Bound in the original calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I [the signatures run to P only], and on the fly-leaf is his signature
Th
os. Jefferson, 1774
. On the title-page is the signature J. Wayles.
The 1815 catalogue was in error in referring this number to the Works of Voltaire in chapter 44, which is a French edition.
This book was apparently missing at the time of the sale to Congress;
it is now in a private library. [Emphasis by
Ed.]
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Histoire de la derniere guerre de Suede. de Peleus.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 54, as above but with
de la Suede.
[PELEUS,
Julien.]
L’Histoire de la derniere Gverre de Svede, en laquelle sont amplement décrits, tous les Sieges, combats rencontres, & batailles
des Suedois, contre les Dannois: Ensemble leur Paix, par l’entremise du Roy de la Grand’ Bretagne.
A
Paris: chez
François Pomeray,
1622.
First Edition. 8vo. 174 leaves ã
4, A-X
8, Y
2, printer’s woodcut device on the title; the dedication signed
Pelevs.
Not in Barbier, Brunet, Graesse, or Quérard.
Julien Peleus [Pilieu], d. 1625, French lawyer and man of letters. According to Brunet his historical works are
tout à fait oubliés.
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123
Sheridan’s revolution of Sweden.
12
mo.
Not in the 1815 Catalogue.
SHERIDAN,
Charles Francis.
A History of the late Revolution in Sweden: containing an Account of the Transactions of the three last Diets in that Country;
preceded by a short Abstract of the Swedish History, so far as was necessary to lay open the true Causes of that remarkable
Event. By Charles Francis Sheridan, Esq; of Lincoln’s-Inn, and Secretary to the British Envoy in Sweden, at the Time of the late Revolution.
London: Printed for
Edward and Charles Dilly,
1778.
DL766 .S5
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with price,
2/-.
The author of this book is listed in the Index of the 1815 Library Catalogue, with reference to chapter 2, but his book is
not entered in that chapter. The copy described has the eagle stamp on the back in use by the Library of Congress in 1815,
and has the 1822 bookplate. It is not in any of the Library of Congress printed catalogues, and was apparently first catalogued
for the card catalogue made in 1904, though the early form of the eagle on the back, and the bookplate, make it clear it was
in the Library many years before that date. In the circumstances it is not possible to know whether the book was delivered
to Congress or not.
Since writing the above, the volume has been rebound in brown buckram (in March 1948) and the eagle and the bookplate lost.
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Lord Molesworth’s account of Denmark.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 56, as above.
[MOLESWORTH,
Robert, viscount Molesworth.]
An account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692.
Glasgow: Printed by
R. Urie,
MDCCLII. [1752.]
12mo. 111 leaves. No copy was seen for collation.
Robert Molesworth, Viscount Molesworth, 1656-1725, was born in Dublin. This book was written after the abrupt termination of Molesworth’s mission
to Denmark in 1692 as envoy extraordinary to that country. The first edition appeared in 1694.
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