de l’Institut, etc. A
Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Madame
Huzard,
1808.
8vo. 19 leaves: A-B
8, C
3.
On the back of the title:
Extrait des Mémoires de la Société d’Agriculture du département de la Seine, Tome XI.
Sent to Jefferson by the author who wrote from paris on October 20, 1809: “Je profite de l’occasion que m’offre le retour en Amérique de l’aviso
the happy Return, pour vous envoyer le 11
e. volume du mémoire de la Société d’agriculture, que j’avais eu l’honneur de vous annoncer par ma dernière lettre du 8 juin. Je desire qu’il vous offre quelque intérêt et que vous y reconnaissiez la persévérance de l’effort de la Société
pour le perfectionnement de l’art agricole . . .”
Augustin François, Baron de Silvestre, 1762-1851, became a member of the Société d’Agriculture in 1792, and in 1798 was appointed Librarian to Louis XVIII.
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xiv. CUSTIS,
George Washington Parke.
An Address to the People of the United States, on the importance of Encouraging Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures: Tending
to shew that by a due encouragement of these essential interests, the nation will be rendered more respectable abroad and
more prosperous at home. Together with an Account of the Improvements in Sheep at Arlington . . . By George W. P. Custis, Esq. of Arlington House, in the District of Columbia.
Alexandria: Printed by
S. Snowden,
1808.
First Edition. 8vo. 23 leaves.
Sabin 18152.
Not in the Virginia State Library
Bibliography of Virginia.
At the end:
This work having been written with a view to aid the purposes of the Arlington Institution, you will render a service to the
said Institution by causing a few copies to be taken among your friends
. There are one or two minor corrections in the pamphlet in ink.
George Washington Parke Custis, 1781-1857, a playright,
[
sic
--
Ed.
] was the grandson of Martha Washington and was brought up at Mount Vernon. In support of the use of Domestic Manufactures,
the author exhorts his readers to
Remember, that thirty years since at the formation of the present government, its illustrious chief, when inaugurated to the
highest gift of his country, was wholly cloathed in American Manufactures. Was not this an example worthy of imitation, and
ought not its remembrance, at this late period, to cause a patriotic emotion in every American breast.--It ought! I trust
it will!
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xv. [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.
Another copy of no. 726.
Presentation copy to Thomas Jefferson inscribed on the title by the author:
For the President of the United States.
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xvi. [SINCLAIR,
Sir John.]
Report of the County of Banff.
8vo. 8 leaves; with half-title, but without title or imprint. The Introduction is signed:
John Sinclair, Edinburgh. 5th September 1808.
Presentation copy to Thomas Jefferson from the author, with autograph inscription on the half-title:
For Mr. Jefferson--President of the United States of America. With Sir John Sinclair’s compts.
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