Lot 49 PROPERTY FROM A DIRECT DESCENDENT OF THOMAS JEFFERSON

JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. First Hot-Pressed Edition. Philadelphia: John Thompson, Printer for R.T. Rawle June 1801.

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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. First Hot-Pressed Edition. Philadelphia: John Thompson, Printer for R.T. Rawle June 1801.

Thick 8o 8 3/8 x 5 in. (210 x 125mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Jefferson, large folding engraved map of Virginia, woodcut of Mdison's Cave, folding plate and folding chart (map loose, browning). Contemporary calf, flat spine with red morocco label (hinges starting, rubbed, corners worn). Provenance: T.J. Jefferson Coolidge Jr., bookplate. Appendices include Charles Thomson's commentary; Jefferson's draught of a fundamental constitution for Virginia; Papers on the murder of Logan's family; Jefferson's first inaugural address, 4 March 1801. Howes J-78; Sabin 35903 (Rich: "best edition, having the appendix relating to the murder of Logan's family, printed separately in 1800, and other pieces not in the preceding editions").