116
Abregé chronologique de l’histoire de Pologne.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 50, as above.
[SCHMIDT,
Fryderyk August.]
Abrégé chronologique de l’histoire de Pologne. Varsovie et
Dresdè:
Michel Groell,
1763.
First Edition. 12mo. (according to some bibliographies, 8vo.) No copy of this book was available for collation.
Barbier I, 16.
Quérard VIII, page 526.
This book is entered without the price in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Fryderyk August Schmidt, d. 1807, Polish historian.
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117
Histoire de l’anarchie et du demembrement de Pologne. par Rulhiere.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 119, as above.
RULHIÈRE,
Claude-Carloman de.
Histoire de l’Anarchie de Pologne, et du Démembrement de cette République, par Cl. Rulhière. Suivie des Anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie, en 1762, par le même auteur. Tome Premier [-Quatrième].
Paris:
Desenne; à la Librairie Stéréotype, chez
H. Nicolle; et
Desenne jeune, [De l’imprimerie des
Annales de Arts et Manufactures]
1807.
DK434 .R9
First Edition. 4 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 213 leaves; vol. II, 255 leaves; vol. III, 237 leaves; vol. IV, 218 leaves; printer’s imprint
on the verso of each half-title.
Quérard VIII, page 281.
Estreicher,
Bibliografia Polska X, 23.
Finkel,
Bibliografia Historyi Polskiej, 9386.
Chevalier,
Claude Carloman de Rulhière, page 425.
An
Histoire de Pologne, 4 vols. 8vo. was bound for Jefferson by
Milligan on April 30, 1808, cost $4.00.
This work is included in Jefferson’s lists of recommended reading.
Claude-Carloman de Rulhière, 1734-1791, French poet and historian, was secretary to the legation of St. Petersburg at the time of the Russian revolution.
The
Histoire de l’Anarchie de Pologne was posthumously published under the editorship of P.C.F. Donau. Of the three issues of the first edition it is not possible to know which was in the Jefferson collection. The copy in the
Library of Congress described above is of the first issue.
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118
Coup d’oeil sur la décadence de la Pologne par Komarzewski.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 120, as above.
KOMARZEWSKI,
Jan Chrzciciel.
Coup-d’Oeil rapide sur les causes réelles de la Décadence de la Pologne; par M. de Komarzewski . . . A
Paris: chez
Bertrand-Pottier,
1807.
First Edition. 8vo. 135 leaves, the last with the errata.
Quérard IV, page 312.
Estreicher II, 411.
This may be the book referred to by D.B. Warden, in a letter to Jefferson written from Paris on September 17, 1809 (received
at Monticello November 22): “I have the honor of sending you, to the care of Mr. Bullus, a history of Poland, and a brochure, which are presented to you,
by the author--a Polish General. I lately sent a copy of the same, via Holland: if you receive both, please to give one to
the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia . . .”
In a letter to William Duane dated from Monticello July 25, 1811, Jefferson wrote:
