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THOMAS JEFFERSON

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Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum

AN AMERICAN RARITY—JEFFERSON'S PERSONAL COPY

(JEFFERSON, Thomas) STEPHANO, Carolo (ESTIENNE, Charles). Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum. Oxford, 1671.

A superb Presidential association copy—Thomas Jefferson's personal copy with his characteristic ownership markings of an important historical dictionary based on Estienne’s famous 16th-century Dictionarium, “the first French encyclopedia.” This is an early reissue of editor Nicholas Lloyd’s Oxford 1670 edition, in Latin, an updated and improved edition of Estienne’s work that was “superior to any of the previous editions.” From the renowned Americana collection of Mrs. Philip D. Sang, in contemporary calf. Rare and desirable.

$80,000.

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Advice to Shepherds and Owners of Flocks

AN EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN RARITY

(JEFFERSON, Thomas) DAUBENTON, Louis-Jean-Marie. Advice to Shepherds and Owners of Flocks. Boston, 1811.

Thomas Jefferson's personal copy of this guide to sheep farming—one of Jefferson's primary agricultural interests—containing Jefferson's characteristic and distinctive ownership mark, presented to Jefferson by the widow of the book's translator, James Bowdoin, Jefferson's minister to Spain, with the inscription: "President Jefferson with Mrs Bowdoin's respectful compliments. 24 May 1812." Second edition in English, with three illustrated plates appearing for the first time in this edition, in contemporary mottled calf.

$78,000.

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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers

"I HAVE SWORN ETERNAL HOSTILITY AGAINST EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

JEFFERSON, Thomas. Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers. London, 1829. Four volumes.

First English edition of the first published collection of Jefferson’s writings, issued the same year as the first American edition, edited by his grandson, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Jefferson and folding facsimile of Jefferson’s manuscript draft of the Declaration of Independence, rare in original boards, uncut. $5500.

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Message from the President

“THE STATE OF OUR FINANCES CONTINUES TO FULFILL OUR EXPECTATIONS”

JEFFERSON, Thomas. Message from the President. New York, 1804.

Early separate printing of Jefferson’s fourth message to Congress, in which he assures the nation that “peace and intercourse with other powers continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty.” $5200.

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Fifth Annual Message to Congress (National Intelligencer Extra)

JEFFERSON’S DISCUSSION OF WESTWARD EXPANSION, SCARCE FIRST PUBLIC BROADSIDE PRINTING OF HIS FIFTH ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, 1805, WITH ALLUSION TO LEWIS AND CLARK

JEFFERSON, Thomas. Fifth Annual Message to Congress (National Intelligencer Extra). Washington, 1805.

First public broadside printing of Jefferson’s fifth State of the Union address, in which he addresses threats of coastal and border violation by Spain, Britain and France, with his promises to reorganize the militia and augment the navy. Relations with neighboring Native American tribes are also discussed, including several significant recent purchases, and he alludes to the explorations of the Lewis and Clark expedition. $4800.

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Considerations on Church-Authority. BOUND WITH: View of the Principles of Conduct. BOUND WITH: Serious Address

"THE MOST PROMINENT ENGLISH SPOKESMAN FOR RATIONAL THEOLOGY IN THE LATER 18TH CENTURY"

PRIESTLEY, Joseph. Considerations on Church-Authority. BOUND WITH: View of the Principles of Conduct. BOUND WITH: Serious Address. London, 1769. Three volumes bound in one.

First editions of three of Joseph Priestley's tracts on "rational theology," bound together in nicely rebacked contemporary calf covers. $2800.

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American Law Journal, Vol. V

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIFTH VOLUME OF THE FIRST AMERICAN LEGAL PERIODICAL

(JEFFERSON, Thomas) HALL, John E. The American Law Journal, Vol. V. Baltimore, 1814.

First edition of the fifth volume of the first American law periodical, with this volume largely dedicated to the conflict between Jefferson and Edward Livingston over the openness of a coastal Louisiana area known as the Batture. $2600.

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Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires

"HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, BOTH PHILOSOPHICALLY AND POLITICALLY"

VOLNEY, [Comte de]. [Constantin François de Chasseboeuf]. The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires. London, 1792.

First edition in English of Volney’s treatise on the origin, growth and decay of the social, political and religious institutions of ancient civilizations, with three engraved illustrations: frontispiece, folding map, and folding chart of the astrological heavens. $2500.

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