First Edition. 8vo. 133 leaves a
4, A-K
8 [ ]
1, L-Q
8; on the last page is the publisher’s list of works by Mandrillon, which includes
Le Spectateur Américain
see no. 497. The unsigned leaf between sigs. K and L is for the half-title of
Remarques sur le Stadhoudérat
. The dedication to
Frédéric-Auguste, duc de Brunswic, is dated from
Paris, le 1
er. Décembre 1790
.
Joseph Mandrillon, 1743-1794 (died on the scaffold), French littérateur, was a member of the academies of Haarlem, Bresse, Philadelphia and
others.
This work contains references to the American Revolution.
[292]
153
Vie de Ruyter.
2. v. in 1.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 71, Vie de De Ruyter, 12mo.
RICHER,
Adrien.
Vie de Michel de Ruiter, Lieutenant-Amiral-Général de Hollande et de West-Frise. Par M. Richer, Auteur de plusieurs Ouvrages de Littérature. Tome Premier [-Second]. Prix
3 liv. les deux volumes brochés. A
Paris: chez
Belin [De l’imprimerie de
Chardon],
1783.
DJ136 .R8R5
First Edition. 2 vol. in 1. 12mo. vol. I, 115 leaves; engraved portrait of Michel de Ruiter by and after Pierron, publisher’s advertisement of works by the same author on the back of the half-title; vol. II, 131 leaves; printer’s imprint
at the end. These volumes, whose half-titles read
Vie des plus célebres Marins
, form part of that set, issued in thirteen volumes 12mo., Paris, 1780-1786.
The price as given on the title reads
3 liv. les deux volumes. On Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue he has entered the price
2 f rel. 15s.
Adrien Richer, 1720-1798, French historian.
Michel Adriaanszoon van Ruiter, 1607-1676, Dutch admiral.
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154
Histoire du Prince d’Orange de Lamigue.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 72 “. . . . 2v. 3mo.”
LAMIGUE,
Isaac.
Historie
[
sic
?] du Prince d’Orange et de Nassau . . .
Lewarde:
F. Halma,
1715.
First Edition. 2 vol. Small 8vo.; engraved portrait, plates and plans.
No copy has been located for collation. There is a copy in the British Museum, listed in the catalogue under
Lamigue, and in the Bibliothèque Nationale, of which the catalogue states that the Dedication is signed
I. Lamigue.
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155
Grotii annales et historiae de rebus Belgicis
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 170, as above.
GROTIUS,
Hugo.
Hvgonis Grotii Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis. Amstelaedami: ex Typographejo
Joannis Blaev,
1657.
First Edition. Folio. 302 leaves, engraved portrait of Hugo Grotius by W. Delff after M. Miereveld on the verso of *6; woodcut initials, printer’s woodcut device on the title (Haeghen no. 7).
Graesse III, 163.
Ebert II, 8977.
Meulen, 30, no. 238.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
3 f 12.
This book was missing at the time of the sale of the library to Congress in 1815. In the working copy of the Library catalogue
of 1815 the entry is not checked, and is one of a manuscript list headed
Congress Library Books Missing.
During the years 1788 and 1789 Jefferson was trying to obtain a translation of this work. On March 18, 1788, when in Amsterdam,
he wrote to
Van Damme sending him a list of books that he wished him to procure “
á des prix assez raisonables, et de les faire passer á Paris á son adresse.”
