Descriptive Catalogue Part 4: P-R

[Half title:] BIBLIOTHEQUE / PORTATIVE / D'ARCHITECTURE / ÉLÉMENTAIRE, / A L'USAGE DES ARTISTES / Divisée en six Parties. / SECONDE PARTIE. / CONTENANT / L'Architecture de PALLADIO. [Title page:] ARCHITECTURE / DE / PALLADIO, / CONTENANT / Les cinq Ordres d'Architecture, suivant / cet Auteur, ses observations sur la maniere /de bien bâtir, & son Traité des grands / Chemins & des Ponts, tant de charpente / que de maçonnerie. / NOUVELLE ÉDITION

/ A PARIS, RUE DAUPHINE, / Chez JOMBERT, Libraire du Roi pour l'Artillerie / & le Génie, à l'Image Notre-Dame. / M. DCC. LXIV.

8vo. Half title ( [i] ); engraved frontispiece (1 leaf ); title page ( [iii] ); advertisement (v-vii ); table of contents ( viii-x ); life of Palladio ( xi-xii ); preface (xiii-xvi); text, with 75 engraved plates inserted, of which 1 is double ([1]-149); approbation (150); privilege of the king (150-51); registration (152).

For information about Palladio, see No. 92a. This book is Part II of the Bibliothèque portative d'architecture élémentaire . . . which Charles-Antoine Jombert began publishing in 1764 at Paris. For further information on the Bibliothéque and the other three parts that were published, see Nos. 46, 111C, and 123a.

Sowerby notes that Jefferson wrote on the flyleaf of his copy

D prime cost supposed 15 = 2.75 worth in the US 4.81

That copy was sold to Congress. Jefferson ordered the entire Bibliothéque for the library in the section on "Architecture" of the want list, but there is no record of its having been received. The present copy on the University's shelves has been recently acquired, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. M *NA2515.P253.1764 Sowerby 4215

Vol. I. THE / ARCHITECTURE / OF / A. PALLADIO; / IN FOUR BOOKS. / CONTAINING, / A short TREATISE of the FlVE ORDERS, and the most / necessary Observations concerning all Sorts of BUILDING, / AS ALSO / The different Construction of PRIVATE and PUBLICK HOUSES, / HIGH-WAYS, BRIDGES, MARKET-PLACES, XYSTES, and / TEMPLES, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. / To which are added several Notes and Observations made by INIGO JONES, / never printed before. / Revis'd, Designld, and Publish'd / By GIACOMO LEONI, a Venetian; Architect to his most / SERENE HIGHNESS, the / ELECTOR PALATINE. /

/ LONDON: / Printed by John Watts, for the AUTHOR. / M DCC XV.

Folio. Engraved portrait of Palladio (1 leaf); engraved frontispiece (leaf); title page (1 leaf); biography of Palladio (1 unnumbered p.); translator's preface (3 unnumbered pp.); Palladio's preface (2 leaves); list of subscribers ( 1 leaf ); text, with plates I-VII and XXXVII inserted (1-54); title page in French (1 leaf); biography of Palladio in French (1 unnumbered p.); translator's preface in French (3 unnumbered pp.); [new pagination:] Palladio's preface in French (1-3); text in French ( a33); title page in Italian (1 leaf); biography of Palladio in Italian (1 leaf); Palladio's preface in Italian (i-ii); text in Italian (iii-xxx); plates VIII-XLIII, except for XXXVII which is inserted in English text.

Vol. II. THE / ARCHITECTURE / OF / A. PALLADIO; / BOOK the SECOND. / CONTAINING / The DESIGNS of several Houses which he has Built / either in TOWN, or in the COUNTRY. / WITH / Some other DESIGNS of the Manner of Building amongst the / GREEKS and ROMANS. / Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd / By GIACOMO LEONI, . . . / . . . /
Folio. Title page ( 1 leaf ); dedication in Italian ( 2 leaves ); text ( 1-37); title page in French ( 1 leaf ); [new pagination: ] text in French ( [ 1]-23); title page in Italian (1 leaf); text in Italian (i-xxi); 61 engraved plates.

Vol. III. THE / ARCHITECTURE / . . . /BOOK the THIRD. / Wherein is treated / Of Ways, Streets, Bridges, Squares, Basilicas or Courts / of Justice, Xistes, or Places of Exercise, &c. / The Whole Re-vis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd / . . .
Folio. Title page (1 leaf); preface (1-3); text (4-37); title page in French (1 leaf); [new pagination:] preface in French (1-2); text in French (2-23); title page in Italian (1 leaf); dedication in Italian (1 leaf); list of new subscribers in English (1 leaf); preface in Italian (i-ii); text in Italian (ii-xxii); 22 engraved plates of which 1 is double.

Vol. IV. THE / ARCHITECTURE / . . . / BOOK the FOURTH. / PART the FIRST. / Wherein is treated / Of the Antient Temples in Rome, and some others to / be seen in Italy, and other Parts of Eu- rope / . . .
Folio. Title page (1 leaf); preface ([1]-2); list of new subscribers (leaf); text (3-33); title page in French (1 leaf); [new pagination:] preface in French (1-2); text in French (2-20); title page in Italian (1 leaf); dedication in Italian (1 leaf); preface in Italian (i-ii); text in Italian (ii-xx); 54 engraved plates, of which 7 are double and mostly multinumbered.

Vol. V. THE / ARCHITECTURE / . . . / BOOK the FOURTH. / PART the SECOND. / . . . / CUM PRIVILEGIO.
Folio. Title page ( 1 leaf ); Leoni's preface to the reader ( 1 leaf ); text (1-17); table of contents (4 unnumbered pp.); license (1 unnumbered p.); title paze in French (1 leaf); [new pagination:] text in French (1-12); title page in Italian (1 leaf); text in Italian (i-xii); 50 engraved plates, numbered LV-CIV, of which 7 are double and mostly multinumbered.

The plates were all drawn by Leoni and were engraved by Thomas Cole (perhaps I. Cole who flourished ca.1720); John Harris (No. 48); Bernard Picart (1632-1721), a pupil of his father and of Sébastien Le Clerc (No. 69) who worked in Holland where he became one of the best of the engravers during the first part of the eighteenth century; and Van der Gucht ( No. 37).

The subscribers listed in the first volume included one attorney, one carpenter, one engineer, and two booksellers. Sir Christopher Wren was the only architect mentioned. Those mentioned in the third volume included two bricklayers, two carpenters, four clerks of His Majesty's works, one draughtsman, two gardeners, one joiner, four masons, one stone carver, and one surveyor. The earl of Burlington and James Gibbs were in this volume. In the fourth volume the new subscribers included two booksellers, one bricklayer, four carpenters, one clerk of His Majesty's works, and two masons.

Andrea Palladio (1508 or 1518-80), born in Vicenza, became one of the most eminent architects, and a major influence in the architectural field, especially in England and America, for a very long period of time. His I quattro libri del' architettura was first published in Venice in 1570 and has since been translated into many languages and has had many editions. For portraits of Palladio, see Plates XCII and XCIII.

For information on Inigo Jones, see No. 59a.

Giacomo Leoni (1686-1746) redrew all the plates in this book. He is supposed to have come to England for that purpose at the instigation of the earl of Burlington, and he remained there until his death.

Nicholas du Bois was the translator of the text into both French and English. He says in his preface in the first volume:

Among those great Masters of Civil Architecture, Palladio whose Work I have undertaken to translate, is doubtless the most eminent. If therefore the Book of that Learned Man has been admir'd all over Europe, tho his Designs have only been coursly [ sic ] engrav'd in Wooden Cuts; will any one deny that the generous Foreigner, who has spent several years in preparing the Designs, from which the following Cuts have been engrav'd, makes a very considerable Present to the Publick? . . .

Every one may rest satisfied that the two new Translations publish'd in this Volume, and join'd to the Italian Original, are very faithful, and that I have left nothing unattempted to make them as nerfect as could be wish'd and answerable to the Beauty of the Cuts, with which they are attended, and which have been engrav'd by the best Masters....

It were an endless thing to enumerate all the absurdities, which many of our Builders introduce every day into their way of building. I shall be con- tented to apply to them what the ingenious Mr. Campbell says of the Architecture of Boronimi [sic], in his Vitravius Britannicus.... They are, says he, chimerical beauties, where the Parts are without proportions, solids without their true bearing, heaps of materials without strength, excessive ornaments without grace. I add, and a ridiculous mixture of Gothick and Roman, without Judgment, Taste, or Symmetry ....

I hope this work will meet with a general approbation: if those, who have no skill in Architecture, read it, their curiosity will perhaps move them to learn an Art, which several great Princes did not think unworthy of their application. Those who begin to study Architecture, and whose taste is not come yet to its perfection, will be cur'd of their wrong notions; and finding in this Work a method no less experienc'd than beautiful and safe, they will learn by it to work with good success, and without any fear of being mistaken. As for those Learned architects, who are better known by the reputation of their works, than by any thing I could say of them, tis not doubted but they will be glad to see Palladio come out under a form more suitable to the nobleness of his Designs, and the great Esteem the Publick has always had for him.

Architect, and one of his Majesty's Engineers. Leoni tells of the work of executing the drawings and his failure to get permission to use Jones's notes in his preface to the last volume:

After five Years continual Labour, I have at last happily finish'd the Edition. . . . I have not only made all the draughts my self . . . but also made so many necessary Corrections with respect to shading, dimensions, ornaments, &c. that this Work may in some sort be rather consider'd as an Original, than an Improvement. As for the Notes of the excellent Inigo Jones, I was not able to get them from the Gentleman in whose possession they are, either by my own intreaty or the intercession of my Friends: But if any persons, who have a greater interest with him can obtain this favour, I promise to print them with the utmost exactness, and to distribute the Copies to all my Subscribers gratis.

Kimball (p. 97) says a copy of this edition of Palladio, the first with the Leoni plates, was in Jefferson's hands before 1783. There is no question that Palladio was a major influence in Jefferson's architectural life, but since the second edition of the Leoni Palladio may be more easily connected by documents to Jefferson's designs, the extent of that influence will be discussed in No. 92b.

