8vo.
From the 1849 Library of Congress catalogue, which dates this tract 1792, it would seem that Jefferson sold only a copy of
Part I printed in that year to Congress. John Vaughan supplied him with a copy of the third part in 1801, which Jefferson
deposited in the Navy Office. Vaughan wrote from Philadelphia on November 19: “. . . The third part of the Collection of Papers made by the Society of Naval Architecture in England, containing a Very Interesting
report, relative to the preservation of timber &c; & being uncertain whether you might possess it, I take the Liberty of requesting
your acceptance of it--The work itself I had not complete, it might be a Useful Work to the Secretary of the Navy, as it contains
not only Interesting new Matter, but gives (I believe) a list & acct. of authors on Naval Subjects.”
Jefferson replied from Washington on November 24: “
I recieved last night your favor of the 19
th. and with it the pamphlet of Naval architecture for which I thank you. it may be of use in our navy office where I shall
deposit it . . .
”
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Peyroux sur la globe aerostatique de Montgolfier.
v. PIROUX.
L’art de voyager dans les airs, ou les ballons, contenants les moyens de faire les globes aérostatiques suivant la méthode
de MM. de Montgolfier, & suivant les procédés de MM. Charles & Robert . . . Nouvelle Edition . . .
A
Paris: chez les libraires qui vendent les Nouveautés,
1784.
TL617 .A7
8vo. 98 leaves: A-M
8, N
2, engraved frontispiece and two plates; the supplement, with separate pagination begins on M
4.
Bibliographers have doubted Piroux’s authorship of this work. Jefferson’s entry in his manuscript catalogue supplies contemporary evidence.
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Report on the Pensylvania canals.
vi.
Copy of a Report from Reading Howell, Frederick Antes and William Dean, Esquires, commissioners appointed to explore the head-waters
of the rivers Delaware, Lehigh, and Schuylkill, and the north-east branch of Susquehanna. Also, the report of the commissioners
appointed to examine the western waters of the State of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia: Printed by
Francis Bailey,
1791.
8vo. 17 leaves.
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Fulton on Canal navigation.
4
to.
“
Fulton on canals. a thin 4
to.
” was one of the books reported missing by Jefferson to Joseph Milligan on March 18, 1815, after the sale of his library to
Congress, but before its delivery, with a request that Milligan should find replacement copies.
The first edition of Fulton’s
A Treatise on the improvement of Canal Navigation
was published in
London,
1796, in 4to. Jefferson mentioned owning a copy of the work in a letter to William Short written on April 13, 1800.
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