Jefferson’s copy was bound for him in paper by John March in August, 1805, cost 50 cents.
Christopher Colles, 1738-1816, engineer and inventor, was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1765. He was one of the first persons
in America to design and build a steam engine. He was deeply interested in roads and road building, and made personal surveys
of the roads treated in this book. In 1808 he proposed consturction of a canal between New York and Philadelphia which would
be built entirely of wood and would be above ground. On this subject he wrote a pamphlet and sent a copy to Jefferson, who
wrote to thank him on June 19, 1808, and stated that it was not in his power “
to give any definite opinion of it’s national importance.”
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167
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 127, no. 218, Voyage aux isles de Trinidad, de Tabago, de la Marguerite, et dans la Venezuela, par la
Vaysse, 2 v 8vo 1813.
DAUXION-LAVAYSSE,
Jean François.
Voyage aux Iles de Trinidad, de Tabago, de la Marguerite, et dans diverses parties de Vénézuéla, dans l’Amérique Méridionale.
Par J. J. [sic] Dauxion Lavaysse, Associé correspondant de la Société des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux . . . Tome Premier [-Deuxieme].
Paris:
F. Schoëll, Libraire [de l’Imprimerie de
J. G. Dentu]
1813.
F2308 .D25
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. 208 and 244 leaves, 6 folded printed leaves with XI numbered tables, 2 folded engraved maps, one of
the Ile de Tabago, the other of the Ile de la Marguerite et du Golfe de Cariaco, both dressée pour le Voyage de Dauxion Lavaysse d’après les Observations astronomiques de m
r. De Humboldt et le Déposito Hidrografico par J. P. Poirson; the copy in the Library of Congress has in volume I 2 cancel leaves in addition to the cancelled; at the end of the second
volume is a Notice Historique sur Barthelemy de Las-Casas.
Quérard II, 405.
Sabin 18673.
Cundall 1308.
Bissainthe 5341.
Jean François Dauxion-Lavaysse, c. 1770-1826, was born in Gascony. He went to the colonies at an early age and was in St. Domingo at the rising of the negroes.
He escaped with difficulty and after travelling further in America returned to France where he wrote this book. Later he revisited
the colonies as a commissioner to the negroes but met with no success and all his propositions were rejected. Dauxion-Lavaysse
was the author of a number of articles in the
Biographie Universelle
.
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168
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 126, no. 184, Roll of Officers in 1802, 8vo.
JEFFERSON,
Thomas.
Message from the President of United States, transmitting a Roll of the Persons having Office or Employment under the United
States. Published by Order of the Senate. February 16, 1802.
Washington City: Printed by
William Duane,
1802.
JK7 1802
First Edition. 8vo. 88 leaves in fours, continuous signatures, separate pagination for each section.
Sabin 48057.
Bryan, page 20.
Begins with the letter addressed by Jefferson to the Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives, dated February 16, 1802. Jefferson’s
original holograph copy of this letter, very slightly edited in the printed version, is in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress.
On sig L
1 begins the report of Gideon Granger, the Postmaster General, dated from the General Post-Office Jan. 5, 1802. The original manuscripts of Granger’s report and of his covering letter are in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress, 20 pages. In the printed version the post offices are in a straight
alphabetical order. In the original manuscript the post offices are entered in alphabetical order under States.
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