This edition of the Leoni Palladio was in the library Jefferson to Congress. It was not ordered for the University. The library's present copy was acquired during the twentieth century.

M *NA25l7.P3.17l5 Sowerby 4175

Vol. I. THE / ARCHITECTURE / OF / A. PALLADIO; / IN FOUR BOOKS / CONTAINING / A short TREATISE of the FIVE ORDERS, and the most / necessary Observations concerning all Sorts of / BUILDING; / AS ALSO / The different Construction of PRIVATE and PUBLICK HOUSES, / HIGH-WAYS, BRIDGES, MARKET-PLACES, XYSTES, and / TEMPLES, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. / Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd / By GIACOMO LEONI, a Venetian; Architect to His most / SERENE HIGHNESS, the Late /ELECTOR PALATINE. / Translated from the Italian Original. / In TWO VOLUMES. /

The SECOND EDITION. / LONDON, / Printed by JOHN DARBY for the AUTHOR, and all the Plates by / JOHN VANTACK. M. DCC. XXI.

and

THE / ARCHITECTURE / OF / A. PALLADIO; / BOOK the SECOND. / CONTAINING / The DESIGNS of several Houses which he has / Built either in TOWN, or in the COUNTRY. / WITH / Some other DESIGNS of the Manner of Building amongst the / GREEKS and ROMANS. / Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd / By GIACOMO LEONI, a Venetian; Architect to His Most / SERENE HIGHNESS, the Late / ELECTOR PALATINE. / Translated from the Italian Original. / Printed for the AUTHOR.
Folio. Engraved frontispiece ( 1 leaf ); title page ( 1 leaf ); dedication ( 1 leaf); list of subscribers and errata (1 leaf); Leoni's preface (1 unnumbered p. ); biography of Palladio ( 1 unnumbered p. ); engraved portrait of Palladio (1 leaf); Palladio's preface (2 leaves); text, with 43 engraved plates inserted ([1]-54); title page ([55]); text, with 61 engraved plates inserted (57-93).

bound with

Vol. II. THE /ARCHITECTURE / . . . /BOOK the THIRD./ Wherein is Treated of / Ways, Streets, Bridges, Squares, Basilicas or Courts / of Justice, Xistes or Places of Exercise, &c. / The Whole Revis'd and

Folio. Title page (1 leaf); preface (1-3); text with 22 engraved plates, of which 1 is double, inserted (4-37); title page ( [39] ); preface (41-42); text with 104 engraved plates, of which 14 are double and mostly multinumbered, inserted (43-90); table of contents (2 leaves).

Although the title page says "all the Plates by JOHN VANTACK," it clearly means they were printed by him, since they are identical with those in No. 92a.

The subscription list includes one apothecary, two attorneys, four booksellers, three bricklayers, five carpenters, one clerk of the works, two doctors, an order for twelve copies from the draughtsman to the office of His Majesty's Ordnance, one ecclesiastic, four engineers, six joiners, three masons, thirteen merchants, one pattern drawer, one plasterer, one printseller, one schoolmaster, and one surveyor.

In this second edition of the Leoni Palladio the text has been considerably rearranged, with the French and Italian versions omitted. The English text is the same as that in the 1715 edition, but it has been reset. Leoni's preface makes no reference to the notes of Inigo Jones.

Palladio, when describing the Villa Emo, says that "people may go under shelter every where about this House, which is one of the most considerable conveniencies that ought to be desir'd in a Country-house" (I,82). This was a statement that Jefferson put into practice in at least three instances-at Monticello, at Edgemont, and at the University of Virginia. At the University he mav very well have derived the form of the arcades of the Ranges from Palladio as well (see No. 87), and we know that he checked the proportions of the arches against Palladio in his specifications for the arcades. See "Operations at & for the College," a manuscript notebook in Jefferson's hand, p. 14, U. Va. Library.

Jefferson ordered the capitals for Pavilions II, III, and V at the University from Italy and specified that they be carved after particular plates in 's Palladio, 1721 ( see plates XCIV-CII ). Note: p255.n2 Since the order at Pavilion II is based on Palladio's plates of the temple of Fortuna Virilis, it is reasonable to suppose that the entablature for Pavilion IX which is based on the same order, is also derived from Palladio. Even the order for Pavilion VII is derived from Palladio via Fréart de Chambray (No. 46).

Jefferson also ordered the capitals for the columns of the Rotunda from Italy, again citing Palladio as the model. Note: p265.n3 At the time of the design of the Rotunda, the best reference available to Jefferson concerning the Pantheon, which he used as his precedent as he notes on his drawing of the plan for the dome room (N-331 ), was 's Palladio , 1721. Note: p265.n4

These many uses of Palladio at the University of Virginia hardly substantiate the statement that "from Morris [No. 87] came practically as many designs as from Palladio." Note: p265.n5

One has only to add the many other allusions to Palladio, and especially to the Villa Rotunda, in Jefferson's oeuvre to begin to under- stand the strong underlying Palladian basis in his design vocabulary, a basis which can hardly be too much emphasized.

The case for arguing that this edition of Palladio was the one recorded by Kean as being in the University's collection in 1825, though physically then "at Monticello," rests on the certainty, as noted above, that this was one of the editions used during the construction of the University. The volumes apparently never got back from Monticello because they do not appear in the 1828 Catalogue. The copy now in the library was the gift of Thomas Nelson Page.

U. Va. *NA25l7.P3.1721

Vol. I. THE / ARCHITECTURE / OF / A. PALLADIO; / IN FOUR BOOKS. / CONTAINING / A short TREATISE of the FlVE ORDERS, and/ the most necessary Observations concerning / all sorts of BUILDING: / AS ALSO / The different Construction of PRIVATE and PUBLICK HOUSES, / HIGH-WAYS, BRIDGES, MARKET-PLACES, XYSTES, and / TEMPLES, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. / Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd / By GIACOMO LEONI, a Venetian, / Architect to His Most SERENE HIGHNESS, the Late / ELECTOR PALATINE. / Translated from the Italian Original. / THE THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED. /With NOTES and REMARKS of / INIGO JONES:/ Now first taken from his Original Manuscript in Worcester College Library, Oxford. / AND ALSO, / An APPENDIX, containing the ANTIQUITIES of ROME. / Written by A. PALLADIO. / And a DISCOURSE of the FIRES of the Ancients. /Never before Translated. / IN TWO VOLUMES.

/ LONDON: / Printed for A. WARD, in Little-Britain; S. BIRT, in Ave-Mary-Lane; D. BROWNE, / without Temple-Bar; C. DAVIS, in Pater-noster-Row; T. OSBORNE in / Gray's-lnn; and A. MILLAR, against St. Clement's Church in the Strand. / M. DCC. XLII.

and

THE / ARCHITECTURE / OF / A. PALLADIO; / BOOK the SECOND. / CONTAINING/The DESIGNS of several Houses which he has / Built either in TOWN, or in the COUNTRY / WITH / Some other DESIGNS of the Manner of Building among/the GREEKS and ROMANS. / Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd / By GIACOMO LEONI, a Venetian, Architect to His Most / SERENE HIGHNESS, the Late / ELECTOR PALATINE. / Translated from the ITALIAN Original. / With NOTES, by INIGO JONES. / . .
and

THE / ARCHITECTURE / . . . / BOOK the THIRD. / Wherein is Treated of / Ways, Streets, Bridges, Squares, Basilicas or Courts / of Justice, Xistes or Places of Exercise &c. /The Whole Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd / . . . / VOL. I.
Folio. Engraved frontispiece (1 leaf); two-color title page ([i]); advertisement (iii); Leoni's preface to the second edition and biographical note on Palladio (iv); engraved portrait of Palladio (1 leaf); Palladio's preface (v-vii); text (1-37); Jones's notes (3 S 40); 53 engraved plates; title page Book II ([41]); text (43-69); Jones's notes (70-72); 61 engraved plates; title page, Book III ([73]); preface (75-77); text (78-102): Jones's notes ( 10R-4);22 engraved plates.

Vol. II. THE / ARCHITECTURE / . . . / BOOK the FOURTH. / Wherein is Treated / Of the Ancient Temples in Rome, and some others / to be seen in Italy, and other parts of Europe. / . . . / VOLUME the SECOND. / . .
and

Folio. Title page, Book IV ([1]); preface (3-4); text (5-41); Jones's notes (42-53); table of contents (54-56); 104 engraved plates; title page, Appendix ([57]); note to reader ([58]); text (59-100).

At last it was possible for Leoni to include in this edition the notes left by Inigo Jones, for:

THE late Dr. CLARKE, Member of Parliament for the University of Oxford, being possess'd of an old Edition of 'S Architecture, (on which were wrote, by the Famous INIGO JONES, Notes and Remarks on the Plates;) bequeath'd it, with the rest of his Library, to Worcester-College. The Proprietors being inform'd of this, apply'd to the President of the said College, for Liberty to get a Copy of those Notes and Remarks Notes and Remarks from the Manuscript-Copy of INIGO JONES. Some few of these are placed in the Side-margin, and the rest (which make several Sheets) are added at the end of each Book. This, no doubt, will be esteemed a very great Advantage to this Edition, by all who are Lovers of Architecture, and have a value for the Memory of the Celebrated Architect who made the Remarks. [I, iii]

As for the appendix, we are told: "AT the end of the Second Volume is added, by way of Appendix, a Tract written by A. PALLADIO, intitled, The Antiquities of Rome, &c. now first translated from the Italian" (I, iii) .

Palladio says of Rome:

The consideration that almost every body is highly desirous to know'and enquire into the Antiquities and sumptuous Works of this most celebrated City, have incited me to compile this small Treatise, in the concisest manner possible, out of the best ancient and modern Writers, who have treated this Subject at large.... Read therefore this new Work of mine over and over, if you are desirous to taste that exquisite and amazing pleasure, which is to be reap'd from a perfect Knowledge of so great a City as Rome, and so famous for her magnificent Structures, Nobility, and Renown. [II, 58]

The text of the Four Books, though reset, is identical with the English text of both the 1715 and 1721 editions. The plates are also the same. The remarks of Inigo Jones are mostly corrections of dimensions or usages of classical elements by Palladio. It is said Jones traveled about the Vicentine area carrying his copy of Palladio with him as a reference.

