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Enclosure: John Laval’s List of Books and Prices, [ca. 9 October 1821]

Enclosure

John Laval’s List of Books and Prices

[ca. 9 Oct. 1821]

Appien, traduite du texte Grec. par J. Combes-Donous—3 vols. 8vo sewed $7 . 50
Appian’s History, translated by Davis, folio. bound 10 . 00
R. Stephani Thesaurus. Latinæ Linguæ, 4 vols. folio. bound 50 . 00
Sir Wm Young’s History of Athens, large 8vo bds 4 . 50
Lawrence’s Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, 8vo bds. (suppressed in England) but clandestinely sold there at five guineas. } 10 . 00
Williams’s History of Inventions & Discoveries. 2 vols. 8vo. bds 8 . 00
Philostratus’s life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated by Berwick, 8vo bds 4 . 00
Collinson’s Life of Thuanus (President De Thou) 8vo. bds 3 . 50
Malebranche’s Search after Truth. translated by Taylor. folio bd. 10 . 00
Wallace on the Numbers of Mankind—2d Ed[. . .]1 8vo bds 3 . 25
Lamb’s Catullus, 2 vols. Small 8vo—bds 4 . 00
[Spur]zheim’s Principles of Education. 12o bds 2 . 25
Pe[s]talozzi’s Mother’s Book by Pullen 12o bds. 2 . 25
[L]aurentii Vallæ de linguæ Latinæ Elegantia 12o bd 2 . 00
[Wa]tson on the Instruction of the Deaf & Dumb—1 vol. texte 1 vol. plates 8vo bds. 6 . [ ]0
[Vo]yage de Pythagore in Egypte, dans la Chaldée, dans l’Inde, en Crète, a Sparte, a Rome, a Marseille, et dans les Gaules, 6 vols. 8vo bd } 26 . 00
Bucke on the Beauties, Harmonies & Sublimities of Nature, 4 vols. 8vo. bds. 18 . 00
Dalzell’s Lectures on the character & Literature of the Greeks 2 vols. 8o bds. 1821. } 8 . 00
Newton’s Chronology 4to bd 2d [Ed?]2 6 . 00
Hobb’s life & Tracts 8vo bd 2d [Ed?]3 2 . 00
Taylor’s Sallust on the Gods & the world, and the Pythagorean Sentences of Demophilus &c. &c. 8vo bd. } 2 . 50
Pompeius Festus with Jos. Scaliger’s &c. 2 vols. 12o parchment bg 4 . 00
Lord John Russell on the English Government & Constitution Small 8vo. } 4 . 00
Herodotus  3 vols 16o Leipsic Ed. Gr. Sewed 4 . 50
Euripides  4 d d  d    do  d 6 .
Dio Cassius 4 do    d    d  d 6
Plato    5 do    d    d  d 7 50
Polybius   4 do    d    d  d 6
Plutarch   6 d    d    d  d 9
Pausanias  3 4 . 50
Thucydides 2 2 50
Xenophon   5 7 . 50
Théorie des Signes—Abbé Sicard—2 Vols 8vo Sewed $5 .
— Mémoires & Correspondance de Made D’Epinay 3e Ed. 3 Vols do 〃6 4 
Vanegas’s History of California, 2 vols. 8vo. bds. 7 . 00
Du Pradtz’s History of Louisiana, 8vo. bd 4 . 00
Herrera Gen. History of the W. Indies &c. by Stevens. 6 vols. 8vo. bd. 18 . 00
Charlevoix’s Canada 1 vol. 8vo 4 . 00
Historia de la Florida 4 vols. 18o bd. title cut out. 8 . 00
Herder’s Philosophy of Man 2 vols. 8vo bd. 8 . 00
Walter Moyle’s Works—1. vol. 8vo. bd 2 . 00
Elton’s Hesiod—1 vol. 12o bd 2 . 50
Littlebury’s Herodotus 1 vol. 8vo. bd. maps 5 . 50
Kant’s Critical Philosophy 8vo bd 3 . 2[5]
Kant’s Logic—8vo bds. 3 . 2[ ]
 Do Prologomena 8vo bds 3 . [  ]
Oeuvres d’Archimède 2 vols. 8vo broché 7 . [  ]
Map of the Discoveries of Capt. Parry in the Polar regions, colored 1 . [  ]
— Lettres de Madame du Deffand 4 vols. 12o clf bd. 10 – [  ]
The Music or Melody & Rythmus of language 8vo. bd. 5 . 00
Jackson’s Illustrations of Shakspeare 8vo bds 5 . 00.
Jamison’s Hermes 8vo bd. 5 . 00
Watkin’s Universal Biog. Dictionary 8vo bds. (1821) 10 – 00
Port Royal latin Grammar 2 vols. 8vo bds. 7 . 00
Port Royal Greek do—1 vol. 8vo—bds. 4 . 50
  Do   Greek Primitives 8vo bds 3 . 50
Memoirs of the Carbonari plates—8vo. bds. (1821) 4 . 00
Wilke’s Persecutions of the protestants in the South of France during the years 1814–15–16–&c. 8vo bds (1821) } 7 . 00
Rowe’s Legislatorial Trial of the Queen of England. 8vo bds. 3 . 00
Scott’s Sketches of France, Switzerland & Italy—8vo bds. 1821. 4 00
Table Talk or Original Essays by Wm Hazlett. 8vo bds. 1821 5 , 00
Memoirs of Jas. 2d of England—2 vols. 12o—bds. 1821 5 50
Lord Russell on the English Government & constit. 1821. 3 . 50
Narrative of the Persecution of Da Costa by the Inquisition 2 vols. 8vo [½]5 bd } 6 . 00
[D]avy’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry—1 vol. 8v bds—1821 6

