Jefferson bought a copy from
Reibelt of Baltimore on December 24, 1804, retained by him from a parcel sent on approval to the Secretary of State. The bill for this and other purchases was paid on March 7, 1805.
Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières, 1761-1841, French colonial, lived in St. Domingue until the revolution. His original
Voyage à Louisiane had been published in Paris in 1802. This second Voyage includes an account of the life of Jean-Philippe Goujon de Grondel,
commander of the French forces in Louisiana, a Manuel Botanique par Ordre Alphabetique, Observations sur la Botanique médicinale
des Colonies, and much other matter in addition to the important Vocabulaire Congo, already mentioned.
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Stoddart’s Sketches of Louisiana.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 126, no. 200, as above.
STODDARD,
Amos.
Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of Louisiana. By Major Amos Stoddard, Member of the U. S. M. P. S. and of the New York Historical Society . . .
Philadelphia: Published by
Mathew Carey;
A. Small, Printer,
1812.
F369 .S86
First Edition. 8vo. 244 leaves including the last blank.
Sabin 91928.
Boimare 111.
Field 1505.
Jefferson is mentioned in the Historical Sketches of Louisiana in Chapter I: “Mr. Jefferson, on his accession to the presidency
in 1801, reiterated to Spain the infractions of the treaty, and demanded redress. She restored to us the right of deposit,
but no longer claimed Louisiana as her own . . .”
Amos Stoddard, 1762-1813, lawyer and soldier, was commissioned, after the Louisiana purchase, the first civil and military commandant of
Upper Louisiana, to serve until Congress enacted laws for its government. This work includes an account of Hennepin’s Voyages
and of other works on the discovery of Louisiana to be found in this Catalogue. With regard to maps, he states in the Preface:
“. . . All the old maps are extremely defective. The one prefixed to the work of Du Pratz, is unquestionably the best . .
.” [See no. 4067.]
The last two chapters treat of the Aborigines, and of A Welsh Nation in America. Stoddard, describing himself as Capt. Corps
of artillerists, had been in correspondence with Jefferson in 1804 and 1805, and had sent him, on behalf of Captain Lewis,
vocabularies of the Ayogas and the Sioux.
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Gass’s Journal of Lewis & Clarke’s journey of discovery to the Pacific.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 123, no. 84, as above, but reading
Journals.
GASS,
Patrick.
Journal of the Voyages and Travels of the Corps of Discovery, under the command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the army
of the United States, from the mouth of the river Missouri through the interior parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean,
during the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806. Containing an authentic relation of the most interesting transactions during the expedition;
a description of the country; and an account of its inhabitants, soil, climate, curiosities, and vegetable and animal productions.
By Patrick Gass, one of the persons employed in the expedition. With geographical and explanatory Notes.
Fourth Edition--with six Engravings. [Copy-right secured according to Law.]
Printed for
Mathew Carey,
Philadelphia,
1812.
F592.5 .G2 1812