Kimball (p. 97) says Jefferson probably had a copy of this edition before 1769. That copy was sold to Congress. It was not ordered for the University. The library's present set is a recent acquisition, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

M *NA25l7.P3.1742 Sowerby 4147

LES QVATRE LIVRES/ DE L'ARCHITECTVRE /D'ANDRÉ PALLADIO. / Mis en François; / Dans lesquels, / a prés vn petit Traité des / cinq Ordres, auec quelques-/vnes des plus necessaires ob-/seruations pour bien bastir, / Il parle de la construction des / maisons particulieres, des grand / chemins, des Ponts, des Pla-/ces publiques, des Xystes, / des Basiliques, & des / Temples.
Folio. Title page (1 leaf); translator's note (1 leaf); text with many woodcut illustrations (1-329) .

It should be noted that the illustrations are woodcuts and not engravings as stated in Sowerby.

For information on Roland Fréart de Chambray, the translator, see No. 46. His estimation of Palladio was high: &lduqo:Je diray donc seulement tout en un mot, auec le consentement uniuersel des intelligens, qu'il est premier entre ceux de sa profession, & qu'on peut tenir ce Liure comme un Palladium de la uraye Architecture" (Translator's note). This translation of Palladio by Fréart de Chambray was first issued in this edition of 1650 (see Plates CIII-CVI; compare Plates CV and CVI with Plate XCIV ).

Jefferson sold his copy to Congress. Kimball (p. 98) says it had entered his library between 1785 and 1789. It was not ordered for the University, whose present copy has recently entered its collections, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

M *NA2515.P254.1650 Sowerby 4181

I CINQUI ORDINI / DELL'ARCHITETTURA / DI ANDREA PALLADIO / ILLUSTRATI / E RIDOTTI A METODO FACILE / UMILIATI / A S. E. IL SIG. CAVALIERE / D. DOMENICO ANTONIO DI SOUZA / COUTINHO / INVIATO STRAORD. E MINISTRO PLENIP. DI S. M. F. / PRESSO S. M. IL RE DI SARDEGNA /&c. &c. &c. / DA GIO. BATTISTA CIPRIANI

/ SANESE / ROMA / CON PERMESSO / 1801
and

SCELTA / DI ORNATI / ANTICHI.E MODERNI / DISEGNATI ED INCISI / DA / GIO. BATT. CIPRIANI
4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf ); dedication (1 leaf ); note (1 leaf ); text (1-24); 25 engraved plates; title page (1 leaf); 30 engraved plates.

For information about Palladio, see No. 92a. Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785 or 1790) was born in Florence but died in London where he had studied and worked. He was a pupil of Bartolozzi and became a member of the Royal Academy, for which he designed the certificate of admission. He restored, or was in charge of the restoration of, the Rubens ceiling in the Banqueting House, Whitehall.

The posthumously issued Cinque ordini is a handsome but straight-forward book of the orders with a supplement of ornament. All the plates are beautifully drawn and engraved, as one would expect of Cipriani. (see Plate CVII)

This quarto edition of Cipriani is known from the Kean list to have been in the library at a time when only Jefferson controlled the acquisitions. Later records of this volume (e.g., 1828 Catalogue entries on pp. 105 and 108) make one wonder whether there were two copies of this edition in the library; or, if there was only one, whether it was given to Jefferson for the library by Joseph Coolidge or James Madison. In any case no copy survived. The library's present copy has been recently acquired, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U. Va. *NA2810.P3.1801

THE / FIRST BOOK / OF / Architecture, / BY / ANDREA PALLADIO / Translated out of ITALlAN: / With an Appendix Touching / DOORS and WINDOWS, / By Pr. LE MUET Architect to the French King. / Translated out of French by Godfrey Richards: / The whole Illustrated with above Seventy Copper Cutts. /ALSO, /Rules and Demonstrations, with several Designs for the Framing / of any manner of Roofs, either above Pitch or under Pitch, / whether Square or Bevel, / never Published before by that In-/genious Architect Mr. William Pope of London. / WITH / Designs of Floors, of Variety of small Pieces of Wood Inlayed, /lately made in the Pallace [sic] of Queen Dowager, at Sommerset-/House; a Curiosity never practiced in England before. / The Sixth Edition Corrected and Enlarged with the new Model of the Cathedral of St. Pauls in London.

/ LONDON, / Printed for Tho. Braddyll, and Eben. Tracy on Lon-/don-Bridge, MDCC.

8vo. Engraved frontispiece (1 leaf ); title page (1 leaf ); Richards's preface (1 leaf); text, with 66 (not 70) engraved plates, of which 4 are folding, inserted (1-237) .

Pierre Le Muet (1591-1669) was born at Dijon. By 1616 he was the holder of the first of a series of offices before becoming, in 1628, Architecte ordinaire do roi . After Lemercier's death he was associated with the building of the church of Val-de-Grace in Paris. His books included Maniàre de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes, etc. (Paris, 1623 and 1647); Traité des cinq ordres d'architecture dent se sont servi les anciens, traduit du Palladio augmenté de nouv. inventions pour Part de bien bastir etc. , (Paris, 1645 and Amsterdam, 1682); and Augmentations de nouveaux bastimens faicts en France par les ordres et desseins de Sieur L. M. ( Paris, 1647) .

Godfrey Richards, the translator, points up the scarcity of English architectural books at the turn of the eighteenth century when he tells us about this edition of Palladio's Book I:

The Subject of this Translation, being Architecture, doth in the opinion of Sr. Hen. Wotton, need no Commendation, where there are Noble Men or Noble Minds.... To these [designs of Palladio] are added Designs of Doors and Windows , by Pr. Le Muet , Architect to the French King which I thought good to present ( Palladio only discoursing them ) they being well approved by all Artists, both for their Manner and Proportions, and the same which are at the Louvre at Paris ; and out of him I have given the Proportion of Halls and Chambers though a little different from Palladio , because most agreeing to the present practice both in England and France. And for the same Reason, I do, instead of Monsieur Muet's Designs of Frames of Houses, put in such as are used in England , by the direction of some of our ablest Architects .... We have but few Books which we can recommend to you besides the excellent Discourses of Sir H. Wotton and John Evelin , Esq.; the former on the Elements of Architecture, and the latter in his accompt of Architecture and Architects (added to his Elegant Translation of the Parallel [No. 46]) where they have comprised fully the most weighty Observations of the Art. [Richards's preface]

That Jefferson owned a copy of this work is clear from the annotation "Palladio's 1st book of architecture, with Le Muet on doors & windows" (see Plate CVIII) in his manuscript library catalogue now at the Massachusetts Historical Society, but the copy apparently did not go to Congress in 1815, and there is no record of it in the 1829 sale. Perhaps it was never returned after it had been loaned to James Oldham, the contractor, as stated in Jefferson's letter to him of December 24, 1804, and quoted in Sowerby (4175): "There never was a Palladio here [in Washington] even in private hands till I brought one: . . . I send you my portable edition, which I value because it is portable. It contains only the 1st book on the orders which is the esesential part."

Kimball (pp. 97-98) says this book entered Jefferson's library between 1785 and 1789. Which edition Jefferson owned, however, is a matter of speculation. Kimball listed as possibilities the first, second, third, seventh, and twelvth editions (of 1663, 1668, 1676, 1708, and 1733 respectively, though he misprinted two of these dates). The edition now at the University, the gift of the Reverend Lee M. Dean, is as likely as any other, so far as is now known. It was not ordered for the University.

M *NA2517.P3.1700

MONUMENS / ÉRIGSÉS EN FRANCE / A LA GLOIRE / DE LOUIS XV, / Précédés d'un TABLEAU du progrès des Arts & des Sciences sous / ce règne, ainsi que d'une Description des Honneurs & des / Monumens de gloire accordés aux grands Hommes, tant chez les / Anciens que chez les Modernes; /

Et suivi d'un choix des principaux Projets qui ont été proposés, pour placer la / STATUE du ROI dans les diférens quartiers de Paris: / Par M. PATTE, Architecte de S. A. S. Mgr. le Prince PALATIN, Duc-règnant / DE DEUX-PONTS. / Ouvrage enrichi des Places du Roi, gravées en taille-douce. / Praesenti tibi maturos largimur honores. HOR. lib. II, ep. 1 . /A PARIS, / Chez/ L'auteur, rue des Noyers, la sixième porte cochère, à droite, en entrant / par la rue Saint Jacques. / Desaint, / Saillant, / Libraires, rue Saint-Jean de Beauvais. / M. DCC. LXV. / AVEC APPROBATION ET PRIVILÈGE DU ROI.

Folio. Title page (1 leaf); preface (1 leaf); engraved floor plan (1 leaf); text, with 39 engraved plates, of which 6 are folding, inserted ([1]-229); table of contents (230-32); 18 engraved plates numbered XL-LVII, all folding; supplement (233-36); license, errata, and note to binder (1 leaf ) .

It is notable that one of the engraved headpieces in this book was designed by Boucher and engraved by Cochin, with the exception of the portrait of Louis XV which appears in it and which was engraved by Le Mire (see Plate CIX). The engravers of the plates were C. Frussotte (fl.1765), French; Nöel Le Mire (1724-1800), who studied with Le Bas and de Descamps and became, though working in Paris, a member of the Académie Royale et Imperiale des Beaux-Arts of Vienna, 1768; Loyer (fl.1760), French; Martin Marvie, or Marvye, (1713-1813), French; and Pierre Patte (see below).

Pierre Patte (1723-1814) was born in Paris but died in Nantes. He was both an architect and an engraver (see No. 73). His book is adulatory (see Plate CX) as he says in his preface:

J'Eprouve une satisfaction délicieuse, quand je pense que je vais jouir du bonheur si précieux & si rare, de célébrer un bon Prince, un vrais héros de l'humanité; que je vais montres à tout l'Univers les marques éclatantes de l'allégresse de ses peuples, les monumens de leur amour & de leur reconnaissance.

