JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1846). Thomas Jefferson RANDOLPH (1792-1875), editor. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: F. Carr and Co., 1829.

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JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1846). Thomas Jefferson RANDOLPH (1792-1875), editor. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: F. Carr and Co., 1829.

4 volumes, 8° (230 x 146 mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece Vol. IV, facsimile letters Vol. IV. (Some spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards, edges untrimmed, printed paper spine labels. Provenance: Harry L. Wechsler (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jefferson’s grandson, was born at Monticello, and published the first collection of Jefferson’s papers.

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JEFFERSON, Thomas. A collection of 16 newspapers (each 4 pages) with material by and about Jefferson, published 1803-1806, during Jefferson’s presidency. Newspapers include the Boston Independent Chronicle, the New York Herald, and New York’s Republican Watchtower, and content includes pieces concerning Jefferson’s alleged relationship with Sally Hemings, a report on the Lewis and Clark expedition, extracts from Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, and several messages and proclamations by Jefferson concerning public lands, the killing of a U.S. citizen by a British vessel in New York harbor, an Indian treaty, Barbary pirates, and other topics. – Message from the President of the United States, accompanying A Statement of Expenditures from the 1st of January, 1797. Washington City: William Duane and Son, 1803. Small 2°. Original paper-backed boards; printed paper label on spine.

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