sophical Society. Read in the American Philosophical Society, on the 19, of August, 1791, and extracted from the Third Volume of their Transactions now in the Press. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. . . .
Philadelphia: Printed by
R. Aitken & Son.
M. DCC. XCII. [1792]
SB239 .M3 R9
8vo. 8 leaves without signature.
Sabin 74201.
Evans 24761.
John Carter Brown III, no. 3553.
Bradley IV, 527.
Good 271.
Goodman 383.
The letter opens:
Dear Sir: In obedience to your request, I have set down to communicate to our Society, through the medium of a letter to
ou,
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
a short account of the Sugar Maple-tree of the United States . . .
A footnote on page (14) reads:
Mr. Jefferson uses no other sugar in his family, than that which is obtained from the sugar maple tree. He has lately planted
an orchard of sugar maple trees on his farm in Virginia.
This paper was published in the third volume of the
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
, 1793. The above description was made from the copy in the Library of Congress. It is the first edition described by Evans.
According to Bradley and the John Carter Brown Library catalogue an edition in 12mo. was printed in 1791, which may have been
the one in Jefferson’s possession.
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Tracts in Physics. Jones. Rush. Barton. Megatherium. Peale. Mitchell. Deveze. Davis.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 30. no. 10, as above.
The following 8 tracts were bound together for Jefferson in 1 vol. 8vo. The titles with place and date of printing are as
recorded in the later catalogues, which omit from this collection any tract by Mitchell.
Jones.
i. JONES,
William.
Description and use of a new portable orrery. To which is prefixed, a short account of the solar system, or the true system
of the world. The
Third Edition, enlarged, with an account of the new discovered Georgium Sidus.
London,
1787.
8vo. 24 leaves, 2 plates.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the author, who wrote from London on January 2, 1788: “. . . I have made some small additions to my Portable Orrery the Description of which I have enclosed as a small present to
you . . .”
William Jones, 1763-1831, fellow of the Astronomical Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, was the senior partner
of the firm of W. & S. Jones, opticians and mathematical instrument makers of Holborn, London (see the next tract). He was
intimate with Priestley, Hutton, Maskelyne and other scientists. The first edition of this frequently reprinted pamphlet appeared
in 1782. Jones was in correspondence with Jefferson, who purchased books from him, and for whom he made a perspective machine
in 1787.
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Jones.
ii. JONES,
William
and
Samuel.
Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, made and sold by William and Samuel Jones.
London [
1797].
8vo. 7 leaves, 2 tables.
Samuel Jones was the brother of William Jones, q.v. above. He survived his brother who left him a valuable mathematical library.
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