Rien n'a été négligé pour parvenir à donner à cet ouvrage la perfection & la magnificence dont il pouvoit être susceptible. Puisse-t-il être un nouveau monument, digne à la fois de mon Prince & de ma Nation!

Kimball (p. 98) says a copy of this work had entered Jefferson's library between 1785 and 1789. That copy was sold to Congress, but Jefferson also ordered it for the University in the section on "Architecture" of the want list. It was received by the library, but that copy has not survived. The library's present copy is a recent acquisition, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. M *NA1046.P3.1765 Sowerby 4211

ORDONNANCE / DES CINQ ESPECES / DE COLONNES / SELON LA METHODE / DES ANCIENS. /

Par M. PERRAVLT de l'Academie Royale des / Sciences, Docteur en Medecine de la Faculté / de Paris. /A PARIS, / Chez JEAN BAPTISTE COIGNARD Imprimeur & Libraire / ordinaire du Roy, ruë S. Jacques, à la Bible d'or. / M. DC. LXXXIII. / AVEC PRIVILEGE DE SA MAJESTÉ.

Folio. Title page (1 leaf); dedication (2 leaves); license, (1 leaf); preface (i-xxvii); table of contents (xxviii); text (1-124); 6 engraved plates.

The engravers were Louis de Chastillon (see No. 36); Sébastien Le Clerc (see Nos. 36 and 69); and Pierre Le Pautre (see No. 36).

Claude Perrault (1613-88) was educated as both a mathematician and a physician. He continued in both fields all his life and, indeed, died of a malady contracted while dissecting a camel at the Jardin du Roi. He was the architect of both the east colonnade of the Louvre and the Observatory and became a member of the Académie Royale d'Architecture.

He tells how he organized his book:

Cet ouvrage est divisé en deux Parties, dans la premiere j'établis les regles generales des proportions communes à tous les Ordres, telles que sont celles des Entablemens, des hateurs des Colonnes, des Piedestaux [see Plate CXI], &c.... Dans la seconde Partie je determine les grandeurs & les caracteres particuliers des membres dont toutes les Colonnes sont composées dans tous les Ordres.... Or bien que ce que je rapporte de l'Antique soit une chose plus difficile à verifier que ce que j'ay pris dans les Modernes, le Livre que Mr. Desgodets [No. 36] a depuis peu fait imprimer des Anciens Edifices de Rome, donnera une grande facilité aux Lecteurs qui seront curieux de s'instruire de ces choses, de mesme qu'il m'a servi pour sçavoir au juste les differentes proportions qui ont esté prise par cet Architecte, avec une tres grande exactitude. [Pp. xxvi-xxvii]

This edition was the first for this work, but it`was later translated into English and quotations will be given primarily from that version (see No. 96b). Jefferson ordered this French edition for the University in the section on "Architecture" of the want list, and it was received but did not survive. The present copy is a recent acquisition, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. *NA2812.P38.1683

A / TREATISE / OF THE / FIVE ORDERS / IN / ARCHITECTURE. /To which is Annex'd A /Discourse concerning Pilasters: / and of several ABUSES introduc'd into / ARCHITECTURE. / Written in FRENCH / By CLAUDE PERRAULT. / OF THE / ROYAL ACADEMY of PARIS, / And made ENGLISH / By JOHN JAMES of Greenwich. / The SECOND EDITION. / To which is added, / An ALPHABETICAL EXPLANATION of all the TERMS in ARCHITECTURE, / which occur in this WORK.

/ London: / Printed for J. SENEX, and R. GOSLING in Fleet-street; W. TAYLOR in Pater-noster-Row; / W. and J. INNYS in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. OSBORN in Lombard-street. / M. DCC. XXII.

Folio. Title page (1 leaf); engraved title page ( 1 leaf ); John James's dedication, engraved (1 leaf); Perrault's dedication (2 leaves); preface (i-xxi); table of contents ([xxii]); text, with 6 engraved plates inserted ([1]-131); [new pagination:] glossary ([i]-xii).

The engraver for this edition was John Sturt (1658-1730), English, who worked on a large number of religious and artistic books of the time.

For information on Claude Perrault, see No. 96a. For information on John James, see No. 37.

Perrault says:

It was not without Reason the Ancients thought that the Rules of those Proportions, which make the Beauty of Buildings, were taken from the Proportions of human Bodies, and that as Nature has given a stronger Make to Bodies fit for Labour, and a slighter to those of Activity and Address; so there are different Rules in the Art of Building, according as a Fabrick may be design'd massy or more delicate. Now these different Proportions, accompanied with their proper Ornaments, make the Differences of the Orders of Architecture; in which, the most visible Characters which distinguish them, depend on the Ornaments, as the most essential Differences consist in the Proportions that their Parts have in regard of each other.

These Differences of the Orders, taken from their Proportions and Characters, without much exact Punctuality, are the only things that Architecture has well determined: all the rest, which consists in the precise Measures of the several Members, and a certain Turn of their Figures, has, as yet, no certain Rules in which all Architects agree. [Pp. i-ii]

'Tis certain, then, that there are some Beauties in Architecture, which are positive, and some that are only arbitrary, tho' they seem positive through prejudice, from which it is very difficult to guard ourselves. 'Tis also true, that a good judgment is founded on the Knowledge of both these Beauties; but it is certain, that the Knowledge of arbitrary Beauties, is most proper to form what we call a right Tast [sic], and 'tis that only which distinguishes true Architects from those that are not so; because common Sense alone is sufficient for knowing the greatest part of positive Beauties. [P. x]

As Architecture, as well as Painting and Sculpture, has been often handled by Men of Letters, so it has been govern'd by this Humour more than the other Arts; they have taken all their Arguments from Authority, imagining that the Authors of the admirable Works of Antiquity , did nothing but for good Reasons, though we cannot find them out.

But those who will not allow that the Reasons which cause those beautiful Works to be admir'd, are incomprehensible, after having examin'd all that belongs to this Subject, and been instructed by the most able Persons; will be convinc'd, if they consult good Sense, that 'tis no great Absurdity to think that those Things, for which no Reason can be found, are really without any that contributes to their Beauty, and that they have no other Foundation than Chance, and the Humour of the Workmen, who sought for no Reason to guide them in the Determination of those things, the Preciseness of which, was of no Importance. [Pp. xv-xvi]

Now, tho' the Truth of what I mention of the Antique , be a Thing more difficult to be prov'd, than what I have taken from the Moderns , the Book which Mons. Desgodets [No. 39] has lately printed of the Ancient Buildings of Rome , will be a great Assistance to such Readers as are curious to be instructed in these things, as it was very servicable to me in finding precisely the different Proportions, which that Architect has taken with the greatest Exactness. [P. xxi]

ORDONANCE, according to Vitruvius , is that which regulates the Size of all the Parts of a Building, with respect to their Use....

AN Order of Architecture, then, is that which is regulated by the Ordonance, when it prescribes the Proportions of intire Columns, and determines the Figure of certain Parts which are proper to them, according to the different Proportions which they have. [Pp. ( 1)-2]

John James, in the glossary, gives two very interesting definitions:

GOTHICK, or Modern Architecture, is that which is far removed from the Manner and Proportions of the Antique, having its Ornaments Wild and Chimerical, and its Profiles incorrect: However, it is oftentimes found very strong, and appears very rich and pompous, as, particularly in several of our English Cathedrals. This Manner of Building came Originally from the North, whence it was brought by the Goths into Germany, and has since been introduced into other Countries. [New pagination: p. v]

SYMMETRY, comes from the Greek Symmetria, with Measure, and signifies the Relation of Parity, both as to Height, Depth and Breadth which the Parts have, in order to form a Beautiful Whole. In Architecture we have both Uniform Symmetry, and Respective Symmetry; in the Former, the Ordonnance is pursued in the same Manner throughout the whole Extent; whereas in the Latter, only the Opposite Sides correspond to each other. [New pagination: p. ix]

Kimball (p. 98) says this book entered Jefferson's library between 1785 and 1789. It was sold by him to Congress. Sowerby notes that Kimball identifies Jefferson's copy wrongly as the 1708 first edition. It was not ordered for the University, whose present copy is a recent acquisition, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

M *NA2812.P4.1722 Sowerby 4182

ILLmo. D. D. ROGERIO DV PLESSEIS / DNO. DE LIANCOVRT MARCHI-/ONI DE MONTFORT, COMITI DE / LA ROCHEGVION &. a. VTRIVSQVE / ORDINIS CHRISTIANISSIMAE / MAIESTATIS E QVITI REGIIS A / CUBICVLIS PRIMARIO. /

Heroi Virtutum et magnarum arti-/um eximio cultori. / Auorum pace belloque praestantium / Et aeui melioris decora referenti; / SEGMENTA nobilium signorum e statuaru, / Quae temporis dentem inuidium euasere / Vrbis aeternae ruinis erepta / Typis aeneis abse commissa / Perpetuae uenerationis monumentum. / Franciscus Perrier. / D. D. D. / M.D.C. XXXVIII /

Romae, superiorum permissu. / Cum privilegio summi / Pontificis.
Folio. Engraved title page (1 leaf); 100 engraved plates, of which 2 are folding; engraved index (2 leaves).

All the plates were drawn and engraved by Perrier, the first plate bearing a full signature and the others being initialed.

François Perrier, who worked under the name François Perrier Le Bourguigon or Perrier Le Bourguigon (1584-1656), studied in Rome with Lanfranco. He returned to M&acedil;con and Paris, but being unsuccessful, he went back to Rome where he stayed for some ten years.

This book is a first edition. It contains views of sculpture found in Rome (see Plate CXII), sometimes several views of the same statue.

