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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Dec 4, 2018 | Christie's | London | Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art to Benefit Rugby School | 186 | $****** - ****** | JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Notes on the State of Virginia...Illustrated with A Map, including...Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. London: Printed for John Stockdale. |
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contemporary marginal annotations on two leaves.
First London edition, following the privately printed, virtually unobtainable first edition (Paris, 1782 [i.e. 1785]) and a poor French translation (Paris, 1786). This edition contains new accounts of events during and since the Revolution, and features the map engraved at Jefferson's request to incorporate the most up-to-date topographical data on the soon-to-be-opened Ohio Valley. Two of the three appendices are of considerable significance; these were issued as supplements with a few copies of the original edition, but are integral to this edition. Appendix II contains the full text of the proposed Virginia constitution, while Appendix III contains the Virginia act for establishing religious freedom, passed in 1786. This act was entirely drafted by Jefferson, who ‘rated it as second in importance only to the Declaration of Independence in such lists of his own achievements as he afterwards drew up’ (Dumas Malone, Jefferson the Virginian, pp. 279-280). ESTC T147402; Sabin 35896.
Full-page woodcut of ‘Madison's cave’ at C8v, several printed tables in the text, large folding table of Indian Tribes, large folding engraved map (see below), (lacking the final blank, a few stains heaviest in quire F). Contemporary calf (rebacked, portion of leather chipped from lower spine, boards detached).
