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Item 37988Notes on the State of Virginia.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Price: $2,000

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, November 12, 1794. Stated Second American Edition. Although bibliographies call for a frontispiece folding map of Virginia (i.e. Samuel Lewis's Map of Virginia, originally engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie), Carey's own Catalogue of Books, Pamphletes, Maps and Prints (Philadelphia: 1795) advertises his edition..... Read More Item Details for Notes on the State of Virginia Add to Wish List

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Item 376330Report of the Secretary of State, on the Subject of Establishing a Uniformity in the Weights, Measures and Coins of...

Jefferson, Thomas.

Price: $45,000

New York: Printed by F. Childs and J. Swaine, 1790. First octavo edition: thick paper copy. Thomas Jefferson's famous report as Secretary of State on the uniformity of a system of weights and measures is a primary document in the establishment of the federal government and in the implementation of..... Read More Item Details for Report of the Secretary of State, on the Subject of Establishing a Uniformity in the Weights, Measures and Coins of the United States Add to Wish List

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Item 248187Description d'une oreille de charrue, offrant le moins de resistance possible, et dont l'execution est aussi facile que certaine. In...

Jefferson, Thomas.

Price: $2,500

Paris: 1802. Thomas Jefferson's article on the design of his moldboard plow, one of his most important and enduring contributions to agricultural technology. First published in 1799 in the TRANSACTIONS of the American Philosophical Society, the article was reprinted in this French publication in 1802. The accompanying plate shows the..... Read More Item Details for Description d'une oreille de charrue, offrant le moins de resistance possible, et dont l'execution est aussi facile que certaine. In "Annales du Museum National d'Histoire naturelle. Quatrieme Cahier." Add to Wish List

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