Jefferson, Thomas

[caption title:] An Act for establishing Religious Freedom, passed in the Assembly of Virginia in the beginning of the year 1786. [Appendix from Notes on the State of Virginia. Paris: for the author by Philippe-Denis Pierres, 1782 (i.e. 1785)]

8vo (7 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.; 200 x 118 mm), 4 pages, within a collection of treatises on the freedom of religion, as listed below; some light dampstaining on other titles. Nineteenth-century tree calf, spine gilt; extremities rubbed.

some light dampstaining on other titles, extremities rubbed.
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An extraordinary survival, this is one of the four appendixes added by Jefferson to some of the 200 already-printed copies of his Notes on Virginia, intended for presentation. The present example was gathered by the Duke de Luynes (possibly Charles Marie d’Albert de Luynes, 1783-1839).

The order of titles is as follows:

J. Nachet. De la Liberté Religieuse en France. Paris: chez Landois et Bigot, 1830. 8vo; dampstain in upper portion of first half. — [Thomas Jefferson]. An Act for establishing Religious Freedom, passed in the Assembly of Virginia in the beginning of the year 1786. 4 pp. — Liberté Religieuse. (No. 1-2) Culte non Salarié par le Gouvernement. [Paris:] H. Fournier, no date. — Chambre de Pairs de France, Session de 1825 … Opinion de M. le Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Sur le project de loi relatif au sacrilège. No imprint. — Lanjuinais. Les Officialités supprimées par la Loi, Rétablies par des Evêques. Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1820. — Lanjuinais. Études Biographiques et Littéraires sur Antoine Arnaud, Pierre Nicole, et Jacques Necker. Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1823. — Nouvelles Réflexions sur l’Ordonnance du 16 Juin 1828, concernant les Petits Séminaires. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1828.