croissent; les plantes des environs de Paris y sont spécialement indiquées, avec une table
françoise . . . Par M. J. J. de St. Germain.
Paris:
P. M. Delaguette,
1784.
First Edition. 8vo. 210 leaves; no copy was seen for collation.
Quérard VIII, 336.
Pritzel 8932.
Bradley I, 258.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
5-10.
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8
Rousseau’s Botany. by Martyn.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 48. no. 21, as above.
ROUSSEAU,
Jean Jacques--
MARTYN, Thomas.
Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a Lady. Translated into
English with notes and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.
London: printed for
B. White & Son,
1785.
First Edition. 8vo. 277 leaves.
Bradley I, 93.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, xii, 343.
Pritzel 7824.
Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus in the Libraries of the British Museum, no. 701.
Not in Dufour.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
15-10.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, French philosopher, was a native of Geneva. The first edition of the
Essais elémentaires sur la botanique was published in Paris in 1771. The lady to whom they were addressed was Madame Delessert, the wife of Étienne and mother
of Benjamin Delessert.
Thomas Martyn, 1735-1825, English botanist. This was one of his most popular works, and went through eight editions.
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Barton’s elements of botany.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 47. no. 22, as above.
BARTON,
Benjamin Smith.
Elements of Botany: or Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables. Illustrated by Thirty Plates. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History, and Botany, in the University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia: Printed for the author [by
William F. M’Laughlin],
1803.
QK45 .B28
First Edition. 8vo. 2 parts in 1, with separate signatures and pagination. 279 leaves, 30 engraved numbered plates,
Directions to the Binder on the recto of the last leaf.
Sabin 3806.
Bradley I, 83.
Pritzel 518.
Jefferson bought his copy from
Milligan, listed on his bill under date March 31, 1808.
To 1 Barton’s Botany. boards. $
6.00.
He had previously ordered a copy from Duane in a letter from Washington on October 14, 1807: “
Barton’s elements of botany, unbound, because I wish to have the two vol(
~
s)
bound in one.”
Duane replied on October 16: “. . . the Elements of Botany I can also get, and shall carry them on with me at the close of the next week.”
In an undated letter received by Jefferson on December 5 he wrote: “. . . Mr. Bartons botanical book is not to be had in sheets.”
Jefferson's copy was bound in 2 volumes, in calf, gilt, by John March on July 10, 1803, cost $1.25 (Huntington).
Benjamin Smith Barton, 1766-1815, physician and scientist of Philadelphia. His
Elements of Botany was the first work of elementary botany written by an American. It was Barton who, in a paper read before the American Philosophical
Society on May 18, 1792, named the plant Jeffersonia (previously known as Podophyllum diphyllum).
On April 3, 1813, Jefferson wrote to Barton: “
. . . When shall we have your book on American botany . . .”
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