Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Catalogue of Books on Agriculture, [ca. 3 March 1817]
Enclosure
Catalogue of Books on Agriculture
[ca. 3 Mar. 1817]
Geoponica Bassi. Niclasii. Lipsiae. 1781. Gr. Lat. 2. v. 8vo | |||
Owen’s translation of the Geoponics. Eng. 2. v. 8vo | |||
Scriptores rei rusticae veteres. [Cato, Varro,1 Columella, Palladius.] the edition published at Leipsic by Schneider about 1790–9. 8vo | |||
Oeconomie rurale de Saboureux. 6. v. 8vo [a transln of Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius]2 | |||
Dickson’s Husbandry of the antients. 2. v. 8vo | |||
Dizzionario d’Agricultura dal Ronconi. 2. v. 8vo | |||
L’Agricoltore del Trinci. 2. v. 12mo or 1. v. 8vo | |||
Reflexions sur l’agriculture de Naples par Tupputi. 8vo | |||
Corso di Agricultura dal Proposito Lastri. 5. v. 12mo | |||
Istruzzione elementari di Agricultura, del Fabbroni. 8vo | |||
Della Coltivazione degli Ulivi del Vettori, é degli Agrumi.3 8vo | |||
Theatre d’agriculture de De Serres. 2. v. 4to the late edition with modern learned notes | |||
Duhamel’s husbandry. | |||
Rozier. there is a body of French husbandry published by the Abbé Rozier and others, of high reputation, in 10. or 12. vols 4to title not recollected. | |||
Traité de la Vigne de Bidet et Duhamel. 2. v. 12mo | |||
Maupin sur la vigne. 8vo | |||
Traité sur la vigne, par Chaptal, Rozier, Parmentier et Dussieux. 2. v. 8vo | |||
Lasteyrie du Cotonnier et de sa culture. 8vo | |||
Daubenton’s advice to shepherds. 8vo [translated & published in Boston] | |||
Lasteyrie sur les betes à laine d’Espagne. 8vo | |||
Home’s principles of agriculture and vegetation. 8vo | |||
Mills’s chemical elements of agriculture. 12mo | |||
Kirwan on manures. 12mo | |||
Hale’s statical essays. 2. v. 8vo | |||
Tull’s horse-hoeing husbandry 8vo | |||
Evelyn’s Terra. by Hunter. 4to | |||
Hale’s body of husbandry 4. v. 8vo | |||
Home’ gentleman farmer. 8vo | |||
Young’s rural economy. 8vo | Young’s Annals of agriculture and many other works, written merely for money, are scarcely worth buying. those here named contain whatever of his is worth having | ||
Young’s farmer’s guide. 8vo | |||
Young’s experimental agriculture. 3. v. 8vo | |||
Young’s travels in France. | |||
Brown’s rural affairs. | |||
the Rural Socrates. | |||
Boardley’s Essays and Notes on husbandry 8vo | |||
Taylor’s Arator. 12mo | |||
Peters’s agricultural enquiries on Gypsum. 8vo | |||
Livingston’s essay on sheep. 8vo | |||
Memoirs of the Philadelphia agricultural society 2. v. 8vo | |||
Transactions of the agricultural society of N. York, 4to | |||
[there are some good works published in the Eastern states. titles unknown.] | |||
Millar’s gardener’s dictionary. fol. | |||
Millar’s gardener’s Calendar. 8vo | |||
Abercrombie’s gardener’s pocket dictionary. 3. v. 12mo | |||
Every man his own gardener. by Mawe. 12mo | |||
McMahon’s American gardener’s Calendar 8vo [Philadelphia.] | |||
American gardener by Gardiner & Hepburn. 12mo [Washington] | |||
a Treatise on gardening by John Randolph. 16[o]4 [Richmond] | |||
Culture de la grosse Asperge de Hollande par Filassier 12mo | |||
De la Brosse de la culture du figuier. 12mo | |||
Langley’s Pomona. fol. | |||
Knight on the apple and pear, on cyder and perry. 12mo | |||
Forsyth on the culture and management of fruit trees. 8vo | |||
Evelyn’s Sylva. | |||
Traité sur les Abeilles5 par della Rocca. 3. v. 8vo |
PoC (DLC: TJ Papers, 209:37317); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; brackets in original except as explained in notes 2 and 4 below. Printed in American Farmer 2 (1820): 94.
This list of recommended books on agriculture may have been based in part on a similar one that TJ prepared for Wilson Cary Nicholas in 1809 (see TJ to Nicholas, 16 Dec. 1809, and enclosure).
