First Edition. 8vo. 61 leaves.
Ordered with other books from
Stockdale in a letter written him by Jefferson on July 1, 1787 (price
3/-).
Entered on the undated manuscript catalogue.
Richard Kirwan, 1733-1812, Irish chemist and natural philosopher, was President of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society,
a member of the American Philosophical Society, and of various other learned societies, English and foreign. His library,
sent from Galway to London on September 5, 1780, was captured by an American privateer.
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Baconi Historia naturalis ventorum.
16
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 29. no. 4a, as above.
Jefferson bought a copy of this book from
Froullé on September 29, 1788, price
1f4, and it is thus entered on his undated manuscript catalogue. The book is entered in the Library of Congress 1815 catalogue but is checked in the working copy as not having been received
and has the word
missing written beside it. It is on the manuscript list of
Books Missing from the Congress Library, made after 1815. The entry was dropped from the later catalogues.
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Idees sur la meteorologie par de Luc.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 30. no. 13, as above.
DELUC,
Jean André.
Idées sur la méteorologie. Par J. A. de Luc . . .
Paris: Veuve
Duschesnes,
1787.
8vo. 3 parts in 2 vol. No copy was available for collation.
Quérard II, page 645.
Poggendorff I, col. 546.
A copy purchased by Jefferson from
Froullé on October 17, 1787, price
6. It is entered at this price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
The first edition was printed with the imprint
Londres in 1786.
Jefferson was extremely interested in Deluc’s hygrometer, of which one made by Nairne, q.v., no. 632, was sent to him by Benjamin Vaughan, and acknowledged in a letter dated from Paris on July 23, 1788. In this letter Jefferson
wrote: “
I have been a little at a loss with the Hygrometer of De Luc you were so kind as to send me. it is graduated from zero to
100, & I had understood these were his extremes. those of De Saussure are the same. yet, while this of De Luc, exposed to
the open air has never fallen below 26. nor risen above 55. since it was in my possession, those of De Saussure have been
generally, during the wet spell we have had, at about 90. do you suppose anything may have lessened the sensibility of the
whale bone, or to what other cause must I ascribe the smallness of it’s range? the manner in which M
r. Nairne has carried D
r. Franklin’s idea into execution is estimable for it’s simplicity, and simplicity in the hygrometer is peculiarly necessary.
but it is liable to the objection you justly make, that equal extensions of the wood are not equally indicated on the dial-plate
. . .
”
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Meteorologie des cultivateurs.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 30. no. 4b, as above.
DUMONT
de COURSET, Georges Louis Marie, baron.
La Meteorologie des cultivateurs, suivie d’un Avis aux habitans de campagnes sur leur santé et sur quelques-uns de leurs préjugés.
Par le citoyen D. C.
Paris,
1798
First Edition. 12mo. No copy was located for collation.
Bought from
Reibelt in June 1805 price
25 cents.
Baron Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset, 1746-1824, French agricultural expert.
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