the Prince of Wales. The
Second Edition.
London: printed for the author, by
R. Hindmarsh . . . and sold by the author,
1792.
RE41 .A21
8vo. 91 leaves, folded engraved frontispiece by T. Milne after J. Lodge; the preliminary matter includes a list of authors consulted, a list of works lately published by the same author; and advertisement,
the proposals for printing by subscription
Lectures on Natural Philosophy;
at the end is a catalogue on 7 leaves of mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments made and sold by George Adams.
Not in Lowndes.
This edition not in Sotheran.
The first edition was published in 1789. For a note on George Adams, see no. 1040.
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Adams’s Geometrical & Graphical essays.
2. v.
8
vo.
This book was reclassified in the 1815 Library of Congress Catalogue into chapter XXVI. See no. 3718.
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Memoires Physiques de Dupont.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 113, no. 13, as above.
[DUPONT DE NEMOURS,
Pierre Samuel.]
Quelques Mémoires sur Différens Sujets: la pluspart d’Histoire Naturelle, ou de Physique Générale et Particulière.
Paris: de l’Imprimerie de
Delance,
1807.
First Edition. 8vo. 191 leaves, plates, folded map. No copy was seen for collation.
Barbier III, 1136.
Quérard II, 707.
Jefferson’s copy, which was bound for him by John March in Georgetown on June 30, 1807, price $1.00, was sent to him by the
author from Paris on May 6, 1807, with a letter beginning: “J’ai l’honneur de vous envoyer un petit recueil de mémoires, ou deux exemplaires de ce Recueil l’un pour vous; l’autre pour
la société philosophique . . .”
Jefferson replied from Washington on July 14: “
I recieved last night your letter of May 6 . . . I thank your
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
for the volume of memoires you have sent me & immediately deliver that for the Phil. society . . .”
Several of the works of Dupont de Nemours, a close friend of Jefferson, appear in this catalogue, see the Index.
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Boyle’s works.
5. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 113, no. 37, as above.
BOYLE,
Robert.
The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle . . . To which is prefixed the Life of the Author . . .
London:
A. Millar,
1744.
First Edition. 5 vol. Folio. On 70 leaves at the beginning of the first volume is
The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle. By Thomas Birch. No copy was seen for collation.
Lowndes I, 249.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 960.
Fulton, no. 240.
The Hon. Robert Boyle, 1627-1691, natural philosopher and chemist, the son of the “great” Earl of Cork, was one of the founders of the Royal Society,
and a friend of Sir Isaac Newton. For a time he was governor of the Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England.
Thomas Birch, D.D., 1705-1766, English historian and biographer. His
Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle was his first published work.
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