1. American Farmer: “Barro,” here and in next entry.
2. Omitted closing bracket editorially supplied.
3. American Farmer: “agrunic.”
4. Superscript illegible.
5. American Farmer: “Abeitles.”
Index Entries
- Abercrombie, John; The Gardener’s Pocket Dictionary search
- A Compleat Body of Husbandry (T. Hale) search
- Advice to Shepherds (Daubenton; trans. J. Bowdoin) search
- Agricultural Enquiries on Plaister of Paris (R. Peters) search
- agriculture; beekeeping search
- agriculture; TJ lists works on search
- American Farmer; prints TJ’s catalogue of books on agriculture search
- Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts (A. Young) search
- A Practical Treatise of Husbandry (H. L. Duhamel du Monceau) search
- Arator; being a series of Agricultural Essays, Practical & Political (J. Taylor) search
- A Treatise on Agriculture and Rural Affairs (R. Brown) search
- A Treatise on Gardening (J. Randolph) search
- A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees: in which A New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described (W. Forsyth) search
- A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry (T. A. Knight) search
- Bassus, Cassianus; Γεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (ed. T. Owen;1805–06) search
- Bassus, Cassianus; Γεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (trans. P. Needham; ed. J. N. Niclas;1781) search
- beekeeping; works on search
- Bidet, Nicolas; Traité sur la nature et sur la culture de la Vigne search
- books; on agriculture search
- books; TJ recommends to G. W. Jeffreys search
- Bordley, John Beale; Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs search
- Bowdoin, James (1752–1811); translatesAdvice to Shepherds search
- Brown, Robert; A Treatise on Agriculture and Rural Affairs search
- Cato the Elder; Rei rusticae search
- Chaptal, Jean Antoine, comte de; Traité théorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne search
- Columella; Rei rusticae search
- Corso di agricoltura (M. A. Lastri) search
- Cours complet d’agriculture, théorique, practique, économique, et de médicine rurale et vétérinaire … ou dictionnaire universel d’agriculture (F. Rozier) search
- Culture de la Grosse Asperge dite de Hollande (J. J. Fillassier) search
- Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie; Advice to Shepherds (trans. J. Bowdoin) search
- Della Rocca, Abbé; Traité Complet sur les Abeilles search
- Dickson, Adam; The Husbandry of the Ancients search
- Dizionario d’agricoltura o sia la coltivazione italiana (I. Ronconi) search
- Du Cotonnier et de sa Culture (C. P. De Lasteyrie) search
- Duhamel Du Monceau, Henri Louis; A Practical Treatise of Husbandry search
- Duhamel Du Monceau, Henri Louis; Traité sur la nature et sur la culture de la Vigne search
- Essay on Sheep (R. R. Livingston) search
- Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs (J. B. Bordley) search
- Evelyn, John; Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest-Trees search
- Evelyn, John; Terra: A Philosophical Discourse of Earth search
- Every Man His Own Gardener (T. Mawe) search
- Fabbroni, Adamo; Istruzioni elementari di agricoltura search
- Fillassier, Jean Jacques; Culture de la Grosse Asperge dite De Hollande search
- Forsyth, William; A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees; in which A New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described search
- Gardiner, John (author); The American Gardener search
- Gyllenborg, Gustav Adolph; The Natural and Chemical Elements of Agriculture (trans. J. Mills) search
- gypsum (plaster of paris); used as fertilizer search
- Hale, Thomas; A Compleat Body of Husbandry search
- Hales, Stephen; Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks search
- Hepburn, David; The American Gardener search
- Hirzel, Hans Caspar; The Rural Socrates search
- Home, Francis; The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation search
- Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage (J. Tull) search
- Istruzioni elementari di agricoltura (A. Fabbroni) search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; recommends books search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Catalogue of Books on Agriculture search
- Kames (Kaim), Henry Home, Lord; The Gentleman Farmer search
- Kirwan, Richard; The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to The various Sorts of Soils search
- Knight, Thomas Andrew; A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry search
- La Brousse, Mr. de; Traité de la Culture du Figuier, suivi d’observations & d’expériences sur la meilleure maniere de cultiver search
- Langley, Batty; Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated search
- Lasteyrie-Dusaillant, Charles Philibert, comte De; Du Cotonnier et de sa Culture search
- Lasteyrie-Dusaillant, Charles Philibert, comte De; Traité sur les Bêtes-à-Laine d’Espagne search
- Lastri, Marco Antonio; Corso di agricoltura search
- Le Théâtre d’Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs (O. de Serres) search
- Livingston, Robert R.; Essay on Sheep search
- L’Agricoltore Sperimentato (C. Trinci) search
- Maupin; Nouvelle méthode non encore publiée pour planter et cultiver la vigne search
- Mawe, Thomas; Every Man His Own Gardener search
- McMahon, Bernard; The American Gardener’s Calendar search
- Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture search
