First Edition. 4 vol. 8vo.
Quérard II, page 679.
Pritzel 2798.
Bradley I, 265.
Jefferson bought his copy from
Reibelt in 1805, price for the 4 volumes $
9.60. Reibelt sent vol. I and II on approval on May 17, 1805, and on May 29, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . The box of books announced in your letter of the 17
th. is recieved, and I will ask the favor of you to send the remaining volumes of the Botaniste Cultivateur, and of the
Traité des Abeilles; these being among those which I shall keep . . .
”
On June 21 Jefferson wrote: “
. . . of the box of books sent here, I retain Le Botaniste Cultivateur 1
st. & 2
d. vol. in expectation of the 3
d. and 4
th.
”
To this Reibelt replied on June 25: “. . . Je vous enverais sans faute les autres volumes du Botan. Cultivateur, aussitot que le manquant se retrouvera . . .”
The 4 volumes were bound for Jefferson in calf gilt by March, on April 26, 1806, and the bill receipted by Milligan for March on May 30.
A fifth volume of this work was published in 1805, which Jefferson tried to obtain through Mayer & Brantz of Balitmore through
their connections in Amsterdam. On January 18, 1808 he wrote to that firm sending a list of needed books, including: “
the 5
th. vol. of Le Botaniste Cultivateur de Dumont-Courset.
[
I possess the four first vols.]
unbound.”
According to Quérard the first edition was published in 1798-1805. The first date appears to be an error.
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Histoire des Arbres forestieres de l’Amerique Septentrional par Michaux.
p.f.
1815 Catalogue, page 47. no. 31, as above, omitting
p.f.
Michaux, François André.
Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique septentrionale, considérés principalement sous les rapports de leur usage dans
les arts et de leur introduction dans le commerce . . . par F
s. André-Michaux, Membre de la Société Philosophique americaine de Philadelphie; des sociétés d’Agriculture de la même ville, de celles de
Charleston, Caroline méridionale; d’Hollowell, District de Maine; du departement de la Seine, et de Seine-et-Oise . . . Tome
I [-II].
Paris: de l’imprimerie de
L. Haussmann et
D’Hautel,
1810-12.
QK481 .M6
Large 8vo. 2 vol. in 1. Colored plates.
Quérard VI, 111.
Sabin 48693.
Bradley I, 304.
Pritzel 6196.
This work was originally issued in livraisons, and published in 3 volumes, Paris, 1810-12.
Michaux sent Jefferson the account of the pines and firs (contained in tome I of the work) in August 1810. On April 5, 1811 Jefferson
wrote: “
I have duly recieved your favor of Aug. 10 and, with it, your beautiful account of the pines & firs of our country, for which
be pleased to accept my thanks. I sincerely wish the work may be prosecuted, & that the citizens of the U.S. may not be wanting
in due encouragement to it. nothing should be spared which I could do to befriend it . . .
”
On May 1, 1812 Michaux sent the next part of the work (a part of Tome II) through John Vaughan, who wrote to Jefferson: “By Mail I send you from A. Michaux a Volume on the Oaks & one on the Birch &c being a continuation of his Work.”
Jefferson wrote to Vaughan from Monticello on May 25: “
. . . I thank you for your care of Michaux, which came safe to hand . . .”
For a note on François André Michaux, the son of André Michaux, see no. 725.
He first wrote to Jefferson in May 1808 of his project for compiling a “
description complette accompagnées de figures colorées de tous les grands arbres forestiers des EtUnis.”
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