Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 27 October 1818

To Lewis D. Belair

Monticello Oct. 27. 18.

Sir

Among the books on the catalogue you were so kind as to send me I have noted the underwritten which I should be willing to procure at suitable prices. will you be so good as to drop me a line stating their prices and formats. in the mean time, & without waiting a further order, be so good as to send me the Dictionary Gr. & Fr. of Planche, and Cortez’s correspondence. the former being but an 8vo may be sent by mail; and so may the latter as being still less. only send them by different mails. I would rather recieve them unbound. Accept the assurance of my respect

Th: Jefferson

1.	l.	7.	from bottom. La Malle’s Sallust
		3.	from bottom. Guerres civiles de Rome d’Appien. by what translator?
[2?].	l.	3.	Tacite Lat. Fr. by La Malle.
		6.	Pline le jeune Lat. Fr.
		11.	Dictionnaire bibliotheque. of what date?
		35.	Antiquitès Romaines de Denis d’Halicarnasse.
		[50.]1	Du Cange Glossarium.
		58.	Suetonius. Lat. Fr. by wh[at translator]2?
[3.?]	l.	11.	Stephani Thesaurus.
		14.	La Place.	Systeme du monde
				Mecanique celeste.
		35.	Cabanis humeurs Catarrhales.
		40.	Correspondre de Cortez avec Charles V.
		49.	Planche Dict. Gr. Fr.
		64.	Dictionnaire de medecine avec Lexicon Etc
		71.	P[ersoo]n3 Synopsis plantarum
		74.	Sacrorum bibliorum Concordantiae.
4.	l.	4.	Persoon. Synopsis fung[orum.]4 is not this included in his Synopsis plantarum.

there is an Abregé des 10. livres de Vitruve. Paris. Coignard. 1674. 12mo which I should be glad of if you have it.

PoC (MHi); on verso of portion of reused address cover to TJ; left edge of book list trimmed; with page and line numbers in list corresponding to the advertising circular of Ferngaus De Gelone enclosed by Belair in his letter to TJ of 9 Oct. 1818 and described there; endorsed by TJ.

Beneath signature and to right of book list TJ summarized an otherwise unlocated letter to Belair of 31 Oct. 1818 (not recorded in SJL): “Oct. 31. added Logarithmes de Lalande Henri IV de Perefixe.” TJ eventually acquired two copies of Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, Tables de Logarithmes pour les Nombres et Pour les Sinus (Paris, 1805; repr. 1815; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 8 [no. 405]; one of TJ’s copies in ViCMRL, on deposit ViU, with Nicholas P. Trist’s note that TJ had given it to him).

The dictionary gr. & fr. TJ ordered here was Joseph Planche, Dictionnaire Grec-Français, composé sur l’ouvrage intitulé Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, de Henri Étienne (Paris, 1817; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 849]; TJ’s copy in MH). cortez’s correspondence was Gratien Jean Baptiste Louis, vicomte de Flavigny, trans., Correspondance de Fernand Cortès avec l’empereur Charles-Quint, Sur la Conquête du Mexique (Paris, 1778; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 4 [no. 117]; TJ’s copy in MoSW).

TJ acquired three duodecimo volumes of the works of Pliny the Younger (pline le jeune) that he apparently bound separately as a two-volume set of Pliny’s letters (Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 793]) and a single volume of his Panegyricus of Trajan (Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 13 [no. 816]; identified as a translation by Louis de Sacy in TJ to Frederick A. Mayo, 9 Apr. 1819). TJ’s copy of the latter (in MoSW) is de Sacy, trans., Panégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (Clermont, France, 1809), and the compilation of the letters was probably de Sacy, trans., Lettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan, 2 vols. (Clermont, 1809); both editions were published by Landriot.

The advertising circular of Fernagus De Gelone enclosed in Belair to TJ, 9 Oct. 1818, lists “Cailleau’s Dictionnaire Bibliographique” on page two, line eleven. This work was R. Duclos and Jacques Charles Brunet, eds., Dictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares, 4 vols. (Paris, 1790–1802), published by André Charles Cailleau, and mistakenly requested above by TJ as dictionnaire bibliotheque.

stephani thesaurus was the Greek-language thesaurus of Henri Estienne, originally published and previously owned by TJ as Estienne, Θησαυρὸς τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Γλώσσης. Thesaurus Graecae Linguae, 4 vols. (Geneva, 1572; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 4760). The dictionnaire de medecine offered by Belair was Pierre Hubert Nysten, Dictionnaire de Médecine, et des sciences accessoires a la médecine … suivi de deux vocabulaires, l’un Latin, l’autre Grec (Paris, 1814).

Abregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve, a volume edited by Claude Perrault and published by Jean Baptiste coignard (Paris, 1674; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 12 [no. 722]; TJ’s copy in MoSW), was acquired by TJ the following year through the Paris firm of de Bure Frères (de Bure Frères to TJ, 11 Sept. 1819).

