First Edition. 12mo. 130 leaves: A
6, B-M
4 in twelves.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in Cushing.
Not in Watt.
The Robinhood Society was a club formed by the London wits of the day, who met every Monday night at the sign of the Robin
Hood and Little John, in Butcher Row, St. Clements, and allowed each speaker five minutes in which to express his views. This
history is an anonymous publication signed at the end
Opsinous.
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Court calendar for 1768.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 20, Court Calendar for 1768, 12mo.
The Court and City Kalendar: or Gentleman’s Register for the year 1768 . . . Carefully done by the Compilers of the former
Lists, and revised by several Members of Parliament.
London: printed for
H. Woodfall [and others],
1768.
12mo. No copy of the Kalendar for 1768 was located for collation.
The Court and City Kalendar contains the usual information to be found in such publications, lists of the members of the Houses
of Parliament, of the Public Schools, facts relative to the British Museum and other institutions, and so forth.
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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 18, no. 57, Historical tracts, Jenner, &c. 8vo.
1849 Catalogue, page 111. no. 200, Tracts.--Notice Biographique, sur le Docteur Jenner, par L. Valentin, 8vo; Montpellier,
1805.--Catalogus Eorum, qui adhuc in Univ. Harvardiana, ab Anno 1642, 8vo; Salem, 1806.--Cuvier’s Historical Eulogium on Joseph
Priestley, translated by D. B. Warden, 8vo; Paris, 1807.--Memoirs of Captain Roger Clap, 8vo; Boston, 1807.--Thomas’s Eulogium
on Marcus Aurelius, translated by D. B. Warden, 8vo; New-York, 1808.--Fraser’s Essay on the Origin, Antiquity, &c., of the
Scots and Irish Nations, 8vo; New-York, 1800.--First and Second Reports of the Committee on the African Institution, 1807
and 1808, 8vo; London, 1807-’8.--Eloge Historique, de M. de Lalande, 8vo; Paris, 1808.--Jornada de Carlos V. á Tunez, por
el Dr. Gonzalo de Illescas, 8vo; Madrid, 1804.
i. VALENTIN,
Louis.
Notice Biographique sur le Docteur Jenner. Par L. Valentin.
Montpellier,
1805.
First Edition. 8vo; no copy was located for collation.
Quérard X, 18.
This edition not in the Biographie Médicale, and not in the Huzard Catalogue.
This edition not in the Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by the author through Dr. Sameul L. Mitchill of New York, who wrote to Jefferson on August
15, 1805: “At the request of M. Valentin of Marseille, I do myself the pleasure of sending you a Copy of his Eulogium on Jenner, which
I this day received.”
Jefferson acknowledged its receipt to Dr. Mitchill on September 8.
Louis Valentin, 1758-1829, French doctor and surgeon, went to the Antilles in 1790 and thence took refuge in the United States during the
Revolution, where he had charge of the hospitals for French sailors in Virginia. He returned to France in 1799.
Valentin re-wrote and republished this pamphlet in Nancy, 1823, and again in 1824, which editions are usually to be found
in libraries. The issue of 1805 is not generally known to bibliographers.
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Harvard University.
Catalogus eorum, qui adhuc in Universitate Harvardiana, ab anno MDCXLII,
