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Thomas Jefferson to Fernagus De Gelone, 27 December 1818

To Fernagus De Gelone

Monticello Dec. 27. 18.

Sir

I recieved yesterday the 2d copy of De la lande’s Logarithms and your note of the 90.D. adding that the books would be forward[ed]1 as soon as you should recieve a definitive answer to yours of the 15th. I had considered mine of the 9th to mr Belair as an anticipation of that answer, inasmuch as it gave a specification of the books I had concluded to take, and covered the price of them. I will now however be more particular as to the others mentioned in your letter of the 15th & not in mine of the 9th

Stephani Thesaurus Gr. I meant to decline taking because [I] found it cost more than it was worth my while to giv[e]

Persoon fungarum et plantarum. declined for same reas[on]

La Place Systeme—et Mecanique celeste, declined for t[he] same reason, and also because of 4to format, books of that size being too unhandy, & the 8vo format greatly preferred

Tacite de la Malle. mr Belair had informed it was sold. if not sold I shall be glad to recieve it.

Journal Bibliographique de la France. I shall be willing to recieve this instead of the Dictionnaire Bibliographique

Sacrorum Bibliorum Concordantiae } I had been informed that these also had been sold,
Dictionnaire de Medecine avec Lexicon

and therefore neither the format nor price were stated to me. if you will be so good as to inform me of them, I will consider whether I take them or not. as I know nothing of them but from their titles, you would oblige me by stating their authors, their date & any other general information of them, & particularly whether the Lexicon is a Greek one, compiled specially for reading2 the works of Hippocrates.

in the mean time send on the rest without detaining them for these two. a[ccep]t3 the assurances of my respect.

PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Stephen Cathalan to TJ, 13 Aug. 1818; torn at seal; endorsed by TJ: “Fernagus de Gelone. Dec. 27. 18.”

The note from Fernagus De Gelone received 26 Dec. 1818 by TJ is not recorded in SJL and has not been found.

1Word faint.

2Word interlined.

3Word faint.

Index Entries

  • Belair, Lewis Descoins; TJ orders books from search
  • Bible; TJ orders search
  • Bibliographie de la France, ou Journal Général de l’Imprimerie et de la Librairie search
  • books; classical search
  • books; on botany search
  • books; on mathematics search
  • books; on medicine search
  • botany; books on search
  • Brunet, Jacques Charles; editsDictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares search
  • Dictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares (eds. R. Duclos and J. C. Brunet) search
  • Dictionnaire de Médecine (P. H. Nysten) search
  • Duclos, R.; editsDictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares search
  • Dureau de la Malle, Jean Baptiste; translatesTacite (Tacitus) search
  • Estienne, Henri (Stepani; Stephani); editsΘησαυρὸς τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Γλώσσης. Thesaurus Graecae Linguae search
  • Exposition du Systême du Monde (P. S. Laplace) search
  • Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; letter from accounted for search
  • Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; letters to search
  • Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; TJ orders books from search
  • Greek language; thesauri search
  • Hippocrates (Greek physician); works of search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
  • Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de; Tables de Logarithmes pour les Nombres et Pour les Sinus search
  • Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de; Exposition du Systême du Monde search
  • Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de; Traité de Mécanique Céleste search
  • mathematics; books on search
  • medicine; books on search
  • Nysten, Pierre Hubert; Dictionnaire de Médecine search
  • Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik; Synopsis Methodica Fungorum search
  • Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik; Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum search
  • Synopsis Methodica Fungorum (C. H. Persoon) search
  • Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum (C. H. Persoon) search
  • Tables de Logarithmes pour les Nombres et Pour les Sinus (Lalande) search
  • Tacite (Tacitus; trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle) search
  • Tacitus; Tacite (trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle) search
  • Traité de Mécanique Céleste (P. S. Laplace) search
  • Θησαυρὸς τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Γλώσσης. Thesaurus Graecae Linguae (ed. H. Estienne) search