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Thomas Jefferson: Book List, [after 6 October 1815]

Book List

[after 6 Oct. 1815]

Enfield

Mackay on Longitude

<Nautical almanac for 1816. by Blunt N.Y.>

<do by Garnet>

<Garnet’s Requisite tables>

<La Croix wants> 2d vol.

a Fr. dict. of about 1550–1600

Antoninus. 12mo

Playfair’s statistical Breviary. 8vo

McMahon’s gardening. 8vo

Chronologist of the war 1789–96 12mo

Hardie’s Remembrancer. 12mo

Dufief’s dict.

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 199:35468); on verso of Nicolas G. Dufief to TJ, 29 Sept. 1815; entirely in TJ’s hand; undated, but composed after 6 Oct. 1815 receipt of Dufief’s letter.

This document appears to be a partial list of books TJ hoped to acquire, with many of the titles mentioned in subsequent correspondence and eventually finding their way into his final library.

Index Entries

  • almanacs, nautical; TJ purchases search
  • A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages (N. G. Dufief) search
  • Blunt, Edmund March; Blunt’s Edition of the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the year 1816 search
  • books; dictionaries search
  • books; on gardening search
  • books; on latitude and longitude search
  • books; on mathematics search
  • Cours de Mathematiques à l’usage de l’École Centrale des Quatres-Nations (S. F. Lacroix) search
  • Dufief, Nicolas Gouin; A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages search
  • Enfield, William; The History of Philosophy search
  • French language; dictionaries search
  • French Revolution; works on search
  • Garnett, John; Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris search
  • Garnett, John; Tables Requisite to be used with the Nautical Ephemeris search
  • Hardie, James; The American Remembrancer search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books &amp; Library; orders books search
  • Lacroix, Sylvestre François; Cours de Mathematiques à l’usage de l’École Centrale des Quatres-Nations search
  • Mackay, Andrew; The theory and practice of finding the Longitude at Sea or Land search
  • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180), Roman emperor; writings of search
  • mathematics; books on search
  • McMahon, Bernard; The American Gardener’s Calendar search
  • Playfair, William; The Statistical Breviary search
  • Tables Requisite to be used with the Nautical Ephemeris (J. Garnett) search
  • The American Gardener’s Calendar (B. McMahon) search
  • The American Remembrancer (J. Hardie) search
  • The Chronologist of the Present War … from the Commencement of the French Revolution, to the end of the year 1796 search
  • The History of Philosophy (W. Enfield) search
  • The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (E. M. Blunt); TJ orders search
  • The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (J. Garnett); TJ orders search
  • The Statistical Breviary (W. Playfair) search
  • The theory and practice of finding the Longitude at Sea or Land (A. Mackay) search

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Thomas Jefferson: Book List, [after 6 October 1815]
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Jefferson, Thomas
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6 October 1815

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“Thomas Jefferson: Book List, [after 6 October 1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0047. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 9, September 1815 to April 1816, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 60.]