Jefferson's own copy was sold to Congress. He ordered it for the University in the section on "Gardening. Painting. Sculpture. Music" of the want list, but there is no record of its having been received. The library's present copy has been recently acquired, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. M *NB86.P45.1638 Sowerby 4231

A / DICTIONARY / OF / PAINTERS / FROM THE REVIVAL OF THE ART TO THE PRESENT PERIOD; /BY / THE REV. M. PILKINGTON, A. M. / A / NEW EDITION, / WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS, AN APPENDIX, AND AN INDEX; / BY / HENRY FUSELI, R. A. /

STAT SUA CUIQUE DIES: BREVE ET INREPARABILE TEMPUS / OMNIBUS EST VITAE: SED FAMAM EXTENDERE FACTIS, / HOC VIRTUTIS OPUS. VIRGIL. AENEID. LIB. X. /LONDON: / PRINTED FOR J. WALKER; WILKIE AND ROBINSON; R. LEA; J. STOCKDALE; SCATCHERD / AND LETTERMAN; CUTHELL AND MARTIN; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE; LONGMAN, / HURST, REES, AND ORME; CADELL AND DAVIES; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; /BLACK, PARRY, AND KINGSBURY; W. MILLER; J. HARDING; J. MAWMAN; J. MURRAY; / CROSBY AND CO.; J. FAULDER; AND J. JOHNSON AND CO. / 1810.

4to. Title page ( [i] ); dedication, dated 'Dublin, 1770' ( [iii] ); preface ( [v]-xii ); bibliography ( [xiii]-xiv ); glossary ( [xv]-xx ); editor's note (1 leaf); note to new edition (1 leaf); text ([1]-658); index ([659]-78).

The title page of this copy is inscribed: 'Presented by C. B. Ogle Esq. to G. Hayter, 1813.' The bookplate is inscribed: 'To / Angelo C. Hayter, / From his affectionate Father, / Sir George Hayter. / 1864.'

Matthew Pilkington (1700?-1784) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College there. He became the vicar of Donobate and Portrahan, county Dublin, about 1722. His Dictionary of Painters was the first such work in English. Pilkington speaks of his work and of painting in general in his preface:

I persuade myself, that an endeavour to acquire a taste for the polite arts; a desire to obtain a thorough knowledge of them; and a zeal to diffuse that knowledge more extensively through these kingdoms; cannot appear an improper employment for the leisure hours of an Ecclesiastic. [P. vii]

As painting is the representation of nature, every spectator, whether judicious or otherwise, will derive a certain degree of pleasure from seeing nature happily and beautifully imitated; but, where taste and judgment are combined in a spectator who examines a design conceived by the genius of a Raphael, and touched into life by his hand, such a spectator feels a superior, and enthusiastic, a sublime pleasure, whilst he minutely traces the merits of the work, and the eye of such a connoisseur wanders from beauty to beauty, till he feels himself rising gradually from admiration to ecstasy. [Pp. viii-ix]

It is only by a frequent and studious inspection into the excellencies of the artists of the first rank, that a true taste can be established; for, by being attentively conversant with the elevated ideas of others, our own ideas imperceptibly become refined. [p. xi]

This book has a long publishing history. It was first issued in London in 1770. There was a new edition, emended by James Barry, the painter, in 1798; another with additions by John Wolcott, M.D., in 1799; one in 1805, and again in 1810 with additions by Henry Fuseli, the painter and keeper of the schools of the Royal Academy; this was corrected by Watkins for an edition of 1824; in 1829 Richard Davenport made additions; in 1840 Alan Cunningham did the same; in 1851 there was a new issue of the Davenport version; and finally in both 1852 and 1857 Davenport and Cunningham combined forces on editions.

Fuseli points out, in a note to his 1805 edition, the additions of articles he made and his emendations. In his 1810 edition Fuseli says he had added over three hundred names, especially of the Spanish school.

It was the 1810 edition which Jefferson ordered for the University in the section on "Gardening. Painting. Sculpture. Music" of the want list, but it was not supplied. It is worth noting that half a century later, in 1871, Lowndes was still saying that the 1810 edition was the "best." The University's present copy has come into the collections recently, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U. Va. *ND35.P6.1810

Vol. I. A GENERAL /DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS; / CONTAINING / MEMOIRS / OF / THE LIVES AND WORKS / OF THE MOST EMINENT / Professors of the Art of Painting, / FROM ITS REVIVAL, BY CIMABUE, / IN THE YEAR 1250, / TO THE PRESENT TIME. / BY MATTHEW PILKINGTON, A. M. /A NEW EDITION, / REVISED AND CORRECTED THROUGHOUT, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, /PARTICULARLY OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS / OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL. /

-Reperire, apta atque reperta docendum / Digerere, atque suo quaeque ordine rite locare, / Durus uterque Labor. VIDA, Lib. 2. Poetic. / Ut Plurimis prosimus, enitimur. CICERO. / IN TWO VOLUMES. / VOL. I. / London: / PRINTED FOR THOMAS M'LEAN, 26 HAYMARKET. / 1824.

8vo. Half title ( [i] ); title page ( [iii] ); dedication ( [v] ); editor's preface ( [vii]-xvii ); bibliography ( [xix]-xxvii ); glossary ( [xxix]-xxxvi ); text ( [1]-543)

Vol. II. A GENERAL / DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS; / . . . / VOL. II. / . . .

8vo. Half title (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); text ([1]-533); supplement ( [535]-68)

For information about Pilkington, see No. 98a. The editor of this edition takes a dim view of English painting during the third quarter of the eighteenth century when he says: "When this Dictionary was first undertaken, there existed nothing of the kind in our language; nor were there any helps for such a compilation to be obtained, except in foreign tongues, the Art of Painting being at that time as low as it well could be in this country" (I, [vii] ) .

This was the edition revised and corrected by Watkins and the one supplied to the University despite Jefferson's order for the 1810 edition. The set originally received has not survived, but a duplicate set has been recently acquired, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. *ND35.P6.1824

VARIE VEDUTE / DI ROMA /

Antica e Moderna / Disegnate e Intaglia / te da Celebri Autori /

In ROMA 1748. / A spese d i Fausto Amidei Librario al'Corso
Small folio. Engraved title page (1 leaf ); 83 engraved plates.

The engravers included in this volume are Paolo Anesi (ca.1700-after 1761), a landscape painter and an engraver of views and portraits who worked in Rome; Jerome-Charles Bellicard (1726-86), a Parisian who won the Prix de Rome, 1747, and became a professor at the Académie in 1762, but who was ruined by gambling; F. Pierre Duflos (eighteenth century), a painter and engraver who worked at Rome; Jean-Laurent Le Geay, an architect, painter, and engraver who won the Prix de Rome, 1732, and worked in Germany after leaving Rome; and Piranesi.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78), though a Venetian who trained with Lucchesi and Zucchi, worked primarily in Rome as both an architect and an engraver, his engravings forming by far the greater part of his life's work.

The present volume, which has recently come into the University's collections, has a title more or less matching that given in Jefferson's want list for the University, in the section on "Architecture." Although the book includes some engravings by other hands, there are some thirty-seven with an engraved "Piranesi F" signature and a good many more with an inked imitation of that signature. Among these is that for the temple of Fortuna Virilis, whose beautiful Ionic order was later used at the University (see No. 92b). The title page is dated 1748, but the seven plates by Bellicard are dated 1750, which might mean that this volume was expanded by the inclusion of plates by others after the 8 date.

The title of this book matches that given by Sowerby. It is something of a composite, which will surprise no one familiar with the bibliography of Piranesi. The restrikes from the Piranesi plates have been so numerous and so unsystematized that it is difficult to determine either what Jefferson was ordering for the University or what he himself bought for his private library. He recommended that the University get a single-folio volume which he called "Vedute di Roma antica et moderna del Piranesi." The volume in his own library, which, according to Kimball (p. 98), entered it in 1805 and was later sold to Congress, was described in 1840 as a Rome, 1748, quarto edition with the binder's title Varie Vedute di Rome antica e Moderna , but the volume is not now known to be in existence and thus escapes further analysis.

It seems clear enough that Jefferson did not own the two-volume folio edition of the 1760s issued by Piranesi, the 127 plates of which were to make up Vols. XVI and XVII of the 1800 collected restrike.

The copy now on the library's shelves is the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. M *NA1120.P78.1748 Sowerby 4197

Vol. I. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM, / GRAVÉES / PAR TH. PIROLI, /ET PUBLIÈES /PAR F. ET P. PIRANESI, FRÉRES. / TOME PREMIER. / PEINTURES.

/ A PARIS / CHEZ / PIRANESI, Frères, place du Tribunat, no. 1354; / LEBLANC, Imprimeur-Libraire, place et maison / Abbatiale St.-Germain-des-Prés, no. 1121. / AN XII. = 1804.

Large 4to. Half title (1 leaf ); title page ( [i] ); dedication ( [iii-iv] ); publisher's note ([v]-viii); 48 engraved plates, each with page of text inserted.

Vol. II. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM, / . . . / PEINTURE. TOME II. / . . .
Large 4to. Half title (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); 48 engraved plates, each with a page of text inserted; errata (1 leaf ) .

Vol. III. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME III. / PEINTURES. / . . . / AN XIII. = 1805.
Large 4to. Half title (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); 60 engraved plates, each with a page of text inserted; table of contents (4 leaves).

Vol. IV. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME IV. / BRONZES. / . . .
Large 4to. Half title (1 leaf ); title page (1 leaf ); note (1 leaf ); 48 engraved plates, each with page of text inserted; table of contents (2 leaves ) .

