From Thomas Jefferson to Philippe Reibelt, 23 January 1805
To Philippe Reibelt
Washington Jan. 23. 05.
Sir
Piranesi has been recieved, as also a box of books directed to me as I presume from you altho’ not noted in any of your letters. from these I have selected the following.
| Correspondence de Rousseau. 3. v. p.f | 2. | ||
| Hist. nat. des Mineraux. Patrin 5. v. p.f. | 6. | 64 | |
| Hist. de Catharine II. par Austera. 3. v. 8vo. | 6. | 78 | |
| Recueil sur les salines par Struve 12mo. | . | 75 | |
| Voyage de Terracine a Naples 12mo. | . | 48 | |
| Voyage en Angleterre par Pictet. 8vo. | 1. | 60 | |
| Soirées de Ferney. 8vo. | 1. | ||
| Institution des droits martimes par Boucher. 4to. | 4. | 85 | |
| do. commerciales par Bouchet. 4to. | 4. | 85 | |
| Elemens de legislation par Perreau. 8vo. | 1. | 60 | |
| Almanach des ambassades par Wedekind. 12mo. | 1. | 35 | |
| Le pour et le contre les E.U. Bridel 12mo. | . | 72 | |
| before recd. | Promenades au jardin des plantes. Pujoulx. 2. v. p. f. | 1. | |
| Annales des Museum vol. IV. & part of V. | |||
| Piranesi fol | 13. | 80 | |
| 47. | 42 |
I observe in your catalogue the following which I shall be glad to
recieve
Th: Jefferson
P.S. the following are taken by the Secretaries.
| Code des Douanes. | 2. | 32 |
| Almanach des ambassades | 1. | 35 |
| Tarif des droits le Douane | . | 72 |
| Memoires sur l’attaque des places | 5. | |
| Cour de tactique navale | 10. | 08 |
| 19. | 47 |
which will be accounted for to you by mr Smith. The rest of the books are repacked in the same box and will be immediately delivered at the stage office
PoC (DLC); at foot of page: “Mr. Reibelt”; endorsed by TJ.
TJ compiled another book list that included all the titles discussed above and on which he added, then canceled, an edition of the Quaker treatise Apology for the True Christian Divinity, by Robert Barclay, and an annual book catalog published by Reibelt’s associate, William Fleischer. TJ likely revised information on this other list after receiving Reibelt’s response of 25 Jan. (MS in DLC: TJ Papers, 146:25348; entirely in TJ’s hand; on sheet addressed “The President”; endorsed: “Reibelt”).
Correspondence de Rousseau: probably Correspondance originale et inédite de J. J. Rousseau avec Mme Latour de Franqueville et M. Du Peyrou, published in Paris in 1803. TJ was requesting a version in petit format (p.f).
Memoires sur l’attaque: possibly Mémoires pour l’attaque et la defense d’une place, which concerned the siege of Ath in 1697. An edition of the work ended up at the library of the U.S. Military Academy (Catalogue of Books, in the Library of the Military Academy [Newburgh, N.Y., 1822], 4; Edouard Goulon, “Charles Le Goullon [1645-1705]: Capitaine Général des Mineurs de France et la Révocation de l’Edit de Nantes,” Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, 107 [1961], 191-4).
Cour de tactique: probably Cours élémentaire de tactique navale, by Joseph d’Audibert de Ramatuelle, published in Paris in 1802.