114
Vie de François Le fort de Russie par Basseville
8
vo.
(given by the author).
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 118, Vie de François Lefort de Russie, par Basseville, 8vo.
BASSVILLE,
Nicolas Jean Hugon de.
Précis Historique sur la Vie et les Exploits de François Le Fort, Citoyen de Genève, Général & Grand-Admiral de Russie, Président
de tous les Conseils de Pierre-Le-Grand, Empereur de Moskovie . . . Par Mr. De Bassville . . .
Seconde Edition, corrigée des fautes de la première.
A
Lausanne: chez
Grasset et Comp.,
1786.
12mo. 86 leaves.
This edition not in Quérard.
This edition not in Barth.
Bibliothèque Imperiale de St. Petersbourg I, page 80, no. 302.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the author, and is so described by Jefferson in both his dated and his undated catalogues. In August 1786 Jefferson was in correspondence with de Bassville, for whom in his official capacity he had performed some small service, and, this edition having been published
in that year, it may have been presented at that time.
François Le Fort, 1656-1699.
Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, 1753?-1793, French author and diplomat, was secretary to the legation at Naples in 1792 and assassinated by the populace
of Rome on January 13, 1793. The first edition of this book was published in Geneva, 1784.
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115
Histoire de Sobieski roi de Pologne par l’Abbé Coyer.
3 v. in 2.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 51, as above.
COYER,
Gabriel François.
Histoire de Jean Sobieski, Roi de Pologne. Par M. l’Abbé Coyer. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. A
Varsovie, et se trouve à
Paris: chez
Duchesne,
1761.
DK431 .C88
First Edition. 3 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 226 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece by Chenu after Garand; vol. II, 193 leaves; vol. III, 204 leaves; in the imprint of vol. II the name
Warsovie is so spelled; the fleuron on the title-page of vol. I differs from
that on vol. II and III. At the end of vol. III is a list of
Livres Nouveaux, ou nouvellement réimprimés, Depuis l’Année 1759, jusqu’à la présente Année 1761. Qui se vendent chez
Duchesne
, preceded by a list of the
Ouvrages de M. l’Abbé Coyer, in which the present work is the last:
Historie
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
de Jean Sobieski, Roi de Pologne, avec son Portrait, 1761. 3 vol. in 12.
7 l. 10 s.
Jefferson had his copy bound in 2 volumes; the entry in the undated manuscript catalogue includes the price
6.0. In 1803 Jefferson tried to purchase from Pougens for the Library of Congress a copy of the
Abregé chronologique de l’histoire de Pologne
, by the same author. On June 9 in that year that work was included by Pougens in a list of books he had been unable to procure
for Jefferson and reported that it was “
rare, attendre le hazard d’une vente”.
John III (Sobieski), 1624-1696, King of Poland.
Gabriel François Coyer, 1707-1782, French author, was a member of the academies of Nancy, Rome and London.
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