3 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 400 leaves; vol. II, 427 leaves; vol. III, 322 leaves; numerous engraved maps by Moll, and numerous engraved plates of illustration; text printed in double columns, titles printed in red and black.
Lowndes IV, page 2179.
Sabin 75826.
Cordier I, 28.
Jefferson acquired his copy with his purchase of the Bland library.
Thomas Salmon, 1679-1767, English historical and geographical writer, travelled widely and wrote this book, first published in 1725 in
32 vol. 8vo., partly from his own observation. Pages 138 to 636 in the third volume of this edition relate to America.
Herman Moll, d. 1732, Dutch geographer and map maker, established himself in London in 1698, and published numerous geographies and maps.
Richard Bland, 1710-1776, Virginia statesman, was educated at the College of William and Mary. He was a member of the first House of Delegates, and served until his death. He was a collector of books and of early manuscript records, a number of which were purchased by Jefferson after his death.
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Thuani historia.
7. v.
fol. (
1545-1608.
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 165, as above.
THOU,
Jacques Auguste de.
Jac. Augusti Thuani Historiarum sui Temporis. Tomus Primus [-Sextus] . . . [Sylloge Scriptorum Varii generis et argumenti . . . Tomus Septimus.] Londini: excudi curavit
Samuel Buckley,
1733.
D228 .T52
7 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 484 leaves; vol. II, 427 leaves; vol. III, 432 leaves; vol. IV, 453 leaves; vol. V, 427 leaves; vol.
VI, 405 leaves; vol. VII, 526 leaves; in twos; titles of volumes I-VI printed in red and black, of volume VII in black, engraved
portrait frontispiece of De Thou in volume I by J. Cheveau, engraved vignette on each title, head and tail pieces by G. Vertue, R. Baron and others; printer’s imprint at the end of the first five volumes, the last two unsigned; volume I printed by
Henry Woodfall, volume II by
Samuel Richardson, volume III by
James Bettenham, volume IV by
James Roberts and volume V by
Thomas Wood. In the Library of Congress copy collated above the first volume
has a half-title, the other volumes, with the exception of
the last,
have only
one leaf (the title) in the first sheet.
Jacques Auguste de Thou, 1553-1617, French historian, statesman and bibliophile. His
Historiarum, written in Latin for the sake of impartiality, was first published in 1604-1608. This London edition of 1733 was inspired
by Dr. Mead (q.v. no. 904) who bought the materials collected by Thomas Carte, and paid Samuel Buckley to edit the work. According
to Nicholls, the unsigned sixth volume and the last part of the seventh were printed by
Edward Owen, and the first six books of the seventh by
Bowyer.
Thomas Carte, 1686-1754, English historian and Jacobite. After the Jacobite rising of 1715 he escaped to France and devoted himself to collecting materials for illustrating a translation into English of Thuani Historiarum sui Temporis. These materials were purchased by Dr. Mead in 1724 and published by Buckley in 1733.
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De Thou. Histoire universelle avec la suite par Rigault.
11. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 142, as above.
THOU,
Jacques Auguste de.
Histoire Universelle de Jacques Auguste de Thou, depuis 1543. jusqu’en 1607. Traduite sur l’édition
Latine de Londres, avec la suite de l’Histoire de Jacques Auguste de Thou par N. Rigault.
Basel,
1742.
11 vol. 4to.
According to the Library of Congress catalogues printed after 1815 Jefferson’s copy of this work was printed in Basel in 1742.
No example of such an edition has been located for collation, and no edition of 1742 is mentioned in the bibliographies.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, 11. v. 4to. without information as to place or date of imprint, with the price
55.0. (livres.)
The
Histoire Universelle is a translation from the Latin edition printed by Samuel Buckley in London, 1733. The first edition of the translation into
French was printed in Londres [Paris], in 1734, 16 vol. 4to. The first edition in 11 volumes appeared in La Haye in 1740.
The translation was the work of several scholars, of which the chief were: Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier[,] 1697-1760, Charles
Le Beau, the author of Le Bas Empire, q.v. no. 102, Pierre-François Guydot Desfontaines, 1685-1745, and others.
Nicolas Rigault, 1577-1654, French scholar, was the author of the
Suite de l’Histoire de Jacques de Thou, which consisted of three books, and covered the period from 1607-1610.
