Combrun on brewing: English brewer Michael Combrune published The Theory and Practice of Brewing in 1762. The work promoted the application of scientific methods, including the use of thermometers, to the brewing trade. A revised edition was printed in London in 1804 (DNB description begins H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, In Association with The British Academy, From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000, Oxford, 2004, 60 vols. description ends ; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1206).

Adams’s introdn to practical astronomy: “An Introduction to Practical Astronomy” was the title of the fourth essay in George Adams, Jr.’s Astronomical and Geographical Essays. W. and S. Jones of London offered the essay for sale as a separate title, sewed, with two plates, for two shillings and six pence. The scientific instrument firm had acquired copies of and copyright to several of Adams’s works following his death in 1795, with partner William Jones subsequently revising and publishing new editions of Adams’s writings. To increase business, the firm included catalogs of their wares in the back of these volumes (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends Nos. 3718, 3797; DNB description begins H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, In Association with The British Academy, From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000, Oxford, 2004, 60 vols. description ends , s.v. “Jones, William (bap. 1762, d. 1831)”; s.v. “Adams family”; “A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, Made and Sold by W. and S. Jones, [No. 30,] Lower Holborn, London,” printed in Adams, Astronomical and Geographical Essays, 5th ed., corrected and enlarged by William Jones [London, 1803]).

Olmedilla’s map: Mapa Geográfico de América Meridional by Spanish cartographer and engraver Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla was initially printed in Madrid in 1775. The map was soon after suppressed by Spanish officials, however, allegedly over concerns that it did not support Spain’s territorial claims in America. TJ managed to acquire a copy in 1786, spending “from ten to twenty guineas” for it. He subsequently forwarded his copy to English engraver William Faden to be duplicated for Congress and government offices. Faden’s edition of the map did not appear until 1799. TJ never recovered his copy of the original (Thomas R. Smith, “Cruz Cano’s Map of South America, Madrid, 1775: Its Creation, Adversities and Rehabilitation,” Imago Mundi, 20 [1966], 49-78; Vol. 10:211-17; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 3857).