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Bouquet’s expedition.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 23. no. 72, as above.
[SMITH,
William.]
An Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the Year 1764. Under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq;
Colonel of Foot, and now Brigadier General in America. Including his Transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery
of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of Peace . . . The whole illustrated with a Map and Copper-plates. Published from
authentic Documents, by a Lover of his Country.
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by
William Bradford,
M.DCC.LXV. [1765]
E83.76 .S65
First Edition. 4to. 44 leaves, folded engraved map (backed) in 2 compartments, by Thomas Hutchins, Assistant Engineer; 1 folded plate (only, 1 plate lacking).
Halkett and Laing III, 47.
Sabin 84616.
Evans 10167.
Hildeburn 2169.
Thomson 1065.
This edition not in Field.
Original calf, gilt back, blue end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. On the title, beside the reading
a Lover of his Country, is written in an early hand:
Thos. Hutchins, Geographer General of the U. States. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Bouquet’s expedition 4
to.
is in Jefferson’s undated catalogue, without the price entry.
William Smith, 1727-1803, educator, clergyman and the first provost of the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia, was
born in Aberdeen, and sailed for New York in 1751. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1768. Due to
the fact that his name appears on the maps, this work was for a time attributed to Thomas Hutchins. A letter from William Smith to Sir William Johnson, dated January 13, 1766 (in the Force MS. collections in the Library of Congress)
acknowledges the authorship of the work.
Henry Bouquet, 1719-1765, a Frenchman by birth, came to America in 1756, and eventually became a British officer in the Revolutionary War.
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American & British chronicle from 1773-1783.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 64, as above.
The American and British Chronicle of War and Politics . . . in which will be found above eighteen hundred interesting events,
during the late war between Great Britain and America, France, Spain, and Holland; from May 10, 1773, to July 16, 1783. The
whole carefully collected from Authentic Records, and correctly arranged in Chronological Order. Multum in Parva . . .
London: Printed for the author . . . Price
Two Shillings and Six-Pence. [
1783]
AC901 .M5 vol. 1081
First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 60 leaves: [ ]
2, A-O
4, P
2.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in Cushing.
Not in Lowndes.
Sabin 1040.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
5-2-6. [?--
sic] The title-page states the price to be 2/6.
For Jefferson’s opinion of this book, which he made use of as a “
common Manual”, see the note to no. 444 where the correspondence between Jefferson and Abiel Holmes, to whom he lent the book, is quoted in full.
The book is dedicated to the Earl of Shelburne, London, August 12, 1783, by E. I. S.
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