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Precis de l’histoire des deux Indes de Raynal.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 61 (for 16).
RAYNAL,
Guillaume Thomas François.
Précis de l’Histoire Philosophique & Politique des Etablissemens & du Commerce des Europiens dans les deux Indies. Par G. Th. Raynal. A
Amsterdam: chez
J. F. Rosart & Comp.,
1782.
D22 .R29
First Edition. 8vo. 230 leaves, ornamental title with engraved portrait.
Marbled calf; not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed without the price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
An abridgment of the previous number by P[ieter] Van Woensel, 1747-1808, who dedicated the work to J. C. Vander Hoop.
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Robertson’s hist. of America.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25, no. 17, Robertson’s History of America, 1st and 3d vol. 8vo.
Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue contains the above entry, calling for an edition of
Robertson’s History of America in 3 volumes. The 1815 Library of Congress catalogue calls for the first and third volumes only, and the entry is dropped
from the later catalogues.
Robertson’s hist. of America 3 v. 8vo.
14/6. is on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Jefferson expressed an opinion of Robertson’s History in a letter to General [i.e., the Marquis de] Chastellux, written from
Paris, June 7, 1785: “
. . . as to Robertson, he never was in America, he relates nothing on his own knolege, he is a compiler only of the relations
of others, and a mere translator of the opinions of Mons. de Buffon. I should as soon therefore add the translators of Robertson
to the witnesses of this fact, as himself . . .
”
William Robertson, 1721-1793, Scottish historian. The History of America first appeared in London in 1777, and was frequently reprinted, in
England and in America and translated into several European languages. It is to this work that Keats owed the suggestion of
his simile of Cortez and his men.
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[Robertson’s
] hist. of America. Books 9. and 10.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 18, as above.
ROBERTSON,
William.
The History of America, Books IX. and X. containing the History of Virginia to the year 1688; and of New England to the year
1652. By William Robertson, D.D. . . .
Philadelphia: Printed from the London edition by
James Humphreys,
1799.
E191 .R65
8vo. in fours. 98 leaves. Bound in at the end is the:
Additions and Corrections to the former Editions of Dr. Robertson’s History of America. London: Printed for T. Cadell, MCCLXXXVIII.
[
sic
--
Ed.
] 19 leaves.
Sabin 71974.
The Virginia State Library
Bibliography of Virginia has only the later
London editions of 1821, 1822.
Original sheep, gilt back. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
This portion of the History of Virginia and of New England was written by Dr. Robertson, and published after his death without
alteration by his son, William Robertson, whose Advertisement is dated from Queen-Street, Edinburgh, April, 1796, the date of the London edition. The first American
edition was published earlier in the same year, 1799, in quarto. The author’s source books are given in footnotes and include
Hakluyt, Purchas, Smith, Stith, Beverley, Mather’s
Magnalia
, Hutchinson’s
History of Massachusetts
and others.
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