Statement of Account with John March, 12 March 1804
Statement of Account with John March
Georgetown
The President,
| 1804 | To John March | |||
| Jany: | 10 | To | Blank Book, 100 Leaves 8vo: red Leather | $1.25 |
| 25 | Domestic Encyclopædia, vol: 4th boards | 2.50 | ||
| " | Binding Grose’s Glossary, 8vo: Calf, gilt | 1.00 | ||
| " | Binding Politique Economie, 2 vols: 8vo: gilt | 2.00 | ||
| " | Binding Ideologie de Tracey, 8vo: gilt | 1.00 | ||
| " | Binding Aristotelis, Logica, &c: 2 vols: thick 12mo | 1.50 | ||
| Feby: | 3 | Temple of Nature, 8vo | 2.75 | |
| 10 | Pasting Map of the United States | 0.50 | ||
| 16 | Barlow’s Psalms | 0.50 | ||
| 24 | Small English Bible | 6.50 | ||
| March | 10 | Binding 2 8vos: Calf gilt;—Philosophy of Jesus—Bacon’s Rebellion | 2.00 | |
| " | Binding Chipman’s Principles of Government, Crown 8vo: elegt. Morocco | 3.00 | ||
| 12 | Binding 22 vols: Encyclopædia Methodique, Calf, gilt,—at $2.25 | 49.50 | ||
| " | Binding Fixarum Catalogus, 4o. Calf, gilt | 2.25 | ||
| $76.25 |
MS (MHi); in March’s hand; endorsed by TJ.
grose’s glossary: Francis Grose, A Provincial Glossary; with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions (London, 1787). TJ ordered a copy of this work in 1789 from London bookseller Thomas Payne ( No. 4871; Vol. 14:512).
politique economie: Jean Baptiste Say, Traité d’économie politique (TJ to Say, 1 Feb. 1804).
ideologie de tracey: Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, Projet d’éléments d’idéologie à l’usage des écoles centrales de la Republique Française (Destutt de Tracy to TJ, 21 Feb. 1804).
barlow’s psalms: Joel Barlow, Doctor Watts’s Imitation of the Psalms of David, Corrected and Enlarged, a work first published in 1785 and subsequently reprinted many times (James Woodress, A Yankee’s Odyssey: The Life of Joel Barlow [Philadelphia, 1958], 79-80).
fixarum catalogus: Franz Xaver von Zach, Fixarum Praecipuarum Catalogus Novus ( No. 3799).