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Tracts of British biography. viz..........................................................
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Anecdotes historiques sur les principaux personnages de l’Anglet....
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8
vo.
Memoirs of Major Semple..................................................................
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1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 51, Tracts of British biography, viz. Anecdotes sur les personnages principaux et semple, 8vo.
Two tracts bound together in 1 volume, 8vo. This volume is no longer in the Library of Congress.
Anecdotes historiques sur les principaux personnages de l’Anglet.
Annecdotes historiques sur les principaux personnages qui jouent maintenant un role en Angleterre.
1784.
First Edition. 8vo. 100 leaves: A-M
8, N
4.
Not in Barbier.
Not in any of the usual bibliographies.
Not in Ford,
Franklin Bibliography.
The edition called for by the Library of Congress catalogues after 1815 is one of
Londres, 1785, of which no trace has been found. The above title and collation was taken from the copy of the 1784 edition in the Library
of Congress, which same edition is the only one in the British Museum Catalogue. No copy was found in the catalogue of the
Bibliothèque Nationale.
The “principaux personnages” number twelve, of which the last two are
Le Docteur Francklin and
Monsieur Adams.
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Memoirs of Major Semple.
SEMPLE, James George,
called
Semple Lisle.
The Northern Hero; minutely and impartially delineated in The Life of Major S---le, alias Harrold, Kennedy, &c. The Celebrated Swindler . . . From the Period of his Infancy to the present Year, 1786 . . .
London: Printed for
P. M’Queen, and
J. Forbes,
1786.
CT788 .S45 N6
8vo. 34 leaves: [ ]
1, A-D
8, E
1. This collation is taken from the copy in the Library of Congress. According to the British Museum Catlaogue the 6th, 7th
and 8th editions were published in 1786. It is not known which edition was in the Jefferson collection.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
James George Semple,
alias Semple Lisle, b. 1759, Scottish adventurer, served in America in 1776. His autobiography, written while he was in prison,
was first published in 1799, after which nothing more is known of him.
These two tracts are entered without the price in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
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Public characters.
2 vols.
8
vo.
1734-1801.
1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 52, as above.
Public Characters of 1798-1801 . . . To be continued annually.
London: for
Richard Phillips,
1799-1801.
That these two octavo volumes were ever received by Congress in 1815 is doubtful. They are entered in the printed catalogue,
and were originally checked, the check mark later crossed through. They are entered in the manuscript
List of Books missing from Congress Library, and are omitted from the later Library catalogues, which call for a set in eleven volumes, not credited to the Jefferson
collection.
The life of
Mr. Jefferson, Vice-President of the United States of America occupies pages 200-225 of
Public Characters of 1800-1801 (Vol. III of the work), and is followed by that of Mr. Bushrod Washington. The folded frontispiece contains 24 engraved portraits,
none of which appears to be of Jefferson.
That Jefferson owned the third volume, in which his own life appears, is clear from his recommendation of it
