(Jefferson, Thomas)

NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA; WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1781, SOMEWHAT CORRECTED AND ENLARGED IN THE WINTER OF 1782, FOR THE USE OF A FOREIGNER OF DISTINCTION, IN ANSWER TO CERTAIN QUERIES PROPOSED BY HIM. [PARIS: FOR THE AUTHOR BY PHILIPPE-DENIS PIERRES,] 1782 [I.E., 1785]

8vo (7 ¾ x 5 in.; 19.8 x 12.6 cm). Full-page woodcut plan of "Madison's cave," folding letterpress table, manuscript deletion, likely in Jefferson's hand, on p. 5, contemporary French speckled calf, covers with gilt-roll frame, smooth spine gilt in compartments, plain endpapers, red-sprinkled edges, morocco label lost from spine with lettering still visible in blind, extremities rubbed and with some neat repair, very lightly shaken, half brown morocco slipcase, chemise