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Table of Contents of
Thomas Jefferson's Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order

edited by
James Gilreath and Douglas L. Wilson

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CONTENTS



Foreword                                                      vii
Introduction                                                   1
    
Selected Reading List                                    12
    
Editorial Note                           .               13
                                               
	           

Catalogue
I.   Memory

      
 1. Antient History                                      17
      
 2. Modern History-Foreign                               21
      
 3. Modern History-British                               27
      
 4. Modern History-American                              31
      
 5. History-Ecclesiastical                               34
      
 6. Natural Philosophy                                   35
      
 7. Agriculture                                          36
      
 8. Chemistry                                            39
      
 9. Surgery                                              40
     
10. Medicine                                             40
     
11. Animals-Anatomy                                      44
     
12. Animals-Zoology                                      44
     
13. Botany                                               46
     
14. Mineralogy                                           47
     
15. Occupations of Man. Technical Arts                   48

II. Philosophy

     
16. Ethics                                               52
            Moral Philosophy                             52
            Law of Nature and Nations                    56
     
17. Religion                                             58
     
18. Jurisprudence-Equity                                 64
     
19. Jurisprudence-Common Law                             65
     
20. Jurisprudence-Law-Merchant                           74
     
21. Jurisprudence-Law-Maritime                           75
     
22. Jurisprudence. Law-Ecclesiastical                    76
     
23. Jurisprudence. Foreign Law                           77
     
24. Politics                                             79
     
25. Mathematics. Pure. Arithematic                       93
     
26. Mathematics. Pure. Geometry                          94
     
27. Physico-Mathematics. Mechanics, Statics, Dynamics,
         Pneumatics, Phonics, Optics                     95
     
28. Astronomy                                            96
     
29. Geography                                            98

III. Fine Arts

     
30. Architecture                                        108
     
31. Gardening, Painting, Sculpture                      109
     
32. Music                                               110
     
33. Poetry. Epic                                        111
     
34. Romance. Tales-Fables                               113
     
35. Pastorals, Odes, Elegies                            115
     
36. Didactic                                            118
     
37. Tragedy                                             120
     
38. Comedy                                              121
     
39. Dialogue-Epistolary                                 122
     
40. Logic, Rhetoric, Orations                           123
     
41. Criticism. Theory                                   125
     
42. Criticism. Bibliography                             126
     
43. Criticism. Languages                                127
     
44. Polygraphical                                       132

Appendix

Some pages from the printed catalog of 1815             134
			

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