Jefferson's Memorandum Books. Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826. 2 Vols.
Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. lv, 807, ix, 808-1624pp., 4 plates per volume. Original black cloth with blind-stamped initials on covers, gilt lettering and ruling on spines; in original gray dustjackets with blue lettering on spine. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series.
"Among the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this volume offers the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life: his encounters with friends and business associates, the state of his health, the building and furnishing of his homes, the assembling of his library, and the stocking of his wine cellar. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about the prices and availability of commodities of the period. In addition, they provide abundant evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and of his insatiable curiosity, what he described as his "canine appetite for learning." (Publisher)
DustjacketsWith some light wear, small chips, and sunning along edges. Cover of volume one with few small stains. Good to very good condition. Item #55497
ISBN: 0691047197
Price: $225.00