130
Tracts of foreign hist. viz.
}
Vie privée du Prince Henri de Prusse.
}
12
mo.
Apologia por los Agotes de Navarra por de Lardizabel.
}
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 57, as above.
Vie privée du Prince Henri de Prusse.
[GUYTON
de MORVEAU, N.]
La Vie privée d’un prince célèbre, ou détails des loisirs du prince Henri de Prusse, dans sa retraite de Reinsberg.
Berlin,
1785.
8vo. No copy was located for collation.
Barbier IV, 984.
Quérard III, page 562.
N. Guyton de Morveau was the brother of the chemist, Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, q.v. This work, which has been erroneously attributed to
Mirabeau, was published under the name
Brumore
by which the author was known at the court of Prince Henri.
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Apologia por los Agotes de Navarra por de Lardizabel.
LARDIZABAL
y URIBE, Miguel.
Apologia por los Agostes de Navarra, y los Chuetas de Mallorca con una breve digression à los Vaqueros de Asturias.
Madrid: Viuda de
Ibarra,
1786.
First Edition. 8vo. No copy was located for collation.
Palau IV, page 184.
Cejador y Frauca VI, page 245.
The two tracts are entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Miguel Lardizabal y Uribe, b. 1714 in Mexico, was the brother of Manuel Lardizabal y Uribe, to whom this work is attributed by Palau. He was a correspondent
of Jefferson, and his agent for the purchase of Spanish Americana, see chapter 29.
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131
Oeuvres de Frederic roi de Prusse.
17. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 124, as above.
FREDERIC II,
King of Prussia. [Frederick the Great.]
Oeuvres Complettes de Frédéric II, Roi de Prusse. Tome Premier [-dix septieme]. Without name of place or printer [
Berlin?]
1790.
DD405.
17 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 176 leaves; vol. II, 220 leaves; vol. III, 198 leaves; vol. IV, 206 leaves; 7 folded engraved plates;
vol. V, 194 leaves; vol. VI, 216 leaves; vol. VII, 192 leaves; vol. VIII, 196 leaves; vol. IX, 170 leaves; vol. X, 262 leaves;
vol. XI, 229 leaves; vol. XII, 215 leaves; vol. XIII, 174 leaves; vol. XIV, 170 leaves; vol. XV. 234 leaves; vol. XVI, 209
leaves; vol. XVII, 174 leaves.
This edition not in Quérard; not in Brunet; not in the Bibliothèque Nationale; not in Droysen,
Beiträge zu einer Bibliographie der prosaischen Schriften Friedrichs des Grossen.
British Museum Catalogue, col. 189.
Purchased from
Goldsmith, Paris, in June 1790, through William Short. In an undated letter to Short, written in that year, Jefferson sent a list of
his requirements, including “
Les oeuvres du roi de Prusse. best edition. I believe that of Bâle was the best. I do not know if a better is come out since.”
Short procured the work from Goldsmith on June 20 and sent it to Jefferson with a copy of Goldsmith’s
memoire (marked
pd. June 29, 1790), the cost being
60 (livres).
Jefferson mentioned the publication of the first edition of the works of Frederic II in the letter he wrote to Doctor Currie
of Richmond, from Paris, December 20, 1788, previously quoted relative to Barthelemy’s Anacharsis, no. 41: “
. . . in the literary way we are like, after a very long dearth of good publications, to have some things worth reading. the
works of the late K. of Prussia in 16. vols 8
vo. appear now. they contain new and curious historical matter . . .
”
