4 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Part I, 69 leaves; Part II, 55 leaves; Part III, 60 leaves; Part IV, 72 leaves; each part with separate
title-page and pagination.
Quérard VIII, page 123.
Tourneux 25113.
Jefferson ordered a copy from
Dufief in January, 1800, see no. 233.
Marie [Manon] Jeanne Phlipon Roland de La Platière, 1754-1793, was the wife of the French statesman Jean Roland. This
Appel was written in prison, where she was thrown after the death of the King, and edited by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc whose
Avertissement is dated
Paris, 20 germinal, an 3e de la Republique. Madame Roland was executed by the guillotine in 1793, and her husband committed suicide shortly afterward.
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Tableau des operations de Bonaparte par Chas.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 113, as above but omitting
8vo.
CHAS,
Jean.
Tableau Historique et Politique des Opérations militaires et civiles de Bonaparte, Premier Consul de la République Française;
orné de son Portrait. Par J. Chas, de Nîmes. Ouvrage dedié a Madame Bonaparte.
A
Paris: chez
Arthus Bertrand, de l’Imprimerie de
Guilleminet, An
X--1801.
First Edition. 8vo. 152 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece of Bonaparte by J. B. F. Massard after J. B. L. Massard Fils; publisher’s advertisement on the last two leaves.
Jefferson’s copy was bound for him in calf by John March, billed on October 11, 1802, price $1.00. It was a gift from the author who wrote to Jefferson from Paris, December 12, 1801 (received
Feb. 25, 1802): “. . . Daignez, monsieur le president, accepter un exemplaire du tableau historique et politique des operations civiles, et
militaires de bonaparte premier consul de la republique francaise. ce n’est point un vrai eloge que j’ai entrepris, & j’ecris
pour tous les siecles et pour tous les peuples . . .”
In this letter Chas mentioned that he was working on a new edition of his
Histoire politique et philosophique de la revolution de l’amérique septentrionale
[see no. 485].
Jean Chas, c. 1750-c. 1830, French juriconsulte and author, was born in Nîmes and died in Paris of misery and starvation. This work
contains a reference to, and a quotation from, the
grand et vertueux Washington.
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100
Campagne de la grande armée (1805) par Castillon.
2. tom. in 1.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 43, as above.
CASTILLON,
Bernard.
Campagne de la Grande Armée, précédée d’une introduction préliminaire depuis le 18 brumaire an VIII jusqu’au traité de Presbourg,
suivie des différentes conventions passées entre les cours d’Angleterre, de Russie, d’Allemagne et de Suède. Ouvrage publié
par B. Castillon.
Bordeaux:
Castillon,
1806.
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. No copy of this work was located for collation, the above title was taken from the catalogue of the
Bibliothèque Nationale.
The book was issued in 2 volumes. Jefferson’s copy was apparently bound in 1.
Not in Quérard.
Labadie,
Imprimeurs et Libraires Bordelais, page 148.
Bernard Castillon, d. 1837, printer of Bordeaux.
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