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Item #47807 Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. 5 Volumes. Complete set. compiled, annotations.

Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. 5 Volumes. Complete set.

The Contents of Jefferson's Library Sowerby, E. Millicent, Compiled and Annotator. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. Originally published: Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959. 5 Vols. xv, [xviii-xxiv], 562; 443; 481; 568; ix, 442 pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777809; ISBN-10: 158477780X. Hardcover. New. $295. * Commissioned to honor Jefferson's 200th birthday, Sowerby's monumental bibliography recreates the list of books Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. It is based on Jefferson's personal catalogue and the 1839 catalogue of the Library of Congress (the first to incorporate Jefferson's books). Also known as the Sowerby Catalogue, this invaluable resource with extensive annotations is the most comprehensive and detailed bibliography of the largest and most important American library of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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