From Thomas Jefferson to Van Damme, 18 March 1788
To Van Damme
ce 18me. Mars. 1788.
| 4184. | Strabo. Lugduni. Gabr. Coterius. 1559. 2.vols. in 16s. |
| 4771. | Arrianus. Gr. Lat. Raphelii. Amstelodami. Wetstenii. 1757. 8vo. |
| 4856. | Appianus Alexandrinus. Gr. Lat. Tollii. Amstelod. 1670. 2.vols. 8vo. |
| 4909. | Savillii Commentarius in Taciti historias. Amstel. Elzevir. 1649. 12mo. |
| 2092. | Vitruvius Philandri &c. Amstelod. Elzevir. 1649. fol. 2. exemplaires. |
| 2572. | Aristophanes Gr. Lat. Scaligen et Fabri. Amstel. Ravestein. 1670. 16s. |
| 1268.1 | Seneca philos. et Rhetor. 3.vols. 8vo. Elzevir. 1672. |
| 1804. | Celsus. 16s. Lugduni. Tornaesius. 1549. 1544. Apicius Coelius de opsoniis. Listeri. Amstel. 8vo. |
| 2683. | Virgil. Sedani. 12mo. 1625. |
| 4107. | Alciphronis epistolae. Gr. Lat. 8vo. Lipsiae. 1715. |
| 4109. | Aristenaeti epistolae. Gr. Lat. Sambuci. Paris. 1610. 8vo. |
| 4118. | Plinii epistolae Elzevir. 1640. 12mo. |
| 4122. | Symmachi epistolae. Lugd. Batav. 1653. 12mo. |
| 4123. | Abelardi et Heloisae epistolae. Lond. 1718. 8vo. |
| 163. | Van Dale super Aristae |
| 33622 | Van Dale dissertationes. 4to. |
| Traduction des Annales Belgiques de Grotius, en Anglois, Italien ou Francois. | |
| Morelli Dictionarium Graeco-Latino-Gallicum. petit in 8vo. 1. vol. | |
| Dictionary. Dutch & English. |
Monsieur Van Damme est prié de la part de Monsieur Jefferson de lui procurer les livres, et les editions notées ci-dessus, si cela se peut faire à des prix assez raisonables, et de les faire passer à Paris à son adresse, qu’il a l’honneur de mettre au bas de cette note.3 Il lui fera toucher son argent toujours chez Messieurs Nicholas & Jacob Van Staphorsts, banquiers à Amsterdam.
RC (Meermanno-Westrenianum Museum, The Hague). PrC (DLC).
In a collection of trade cards, addresses, tavern bills, &c., accumulated during TJ’s trip to Holland and Germany (MHi) there is a card in the hand of Van Damme which reads: “Addresse. Pr. van Damme, Libraire, A Amsterdam.” les numeros … debeurre: The numbers in TJ’s list of books correspond to those in Guillaume-François De Bure, Bibliographie Instructive: ou Traité de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers, 10 vol., Paris, 1763–82; his listing of the volumes desired is drawn in greatly abbreviated form from De Bure’s descriptions of the volumes under these numbers. Several errors have been corrected below but variations in spelling have not been noted. In the RC there are check marks drawn before each of the numbers representing the volumes which were sent to TJ by Van Damme with his letter of 25 June 1788, q.v.
1. An Error For De Bure No. 1288, Which Describes The Edition Of Seneca Listed Here.
2. Written below this number, in another hand, is the number “1743”, and following the description, in the same hand, “Nm: 263” (the latter possibly referring to the number of the same item in a Van Damme catalogue); neither No. 3362 nor No. 1743 in De Bure refers to Van Dale, but De Bure No. 5743 is a description of Van Dale, Dissertationes de origine ac progressu Idololatrie & Superstitionum, Amsterdam, 1696, 4to., which may have been the volume intended. However, the preceding item, “No. 163,” is inserted in RC in TJ’s hand in another ink and does not appear in PrC; therefore, this may be TJ’s correction and clarification of the original listing, the entry for De Bure No. 163 being: “Antonii Van Dale Dissertatio super Aristea de LXX. Interpretibus…. Amst. Wolters, 1705. in 4°.” This volume was sent to TJ in June 1788 and is the only work by Van Dale listed in the .
3. At foot of text TJ wrote: “Monsieur Jefferson, ministre plenipotentiaire des etats unis d’Amerique à Paris.”