Vol. V. [Not now owned by the University.] Vol. VI. [Not now owned by the University.] [Note: In the University's second set of the Antiquités the title pages for Vols. V and VI are as follows:

Vol. V. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM, / . . . / TOME V. / BRONZES.-TOME II. / . . . / AN XIV. = 1805. bound with

Vol. VI. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM, / . . . / TOME VI. / LAMPES ET CANDÉLÂBRES. / . . . /
Tommaso Piroli (ca.1752-1824) was born in Rome, studied in Florence, and worked as an engraver in both Rome and Paris. His publisher said of him and his plates for this work:

La gravure, exécuté à l'eau-forte par THOMAS PIROLI, conserve par-tout la grâce, l'esprit et le sentiment des productions originales. Chaque planche est accompagnée d'une page de texte, qui indique le lieu et l'époque des découvertes, la dimension du sujet, les traits mythologiques qui s'y rapportent et l'opinion qui paraît la plus admissible sur son explication.... On peut donc considérer cet Ouvrage comme devant être une source d'agrément pour ltamateur et d'instruction pour l'artiste: c'est, en effet, une mine inépuisable à exploiter; un sentiment exquis, une grâce enchanteresse, un style noble et pur, offrent, dans tous ces précieux restes, des modèles à suivre. [I, (v)-vii]

The volumes are, essentially, picture books. The first three are devoted to paintings, the fourth and fifth to bronzes, and the sixth to lamps and candlebra. In spite of the publisher's avowal, the plates do not preserve "la grâce, l'esprit et le sentiment des productions originales" quite as well as one might suppose, a certain awkwardness appearing in the draughtsmanship occasionally.

The library still has the first four of the six volumes acquired on Jefferson's original order made in the section on "Gardening. Painting. Sculpture. Music" of the want list. In addition it has a complete set bound in three volumes.

U. Va. *DG70.H5P6.l804

L'ART / DE TOURNER, / OU / DE FAI RE EN PERFECTION TOUTES /SORTES D'OUVRAGES AU TOUR. / DANS LEQUEL, / Outre les principes & élemens du Tour qu'on y enseigne méthodiquement pour tourner tant le / bois, l'ivoire &c. que le fer & tous les autres métaux, on voit encore plusieurs belles machi-/nes à faire des Ovales, tant simples que figurées de toutes grandeurs; la maniere de tourner le / globe parfait, le rampant, l'excentrique, les pointes de diamant, les facettes, le panier ou échi-/quier, la couronne ondoyante, la rose à raiseau, les manches de couteaux façon d'Angleterre, / les ovaires, la torse à jour ondée & goderonnée, les globes concentriques, la massuë àpointes, les / tabatieres barlongues de toutes figures, le bâton rompu, les cannelures, les écailles &c. & géné-/ralement toutes les methodes les plus secrettes de cet art, avec la disposition des Tours, &c. / OUVRAGE TRES CURIEUX, ET TRES NECESSAIRE / à ceux qui s'exercent au Tour. / Composé en François & on Latin en faveur des Etrangers, & enrichi de Prés de / quatre-vingt Planches. / Par le R. P. CHARLES PLUMIER, Religieux Minime.

/ A PARIS, RUE S. JACQUES, / Chez CLAUDE JOMBERT, au coin de la ruë des Mathurins, /vis-à-visl'Eglise, à l'Image de Nostre Dame. / M. D. CCI. / AVEC PRIVILEGE DU ROY.

Folio. Engraved half title (1 leaf ); two-color title page (1 leaf ); dedication (3 unnumbered pp. ); preface (13 unnumbered pp. ); table of contents (3 leaves); licenses (3 unnumbered pp.); list of plates (1 unnumbered p.); text (1-187); engraved plates 1-65, 73, 80, and another without numbers (making a total of 82), of which 1 is folding.

A slip of paper has been pasted over the words 'A LYON' and an illegible address on the title page.

The engravers were A. Bouchet, an eighteenth-century engraver at Lyon; T. Buys; Michel-François Demaso (1654-?), an engraver and painter who was born at Lyon; and Sébastien Le Clerc (Nos. 36 and 69).

Although Charles Plumier (1654-1706) wrote several works, the Art de tourner does not seem to have been a major one among his oeuvre. He entered orders at sixteen and became a botanist and traveler, having journeyed to the Antilles in 1689 and to America between 1693 and 1695.

This work, somewhat outside his interests, sets forth the process and the machinery necessary for turning a great variety of objects (see Plate CXIII) . It is of particular interest for its advice on balusters, moldings, and finials, as well as the layout of the shop necessary for the operation. When he speaks of profiles he says: " J'appelle le profil un simple contour; & le bon goût cet agrément à la vûë qui d'abord satisfait l'esprit par le seul port & aspect de l'ouvrage. Veritablement il est bien difficile de pouvoir expliquer ce bon goût, & d'en établir des regles précises, puisqu'il dépend plutôt de l'idée & du genie des gens que d'aucune methode certain. L'oeil seul en droit prescrire les regles & les lois "" (p. 133).

Jefferson sold his copy of the book to Congress. It was not ordered for the University. The library's present copy has been recently acquired, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

M *TT201.P73.1701 Sowerby 1183

Vol. I. Archaeologia Graeca, / OR THE /ANTIQUITIES OF GREECE: / BY / JOHN POTTER, D. D. / LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. / A NEW EDITION; / WITH / A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, / BY ROBERT ANDERSON, M. D. / AND / AN APPENDIX, / CONTAINING / A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE GRECIAN STATES, / AND A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND WRITINGS OF THE / MOST CELEBRATED GREEK AUTHORS; / BY GEORGE DUNBAR, F. R. S. E. / AND PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. / IN TWO VOLUMES. / VOL. I. /

-Antiquam exquirite Matrem-VIRG. / -Vos exemplaria Graeca / Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna.-HORAT. / EDINBURGH: /PRINTED FOR STIRLING & KENNEY; AND FOR LONGMAN, HURST, / REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN; J. NUNN; BALDWIN, CRADOCK,/& JOY; HARDING & CO.; J. CUTHILL; G. & W. B. WHITTAKER; R. / SCHOLEY; R. SAUNDERS; HURST, ROBINSON, & CO.; T. & J. ALLMAN; / W. GINGER, LONDON; WILLIAMS, ETON; AND PARKER, OXFORD. / 1824.

8vo. Engraved folding map; title page (1 leaf); life of Potter ([i]-xii); table of contents ([viii]-xv); directions for binding plates (unnumbered p.); text, with g engraved plates inserted ([l]-.r,27).

Vol. II. Archaelogia Graeca, / . . . / VOL. II. / -Simili froudescit virga metallo.-VIRG. / Quis reprehendit nostrum otium, qui in co non modo nosmetipsos hebescere et languere / nolumus, sed etiam, ut plurimus prosimus, enitimur?-CIC. /. . .
8vo. Title page (1 leaf); table of contents ([i]-iv [misnumbered 'vi']); text, with 23 engraved plates inserted ( [1]-422); [new pagination: ] text of general history (1-112); index (4 leaves); index of Latin words (1 leaf); index of Greek words (6 leaves).

The engravings are by Daniel Lizars (d. 1812), who turned to engraving after his father's death in order to maintain his brothers and sisters, and by William Home Lizars (1788-1859), his son and pupil.

John Potter (1674?-1747), born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, was the son of a linen draper. He was educated first at the local grammar school, but entered University College, Oxford, at 14. He earned his B.A. in 1692, his M.A. in 1694, his B.D. in 1704, and his D.D. in 1706. He was ordained in the priesthood in 1699 and pursued a brilliant ecclesiastical career. He became Regius professor of divinity at Oxford in 1707, bishop of Oxford in 1715, and archbishop of Canterbury in 1737.

He was the author of many learned works. The Archaeologia Graeca was a rather early one, Vol. I being issued first in 1697 and its second volume in 1698. It subsequently went into many editions.

The text, which is concerned mainly with the laws, customs, and habits of the ancient Greeks, contains a few descriptions of temples and a few plates of illustrations of them from which architectural information may be gained.

Ordered by Jefferson for the University in the section on "History-Civil-Antient" of the want list, this set was in the library by 1828, but the original copies have not survived. The library's present set was the gift of R. L. Harrison.

U. Va. *DF76.P86.1824

Elementi di architettura.

Venice, 1780.

Not now owned by the University.

Francesco Maria Preti (1701-74), born at Castelfranco, was an architect, mathematician, and tract writer.

Sowerby describes the Elementi di architettura as a quarto of thirty-five leaves with four engraved plates, all folding, and gives the above date for its first edition. Kimball (p. 99) says the book entered Jefferson's library between 1785 and 1789.

Jefferson sold his copy to Congress. It was not ordered for the University.

M Sowerby 4202

Vol. I. THE / REPERTORY / OF / ARTS AND MANUFACTURES: / CONSISTING OF / ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, / SPECIFICATIONS OF PATENT INVENTIONS, / AND / SELECTIONS OF USEFUL PRACTICAL PAPERS / FROM THE / TRANSACTIONS / OF THE / PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES / OF ALL NATIONS, &c. &c. / VOL. I.

/ LONDON: / PRINTED FOR G. AND T. WILKIE, AND G. G. AND J. ROBERTSON,/ PATERNOSTER-ROW: P. ELMSLY, STRAND; / W. RICHARDSON, CORN HILL; J. DEBRETT, PICADILLY; / AND J. BELL, NO. 148, OXFORD-STREET. / 1794.

8vo. Title page ( [i] ); table of contents ( iii-vii ); list of plates ( viii ); [new pagination:] note (i-iv); text, with 25 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. II. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. II. / . . . / 1795.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with24engravedplatesinserted (1-432); index (433-40).

Vol. III. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. III. / . . .
8vo Title page ( [i] ); table of contents ( iii-vii ); list of plates ( viii ); text, with 24 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. IV. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. IV. / . . . / 1796.
8vo. Title page ( [i] ); table of contents ( iii-vii ); list of plates ( viii ); text, with 23 engraved plates inserted ( 1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. V. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. V. / . . .
8vo. Title page ( [i] ); table of contents (iii-vii ); list of plates ( viii ); text, with 23 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. VI. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. VI. / . . . / 1797.
8vo. Title page ( [i] ); table of contents ( iii-vii ); list of plates ( viii ); text, with 22 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).

Vol. VII. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. VII. / . . .
8vo. Title page ( [i] ); table of contents (iii-vii ); list of plates (viii ); text, with21engravedplatesinserted (1-432);index (4-40).

Vol. VIII. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. VIII. / . . . /
8vo. Title page ( [i] ); table of contents ( iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with 22 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. IX. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. IX. / . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with 18 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-440).

