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Tracts on wet docks, quays & warehouses for London.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 51, as above.
[VAUGHAN,
William.]
A Treatise on Wet Docks, Quays, and Warehouses, for the Port of London; with Hints respecting Trade.
London,
1797.
This Treatise was one of seven tracts by William Vaughan published anonymously between 1793-1796, and reissued in 1797 with
a collective title reading:
A Collection of Tracts on Wet Docks for the Port of London with hints on trade and commerce in free ports.
Jefferson may have had more than one of these tracts, though the wording of his title, repeated in the catalogues, is applicable
to the above treatise only.
William Vaughan, 1752-1850, English merchant and author, the brother of Benjamin Vaughan, was a fellow of the Royal Society, of the Linnean
Society and of the Royal Astronomical Society. He was a member of the New England Corporation of which for a time he held
the office of governor. He was one of the first authorities on docks, and was instrumental in establishing the first savings
bank in London.
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Vocabulaire de Marine par l’Escalier.
3. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 94, as above.
LESCALLIER,
Daniel, comte.
Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine
Anglais et
Français, en deux Parties, dont la seconde présente un Dictionnaire de Définitions, en
français, orné de gravures. Auquel est joint un Calepin des principaux termes de Commerce maritime, de denrées & productions exotiques,
& autres accessoires à la Marine, en
anglais et en
français, pour faciliter l’Intelligence des voyages maritimes. Par le C
n Lescallier, Ordonnateur de Marine. Tome Premier, contenant la première Partie & les Planches [-Tome Troisieme, contenant la suite de la seconde Partie].
A
Paris: chez
Firmin Didot [and others] l’an
VI [1798].
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3 vol. 4to. Vol. I and II bound together in 1 and a volume for the plates, continuous signatures throughout the volumes of
text. The volume of plates,
Benard direxit, many of them folded, has the title:
Planches du Dictionnaire de Marine. A Paris, chez
H. Agasse . . . An VI de la République;
a number of folded plates
are bound at the beginning of vol. 1.
Jefferson’s copy was bound by Milligan on February 24, 1809, cost $4.50.
This was a presentation copy from the author, to whom Jefferson wrote from Washington on February 5, 1809: I received duly your letter of Sep. 11. and with it a copy of your valuable vocabulaire de marine for which I pray you to receive my particular thanks. I recall with pleasure the transient gratification I had in your company here, and am happy that the short stay you made among us has impressed you favorably for our country . . .
(Huntington Library. This was copied from the Bixby Collection.)
Comte Daniel Lescallier, 1743-1822, French marine writer, was at one time French consul general in the United States.
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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 50, Canals, to wit, Gallatin’s Report, Smith, Colles, Tatham, 8vo.
These four tracts were bound together for Jefferson. On Milligan’s binding bill, under date February 24, 1809 (shortly after the publication of three of the tracts), is an entry for binding a volume, lettered
Canals, cost 50 cents.
i. GALLATIN,
Albert.
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject of public roads and canals; made in pursuance of a resolution of Senate,
of March 2, 1807. April 12, 1808. Printed by order of the Senate.
Washington: Printed by
R. C. Weightman,
1808.
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