Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 1 September 1816

To Mathew Carey

Monticello. Sep. 1. 16.

Sir

Mr Correa has favored me with a copy of your catalogue of Dr Priestly’s library, on which I have found the articles underwritten, which I will pray you to forward to me, or such of them as remain on hand, to Richmond to the address of Messrs Gibson & Jefferson merchants there, who will pay the freight. I believe there are few weeks or days without a vessel sailing from Philadelphia for Richmond. so soon as you will be so good as to inform me of the amount of those on hand & forwarded, it shall be remitted to you. Accept the assurances of my continued esteem & respect.

Th: Jefferson

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 7. Bedae ecclesiastica historia. 18mo 0. D 75 c
23. the Lord’s prayer in 100. languages. 4to 3.
26. Metaphrasis psalmorum. à Duport. 12mo 1.
31. Priestley’s harmony of the Evangelists. Greek. 4to 5.D.
37. Van Dale super Aristaea. 4to 2.D.
40. Abercrombie on plants & trees. 2. v. 12mo 1.25
41. Bonnycastle’s Algebra. 12mo .50
52. Potter’s Mathematics 8vo 1.25
58. Aristotelis de poeticâ. Gr. Lat. .75
Anacreon à Barnes. Gr. Lat. 18mo .50
61. Buffier traité des premiers verités. 12mo .75
62. Bruckeri institutiones historiae Philos. 8vo 2.D.
 
71. Grotius’s Annals. Eng. 12mo 1.25
Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica Hickesii. 4to 3.50
78. Kusterus de verbis mediis. 12mo .50
82. Mair’s Tyro’s dictionary. 12mo .62½
86. Potter’s antiquities. 2. v. 8vo 4.
Portroyal Greek primitives. 8vo 1.75
91. Schrevelii Lexicon. 8vo 2.
Somneri Vocabularium Anglo-Sax. à Benson. 8vo 2.D.
92. Thucydides, Platonis, et Lysiae orationes. Gr. Lat. 8vo 1.75
93. Polydori Virgilii Angl. hist. 8vo 2.D.

RC (NjMoHP: Lloyd W. Smith Collection); with book list, clipped, supplied from PoC; addressed: “Mr Matthew Cary Bookseller Philadelphia”; franked; postmarked Milton, 4 Sept.; endorsed by Carey as received 8 Sept. and answered 12 Sept. PoC (DLC); on verso of Dft of TJ to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 27 Aug. 1816; endorsed by TJ.

The articles underwritten were drawn from the Catalogue of the Library of the late Dr. Joseph Priestley, containing Many very scarce and valuable Books, for sale by Thomas Dobson (Philadelphia, 1816). the lord’s prayer in 100. languages: Oratio Dominica … Nimirum, Plus Centum Linguis, Versionibus, aut Characteribus Reddita & Expressa (London, 1713). portroyal greek primitives: Claude Lancelot, Antoine Arnauld, and Pierre Nicole, The Primitives of the Greek Tongue … Translated from the French of Messieurs de Port Royal, with considerable Improvements, ed. and trans. Thomas Nugent (London, 1748).

