J.10
Platina. Onuphrius et Cicarella de vitis Pontificum.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 27. no. 15, as above.
PLATINA,
Bartolommeo.
Historia B. Platinæ de Vitis Pontificvm Romanorvm. AD. N. Iesv Christo vsqve ad Pavlvm II. Venetvm Papam, longe qvam antea emendatior, Doctissimarvmq.
annotationum Onvphrii Panvinii accessione nunc illustrior reddita . . . Accesservnt nvnc demvm omnivm Pontificvm veræ Effigies:
omnia summo studio emendata & correcta.
Coloniæ: apud
Bernardum Gualtherium. Anno
cIɔ. Iɔ. c. [1600.]
BX953 .P75
4to. 304 leaves; engraved head of Christ on the title-page, woodcut heads of the Popes throughout the text; text in double
columns, annotations in italic letter.
Graesse V, page 313.
Ebert III, 17013.
Half morocco, marbled edges; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T; leaves cut into throughout, with damage to the marginalia;
badly foxed and stained; the autograph signature of Wm. Cocke on the title-page.
William Cocke, 1748-1828, a Virginia lawyer, was a life-long friend of Jefferson, whose library contains several books bearing Cocke’s
autograph signature.
Bartolommeo Platina, 1421-1481, wrote this book, first published in Venice in 1479, the first systematic handbook on papal history, at the suggestion
of Sixtus IV.
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J.11
Bower’s lives of the Popes.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 27. no. 16, as above.
BOWER,
Archibald.
The History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the present time. Vol. I [-II]. By Archibald Bower, Esq; heretofore Public Professor of Rhetoric, History, and Philosophy, in the Universities of Rome, Fermo, and Macerata,
And, in the latter Place, Counsellor of the Inquisition. The
Third Edition.
London: Printed for the Author.
M.DCC.L. [1750.]
BX953 .B7
2 vol. 4to. vol. I, 230 leaves; vol. II, 276 leaves; The List of Subscribers on 12 leaves printed in double columns begins
on a2
i; the preface on [ ]
i.
The whole edition consists of 7 volumes, published from 1750-1766, of which the first two, the only two in Jefferson’s possession,
are the third edition.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Old mottled calf, rebacked. From the library of Reuben Skelton, with his armorial bookplate. Initialled by Jefferson at sig.
I and T in both volumes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
The subscribers include: Hon. James Alexander, Esq; of his Majesty’s Council for New Jersey; Wm. Allen, Esq; of Philadelphia;
Hon. John Coxe, Esq; of the Council of New Jersey; Library Company of Philadelphia; Hon. Robert Hunter Morris, Esq; one of
his Majesty’s Council, and Chief Justice of New Jersey; Phil. Rearny, Esq; of New Jersey; Col. Peter Schuyler, of New Jersey;
His Excellency Wm. Shirley, Esq; Gov. of his Majesty’s Province of Massachusetts-Bay, &c.; Mr. Phil. Vanhorne of New York.
Archibald Bower, 1686-1766, a Scottish Catholic educated at Douai, roused attention by his conversion and reconversion to and from the Protestant
church. His History of the Popes was attacked by Alban Butler, John Douglas and other clerics chiefly as an unacknowledged
translation of the work of Tillemont.
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J.12
Vita di Sisto V. da Leti.
3. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 28. no. 5, as above, with reading
Sista.
LETI,
Gregorio.
Vita di Sisto V. Pontefice Romano. Nuovamente scritta da Gregorio Leti. Nella quale si contengono alcune cose in generale della Corte di Roma, e della
