To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 13 February 1805
From Philippe Reibelt
Baltimore St. Patriks Row No. 61.
Le 13 Fevr. 1805
Monsieur le President!
Vos ordres du 9 ne m’etant parvenus, que hier Soir—je m’empresse de Vous en accuser la reception, et de Vous faire parvenir en Consequence:
| Cents. | ||
| Romae Ichnographia—4 feuilles in folio | 50— | |
| et 4 partes Orbis Vet. Polyglottæ in fol | 10— | |
| aux quelles je prend la Libertè d’ajouter: | ||
| C. | ||
| Le plan de Leipsic-Capitale de la Literrature Germanique | 10. | |
| L’atlas Complet du Ancièn Monde de Cellarius—50 Cartes | 500. | |
| qui pourra Vous interesser par Ses Merites Connûs. | ||
| et un Ouvrage Celebre Sur la Meteorologie | ||
| p. Lamark—3 Vol—different format— | 170. | |
C’est d’une haute Satisfaction pour Moi, d’apprendre de Vous, que Vous jugez les 2 Gravures Architect. dignes d’etre recües a Votre Cabinet, Je desire pour la Satisfaction egale de la Maison a Paris, qu’il soit de même des Epreuves de Sa fonderie a Strasbourg, que j’osais Vous presenter a çes fins.
Daignez agreer les respects les plus pures et les plus intensifs.
Reibelt
Editors’ Translation
Baltimore, 61 St. Patrick’s Row
13 Feb. 1805
Mister President!
Since your order of the 9th did not reach me until yesterday afternoon, I hasten to acknowledge it and to send you, accordingly:
| Romae Ichnographia, 4 sheets in folio | 50 cents | |
| Orbis Veteribus Polyglotta, 4 parts in fol | 10 cents | |
| to which I have taken the liberty of adding | ||
| A map of Leipzig, capital of German literature | 10 cents | |
| Cellarius’s complete atlas of the ancient world (with 50 maps) | 500 cents | |
| which could interest you, given its recognized quality. | ||
| an acclaimed work about meteorology by Lamarck, 3 volumes, in different formats | 170 cents | |
It gives me great satisfaction to learn that you deem the two architectural prints worthy of belonging to your collection. I hope the Paris office will have the same satisfaction concerning the proofs of its Strasbourg foundry which I took the liberty of giving you.
Please accept my purest and deepest respect.
Reibelt
RC (DLC); above signature: “Le Depot Americ. General de Levrault, Schoell et Comp. Imprim. Libraires a Paris”; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Feb. and so recorded in SJL.
Romae Ichnographia: apparently a print deriving from a seventeenth-century engraving of Rome by Giovanni Battista Falda, Recentis Romae Ichnographia et Hypsographia (Sarah McPhee, “Rome 1676: Falda’s View,” in Mario Bevilacqua and Marcello Fagiolo, eds., Piante di Roma dal Rinascimento ai Catasti [Rome, 2012], 241).
L’atlas Complet: presumably the frequently published Geographia antiqua by Christoph Cellarius, or Keller (Walter A. Goffart, “Breaking the Ortelian Pattern: Historical Atlases with a New Program, 1747-1830,” in Joan Winearls, ed., Editing Early and Historical Atlases [Toronto, 1995], 54).
Reibelt was sending the Annuaire météorologique for the years 1800-1802 by Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (Lamark) ( No. 688). He enclosed proofs (Epreuves) from the Levrault typefoundry on 7 Feb. (second letter).