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Histoire de l’empire par le sieur Heiss. 3. v. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 59, as above.
HEISS VON KOGENHEIM, Johann.
Histoire de l’Empire, Contenant son Origine, ses Progrès, ses Révolutions, la forme de son Gouvernement, sa Politique, ses Négociations, & les nouveaux Réglemens, faits dans les Traités de Westphalie, &c. par Mr. Heiss . . . La Haye: A. Moetjens, 1685.
Second Edition. 3 vol. 12mo. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
This edition not in Quérard.
Johann Heiss von Kogenheim, d. 1688, German historian. The first edition of this work was published in 1684, 2 vol. 4to.
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Tableau des revolñs d’Allemagne par de B. 2. v. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 60, as above.
[BRIEL, J. H. D.]
Tableau des Révolutions de l’Empire d’Allemagne depuis Othon-le-Grand jusqu’à nos jours, par J.-H.-D. B. auteur des Nouveaux contes moraux sous le title d’Heures de loisir. Paris: Froullé, 1787.
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. No copy was located for collation.
Barbier IV, 642.
Quérard I, page 512.
Entered without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue. The volumes were issued when Jefferson was in Paris and making large purchases from Froullé.
J. H. D. Briel, fl. 1787, French author.
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Brief acc t. of the hospital of S t. Elizabeth. Lat. Eng. 8 vo. grand .
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 154, Brief account of the hospital of St. Elizabeth, Lat. Eng. Gr. 8vo.
ST. ELIZABETH.
Historia succincta Hospitalis S. Elizabethae, extra Muros Imperialis Monasterii S. Maximi Ordinis S. Benedicti, prope Treviros.-- A brief Account of the Hospital of St. Elizabeth, annexed to the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, of the Benedictines, in the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin. With Notes, and Miscellaneous Observations [by Capell Lofft] . . . London[:] Sold by C. Dilly; and Punchard and Jermyn, Ipswich, 1786.
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. According to Jefferson’s manuscript and the Library of Congress catalogues his copy contained the original Latin version and the translation into English; no copy of the Latin work has been located for collation; the English edition collates as follows: 86 leaves: [ ] 1, a-g 4, B-O 4, P 5; the preliminary matter, in the first alphabet of signatures, contains the Preface to the Translation, the dedic[a]tion to Your Imperial Majesty, Protector of the Church, signed and dated The Advocate of the Poor, London, Jan. 1, 1786, and a Note to the Author’s Preface of which sig. f iii verso to g iii have Extracts from the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States of America and the King of Prussia: confirmed unanimously in Congress, May 17, 1786 ; A Brief Account begins on sig. B; sig. L i verso to M iv verso, contain Extracts from the American Constitutions , taken from Jackson’s Constitutions of the American Independent States; sig. N begins A Sketch of the Life of Father Paul of Venice .
Not in Sabin.
Not in Barbier.
Halkett and Laing I, page 232.
The London Catalogue of Books for 1786 lists the Latin edition (price 7/-).
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