Old calf, gilt; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. On the title-page of each volume Jefferson has written in a youthful hand Ex Libris Thomae Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.

John Potter, 1674?-1747, Archbishop of Canterbury, is described on the title of vol. II of this edition as Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The work was first published in 1697, 1698.

Bound for Jefferson in calf (vol. I rebacked, and vol. II repaired at the joints); the text of the Atlas of plates cut down and the plates folded to octavo size. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T (vol. 7 at sig. t); below the plate in vol. II the name Watterston is written in pencil.

Purchased from Froullé on December 27, 1788. 2 copies, 7 vol. 8vo. br. 90 (livres). The atlas of plates is not included in this bill.

The second copy was bought for James Madison to whom Jefferson wrote from Paris on January 12, 1789: “ . . . we have lately had three books published which are of great merit in different lines. the one is in 7. vols 8 ^vo. by an Abbé Barthelemy, wherein he has collected every subject of Graecian literature, after a labour of 30. years. it is called les voiages d’Anacharsis. I have taken a copy for you, because the whole impression was likely to be run off at once . . . ”

Jefferson had similarly described the book among the “ things worth reading” in a letter to Doctor Currie of Richmond, Virginia, written on December 20, 1788: “ . . . a work on Grecian antiquities by the Abbé Barthelemi, of great classical learning, the produce of 20 years labor is now in the press, about 8. vols. 8 ^vo. . . . ”

And again, on March 24, 1789, to Doctor Willard: “ . . . The most remarkable publications we have had in France for a year or two past are the following. les voiages d’Anacharsis par l’Abbé Barthelemi. 7. vols. 8 ^vo. this is a very elegant digest of whatever is known of the Greeks; unuseful indeed to him who has read the original authors, but very proper for one who reads modern languages only . . . ”

A copy with the atlas was bought for Jefferson from Goldsmith, through William Short, on June 20, 1790, price 45 (livres). Jefferson bought other copies for members of his family and for his friends, which appear on his book bills from time to time. A copy without the atlas and without price is entered on his undated manuscript catalogue.

Jean Jacques Barthélemy, 1716-1795, French scholar and numismatist. The first edition of this work was published in quarto in 1788. At the sale of the author’s library in 1800, a copy of the octavo edition of 1789 bound in papier velin, with the atlas broché, lot no. 906b, brought 74.19. livres.

Joseph Willard, 1738-1804, was President of Harvard University.

J. F. Froullé, Parisian bookseller, printer, and publisher. Jefferson did business with Froullé over a period of years, buying books from him not only for himself, but for a number of his friends in the United States. Jefferson, who almost invariably wrote the name “Frouillé”[,] thought very highly of him. In a letter to John Stockdale, written on July 17, 1787, he described him as “my Bookseller Frouillé, Quai des Augustins, an extremely honest man,” and some years later, in a letter to James Monroe written on May 26, 1795, Jefferson wrote: “while speaking of Froullé, libraire, au quai des Augustins, I can assure you that having run a severe gauntlet under the Paris booksellers I rested at last on this old gentleman, whom I found in a long & intimate course of after dealings to be one of the most conscientiously honest men I ever had dealings with. I commend you to him strongly should you purchase books.”