John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Orrery and Second Baron Marston, 1707-1762, was the only son of Charles, Earl of Orrery. The first edition was published in 1751. The astronomical instrument
known as the orrery was named after John Boyle’s father, Charles Boyle, fourth Earl of Orrery and first Baron Marston.
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Ciceronis epistolae ad Atticum.
Lat.
Fr. Mongault.
6. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 153, no. 9, as above.
CICERO,
Marcus Tullius.
Lettres de Ciceron à Atticus. Avec des remarques, et le texte
Latin de l’Edition de Grævius. Par M. L. Mongault, précepteur de Monseigneur le Duc de Chartres. Tome premier [-sixieme].
A
Paris: chez
Florentin Delaulne.
m. dccxiv
. Avec privilege du Roy, & approbation. [1714.]
PA6310 .E6 M6
6 vol. 12mo. 272, 202, 280, 276, 350, and 294 leaves including one or two first and last blanks;
Latin (in italic) and
French texts on opposite pages, printer’s device or monogram on the titles.
Old calf, gilt backs, r.e., initialled by Jefferson throughout at sig. I and T. Library of Congress 1815 bookplate in each
volume.
Jefferson ordered a copy of this work from his Paris bookseller,
Froullé, in a letter dated from Philadelphia October 10, 1792.
On December 10, 1819, in a letter to John Adams, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . I have been amusing myself latterly with reading the voluminous letters of Cicero. they certainly breathe the proud
effusions of an exalted patriot, while the parricide Caesar is left in odious contrast. when the enthusiasm however kindled
by Cicero’s pen & principles subsides into cool reflection, I ask myself What was that government, which the virtues of Cicero
were so zealous to restore, & the ambition of Caesar to subvert? . . .
”
Nicolas Hubert Mongault, 1694-1796 [
i.e. “1746”--
Ed.], abbé de Chartreneuve and de Villeneuve, member of the Académie Française, numbered among his pupils the eldest son of the
Duc d’Orléans and the Duc de Chartres.
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Ciceronis epistolae ad familiares. Prevost.
6. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 153, no. 10, as above.
CICERO,
Marcus Tullius.
Lettres de Ciceron, Qu’on nomme vulgairement Familieres; Traduites en François sur les Editions de Grævius & de M. l’Abbé D’Olivet. Avec des
Notes Continuelles. Par M. l’Abbé Prevost, Aumônier de S. A. S. Monseigneur le Prince de Conty. Tome Premier. [-Cinquieme] [-Lettres de Ciceron a M. Brutus et de M. Brutus a Ciceron, avec une preface critique, des notes, et diverses pieces choisies. Pour Servir de Supplement à l’Histoire & au Caractere
de Ciceron.]
Paris: Chez
Didot, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, à la Bible d’or.
m. dcc. xlv.-m. dcc. xlvii;
m. dcc xliv
. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy. [de l’Imprimerie de
Cl. Simon, Pere.] [1745-1747; 1744.]
PA6310 .E505
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sic
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Ed.
]
Together 6 vol. 12mo. 274, 248, 258, 276, 288 (the last a blank) and 285 leaves; half-titles in Vol. I-V, absent in Vol. VI;
titles printed in red and black,
French and
Latin texts on opposite pages, at the beginning of Vol. I an
Ordre Chronologique des Lettres de Ciceron, with a few manuscript corrections in ink by Jefferson, and at the end of Vol. V a
Table Alphabetique des Lettres de Ciceron, Contenues dan
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sic
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Ed.
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les cinq Volumes. Printer’s imprint in Vol. III and Vol. VI.