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 221:39494); in a clerk’s hand, with several lines in Laval’s hand as indicated below; undated; damaged along edge; corner torn.

Robert Estienne (r. stephani) first published his Latin thesaurus as Dictionarium, seu Latinæ linguæ Thesaurus (Paris, 1531; for a different edition owned by TJ, see Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 4793). William (later Sir William) lawrence’s work, Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man (London, 1819), was suppressed by its author when it was denounced as blasphemous and denied copyright protection due to a controversy over its materialistic explanation of the human mind and dismissal of the scriptural account of creation (ODNB description begins H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, 60 vols. description ends ).

The edition of herodotus offered here and ultimately ordered by TJ was Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1815; Leavitt, Poplar Forest description begins Messrs. Leavitt, Catalogue of a Private Library … Also, The Remaining Portion of the Library of the Late Thomas Jefferson … offered by his grandson, Francis Eppes, of Poplar Forest, Va., 1873 description ends , 37 [no. 624]; vols. 2 and 3 of TJ’s copy in ViCMRL). That of plutarch was Gottfried Heinrich Schaefer, ed., Plutarchi Vitae Parallelae, 9 vols. (Leipzig, 1812–14; Leavitt, Poplar Forest description begins Messrs. Leavitt, Catalogue of a Private Library … Also, The Remaining Portion of the Library of the Late Thomas Jefferson … offered by his grandson, Francis Eppes, of Poplar Forest, Va., 1873 description ends , 37 [no. 624]; TJ’s copy in ViCMRL). Other editions offered by Laval that TJ acquired were those of thucydides (Schaefer, ed., Thucydidis De Bello Peloponnesiaco, 2 vols. [Leipzig, 1815; Leavitt, Poplar Forest description begins Messrs. Leavitt, Catalogue of a Private Library … Also, The Remaining Portion of the Library of the Late Thomas Jefferson … offered by his grandson, Francis Eppes, of Poplar Forest, Va., 1873 description ends , 37 (no. 624); TJ’s copy in ViCMRL]), and xenophon (Schaefer, ed., Xenophontis Opera, 5 vols. [Leipzig, 1811–18; Leavitt, Poplar Forest description begins Messrs. Leavitt, Catalogue of a Private Library … Also, The Remaining Portion of the Library of the Late Thomas Jefferson … offered by his grandson, Francis Eppes, of Poplar Forest, Va., 1873 description ends , 37 (no. 624); TJ’s copy in ViCMRL).

historia de la florida was likely an edition of Garcilaso de la Vega, La Florida del Ynca (Lisbon, 1605, and other eds.; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 4084), which was also published subsequently as Historia de la Florida, 4 vols. (Madrid, 1803). broché: stitched, when used to describe an unbound book (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ). jackson’s illustrations of shakspeare: probably Zachariah Jackson, Shakspeare’s Genius Justified: being Restorations and Illustrations of Seven Hundred Passages in Shakspeare’s Plays (London, 1819).

The port royal grammars, translated by Thomas Nugent from the original French of Antoine Arnauld, Claude Lancelot, and Pierre Nicole, were first published in English as A New Method Of learning with Facility the Latin Tongue, 2 vols. (London, 1758; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 857]), and A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue, 2 vols. (London, 1746; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 837]). Nugent translated the greek primitives from a work by the same scholars and published it as The Primitives of the Greek Tongue (London, 1748; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 842]).

memoirs of the carbonari: Memoirs of the Secret Societies of the South of Italy, particularly the Carbonari (London, 1821).

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