Index Entries

  • Abercrombie, John; The Propagation and Botanical Arrangements of Plants and Trees search
  • A Harmony of the Evangelists (J. Priestley) search
  • Anacreon (Greek poet) search
  • Anacreon Teius, poeta lyricus (J. Barnes) search
  • Anglo-Saxon language; books on search
  • An Introduction to Algebra (J. Bonnycastle) search
  • Archæologia Græca: or the Antiquities of Greece (J. Potter) search
  • Aristotle; Ἀριστοτέλους περὶ ποιητικῆς. Aristotelis de Poetica (ed. T. Goulston) search
  • Arnauld, Antoine; The Primitives of the Greek Tongue search
  • A System of Practical Mathematics (J. Potter) search
  • Barnes, Joshua; Anacreon Teius, poeta lyricus search
  • Bede, Saint; Venerabilis Bedæ Presbyteri Ecclesiasticæ historiæ gentis Anglorum search
  • Benson, Thomas; Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum search
  • boats; transfer goods to and from Richmond search
  • Bonnycastle, John; An Introduction to Algebra search
  • books; biographical search
  • books; dictionaries search
  • books; of speeches search
  • books; on botany search
  • books; on grammar search
  • books; on history search
  • books; on mathematics search
  • botany; books on search
  • Brucker, Johann Jakob; Institutiones Historiae Philosophicae search
  • Buffier, Claude; Traité des premières veritez, et de la source de nos jugemens search
  • Carey, Mathew; and books for TJ search
  • Carey, Mathew; letters to search
  • Corrêa da Serra, José; and J. Priestley’s library search
  • Dale, Antonius van; Dissertatio super Aristea de LXX search
  • De Rebus Belgicis: or, the Annals, and History of the Low-Countrey-Warrs (H. Grotius) search
  • De Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum (L. Küster; ed. E. Leedes) search
  • Dissertatio super Aristea de LXX (A. van Dale) search
  • Duport, James; Δαβίδης ἔμμετρος, sive Metaphrasis Libri Psalmorum search
  • education; Latin search
  • English language; Anglo-Saxon (Old English) search
  • Gibson & Jefferson (Richmond firm); and books acquired by TJ search
  • Goulston, Theodore; editsἈριστοτέλους περὶ ποιητικῆς. Aristotelis de Poetica (Aristotle) search
  • grammar; study of search
  • Greece, ancient; scholarship on search
  • Greek language; study of search
  • Grotius, Hugo; De Rebus Belgicis: or, the Annals, and History of the Low-Countrey-Warrs search
  • Hickes, George; Institutiones Grammaticæ Anglo-Saxonicæ search
  • Institutiones Grammaticæ Anglo-Saxonicæ (G. Hickes) search
  • Institutiones Historiae Philosophicae (J. J. Brucker) search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
  • Küster, Ludolph; De Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum (ed. E. Leedes) search
  • Lancelot, Claude; The Primitives of the Greek Tongue search
  • Latin language; dictionaries search
  • Latin language; study of search
  • Leedes, Edward; editsDe Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum (L. Küster) search
  • Lexicon Manuale Græco-Latinum et Latino-Græcum (C. Schrevel) search
  • Lysias; Θουκυδίδου Πλάτωνος καὶ Λυσίου λόγοι ἐπιτάφιοι search
  • Mair, John; The Tyro’s Dictionary, Latin and English search
  • mathematics; algebra search
  • mathematics; books on search
  • Nicole, Pierre; The Primitives of the Greek Tongue search
  • Nugent, Thomas; as translator search
  • Oratio Dominica … Nimirum, Plus Centum Linguis, Versionibus, aut Characteribus Reddita & Expressa search
  • Plato; Θουκυδίδου Πλάτωνος καὶ Λυσίου λόγοι ἐπιτάφιοι search
  • Polydori Vergilii Historiae Anglicae (P. Vergil) search
  • Potter, John (Archbishop of Canterbury); Archæologia Græca: or the Antiquities of Greece search
  • Potter, John (mathematician); A System of Practical Mathematics search
  • Priestley, Joseph; A Harmony of the Evangelists search
  • Priestley, Joseph; library and scientific apparatus of search
  • religion; works on search
  • Richmond, Va.; boats transfer goods to and from search
  • Schrevel, Cornelius; Lexicon Manuale Græco-Latinum et Latino-Græcum search
  • Somner, William; Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum search
  • The Primitives of the Greek Tongue (A. Arnauld, C. Lancelot, and P. Nicole) search
  • The Propagation and Botanical Arrangements of Plants and Trees (J. Abercrombie) search
  • The Tyro’s Dictionary, Latin and English (J. Mair) search
  • Thucydides; Θουκυδίδου Πλάτωνος καὶ Λυσίου λόγοι ἐπιτάφιοι search
  • Traité des premières veritez, et de la source de nos jugemens (C. Buffier) search
  • Venerabilis Bedæ Presbyteri Ecclesiasticæ historiæ gentis Anglorum (Saint Bede) search
  • Vergil, Polydore; Polydori Vergilii Historiae Anglicae search
  • Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum (T. Benson and W. Somner) search
  • Δαβίδης ἔμμετρος, sive Metaphrasis Libri Psalmorum (J. Duport) search
  • Θουκυδίδου Πλάτωνος καὶ Λυσίου λόγοι ἐπιτάφιοι (Thucydides, Plato, and Lysias) search
  • Ἀριστοτέλους περὶ ποιητικῆς. Aristotelis de Poetica (Aristotle; ed. T. Goulston) search