10
S
r. William Hamilton’s observñs on Vesuvius & aetna.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 29. no. 16, Hamilton’s, Sir Wm. observations on Vesuvius and Ætna, 8vo.
HAMILTON,
Sir William.
Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to The Royal Society, from
the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton, K.B. F.R.S. His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples. To which are added, explanatory
notes by the Author, hitherto unpublished. A New Edition.
London: Printed for
T. Cadell,
1774.
8vo. 92 leaves, folded engraved map and 4 engraved plates.
Lowndes II, 989.
Johnston-Lavis,
Bibliography of the . . . Volcanoes of Southern Italy, 326.
This edition not in Poggendorff and not in Agassiz.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
5-0.
Sir William Hamilton, 1730-1803, English diplomat and archaeologist. The first edition of these letters, written after the author had ascended
Vesuvius twenty-two times, was published in 1772.
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11
Epoques de la nature. par Buffon.
4
to.
[given by the Author
].
1815 Catalogue, page 29. no. 34, Epoques de la Nature de Buffon, 4to.
BUFFON,
George Louis Leclerc, comte de.
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Par M. le Comte de Buffon . . . Supplément, Tome Cinquième. A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
1778.
QH45 .B78
4to. 323 leaves; 2 folded engraved maps by Aldring; six numbered engraved plates after De Seve (folded and full page), woodcut vignette of the royal arms on the title-page.
This volume of the
Supplément of the
Histoire Naturelle contains the
Époques de la Nature. Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the author; it is entered also on his undated manuscript catalogue.
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12
Histoire naturelle de la montagne de S
t. Pierre.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 29. no. 31, as above, with
de Faujas.
FAUJAS
de SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy.
Histoire Naturelle de la Montagne de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht.
Paris:
J. J. Jansen, an
VII. [1799.]
Folio. 132 leaves, engraved vignette on the title-page, engraved map and 54 plates.
Agassiz, II, page 394, no. 9.
A copy of this work was offered to Jefferson in a letter from
Reibelt on December 13, 1804: “. . . J’ai encore un exemplaire de l’histoire naturelle de la Montagne de S. Pierre par Faujas.--N’en pourriez vous pas en
disposer?”
On March 7, 1805, Jefferson had a copy bound by J. March, in calf, gilt, price $3.00, March’s note on the binding bill read:
plates reduced difficult.
Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, 1741-1819, French geologist and traveller. Whilst holding the office of commissioner of mines he discovered in the quarries
of St. Pierre, south of Maestricht, the extraordinary subterranean quarries here described.
In a letter to Charles Willson Peale, dated from Washington, March 13, 1808, Jefferson described Faujas de St. Fond as “
of first rate eminence in geological things.”
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