73
Pauli Jovii sui temporis historia.
2. v. in 1.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 168, as above, omitting 2. v. in 1.
JOVIUS, Paulus.
Pavli Iovii Novocomensis Episcopi Nvcerini, Historiarvm svi Temporis Tomvs Primvs [Secvndvs], XXIIII Libros complectens, cvm indice plenissimo. Lvtetiæ Parisiorum: ex officina typographica
Michaelis Vascosani,
1558,
1560.
2 vol. in 1. Folio. vol. I, 258 leaves; vol. II, 368 leaves; woodcut initials and headpieces.
Graesse III, page 490.
Ebert II, 10970.
Not in Quérard.
Listed in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
6 (livres).
This book was evidently not delivered to Congress with the rest of the library in 1815. In the contemporary working copy of
the 1815 catalogue, it is not checked as present, and is included in a manuscript list headed
Congress Library Books Missing.
Paulus Jovius (Paolo Giovio), 1483-1552, Italian historian and biographer. This history, which covers the period from about 1494 to 1547, was first published
in Florence in 1550-1552, and is dedicated to Andreas Alciatus.
[206]
74
Vie privée de Louis XV.
4. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 14. no. 35, as above.
[MOUFLE D’ANGERVILLE.]
Vie privée de Louis XV, ou principaux Evénemens, Particularités et Anecdotes de son Regne . . . Tome Premier [-Quatrieme]. Orné de Portraits. Nouvelle Edition. A
Londres: chez
John Peter Lyton,
1784.
No copy was seen for collation.
Barbier IV, 991.
This edition not in Quérard and not in Monod.
Listed, with the price,
15.0 (livres) on Jeferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Moufle d’Angerville, d. 1794, French avocat, scholar and author, was an anti-revolutionist. His
Vie privée de Louis XV was originally published anonymously in England in 1781. A modern edition of this work is cited as one of the authorities
in the life of Louis XV in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Louis XV, 1710-1774, King of France.
[207]
75
Memoires de Pompadour.
2. v. in 1.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 34, as above.
POMPADOUR,
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson le Normant D’Étioles, marquise de.
Memoires de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour. Où l’on découvre les Motifs des Guerres, & des Traités de Paix, les Ambassades, les Négociations dans les différentes Cours
de l’Europe . . . Ecrits par elle-même. Tome Premier [Second].
Liege:
1768.
DC135 .P8M5
Second Edition. 2 vol. in 1. 8vo. vol. I, 80 leaves; vol. II, 68 leaves.
This edition not in Quérard.
Bibliothèque Impériale, Histoire de France, II, page 324, no. 46B.
Monod 4228.
Theux,
Bibliographie Liégeoise, I, 272.
This book is listed on Jefferson’s undated catalogue, with the price
2.0. In a letter to Maria Cosway, from Paris, October 12, 1786, Jefferson quotes the lines on Madame de Pompadour for which Masers
de Latude was imprisoned in the Bastlle (see no. 219): “
you know this was for making four verses on M
me. de Pompadour. but I think you told me you did not know the verses. they were these. “Sans esprit, sans
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