“
glad to allow your common advance to be relieved from the trouble of importing them for myself . . .”
On January 20, 1806, in ordering books from Reibelt’s catalogue, he included: “
De l’Encyclopedie Methodique par Pancoucke la 68
me Livraisons et suivans
”
In the Jefferson papers in the Library of Congress is a classified list (in manuscript) of the various parts of the
Encyclopédie, with the prices. This seems to be a dealer’s list, and may have been sent by Reibelt, though it is not in his handwriting.
The list is annotated by Jefferson, regarding parts that he had before, and parts which were charged to him without being
sent. One annotation reads:
I have now 67. livraisons complete, and, Medicine. Tome III. 2
me partie duplicate to be returned.
On June 30, 1807, Jefferson had 3 volumes of the
Encyclopédie Méthodique bound by John March, at $2.25 per volume, $6.75 in all.
There are numerous references to the
Encyclopédie in Jefferson’s correspondence. His own
Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
was inserted at full length in the
Encyclopédie. [See no. 2566, where letters from Jefferson mentioning this are quoted.]
Charles Joseph Panckoucke, 1736-1798, Paris publisher. His privilege for this work was dated June 20, 1780.
Jean Nicolas Démeunier, 1751-1814, French man of letters and politician. He held the positions of Censeur Royal, and of Secretary Extraordinary
to Monsieur, as stated on the title of the volumes of this work for which he was responsible, quoted above. He held other
political positions, and was a member of the Assemblée Nationale.
William Hay, 1748-1825, was a commercial agent of Richmond, Virginia.
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Encyclopedie Ancienne.
39. v.
8
vo.
Lausanne.
1815 Catalogue, page 169, no. 5, Encyclopedie de Diderot et D’Alembert, 39 v 8vo Lausanne.
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une Société de Gens de Lettres. Mis en ordre
& publié par M. Diderot; & quant à la Partie Mathematique, par M. D’Alembert . . . Edition exactment conforme à celle de Pellet in-Quarto. [-Recueil de Planches, pour la Nouvelle Edition du Dictionnaire
Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts, et des Métiers, avec leur Explication.]
A
Lausanne et à
Berne: Chez
les Sociétés Typographiques,
1781,
1782.
Together 39 vol. 8vo. Illustrated with portraits and numerous engraved plates; a copy of the octavo edition was not seen,
only of “celle de Pellet in-Quarto.”
This work originated in a French translation by John Mills of the Cyclopædia of Ephraim Chambers. Mills, in Paris at the time,
applied to Lebreton, the king’s printer, to publish the book. Lebreton cheated Mills out of all his rights; he was compelled
to return to England, and the editorship was undertaken by Jean Paul de Gua. De Gua resigned after a short time, and his papers
were given to Diderot, who soon persuaded the publishers to undertake a far larger and more original work. D’Alembert undertook
to edit the mathematics, and other subjects were given to twenty-one other contributors, each of whom received the relative
articles in Mills’s translation. The first volume of the first edition was published in July 1751.
For a full account of this
Encyclopédie, and the difficulties under which it was compiled and published, see the article
Encyclopaedia in the
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
For other works by Diderot and D’Alembert in this Catalogue, see the Index.
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American Encyclopedia.
18. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 169, no. 31, as above.
Encyclopædia; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; Constructed on a Plan, by which The Different
Sciences and Arts Are digested
