Aerostation.
1
Cavallo’s History of Aerostation.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 51. no. 48, as above.
CAVALLO,
Tiberius
The History and Practice of Aerostation. By Tiberius Cavallo, F.R.S.
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by
C. Dilly,
P. Elmsly, and
J. Stockdale,
1785.
TL617 .C35
First Edition. 8vo. 171 leaves, 2 folded engraved plates by Basire; list of works published by the same author on the last page.
Lowndes I, page 395.
Brockett 2610.
Boffito, page 113.
Not in Tissandier (French edition only).
Entered without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
In a letter to Patrick K. Rogers, dated from Monticello January 29, 1824, concerning Cavallo’s book on Natural Philosophy,
Jefferson mentioned that he had personal acquaintance with him, and wrote: “
. . . he was heavy, capable enough of understanding what he read, and with memory to retain it, but without the talent of
digestion or improvement . . .
””
Tiberius Cavallo, 1749-1809, natural philosopher, was born in Naples, but left Italy at an early age and settled in England. Boffito considers
this work an
opera di capitale importanza.
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2
Jeffries’s Narrative of two aerial voyages.
4
to.
London.
Robson.
1786.
This book, described as a pamphlet 4to, was one of the list of missing books sent by Jefferson to Milligan on March 28, 1815, with a request that he replace them if possible.
The author is called for in the Index to the 1815 Catalogue, with reference to this chapter. The title does not appear in
the body of that work, nor in the later catalogues.
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Tactics.
1
Clarke’s Vegetius.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 52. Clarke’s Vegecius. 8vo.
VEGETIUS RENATUS,
Flavius--
CLARKE, John,
Translator.
Military Institutions of Vegetius, in Five Books, Translated from the Original
Latin. With a Preface and Notes. By Lieutenant John Clarke.
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by
W. Griffin,
1767.
U101 .V4
8vo. 124 leaves.
Lowndes V, 2759.
Catalogue of the Royal Artillery Library, page 154.
Clarke’s Vegetius 8
vo.
was one of the books bought by Jefferson from the Reverend Samuel Henley in March 1785.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th century A.D., military writer. His work, first printed in 1473, was still in use in the eighteenth century. In his Preface
to this edition the translator gives a list of military treatises which
have been wrote in English.
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2
Arte della guerra del Machiavelli.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 9a, as above.
This book was sold to Congress in 1815, and is included in the 1815 Catalogue, though not checked as having been received
in the contemporary working copy.
There is no entry in the later Library of Congress Catalogues for this book which is included in the manuscript list of missing
books made after 1815.
The book is entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
4-0.
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