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Index Entries

Abregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve (Vitruvius; ed. C. Perrault) search
Appian; Histoire des Guerres Civiles de la République Romaine (trans. J. I. Combes-Dounous) search
architecture; books on search
Belair, Lewis Descoins; letters to search
Belair, Lewis Descoins; letter to accounted for search
Belair, Lewis Descoins; TJ orders books from search
Bellanger, François; translatesLes Antiquités Romaines (Dionysius of Halicarnassus) search
Bible; TJ orders search
books; classical search
books; dictionaries search
books; of correspondence search
books; on architecture search
books; on mathematics search
books; on medicine search
botany; books on search
Brunet, Jacques Charles; editsDictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares search
Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges; Observations sur les Affections Catarrhales search
Cailleau, André Charles; as publisher search
Coignard, Jean Baptiste; as publisher search
Combes-Dounous, Jean Isaac; translatesHistoire des Guerres Civiles de la République Romaine (Appian) search
Correspondance de Fernand Cortès avec l’empereur Charles-Quint (trans. Flavigny) search
Cortés, Hernán; correspondence of search
de Bure Frères (Paris firm); TJ purchases books from search
Delisle de Sales, Jean Baptiste Claude (“Henri Ophellot de La Pause”); translatesHistoire Des Douze Césars de Suétone, … Avec des Mêlanges Philosophiques & des Notes (Suetonius) search
de Sacy, Louis; translatesLettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan (Pliny the Younger) search
de Sacy, Louis; translatesPanégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (Pliny the Younger) search
Dictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares (eds. R. Duclos and J. C. Brunet) search
Dictionnaire de Médecine (P. H. Nysten) search
Dictionnaire Grec-Français, composé sur l’ouvrage intitulé Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, de Henri Étienne (J. Planche) search
Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Les Antiquités Romaines (trans. F. Bellanger) search
Du Cange, Charles Du Fresne; Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediæ & Infimæ Latinitatis search
Duclos, R.; editsDictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares search
Dureau de la Malle, Jean Baptiste; translatesOeuvres de Salluste (Sallust) search
Dureau de la Malle, Jean Baptiste; translatesTacite (Tacitus) search
Estienne, Henri (Stepani; Stephani); editsΘησαυρὸς τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Γλώσσης. Thesaurus Graecae Linguae search
Exposition du Systême du Monde (P. S. Laplace) search
Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; sends book catalogues search
Flavigny, Gratien Jean Baptiste Louis, vicomte de; translatesCorrespondance de Fernand Cortès avec l’empereur Charles-Quint search
French language; dictionaries search
Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediæ & Infimæ Latinitatis (C. D. F. Du Cange) search
Greek language; dictionaries search
Greek language; thesauri search
Henry IV, king of France; biography of search
Histoire Des Douze Césars de Suétone, … Avec des Mêlanges Philosophiques & des Notes (Suetonius; trans. J. B. C. Delisle de Sales [writing as “Henri Ophellot de La Pause”]) search
Histoire des Guerres Civiles de la République Romaine (Appian; trans. J. I. Combes-Dounous) search
Histoire du Roy Henry Le Grand (H. de Péréfixe) search
Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; catalogues from booksellers search
Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; gives books search
Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de; Tables de Logarithmes pour les Nombres et Pour les Sinus search
Landriot; French publisher search
Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de; Exposition du Systême du Monde search
Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de; Traité de Mécanique Céleste search
Latin language; glossaries search
Les Antiquités Romaines (Dionysius of Halicarnassus; trans. F. Bellanger) search
Lettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan (Pliny the Younger; trans. L. de Sacy) search
mathematics; books on search
medicine; books on search
Nysten, Pierre Hubert; Dictionnaire de Médecine search
Observations sur les Affections Catarrhales (P. J. G. Cabanis) search
Oeuvres de Salluste (Sallust; trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle) search
Panégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (Pliny the Younger; trans. L. de Sacy) search
Péréfixe, Hardouin de Beaumont de; Histoire du Roy Henry Le Grand search
Perrault, Claude; editsAbregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve (Vitruvius) search
Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik; Synopsis Methodica Fungorum search
Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik; Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum search
Planche, Joseph; Dictionnaire Grec-Français, composé sur l’ouvrage intitulé Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, de Henri Étienne search
Pliny the Younger; Lettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan (trans. L. de Sacy) search
Pliny the Younger; Panégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (trans. L. de Sacy) search
Sallust; Oeuvres de Sallust (trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle) search
Suetonius; Histoire Des Douze Césars de Suétone, … Avec des Mêlanges Philosophiques & des Notes (trans. “Henri Ophellot de La Pause” [J. B. C. Delisle de Sales]) search
Synopsis Methodica Fungorum (C. H. Persoon) search
Synopsis Plantarum, seu Enchiridium Botanicum (C. H. Persoon) search
Tables de Logarithmes pour les Nombres et Pour les Sinus (Lalande) search
Tacite (Tacitus; trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle) search
Tacitus; Tacite (trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle) search
Traité de Mécanique Céleste (P. S. Laplace) search
Trist, Nicholas Philip; TJ gives books to search
Vitruvius; Abregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve (ed. C. Perrault) search
Θησαυρὸς τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Γλώσσης. Thesaurus Graecae Linguae (ed. H. Estienne) search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 27 October 1818
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Belair, Lewis Descoins
Date: 27 October 1818

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 27 October 1818,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-13-02-0312. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 13, 22 April 1818 to 31 January 1819, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. 342–343.]

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