This list included “
Traduction des Annales Belgiques de Grotius, en Anglois, Italien ou François.”
On January 25, 1789, Jefferson wrote to Van Damme from Paris, and sent him marked catalogues of books he required. This letter
contained a postscript: “
P.S. ayez la bonté d’observer que c’etoit une traduction en Anglois, Italien, ou François de Grotius de rebus Belgicis, et
non pas l’ouvrage original en Latin que je vous ai demandé. je possede deja le Latin
.”
On January 29 Van Damme, in a letter concerning a forthcoming sale of books, wrote: “Je acquirai en attendent, un exemplair de
H. Grotius, de Rebus Belgicis Folio de vostre commission.”
The next entry in Jefferson’s undated manuscript reads:
Grotius de rebus Belgiciis. 2 v. p.f. This was not sold to Congress.
Hugo Grotius, 1583-1645, Dutch publicist and statesman. The
Annales et historiae was begun by Grotius as an official duty after his appointment in 1603 as historiographer to the United Provinces. It was
first published posthumously by his sons Peter and Cornelius. For other works by Grotius see chapters 16 and 17.
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Stanyan’s acc
t. of Switzerland.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 73, Stanyan’s account of Switzerland, 12mo.
[STANYAN,
Abraham.]
An Account of Switzerland. Written in the Year 1714.
Edinburgh: Printed by
Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill,
1756.
DQ22 .S8
12mo. 120 leaves.
Halkett and Laing I, 13 [By Temple Stanyan].
Lowndes V. 2494 (under Temple Stanyan).
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature II, 744 (under Abraham Stanyan).
Abraham Stanyan, 1669?-1732, English diplomat, went as envoy to the Swiss Cantons in 1705 and again in 1710. This book was written after
his return to England in 1712, and originally issued anonymously in 1714. The author was the elder brother of Temple Stanyan
(q.v.) to whom the book was for many years ascribed, owing to a mistake in the Bodleian Library catalogue, copied by other
bibliographers.
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157
Tableau des revolñs de Geneve par d’Ivernois.
3
to. in 2. v.
8
vo
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 133, as above, but omitting
3to.
[IVERNOIS,
Sir Francis d’.]
Tableau Historique et Politique des Révolutions de Geneve dans le Dix-Huitième Siècle. Dédié à Sa Majesté Très-Chrétienne,
Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, Par Mr. . . .
A
Geneve: [chez
Quiby et Boisselier]
1782.
First Edition. 8vo. 212 leaves, including the half-title for the
Seconde Partie.
Barbier IV, 649.
Barth 3290.
Rivoire I, 1135.
Karmin 5a.
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IVERNOIS,
Sir Francis d’.
Des Révolutions de France et de Genève. Par M. D’Ivernois. Londres: de l’Imprimerie de
T. Spilsbury & Fils, se vend chez
P. Elmsley,
J. Debrett,
J. Deboffe, & chez les principaux Libraires,
Octobre 1795.
2 parts in 1. 8vo. in fours. 252 leaves: [ ]
4, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Qqq
4; on [ ]
4 is a half-title for
La Révolution Française à Genève . . . Troisième Édition
; on Cc
4 is the title for
Réflexions sur la Guerre. Par M. D’Ivernois. En Réponse aux Réflexions sur la Paix, addressées à Mr. Pitt et aux Français . . . Seconde Edition, considérablement augmentée
, 1795; on Aa
4 recto, with caption title, begins,
Lettre de M. Chauvet à un de ses Amis, habitant du Pays de
