Description: If you are using the Ebay APP and do not see the "Condition Description", please go to the "About this Item" section and hit the arrow to the right. This will lead you to the "Condition Description". Thank you! super rare, (1817) New Translation of Volney's Ruins; or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires. vol 1. Leather200 pp. 6" x 3 3/4". This volume consist of xx chapters, and the trans. preface is dated 1802. Though not credited, research points to Thomas Jefferson as the translator of this volume. This is the 2nd edition of this translation by the French Publisher, Levrault, which is prior to the 1st American edition of 1822, as well prior to the the death of Volney in 1820. Wikipedia: According to the evidence discovered by the French researcher Gilbert Chinard (1881-1972), Jefferson translated the invocation plus the first 20 chapters of the 1802 Paris edition of Volney's Ruins.[5][6] These first 20 chapters represent a review of human history from the point of view of a post-Enlightenment philosopher. Presumably, Jefferson then became too occupied with the 1800 Presidential campaign and didn't have time to finish the last four chapters of the book. Since Jefferson did not have time to complete the translation project, the last four chapters were translated by Joel Barlow, an American land speculator and poet living in Paris. Barlow's name then became associated with the entire translation, further obscuring Jefferson's role in the project.[8]. condition:Scuffed leather, worn corners and edges of boards, remnants of adhesive label to front cover, nice paste-on of a portrait of the author to front inner board, faint writing/name to front free page, and ink name to the top half title of an Ozias Perkins, a little cracking to rear hinge, loss of rear end-page, tear across the face of the last page of text p. 199/200, torn rear board encasing page, foxing. see pics and thanks! I strive to describe the item accurately, and provide photos to help convey the condition. If you purchase the item and it is not what you expected, please let me know and I will do my best to resolve the issue. Thanks for your interest in this item!Will ship priority usps, and will require a signature upon delivery. seller inv # bx white shelf
Price: 1000 USD
Location: Easthampton, Massachusetts
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Year Printed: 1817
Topic: Historical
Binding: Leather
Author: Volney, Trans. Thomas Jefferson
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: levrault
Place of Publication: Paris
