to allow no person to use a printing press on any occasion whatsoever. In this connection Jefferson, on July 25, 1809, in answer to a query from W. Hening, wrote: “
I do not know that the publication of Newspapers was ever prohibited in Virginia.”
In the second edition of this book, published in 1829, the Preface contains the following passage:
My particular acknowledgments are due to the late president JEFFERSON, who, approving the plan of the work, sent me from his
own library several books, of which I have never seen any other copies. Among these were Memoires de l’Amérique--an invaluble
[
sic
]
collection of official Papers and Documents, which, though received too late for the first, are used in the present edition.
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Colden’s history of the five nations.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 23. no. 21, as above.
COLDEN,
Cadwallader.
The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which are dependent on the Province of New-York in America, and are the
Barrier between the English and French in that Part of the World . . . By the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq; One of his Majesty’s Counsel, and Surveyor-General of New-York . . .
London: Printed for
T. Osborne,
1747.
E99 .I7 C6
Second [
first
English] Edition. 8vo. 2 parts in 1. 256 leaves; engraved folded map as frontispiece, half-title for Part II on G
6 (marked G
5); on B
1 of the second alphabet is the half-title for
Papers Relating to an Act of Assembly . . .
with separate pagination; publisher’s advertisement on the last page.
Sabin 14273.
Toronto Public Library,
Bibliography of Canadiana, 220 (in a note to
the edition of 1750).
Pilling,
Bibliography of Iroquoian Languages, page 47.
Gagnon 928, has only the edition of 1755, and Field 342, only that of 1750.
Rebound in half red morocco, marbled end papers, m.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Bought from
Lackington in 1787. This book was no. 600 in the second part of Lackington’s catalogue for that year, price
4/-, and was ordered by Jefferson in a letter to Stockdale written from Paris on July 1, 1787.
Cadwallader Colden, 1688-1776, born in Ireland of Scottish parentage, came to Philadelphia in 1710, and to New York in 1718, where he became
Lieutenant Governor of the State. The first edition of this, his earliest important book, was printed in New York in 1727,
and was the first historical work printed in that city. It is dedicated to the Honourable General Oglethorpe, the colonizer
of Georgia. This edition is larger than the New York publication, and has a second part and other additions.
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Burke’s acct of the European settlements in America.
2.v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 23. no. 1, as above.
[BURKE,
William.]
An account of the European Settlements in America. In six Parts . . . In
Two Volumes. Volume First [Second]. A New Edition, carefully corrected.
London: Printed for
J. Dodsley,
MDCCLXVI. [1766]
E143 .B962
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 156 leaves; vol. II, 146 leaves.
Halkett and Laing I, page 15.
Sabin 9282.
Bound for Jefferson in sprinkled calf, original labels on the backs. Each volume is initialled at sigs. I and T by Jefferson.
These two volumes also bear the signature of Thomas Mann Randolph (the son-in-law of Jefferson), and his note on the inside covers:
2 v. cost 6/. stg. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
This book was at one time missing; it is on the manuscript list of books missing from the Library of Congress made after 1815.
The handwriting is possibly that of the senior Thomas Randolph, not Jefferson’s son-in-law.
William Burke, d. 1798, was the kinsman of Edmund Burke, who revised this work, which was first printed in 1757, and is ascribed to the
latter by Sabin, Rich, and the John Carter Brown catalogue, in their notices of the first edition. William Burke is a supposed
author of the
Letters of Junius
.
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