First Edition. 8vo. 18 leaves without signatures, a folded table inserted between pages 22 and 23, with a small correction in ink by the author; on the back of the half-title:
Extrait des Mémoires de la Société du département de la Seine, tome VII.
Quérard VI, 113.
Sabin 48698.
Huzard catalogue II, 2435.
Presentation copy from the author, who has written on the half-title:
à Monsieur Jefferson Président des Etats-Unis de l’Amérique de la part de l’auteur . . . [the rest removed by the binder.]
Michaux sent this pamphlet to Jefferson, together with a copy of his
Voyage à l’ouest des Monts-Alleghenÿs
, on July 6, 1806, on which day he wrote from Philadelphia: “Je joins a cet ouvrage [i.e. the
Voyage above mentioned] un petit memoir sur les arbres forestiers des Etats Unis; quelques remarques comparatives (page 29) pourront
peut-etre meriter votre attention.”
Jefferson replied on July 12: “
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to Mr. Michaux for the book of his travel & the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him
. . .
”
François André Michaux, 1770-1885, [
i.e. “1855”--
Ed.] French doctor and naturalist, was a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He was the author of several
books on the Natural History of America. This pamphlet was his first printed work.
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ix. [SINCLAIR,
Sir John.]
Plan of the Re-printed Reports of the Board of Agriculture. With Preliminary Observations, by the President of the Board.
London: Printed by
B. McMillan,
1806.
8vo. 18 leaves: [ ]
1, B-D
1 in eights. The Preliminary Observations are signed:
John Sinclair. Board of Agriculture, 32, Sackville Street, London, April 25, 1806.
Presentation copy to Thomas Jefferson, from the author who has written on the title:
The President. With Sir John Sinc[
lair’s]
respects [the inscription partly cut away by the binder].
Sir John Sinclair, 1754-1835, Scottish agriculturalist, was the first President of the Board of Agriculture in London. He and Jefferson were
in constant correspondence, and Sinclair sent to Jefferson the publications of the Board of Agriculture and other pamphlets,
q.v.
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x. VALENTIN,
Louis.
Coup-d’Oeil sur la culture de quelques Végétaux exotiques, dans les départemens méridionaux de la France, et Notice sur l’état
présent des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles aux États-Unis de’Amérique; Par le Docteur Louis Valentin . . .
A
Marseille: de l’imprimerie de
Joseph Achard fils et Compagnie,
1807.
First Edition. 8vo. 27 leaves in fours; printed on blue paper.
Presentation copy to Thomas Jefferson from the author who has written on the title
his excellency, Mr. Thomas Jefferson president of the United States. from the author. On page 8 is a correction in ink.
This pamphlet contains several references to Jefferson, notably in an account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the
Waterhouse method of vaccination, the establishment of which had required
tout le zéle et toute la philantropie du savant Jefferson . . . Qu’il est beau, qu’il est consolant de voir le chef de grands
états accablé déjà par les affaires politiques qui absorbent son tems, s’occuper aussi ardemment à propager une découverte
dont aucune assurément n’a été plus utile à l’humanité.
Louis Valentin, 1758-1829, French doctor and surgeon, went to the Antilles in 1790 and thence took refuge in the United States during the
Revolution, where he had charge of the hospitals for French sailors in Virginia. He returned to France in 1799. Other works
by him occur in this catalogue.
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