First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 103 leaves, separate pagination for the Notes; printer’s imprint at the end.
Au lecteur dated from Londres le 18 Décembre, 1799; dated at the end of the book Du 30 Décembre 1799.
Barbier I, 784.
Quérard VIII, 396.
Charles Saladin,
dit
Saladin-Egerton, 1757-1814, Swiss writer and politician, left Geneva after the insurrection and settled in London. The
Coup d’oeil was published in Paris simultaneously with the London edition.
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Gazette de Leyde.
7. v.
4
to.
1781-1793.4.5.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 143, 11 v 4to. 1781-1793, 4, 5.
Nouvelles Extraordinaires de divers endroits. Leyden: [
Etienne Luzac]
1781-1795.
AP25 .N6
11 vol. 4to. Published bi-weekly, on Tuesday and Friday; caption titles; bound in yearly volumes, with an added half-title:
Nouvelles politiques publiées à Leyde.
Hatin,
Les Gazettes de Hollande, page 146,
seqq.
Jefferson subscribed to the
Gazette de Leyde from 1781 to 1795, and frequently referred to it in his correspondence, particularly during the period of his residence in
Paris. In a letter to John Jay, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the United States, written from Paris on June 17, 1785,
Jefferson mentioned: “
I send you herewith the gazettes of Leyden and that of France for the last two months. the latter because it is the best in
this country, the former as being the best in Europe . . .
”
Similarly on August 3, 1788, at the close of a letter on European affairs to the same correspondent, he wrote: “
The gazettes of france to the departure of my letter will accompany it, & those of Leyden to the 22
d. of July, at which time their distribution in this country was prohibited. how long the prohibition may continue I cannot
tell. as far as I can judge it is the only paper in Europe worth reading . . .
”
On February 12 of the same year, Jefferson wrote of the Gazette de Leyde to C. W. F. Dumas, the American consul at The Hague:
“
the paper is much read & respected. it is the only one I know in Europe which merits respect.”
References to Jefferson occur in the text of several of the news letters relative to the United States.
The
Nouvelles Extraordinaires de divers endroits, usually known as the
Gazettes de Leyde, was established in 1680, and, with various suppressions and revivals, survived until 1814.
John Jay, 1745-1829, became Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1784, Chief Justice of the United States in 1789, and Governor of New York in 1795.
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Istoria d’Italia del Guicciardini.
2. vol.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 166, as above.
GUICCIARDINI,
Francesco.
Della Istoria d’Italia di M. Francesco Guicciardini Gentiluomo Fiorentino Libri XX. Tomo Primo [Secondo]. In
Venezia: Presso
Giambatista Pasquali,
1738,
9.
2 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 392 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece by Jo. Ferretti after Jo. Mich. Liotard, engraved genealogical tree; vol. II, 414 leaves; titles printed in red and black, engraved printer’s device on both titles
and on the last leaf of vol. II (otherwise blank) and engraved head-pieces by Ant. Visentini, engraved pictorial initials and tail-pieces signed A. F.; the imprint on both titles and the colophon in vol. I are dated 1738; the dedication by
Pasquali to Francesco III in that volume and the colophon in vol. II are
dated 1739 (the former the 31 Gennario). The copy
collated was without
the 12
pages mentioned by Brunet as having been printed
à Venise sous la date de la Haye, 1740.
It is possible that this book was not delivered to Congress in 1815 with the rest of the library. In a working copy of the
1815 Library of Congress catalogue, it is not checked as present, and is included in the manuscript list made after 1815,
of
Congress Library Books Missing.
Francesco Guicciardini, 1483-1540, Florentine historian and diplomat. This work was written during the last years of his life, and originally printed
in 1561-1564.
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