1. One that can be identified is Jean de La Bruyère's Les Caractères, 2 vols., Paris, 1768 (Catalogue of JQA's Books).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/