Sm. 8vo. 48 leaves, folded plate, imprimatur on the last page.
At the foot of the last page Jefferson has signed his initials in the script capitals used by him in signing his books.
These three tracts, bracketed together, are entered in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
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J.118
Histoire universelle de Bossuet.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 52, as above.
BOSSUET,
Jacques Benigne.
Discours sur l’Histoire Universelle. Pour expliquer la suite de la religion & les changemens des empires. Premier Partie.
Depuis le commencement du monde jusqu’à l’Empire de Charlemagne. Par Messire Jacques Benigne Bossuet . . .
Dixieme edition.
--
Continuation de l’Histoire Universelle . . . Tome Second. Depuis l’an 800. de Nôtre Seigneur jusqu’à l’an 1687. inclusivement. [Par Jean de La Barre.] A
Amsterdam: aux dépens d’
Etienne Roger,
1710-14.
D21.B74 1710
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 222 leaves, including the engraved frontispiece by A. van Buyssen, 3 folded engraved maps; vol. II, 286 leaves, including the engraved frontispiece, the last 5 for Roger’s Catalogue; titles
printed in red and black, engraved device on each title-page by Sluyter after
Roger.
Barbier I, 750.
This edition not in Brunet, not in Quérard, not in Verlaque,
Bibliographie Raisonnée des Oeuvres de Bossuet, not in Urbain,
Bibliographie critique de Bossuet.
French mottled calf, gilt backs, vol. II, with the original marbled end papers (one gone), vol. I joints repaired and end
papers renewed. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed in Jefferson’s undated catalogue, with the price
3f. Another edition is also listed in the undated catalogue, in 4to. price 11.0.
Jacques Benigne Bossuet, 1627-1704, bishop of Meaux. The first edition of the
Discours sur l’Histoire Universelle, an early French philosophical history, was published in Paris in 1681, and the book was frequently reprinted and translated.
Jean de la Barre, 1650-1711, French man of letters. The first edition of his Continuation of Bossuet’s
Histoire Universelle was originally published in 1703.
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J.119
Essai historique et chronologique de l’Abbe Berlié.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 53, as above.
BERLIÉ, L’
Abbé de.
Essai Historique et Chronologique, sur les principaux événements qui se sont passés depuis le commencement du monde jusqu’à
nos jours. Par Mr. l’Abbé Berlié.
A
Lyon: chez
Jean Deville,
M.DCC.LXVI. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roi. [1766.]
D11 .B51
First Edition. 8vo. 238 leaves: ã
4, (~e)
2, A-Z, Aa-Ff
8.
Not in Brunet.
This edition not in Quérard.
French mottled calf, gilt ornaments on back, sprinkled edges, marbled end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson tried to buy a copy of this work for the Library of Congress from
Charles Pougens, Paris, in 1803. On June 9 of that year it is one of a list headed by Pougens:
Articles demandés par Mr. Jefferson et qu’on n’a pu encore trouver, with the annotation:
Introuvable ä moins du hazard d’une vente.
It is entered in the undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
4.4.
Nothing seems to be known about the
Abbé Berlié. Quérard gives 1779 as the first edition of this work and ascribes it to the comte Théophile Berlier, who, born in 1761,
was five years of age at the time of the publication of the first edition in 1766.
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