Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 p.l., 391 p. 1 illus., tables; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 99.

Subject

1. Slavery -- Virginia
2. Virginia -- Social life
3. Virginia -- Description and travel, to 1800

Call number

1. *KF 1785 (Jefferson, T. Notes on the state of Virginia)

Note

1. Full page illustration, "An eye draught of Madison's cave," p. 35. Folded table of names of Indian tribes at p. 169. Appendix, p. 367-391: observations on the Notes, by Charles Thomson, secretary of Congress.
2. First edition, first issue: 200 copies printed for private distribution. The printing was finished May 10, 1785. cf. Writings of T.J.; ed. Ford, v. 4 (1894) p. 46.

Indexed in (note)

1. Sabin

Local note

1. Rare Book Copy 1: p. 327-366 wanting.
2. Rare Book Copy 1: Presentation copy from Jefferson to the abbé Morellet; with note by, and bookplate of, the latter.
3. Rare Book Copy 1: With ms. corrections on p. 315-317.
4. Rare Book Copy 1-2: Lenox Collection.
5. Rare Book Copy 2: Bound, by Hayday, in maroon morocco.
6. Rare Book Copy 2: With cancels of p. 51-54, 167-168, 181-184, 315-318, and possibly others.
7. Rare Book Copy 2 and Map Div. copy: To these copies are appended Jefferson's "Draught of a fundamental constitution for the commonwealth of Virginia" (14 p.), "Notes on the establisment [!] of a money unit, and of a coinage for the United States" (14 p.), and "An act for establishing religious freedom, passed in the Assembly of Virginia in the beginning of the year 1786" (4 p.). After p. 391 of Rare Book Copy 2 and at end of Map Div. copy is inserted the "Map of the country between Albermarle Sound, and Lake Erie", prepared by Jefferson for the French translation of the "Notes" (Paris, 1786) and engraved by S.J. Neele. cf. H.B. Tompkins, Bibliotheca Jeffersoniana, p. 63-67.
8. Map Div. copy: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.
9. Map Div. copy: Presentation copy inscribed "for Mr. Rittenhouse from Th. Jefferson." Also autograph of Elizabth. Sergeant on t.p.
10. Map Div. copy: Bound in leather and housed in clamshell box.

Author

1. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.

Title

1. Notes on the state of Virginia; written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him ...

Imprint

1. [Paris] 1782 [really 1785]

Indexed in:

1. Sabin 35894 Copy 1.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Research call number

1. *KF 1785 (Jefferson, T. Notes on the state of Virginia)
2. Map Div. 97-6327 [LHS 99; atlas cases]