27
Ephemerides meteorologicae Palatinae.
1781. 2. 3. 4. 5.
5 v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 29. no. 28, Ephemerides Meteorologicae Palatinae, 1781-5, 5v 4 to.
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
Ephemerides Societatis Meterologicæ
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Palatinæ. Historia et Observationes.
Mannheimii:
C. F. Schwan,
1781-4.
No copy was seen for collation.
The postscript of a letter written by Jefferson from Marseilles on May 5, 1787, to William Short reads: “
P.S. be so good as to desire Mons
r. Frouillé to procure for me the Ephemerides societatis meteorologicae Palatinae, printed at Manheim by C. Fr. Schwan, in
4
to. begun in 1781. & consisting by this time of 4. or 5. vols. I shall have occasion for it on my return to Paris . . .
”
The book is listed on
Froullé’s bill as purchased on August 30, 1787, for the years 1781, 2, 3, 4. 4 vol. price
152.
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28
Ephemerides Mediolanenses anni 1779.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 29. no. 14, as above.
Ephemerides astronomicæ Anni intercalaris 1779 ad Meridianum Mediolanensem . . . Accedit Appendix Francisci Reggio [edited by the abbé Angelo de Cesaris]. Mediolani,
1778.
8vo. No copy was seen for collation.
Entered without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Angelo Giovanni de Cesaris, 1749-1832, Jesuit, the director of the Observatory of Milan, edited the Ephemerides over a period of years.
Francesco Reggio, 1743-1804, Italian astronomer.
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29
Meteorologie de Marseille.
4
to.
M. S.
1779-1786.
1815 Catalogue, page 30. no. 27, as above.
4to. Manuscript. This manuscript was sold to Congress in 1815, and is entered in the later catalogues. It is no longer extant.
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30
Ellicot’s Astronomical & Thermometrical observñs on the Missisipi.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 29. No. 29, with the reading
Mississippi.
ELLICOTT,
Andrew.
Astronomical, and Thermometrical Observations, made at the Confluence of the Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers, 1796-1800. [
Philadelphia,
1801.]
4to. No copy was seen for collation.
This may be the pamphlet referred to by Jefferson in his letter to Ellicott dated from Washington, Frebruary 14, 1801: “
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favors of Feb. 5. & 9. and to thank you for the pamphlet contained in the former one
which was a desideratum to me . . .
”
The paper is printed in the
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
. Vol. V, no. XX, Philadelphia: Printed by Budd & Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, 1802, pages 162-311, with 8 folded plates.
Andrew Ellicott, 1754-1820, astronomer and scientist, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, was one of the earliest writers
on the Mississippi. He was in constant correspondence with Thomas Jefferson on his astronomical researches and other matters,
and, on the instructions of Jefferson redrew the plans for the Federal City after the dismissal of L’Enfant.
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