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Abregé chronologique de l’histoire universelle. par Hornot.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 7, as above.
[SLEIDANUS,
Johannes--
HORNOT, Antoine.]
Abrégé chronologique de l’histoire universelle depuis les premiers empires du monde jusqu’à l’année 1725, traduit du
latin avec des augmentations [par Hornot].
Amsterdam et
Paris,
1757.
First Edition of this translation. 12mo. No copy of this book was located for collation.
Barbier I, 17.
Quérard IX, page 190.
Johannes Sleidanus [Johann Philippson,
dit
Sleidanus], 1506-1556, German historian. This work is a translation and adaptation, with a continuation, of the
De quatuor summis imperiis . . .
of Sleidanus, first published during his lifetime. Quérard attributes this
Abrégé chronologique to
John Sleiden, historien anglais. The translation and continuation was by Antoine Hornot, which, according to the catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale,
is a pseudonym for Dejean.
[153]
22
Millot. Histoire moderne.
5. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 10, as above.
MILLOT, Claude François Xavier, abbé.
Elémens d’Histoire Générale. Seconde Partie. Histoire Moderne. Par M. l’abbé Millot, des académies de Lyon & de Nanci. Nouvelle Édition. Tome Premier [-Cinquième]. A
Paris: chez
Durand, neveu [de l’Imprimerie de
Prault],
1777-1778.
D18 .M6
5 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 224 leaves, the last with the publisher’s
Notice des Ouvrages de M. l’Abbé Millot, and of
l’Abbé Nollet; vol. II, 224 leaves; vol. III, 236 leaves; vol. IV, 226 leaves; vol. V, 218 leaves; printer’s imprint at the end of the
last volume, a number of cancel leaves throughout. The title of vol. I reads as above; in vol. II, III, and V, the author
is described as
de l’Académie Françoise, and in vol. IV
de l’Académie Françoise, & des Académies de Lyon & de Nancy.
Jefferson bought three copies of this work, one of which was for Madison, from
Froullé, at
15 livres each, charged on the bills for June 27 and August 16, 1787 and January 31, 1789. On Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue the price was originally written
13-50, changed with the pen to
16-5.
For the first part of this work, the
Histoire ancienne and a note on the author, see no. 126. The
Histoire Moderne was first published in 1773.
23
Salmon’s Modern hist.
3. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 164, as above.
SALMON,
Thomas.
Modern History: or, The Present State of all Nations. Describing their respective Situations, Persons, Habits, and Buildings;
Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion, and Policy; Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry; Plants, Animals, and
Minerals. By Mr. Salmon. Illustrated with Cuts and Maps, accurately drawn according to the Geographical Part of this Work, by Herman Moll. The
Third Edition . . . In
Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III].
London: Printed for
T. Longman,
T. Osborne,
J. Shuckburgh,
C. Hitch,
S. Austen and
J. Rivington,
1744-46.
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