First Edition. 8vo in fours. 21 leaves, colored plates in the text by James Akin, one after J. J. Barralet.
Not in Sabin.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, vii, 150.
Bound for Jefferson in calf, padded with blanks. Under the word
Finis at the end Jefferson has written his initials
T. J. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
This was Jacobs’s Inaugural essay for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine, June 1801, and was sent to Jefferson by the author
(see the previous title). It is dedicated to Caspar Wistar.
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Morveau des Moyens de desinfecter l’air.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 35. no. 23, as above.
GUYTON
de MORVEAU, Louis Bernard, baron.
Traité des moyens de désinfecter l’air, de prévenir la Contagion, et d’en arrêter les progrès, par L. B. Guyton-Morveau . . .
Troisième édition, avec des planches et des additions considérables relatives surtout à la fiévre jaune.
A
Paris: chez
Bernard,
1805.
RA761 .G9
8vo. 228 leaves; 3 plates by Sellier. On the back of the title is the publisher’s list of the author’s works, and on Ee
6 recto is a notice that on page 387 can be read the addresses of the
artistes auxquels on peut s’adresser pour avoir les Flacons portatifs et les Appareils de désinfection.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornamental back, lettered
Disinfection /
par /
Morveau /, marbled end papers, by March. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bokplate.
Purchased from
Reibelt in December, 1804, price $
1.50. This was one of the books retained by Jefferson for his own use from a case of books sent by Reibelt for the Secretary of
State to make his selections. It is included in Jefferson’s list of books acquired during the year 1804.
The binding was done by March on February 15, 1805, cost $1.00. A copy was also on Jefferson’s binding bill, June, 1807.
On January 4, 1805, immediately after the purchase of this book Jefferson offered to lend it to Caspar Wistar, in the same
letter in which he asked for the return of the work of Faujas (see no. 640): “
. . . have you seen a work of Morveau’s Sur les moyens de desinfecter l’air &c? it is a work of great interest to cities subject
to infection, to hospitals, vessels, & indeed to the country inhabitants. if you have not seen it, I will send it to you by
post . . .
”
On November 2, 1806, Jefferson sent a copy to Wistar for the American Philosophical Society: “
I am indebted to m(
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Kuhn, our Consul at Genoa, for M. de Morveau’s book on the disinfection of air, and for a set of his permanent and portable
apparatus for disinfection. for this attention to what may be useful to his country M
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Kuhn deserves our high commendations. I do not know that I can more effectually answer his views than by depositing these
things with the American Philosophical society. they may be able, thro’ their Medical members especially, to ascertain by
experiments the efficacy of M. de Morveau’s process. I had read his book some time ago, and considering his high character
as a guarantee of his facts, I concieved that his process might become of great public value. I considered it with a view
to the disinfection of vessels from suspected ports . . .
”
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, 1737-1816, French chemist. He married Madame Claudine Poullet, see no. 827.
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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 35. no. 29, Cazalet Theorie de la Nature, 8vo.
CAZALET,
Jean-André.
Théorie de la Nature, Par Jean-André Cazalet, Professeur de Physique et de Chimie, à Bordeaux . . . Livre premier et deuxième.
Bordeaux: chez
Pierre Beaume,
1796.
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