First Edition of this Translation. 4to. 138 leaves, printer’s imprint on the verso of the half-title.
Greek and
French text on opposite pages in long lines,
Latin text in double columns below.
Graesse IV, 283.
Quérard V, 388.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt back, marbled endpapers, by John March on June 30, 1807, price $2.00. Not initialled
by Jefferson; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jean Baptiste Gail, 1755-1829, French professor and translator, was a member of the Institut de France, Director of the Bibliothèque Royale,
professor of Greek literature at the Collège de France, and a member of a number of learned societies.
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J. 5
Dialogues des morts de Fontenelle.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 153, no. 3, as above.
FONTENELLE,
Bernard Le Bovier de.
Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts. Par M. de Fontenelle de l’Academie Françoise. Nouvelle édition augmentée. A
Amsterdam: chez
Pierre Mortier, n.d.
PQ1797 .F7 D7 1710
Sm. 8vo. 179 leaves, printer’s device on the title, title printed in red and black, publisher’s advertisement on the last
preliminary leaf.
This edition not in Quérard.
Not in Backer.
Old calf, front cover gone, initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
16s. 9d.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1657-1757, French author. The
Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts was first published in 1683.
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6
Dialogues des morts de Fenelon.
This book was apparently not sold to Congress. Fenelon is entered in the Index of the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815,
with reference to this chapter, but there is no entry in the chapter itself.
J. 7
L
d. Lyttleton’s Dialogues of the dead.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 153, no. 20, as above.
LYTTELTON,
George, Baron Lyttelton.
Dialogues of the Dead. The
Third Edition.
London: printed for
W. Sandby,
m.dcc.lx
. [1760.]
PR3542 .L8 D5 1760a
8vo. 166 leaves.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress, with a later bookplate. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
by Lord George Lyttelton written on title-page, not by Jefferson.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Rapine, Conrad & Co., Washington, on May 4, 1802, cost
87½ cents.
George Lyttelton, First Baron Lyttelton, 1709-1773, English scholar, author and politician.
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J. 8
Erasmi colloquia. Variorum.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 153, no. 19, as above.
ERASMUS,
Desiderius.
Des. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia, cum notis selectis variorum, addito indice novo. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio. Amstelodami: ex typographia
Blaviana,
mdc xciii
. Sumptibus Societatis. [1693.]
Jefferson unclassified
