12
Fisher’s Young man’s companion.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 52. no. 6, as above.
FISHER,
George,
pseud.
The American Instructor: or, Young Man’s best Companion. Containing, Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetick . . . Also
Merchants Accompts, and a short and easy Method of Shop and Book-keeping . . . Together with the Carpenter’s Plain and Exact
Rule . . . Likewise the Practical Gauger made Easy . . . . To which is added, The Poor Planters Physician . . . and also Prudent
Advice to young Tradesmen and Dealers. The whole better adapted to these American Colonies, than any other Book of the like
Kind. By George Fisher, Accomptant. The
Ninth Edition Revised and Corrected.
Philadelphia: Printed by
B. Franklin and
D. Hall,
1748.
AG104 .F5
First American Edition. 12mo. 193 leaves, 5 plates of examples of calligraphy.
Sabin 24459.
Evans (under Slack) 6238.
Hildeburn 1062.
Campbell, page 96.
On November 7, 1819, Jefferson wrote to Dr. James Ewell: “
I thank you, dear Sir, for the new edition of your Medical companion, rendered certainly more valuable by the new additions,
and especially that of our domestic medicinal plants. when I was a boy there was in every house a small pamphlet written by
old D
r. Byrd of Westover, called ‘
the poor planter’s physician, or every man his own doctor.’ this gave the list of our medicinal plants, and the diseases most common for which they were good and the processes and
doses. I have not seen a copy of it for 50. years, except the one I possessed, bound up in a volume called the young man’s
companion, which volume is now in the library of Congress. it would a valuable sheet or two as an Appendix to your book.
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
the mineral medecines are much too dangerous to be used in a family but under the direction of a Physician . . .”
The British Museum catalogue, followed by Evans, attributes the authorship to Mrs. Slack.
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Wise’s young man’s companion.
This book was missing at the time of the sale of the library to Congress. The author’s name is in the Index to the 1815 catalogue,
with reference to chapter 15, but there is no entry in the body of the work. It was on the list of missing books supplied by Jefferson to
Milligan in March 1815, with the request that he procure replacement copies.
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Tracts in the arts. viz..............................................................................
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Memoire et Prospectus de l’Academie de Richmond par Quesnay.
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Extrait des Discours sur l’utilité des voiages pour l’education.
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8
vo.
Aerostat dirigible à volonté. par Scott..............................................
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1815 Catalogue, page 52. no. 36, Tracts in the Arts, to wit, Quisnay, Voyages, Scott. 8vo.
Three tracts originally bound together for Jefferson in one volume 8vo.
The tract by Quesnay de Beaurepaire below, has also a separate entry in the 1815 and in the later Library of Congress catalogues.
The three tracts are entered together as above in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