Vol. X. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. X.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with 21 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. XI. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL.XI. / . . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with 19 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. XII. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XII. / . . . / 1800.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with 19 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).

Vol. XIII. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XIII. / . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with 18 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. XIV. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XIV. / . . . / 1801.
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with 20 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. XV. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XV. / . .
8vo. Title page ([i]); table of contents (iii-vii); list of plates (viii); text, with 20 engraved plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40) .

Vol. XVI. THE / REPERTORY / . . . / VOL. XVI. / . . . / 1802.
8vo. Title page ( [i] ); table of contents ( iii-vii ); list of plates ( viii ); text, with 16plates inserted (1-432); index (433-40).

Of the engraved plates, a few are folding in each volume.

At the very beginning of this journal the publishers say:

OF the work now offered to the public, one of the principle objects is, to establish a vehicle, by means of which new discoveries and improvements, in any of the useful Arts and Manufactures, may be transmitted to the public; particularly to Artists, Manufacturers, and others, who, from various circumstances frequently attending those discoveries and improvements, (such as their being announced in a bulky or expensive publication, or in a foreign language ) might otherwise have but little chance of ever becoming acquainted with them. Yet, though novelty will be regarded as an important consideration, the general utility of a subject will always be looked upon as one of equal if not of greater, consequences. [I, (new pagination: ) i]

In the sixteen volumes there are some fifty-three articles that relate, mostly in a utilitarian way, to the fine arts. The architectural and building subjects include such things as heat, materials, bridges of iron, and colors. There are articles on stucco (III, 1); on fireplaces (IV, 226); on boring wooden water pipes or aqueducts, a problem which was to concern Jefferson quite a lot during the building of the University (IX, 45); on laying water pipes (X, 251); on water closets (XI, 237); on the making of bricks (XIII, 148); on bridges, warehouses, etc., without wood, i.e., out of cast iron (XIV, 145); on a speedy elevator (XV, 26); and on painting with milk (XV, 411). Count Rumford (see No. 109) has a good many articles, some on heat, which seems to have been a favorite subject with the Repertory .

The nonarchitectural and nonpainterly articles cover a considerable range. A typical one is "Specifications of Mr. Unwin's Patent for rendering Soap-suds, after being used in scouring, &c. capable of serving again" (IV, 168) .

Jefferson's order for the University in the section on "Technical Arts" of the want list called for fifteen volumes only. He was apparently thinking only of the first series, or else was ignorant of the fact that the journal ran much longer. As a result of the original order, the University actually received more than the sixteen volumes in its first years of operation. Of the first series of the original set a mutilated copy of the fourth volume survives. The library, however, has recently acquired a duplicate set of the sixteen volumes, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U. Va. *T1.R4

Vol. I. DICTIONNAIRE / D'ARCHITECTURE, / CIVILE, MILITAIRE ET NAVALE, / ANTIQUE, ANCIENNE ET MODERNE, / ET DE TOUS LES ARTS ET METIERS QUI EN DÉPENDENT; / Dont tous les Termes sont exprimés, / EN FRANÇOIS, LATIN, ITALIEN, ESPAGNOL, ANGLOIS ET ALLEMAND. / Enrichi de cent une Planches de Figures en Taille-douce, / POUR EN FACILITER L'INTELLIGENCE, / AUQUEL ON A JOINT / Une Notice des ARCHITECTES, INGÉNIEURS, PEINTRES, SCULPTEURS, / GRAVEURS & autres Artistes les plus celebres, / dont on rapporte les principaux Ourrages. /

PAR M. C. F. ROLAND LE VIRLOYS, / ci-devant Architecte du Roi de Prusse, & depuis de l'Impératrice-Reine. /TROIS VOLUMES INQUARTO. / TOME PREMIERE. / A PARIS. / Chez les LIBRAIRES Associés. / M. DCC. LXX. / AVEC APPROBATION ET PRIVILEGE DU ROI.

4to. Half title (1 unnumbered p.); list of associated bookshops (1 unnumbered p.); title page (1 leaf ); dedication ( [i-ii] ); preface ( [iii]-iv ); text ([1]-648).

Vol. II. DICTIONNAIRE / D'ARCHITECTURE / . . . / TOME SECOND / . .
4to. Half title (1 leaf ); title page (1 leaf ); text (1-671) .

Vol. III. DICTIONNAIRE / D'ARCHITECTURE / . . . / TOME TROISIÈME. / . . . / M. DCC. LXXXI. / .
4to. Half title (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); text (1-152); 99 engraved plates, of which 36 are folding and 5 are double; [new pagination:] half title ([1]); vocabularies in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, and German ( [3]-290); errata (291-98); licenses (1 leaf ) .

Charles François Roland Le Virloys (1716-72 ) was a French architect who was, at one time, architect to the king of Prussia.

His Dictionnaire has many handsome engravings illustrating its subjects (see Plate CXIV), including even the monograms of engravers. Its definition of the word art is especially useful for us since it includes the contemporary shades of meaning, which are not always understood today:

ART, f. m. Lat. Ars. It. & Esp. Arte , Ang. Address , All. Kunst . Est en général ce qui se fait par l'industrie & l'address des hommes; c'est aussi la méthode de bien une chose: ce qui a donné lieu à une division de l'art, en Arts libéraux, & Arts Méchaniques.

Les Arts libéraux . . . dont l'exercise est noble & honnête, sont ceux où l'esprit travaille plus que la main; tels sont l'Architecture civile, militaire & navale, la Peinture, la Sculpture, la Musique, la Poésie, la Médecine, &c.

Les Arts Méchaniques . . . sont ceux où le corps travaille plus que l'esprit, comme la Maçonnerie, la Charpenterie, la Serrurerie, la Menuiserie, la Vitrerie, Plomberie, Marbrerie, Horlogerie, Fonderie, &c. [I, 109]

Kimball (p. 99) says Jefferson bought his set between 1785 and 1789. It was bound in two volumes and was later sold to Congress. The book was not ordered for the University, whose present set has been recently acquired, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

M *NA31.R6.1770 Sowerby 4206

Vol. I. TRAITÉ /THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE /DE / L'ART DE BÂTIR, / PAR J. RONDELET, / Architecte de l'Eglise de SainteGeneviève; Membre du Comité / consultatif des Bâtimens de la Couronne, et du Comité / des Bâtimens Civils auprès du Ministre de l'Intérieur; / Professeur de Stéréotomie à l'Ecole spéciale d'Architecture; / de l'Acedémie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de / Lyon, et de plusieurs autres Sociétés savantes. / TOME PREMIERE.

/ PARIS, / CHEZ L'AUTEUR, ENCLOS DU PANTHÉON. / M DCCC XII.

4to. Half title ( [i] ); title page ( [iii] ); avant-propos ( [v]-xvi ); text, 1st book ([1]-228); text, 2d book ([229]-432); summary ([433]-42); list of subscribers (443-48) .

Vol. II. TRAITÉ / . . . / TOME DEUXIÈME. / . . . / DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE GILLÉ. / M DCCC XIV.
4to. Half title (1 leaf ); title page (1 leaf ); text, 3d book ( [1]-172); text, 4th book ([173]-345); summary ( [346]-49) .

Vol. III. TRAITÉ / . . . /TOME TROISIÈME. /CINQUIÈME LIVRAISON. / . . .
4to. Half title (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); text, 5th book ([1]-400); summary ([401]-12); supplement (2 leaves) .

Vol. IV. TRAITÉ / . . . /TOME QUATRIÈME. /PREMIÈRE PARTIE. / CHARPENTE, AVEC 60 PLANCHES. / PARIS, / CHEZ L'AUTEUR, ENCLOS DU PANTHÉON. / M DCCC X. and

TRAITÉ / . . . / TOME QUATRIÈME. / DEUXIÈME PARTIE. / COUVERTURE, MENUISERIE ET SERRURERIE, AVEC 31 PLANCHES. / . . . / DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE GILLÉ. / M DCCC XTV
4to. Half title, [Part I] (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); text, 6th book ([1]-382); [new pagination:] supplement (1-2); summary ([3]-7); errata (1 unnumbered p. ); half title, [Part II] (1 leaf ); title page (1 leaf ); [old pagination: ] text, 7th book (383-557); summary ([559]-62); errata (1 leaf).

Vol. V. TRAITÉ / . . . / TOME QUATRIÈME. / TROISIÈME PARTIE. / . . . /DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE FAIN, PLACE DE L'ODÉON. / M DCCC XVII.
4to. Half title (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); text, 8th book ([561]-886); 10 folding tables; [new pagination:] appendix ([1]-80); summary ([81]-93); errata (1 leaf).

Vol. VI. [No title page.]
4to. 92 engraved plates, of which 19 are folding, the rest double.

Vol. VII. [No title page.]
4to. 96 engraved plates numbered XCIII-CLXXX and A-H, of which 57 are folding and the rest double.

The engravers were Adam; Aubertin; Louis-Pierre Baltard (see No. 40); Antoine-Joseph Gaitte (see No. 40); Hibon; A. Mosy; C. Normand (see No. 40); B. Rondelet; P. B. Rondelet; P. B. Rondelet, the nephew; J. E. Thierry; Thierry, fils; and Thierry, the nephew.

The subscribers included eighty-two architects, among them Jacques Guillaume Legrand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, and Johann Karl Krafft; thirty-two engineers also subscribed. One hundred and twenty-five copies were taken by the office of the Minister of the Interior, as well as fifty copies by the office of the Minister of War.

Jean Baptiste Rondelet (1743-1829) was the son of a master mason. He was educated by the Jesuits, by his father, and by Jean-François Blondel at the Académie d'Architecture. He then became an inspector for the Panthéon under Soufflot. After further study in Italy, he returned to become a professor of construction at the Beaux-Arts and a member of the Institute.

Rondelet says in his preface:

Le but essentiel de l'art de bâtir est de construire des édifices solides, en y employant une juste quantité de matériaux choisis et mis en oeuvre avec art et économie.

