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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1794.
8o (210 x 125mm). Engraved folding map tipped to title page; engraved folding plate. Modern half-morocco, marbled boards, red morocco lettering piece, gilt.
Second American edition. Jefferson's famous account of the natural, economic and political conditions of Virginia, written in defense of the Comte de Buffon's assertions that natural life had deteriorated in its transplantation from Europe to the New World. The work contains some of Jefferson's most impassioned and controversial statements about slavery and race relations. Jefferson doubted blacks and whites would ever be able to live together as free citizens in the United States: "Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race." Evans 27162; Howes J78.
8o (210 x 125mm). Engraved folding map tipped to title page; engraved folding plate. Modern half-morocco, marbled boards, red morocco lettering piece, gilt.
Second American edition. Jefferson's famous account of the natural, economic and political conditions of Virginia, written in defense of the Comte de Buffon's assertions that natural life had deteriorated in its transplantation from Europe to the New World. The work contains some of Jefferson's most impassioned and controversial statements about slavery and race relations. Jefferson doubted blacks and whites would ever be able to live together as free citizens in the United States: "Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race." Evans 27162; Howes J78.