Enclosure: Invoice of Books for Thomas Jefferson Purchased from de Bure Frères, 24 June 1820
Enclosure
Invoice of Books for Thomas Jefferson Purchased from de Bure Frères
| Xenophontis opera. gr. et lat. ex edit. Schneideri et Zeunii, Edinburgi, 1811, 10 vol. in—12. cart | 120. | ƒ | |
| histoire des republiques Italiennes, par Sismondi. in—8o br. les Tomes 12 a 16. 5 vol | 30. | ||
| Ciceronis epistolæ ad quintum fratrem, et ad Brutum, cum not. var. hagæ comit. 1725, in—8o vel. | 12. | ||
| Juliani Imperat. Cæsares. gr. lat. et gall. cum not. var. ed. J. M. heusinger. gothæ, 1741, in—8o dem. rel | 8. | ||
| Collection des Moralistes françois, publiée par amaury Duval, paris, 1820, in—8o Tom. 1 et 2. br. cont. montaigne | 10. | ||
| frais de Caisse, de Douane, d’Emballage, &c. | 11. | 50 | |
| 191. | ƒ | 50c | |
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avoir, d’aprés le Compte de 1819 |
153. | 10 | |
| Il Reste dû | 38. | ƒ | 40 |
MS (MHi); written in the hand of a representative of de Bure Frères on verso of address cover of covering letter. Dupl (MHi); in same hand; with notation by TJ at head of text: “1820. June.” Tripl (MHi); in same hand; conjoined with Tripl of covering letter. Also enclosed in Reuben G. Beasley to TJ, 8 July 1820, TJ to David Gelston, 27 Aug. 1820, and Gelston to TJ, 2 Sept. 1820.
facture des livres … le 24 juin 1820: “Invoice for books delivered in a crate tied with rope and wrapped in a thin oilcloth, labeled Libri. ⧣5. M.TJ., directed to Le Havre to Mr. Beasley, the American consul, on 24 June 1820.”
For explanations of bookbinding terms and abbreviations, see note to Invoice of Books for TJ Purchased from de Bure Frères, 30 May 1816, enclosed in David Bailie Warden to TJ, 12 July 1816.
cum not. var. hagæ comit. (“cum notis variorum. hagæ comitis”): “with notes by various people. The Hague.” gall.: “Gallic; Gaulish”; in this context, “French.”
frais de caisse, de douane, d’emballage, &c.: “cost of the crate, customs, packing, etc.” avoir, d’aprés le compte de 1819: “credit, from the 1819 account.” il reste dû: “The remainder due.”
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