- Miller, Philip; The Gardeners Dictionary search
- Miller, Philip; The Gardeners Kalendar search
- Mills, John; translatesThe Natural and Chemical Elements of Agriculture (G. A. Gyllenborg) search
- Needham, Peter; translatesΓεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (C. Bassus;1781) search
- New York (state); Transactions of the Society, instituted in the State of New-York, for the promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures search
- Niclas, Johann Nicolaus; editsΓεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (C. Bassus;1781) search
- Nouvelle méthode non encore publiée pour planter et cultiver la vigne (Maupin) search
- Owen, Thomas; editsΓεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (C. Bassus;1805–06) search
- Palladius; Rei rusticae search
- Parmentier, Antoine Auguste; Traité théorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne search
- Peters, Richard; Agricultural Enquiries on Plaister of Paris search
- Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture; Memoirs search
- Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated (B. Langley) search
- Randolph, John (ca.1727–84); A Treatise on Gardening search
- Réflexions Succinctes sur l’état de l’Agriculture, et de quelques autres parties de l’administration, dans le Royaume de Naples, sous Ferdinand IV (D. Tupputi) search
- Rei rusticae (Cato; Columella; Palladius; Varro) search
- Ronconi, Ignazio; Dizionario d’agricoltura o sia la coltivazione italiana search
- Rozier, François; Cours complet d’agriculture, théorique, practique, économique, et de médicine rurale et vétérinaire … ou dictionnaire universel d’agriculture search
- Rozier, François; Traité théorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne search
- Rural Oeconomy: or, Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry (A. Young) search
- Saboureux de La Bonnetrie, Charles François; Traduction d’Anciens Ouvrages Latins relatifs à l’Agriculture et à la Médecine Vétérinaire, avec des Notes search
- Serres, Olivier de; Le Théâtre d’Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs search
- Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks (S. Hales) search
- Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest-Trees (J. Evelyn) search
- Taylor, John (of Caroline); Arator: being a series of Agricultural Essays, Practical & Political search
- Terra: A Philosophical Discourse of Earth (J. Evelyn) search
- The American Gardener (J. Gardiner and D. Hepburn) search
- The American Gardener’s Calendar (B. McMahon) search
- The Farmer’s Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms (A. Young) search
- The Gardeners Dictionary (P. Miller) search
- The Gardeners Kalendar (P. Miller) search
- The Gardener’s Pocket Dictionary (J. Abercrombie) search
- The Gentleman Farmer (H. H. Kames) search
- The Husbandry of the Ancients (A. Dickson) search
- The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to The various Sorts of Soils (R. Kirwan) search
- The Natural and Chemical Elements of Agriculture (G. A. Gyllenborg; trans. J. Mills) search
- The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation (F. Home) search
- The Rural Socrates (H. C. Hirzel) search
- Traduction d’Anciens Ouvrages Latins relatifs à l’Agriculture et à la Médecine Vétérinaire, avec des Notes (C. F. Saboureux de La Bonnetrie) search
- Traité Complet sur les Abeilles (Della Rocca) search
- Traité de la Culture du Figuier, suivi d’observations & d’expériences sur la meilleure maniere de cultiver (La Brousse) search
- Traité sur la nature et sur la culture de la Vigne (N. Bidet and H. L. Duhamel Du Monceau) search
- Traité sur les Bêtes-à-Laine d’Espagne (C. P. De Lasteyrie) search
- Traité théorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne (J. A. Chaptal, A. A. Parmentier, F. Rozier, and L. d’Ussieux) search
- Transactions of the Society, instituted in the State of New-York, for the promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures search
- Trattato di Piero Vettori delle lodi e della coltivazione degli ulivi (P. Vettori) search
- Travels during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789 (A. Young) search
- Trinci, Cosimo; L’Agricoltore Sperimentato search
- Tull, Jethro; Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage search
- Tupputi, Dominique; Réflexions Succinctes sur l’état de l’Agriculture, et de quelques autres parties de l’administration, dans le Royaume de Naples, sous Ferdinand IV search
- Ussieux, Louis d’; Traité théorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne search
- Varro (Marcus Terentius Varro); Rei rusticae search
- Vettori, Pietro; Trattato di Piero Vettori delle lodi e della coltivazione degli ulivi search
- Young, Arthur; A Course of Experimental Agriculture search
- Young, Arthur; Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts search
- Young, Arthur; Rural Oeconomy: or, Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry search
- Young, Arthur; The Farmer’s Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms search
- Young, Arthur; Travels during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789 search
- Γεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (C. Bassus); edited by T. Owen (1805–06) search
- Γεωπονικά Geoponicorum sive de re rustica libri XX (C. Bassus); translated by P. Needham; edited by J. N. Niclas (1781) search