Cet art comprend deux parties principales, qui sont la théorie et la pratique; la perfection de l'art de bâtir dépend de la réunion de ces deux parties.

La pratique, qui est la plus ancienne, est l'art d'extraire les matériaux, de les transporter, de les faconner et de les mettre en oeuvre pour l'exécution d'un ouvrage quelconque.

La théorie est une science qui dirige toutes les opérations de la pratique. Cette science est le résultat de l'experience et du raisonnement fondé sur les principes de mathématiques et de physiques appliqués aux différentes opérations de l'art. C'est par le moyen de la théorie qu'un habile constructeur parvient à detérminer les formes et les justes dimensions qu'il faut donner àchaque partie d'un édifice, en raison de sa situation et des efforts qu'elle peut avoir a soutenir, pour qu'il en résulte perfection, solidité et economié.... Ce sont ces différentes connaissances que j'ai tâché de réunir dans mon ouvrage, afin d'en former un traité qui tout ce qui est essentiellement utile àun architecte, et en général à tous deux qui sont chargés de faire exécuter des travaux relatifs à l'art de bâtir.

Ce nouveau Traité se divise en six livres; le premier commence par un exposé général de l'architecture.... Le second livre traite des compositions et des préparations que l'art a imaginé pour supplier aux pierres dans les pays où elles sont rare et difficiles à travailler.... Le troisième livre traite des constructions en pierres de tailles posées sans mortier, à la manière des anciens, et avec mortier comme les modernes.... Le quatrième livre traite de la coupe des pierres, et des principes de géométrie sur lesquels elle est fondée.... Le cinquième livre a pour objet l'application des principes de la théorie à la construction des édifices, pour leur procurer le degré de solidité qu'ils doivent avoir.... Le sixième livre traite de la traite de la charpente. [I, (v)-xiv]

Parts of this work were first issued in 1802, but it was not finally completed until Blouet contributed three volumes in 1847, 1848, and 1852. The plates are very handsome, especially those for framing and for marquetry. There are illustrations of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Gothic buildings, and much information on stereotomy. Not only does Plate CLXXV (see Plate CXV) show the Coalbrookdale bridge, but several other iron bridges are shown. The second volume of plates i]lustrates chiefly carpentry, framing, and parquetry.

Jefferson ordered this set for the University, in the section on "Technical Arts" of the want list, but there is no record of its ever having been received. The University's present set, with Vol. IV bearing an earlier imprint than the other volumes, is a recent acquisition, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. *NA2521.R7.1817

RITRATTO / DI ROMA ANTICA, / NEL QVALE SONO FIGVRATI / I principali Tempij, Theatri, Anfiteatri, Cerchi, Nau- / machie, Archi Trionfali, Curie, Basiliche, / Colonne, Ordine del Trionfo, Dignità / Militari, e Ciuili, Riti, Cerimonie / & altre cose notabili. /

Aggiuntoui di nuovo le Vite, & Effiigie de'primi / Rè di essa, e le Grandezze dell'lmperio Ro-/mano; con l'Esplicationi Istoriche de' / più celebri Antiquarij / IN ROMA / Appresso Filippo de'Rossi. M. DC. LIV. / Con licenza de'Superiori.

Small 8vo. Engraved half title (1 leaf ); title page (1 leaf ); dedication (1 leaf); note to reader (1 unnumbered p. ); list of contents (4 leaves); text (1-413); sonnet (1 unnumbered p. ); ode (1 unnumbered p. ); colophon (1 unnumbered p.); 126 engraved plates inserted, and numerous woodcut tailpieces.

Filippo de Rossi (fl.1654) was an Italian architect about whom not much is known. His Roma antica is, in actuality, a guide to ancient Rome with many illustrations, including one of the Pantheon.

Kimball (p. 99) says the book entered Jefferson's library between 1785 and 1789. His copy was sold to Congress. See Sowerby for a comment on Kimball's effort to redate it 1645. Jefferson ordered it for the University in the section on "Architecture" of the want list, but there is no record of the library's having acquired it. The library's present copy is a recent acquisition, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. M [Not yet catalogued] Sowerby 4192

RITRATTO /DI ROMA MODERNA, / NEL QVALE SONO EFFIGIATI / Chiese, Corpi Santi, Reliquie, Indulgenze, Monasterij, / Hospedali, Oratorij, Compagnie de' Secolari, / Collegij, Seminarij, Palazzi, Fabbriche, Archi-/tetture, Pitture, Scolture, Librarie, Musei, Giar-/ dini, Fontane, e Ville sì' dentro la Città, come / fuori, Pontefici, Cardinali, e Principi, che / l'hanno illustrata, & altre cose notabili. /

Distinto in sei giornate da diaersi Autori, con le Dichia-/rationi Historiche di quanto in' esso si contiene / in questa nuoua Editione accresciato, e / migliorato in molti luoghi. / IN ROMA, / Appresso Filippo de' Rossi, MDCLII. / Con licenza de' Superiori.

12mo. Engraved title page missing, but photostat inserted ( 1 leaf ); dedication (2 leaves); index (12 leaves); text, with many engraved illustrations on the text pages ([1]-560).

For Filippo de Rossi, see No. 107. In spite of this book's title, many classical Roman buildings are illustrated, especially if they had been put to some contemporary use. The Pantheon, for example, is among this number.

Kimball (p. 99) says this book entered Jefferson's library between 1785 and 1789. Jefferson sold his copy tto Congress. He ordered it for the University in the section on &ldquoArchitecture" of the want list, but there is no record of the library's having acquired it during his lifetime. The library's present copy has been recently purchased, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U.Va. M *DG62.5.R65.1652 Sowerby 4193

Vol. I ESSAYS, / POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL, / AND / PHILOSOPHICAL. /BY BENJAMIN COUNT OF RUMFORD, / KNIGHT OF THE ORDERS OF THE WHITE EAGLE, AND ST. STANISLAUS; / Chamberlain, Privy Counsellor of State, and Lieutenant-Generel in the Service / of his Most Serene Highness the ELECTOR PALATINE, Reigning DUKE / of BAVARIA; Colonel of his Reçiment of Artillery, and Commander in / Chief of the General Staff of his Army; F. R. S. Acad. R. / Hiber. Berol. Elec. Boicoe. Palat. et Amer. Soc. / The First American, / From the Third London, Edition. / VOL. I.

/ BOSTON: / Printed by MANNING & LORING,/ For DAVID WEST. Sold at his Book-store, No. 56, / Cornhill; by EBENEZER S. THOMAS, Charleston, S. Carolina; / and by SOLOMON COTTON & Co. Baltimore. / March, 1798.

8vo. Engraved portrait ( [ii] ); title page ( [iii] ); dedication ( [v-vi ); table of contents ([vii]-xxiii ); text, with 6 woodcut plates inserted between pp. 376-87 ( [1]-464)

Vol. II. ESSAYS / . . . / VOL. II. / . . . / AUGUST, 1799.
8vo. Title page ( 1 leaf ); note ( 1 leaf ); table of contents ( 7 leaves ); text, with 11 engraved plates inserted, of which 1 is folding ( [1]-496) .

Vol. III. ESSAYS / . . . / A NEW EDITION. / Vol. III. / Boston: / PRINTED FOR WEST AND GREENLEAF, / No. 56, CORN HILL / 1804.
8vo. Title page ( 1 leaf ); note ( [i]-iv ); partial table of contents ( [v]-vii ); remainder of contents (3 leaves); text, with 8 engraved plates inserted, of which 1 is folding, and with many woodcut figures in the text and 5 woodcut plates inserted ( [ 1]-498) .

Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814) was born in Woburn, Massachusetts. He was educated in Woburn, Byfield, and Medford and showed an early aptitude for drafting and mathematics. Although he was apprenticed to an importer, he continued his scientific studies with the Rev. Thomas Banerd of Salem. A Loyalist, he went over to England in 1776. He was knighted there in 1784 and given the title of Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1791 by the Elector of Bavaria. He chose the name of Rumford, which was the old name of Concord, New Hampshire, to accompany this honor. He later married Mme. Lavoisier, the widow of the physicist, but they were soon separated. He remained, however, in Paris until his death.

Rumford's principal work was in the fields of food, thermodynamics, the absorption of moisture, and gunpowder. He was a member of the academies of Berlin, Munich, and Mannheim; he helped found the Royal Institution in London; he was a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and he was offered the post of superintendent of West Point. When his will was read, it was found that he had left a professorship to Harvard and $5,000 for a medal to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His Essays were first published in 1796 and had an edition as late as 1880 as well as a reprint in 1969. The edition of 179S1804 was the first American one.

Jefferson owned the first two volumes, later sold to Congress, and l ome of the chapters had a notable influence on him as a practicing archil ect; e.g., "Essay IV. Of CHIMNEY FIRE-PLACES, WITH PROPOSALS for Improving them to save FUEL; to render Dwelling-houses more COMORTABLE and SALUBRIOUS, and effectually to prevent CHIMNIES from SMOKING" (I, [301]47), first published in the Bibliothèque Britannique in Geneva in 1796 and again in the same year in Vol. I of the London edition of Rumford's Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, and "Essay I. OF THE MANAGEMENT OF FIRE, AND THE ECONOMY OF FUEL" (II, [1]-196). From these essays Jefferson derived his peculiar but efficient forrns for fireplaces so evident at Monticello (see Plates CXVI and CXVII ) .

In 1799 Wilson Cary Nicholas asked Jefferson for the dimensions l of the Rumford fireplaces. Jefferson replied on May 2 saying he had used them "with great satisfaction," although he had changed Rumford's proportions of the back opening from one-third the front to one-half, which would allow him to burn wood rather than coal. There is also an undated memorandum on "Count Rumford fireplaces" (N-146b) in which Jefferson specifies the proportions of the fireplaces in the two "square rooms" of the first floor of Monticello, added after 1796.

All three volumes of the American edition were ordered by Jefferon for the University in the section on "Technical Arts" of the want list, ut there is no evidence that they had been received by 1828. The library as acquired a set of the books in the twentieth century.

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