virat. Tome I. [-II.] A
Paris: chez
Jean & Michel Guignard,
m. dcc. iv
. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy. [1704.]
F1230 .S723
2 vol. 12mo. 224 and 206 leaves including blanks, folded engraved plates and maps.
Sabin 86476 (3), [punct.
sic.--
Ed.]
Palau VI, 530.
This issue not in Medina; see Medina III, 1773.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
60. This may be the book referred to by Madame Carmichael, the widow of William Carmichael, Jefferson’s agent for the purchase
of Spanish Americana, in her letter to Jefferson dated from Chestertown, Maryland, on October 14, 1795: “Etant arrivèe depuis quelques semaines dans ce pais et ne sachant par quel moyen vous faire passer un livre intitulè la Conquête
du Mexique que feu mon mari vous avoit destiné ainsi que quelques papiers a votre adresse si les lettres d’Hernand Cortes
a Charles Quint ainsi que les gravures vous font plaisir je crois pouvoir vous les procurer.”
Antonio de Solis, 1610-1686, Spanish dramatist and historian. The
Historia de la Conquista de Mejico, first published in 1684, covers the history of the period between the appointment of Cortes to the command of the Spanish
invading force, and the fall of the city of Mexico. The first translation into French was published in 1691.
S. de Broë, seigneur de Citri et de La Guette, was the translator into
French.
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Houston’s memoirs.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, no. 217, as above.
HOUSTOUN,
James.
The Works of James Houstoun, M. D. Containing Memoirs of his Life and Travels in Asia, Africa, America, and most Parts of Europe. From the Year 1690,
to the present Time. Giving a particular Account of the Scotch Expedition to Darien in America, the great Advantages accruing
to Great Britain from the Union; the Rise, Progress, and Fall of the two great Trading African and South-Sea Companies; the
late Expedition to the Spanish West-Indies; the Taking and Restitution of Cape-Breton. Some Curious Anecdotes of the Spanish
Court; a short Hint for expunging the Errors and superfluous Jargon, and hyperbolical Mysteries in the three great Professions
of Divinity, Physic and Law, and reducing them into concise, regular, rational and intelligible Systems, &c. **** &c. ****
&c.
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by
S. Bladon,
1753. N. B. This Book is entered according to Act of Parliament, and subscribed by the Author in his Hand-writing.
D285.8 .H75 A3
8vo. 252 leaves, the last 10 for the Appendix.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Sabin 33199.
There is no indication as to which edition was in Jefferson’s library. His entry in his manuscript catalogue is copied in the Library of Congress catalogues of 1815 and 1830, but the entry is dropped from the later catalogues. The
title of the second edition, published in 1747, begins:
Memoirs of the Life and Travels of James Houstoun, M. D. The running headlines of this
third edition:
Dr Houstoun’s Memoirs of his own Life-Time, would be equally applicable to Jefferson’s entry. No copy of the second edition is listed in the files of the National Union
Catalog.
James Houstoun, Scots physician and surgeon, was born “in, or about, the Year 1690” according to his own statement on the first page of
this work. He became the surgeon to the factories in America of the Assiento Company, and was engaged for a number of years
in trading in Central America and the Spanish Main. He was also concerned in the Darien Scheme. The first edition of this
work, with a somewhat different title, was published in London, also in 1747, and both the first and second edition are described
on the title-page as being published by Jacob Bickerstaff.
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