3 vol. 8vo. 562, 502 and 468 leaves; each volume with an engraved title-frontispiece dated 1669 by G. Wingendorp, printer’s woodcut device on the printed titles, imprint of vol. I dated 1669, of vol. II and III, 1668.
Brunet IV, 716.
This edition not in Agassiz.
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Histoire Naturel de Pline.
Lat.
Fr.
12. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 46. no. 31, as above.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS,
Caius.
Histoire Naturelle de Pline traduite en
François, avec le Texte
Latin rétabli d’après les meilleures leçons manuscrites; accompagnée de Notes critiques pour l’éclaircissement du texte, & d’Observations
sur les connoissances des Anciens comparées avec les découvertes des Modernes. Tome Premier [-Douzieme].
A
Paris: chez la veuve
Desaint, [De l’Imprimerie de
Didot]
1771-82.
PA6613 .F8 P6
12 vol. 4to. vol. I, 366 leaves; vol. II, 446 leaves; vol. III, 386 leaves; vol. IV, 306 leaves; vol. V, 326 leaves: vol.
VI, 298 leaves; vol. VII, 352 leaves; vol. VIII, 304 leaves; vol. IX, 391 leaves; vol. X, 336 leaves; vol. XI, 302 leaves;
vol. XII, 358 leaves;
Latin and
French text on opposite pages; notes in double columns below the text.
Quérard VII, page 212.
This edition not in Poggendorff.
In 1805 Jefferson tried unsuccessfully to buy from Reibelt of Baltimore “
a good French translation of Pliny’s Natural history.” In June 1806 he bought a copy, price f.
84, relié, from
Dufour of Amsterdam.
The translation into
French was made under the direction of Malesherbes. The notes are by Poinsinet de Sivry, de Querlon, Guetard and others, and the astronomy notes by Bouguer and Lalande.
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Histoire des Animaux d’Aristote. par Camus.
Gr.
Fr.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 45. no. 30, as above.
ARISTOTLE--CAMUS,
Armand Gaston.
Histoire des Animaux d’Aristote, avec la Traduction
Françoise, Par M. Camus . . .
A
Paris: chez la Veuve
Desaint [de l’Imprimerie de
Joseph Barbour],
1783.
First Edition of this Translation. 2 vol. 4to. vol. I, 410 leaves; vol. II, 465 leaves; printer’s imprint at the end of Vol. II.
Greek and
French text on opposite pages of vol. I; the title of vol. II reads:
Notes sur l’Histoire des Animaux d’Aristote . . .
Quérard I, page 89.
Agassiz I, 142.
Jefferson tried to get a copy of this work from Reibelt at the same time he tried to get the French Pliny above. In his letter
to Reibelt of October 19, 1805, he wrote: “
have you the translation by Camus of Aristotle’s History of animals? if you have I should be glad of it. it was published
first in 2. Quartos. I should prefer an Octavo edition if there be one . . .
”
Reibelt was unable to supply a copy, and Jefferson obtained one from
Dufour of Amsterdam in June, 1806, price f.
22, relié.
In answer to John Adams, who in a letter to Jefferson written on June 22, 1815, had asked for “
any Information, concerning A. C. Camus,” Jefferson replied from Monticello on August 10: “
. . . you ask information on the subject of Camus. all I recollect of him is that he was one of the deputies sent to arrest
Dumourier at the head of his army, who were however themselves arrested by Dumourier, and long detained as prisoners. I presume
therefore he was a Jacobin. you will find his character in the most excellent revolutionary history of Toulongeon. I believe
also he may be the same person who has given us a translation of
Aristotle’s
natural history from the Greek into French . . .”
Armand Gaston Camus, 1740-1804, French politician and philosopher. He was deputy to the States General and to the national convention. For the
work of Toulongeon, mentioned by Jefferson above, see no. 240.
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