s opinion of this work and its author is
given in a letter addressed to the Marquis de Chastellux from Paris on June 7,
1785, concerning “
the general question
of the degeneracy of animals in America
,” with reference to the works
of Buffon and the Abbé Raynal. After mention of Don Ulloa and Robertson [qqv.]
Jefferson wrote: “
. . . Paw, the
beginner of this charge was a compiler from the works of others; and of the
most unlucky description; for he seems to have read the writings of travellers
only to collect and republish their lies. it is really remarkable that in three
volumes 12
mo. of small
print it is scarcely possible to find one truth, and yet that the author should
be able to produce authority for every fact he states, as he says he can . .
.
”
Cornelis de Pauw, 1739-1799, Dutch scholar and
canon of Xanten, first published his
Recherches Philosophiques in Berlin, 1768.
Dom
Antoine Joseph Pernetti
, 1716-1801, French Benedictine of the
Congregation of St. Maur, took exception to a part of de Pauw’s work, and in
1770 published his
Dissertation sur
l’Amerique et les Americains, contre les Recherches philosophiques de
Pauw
. This was answered by de Pauw, in his
Défense des Recherches Philosophiques
sur les Americains
. All three works are included in this
edition.
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11
Le Lettere Americane del Conte Carli.
3. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, no. 52, as
above.
[CARLI,
Giovanni Rinaldo,
Conte
.]
Le Lettere Americane.
Nuova Edizione corretta ed ampliata colla Aggiunta della Parte III. ora per la
prima volta impressa. Parte Prima. [-Terza. In cui si esamina l’Ipotesi di Mr.
Bailly intorno l’Atlantide di Platone, e quella del Sig. Conte di Buffon per
rispetto al successivo raffreddamento del Globo.]
Cremona: per
Lorenzo Manini
Regio Stampatore,
m. dcc. lxxxi.
[-m. dcc. lxxxiii
.]
Con licenza de’ Superiori. [1781-3.]
Sm. 8vo. 3 vol. 135, 140 and
108 leaves, folded engraved map; the dedication to Benjamin Franklin at the
beginning and the preface signed by Isidoro Bianchi.
Melzi II, 111.
Sabin 10911.
This edition
not in Boucher de la Richarderie, not in Field and not in the John Carter Brown
Catalogue.
Entered by
Jefferson on his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Giovanni
Rinaldo, Conte Carli
, 1720-1795, Italian scholar, addressed this
series of letters to his cousin Girolamo Gravisi between May 1777 and September
1779. The author’s intention was to refute the assertions of De Pauw in his
Recherches Philosophiques sur les
Américains
[q.v.], and he describes the manners, customs, religion,
etc., of the native Americans, before the European conquests. The first edition
was published in 1780, and the book was translated into English, German and
French.
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