heures & minutes le temps employé à aller d’une poste à l’autre; les distances en milles anglois, mesurées par un Odometre
appliqué à la voiture; les productions des différentes contrées; les choses remarquables à voir dans les villes & sur les
routes; les auberges, &c. On y a joint le rapport des monnoies & celuis des mesures itinéraires, ainsi que le prix de chevaux
de poste des différents pays.
Quatrieme édition, augmentée d’un Voyage en Espagne & en Portugal, & d’une Carte géographique. Par M. L. Dutens. De l’Académie royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres de Paris, & de la Société royale de Londres. A
Paris: Chez
Théophile Barrois le jeune,
m. dcc. lxxxiii.
[1783.]
Sm. 8vo. 156 leaves, folded leaf inserted with
Tables des Rapports de la dépense en Voyage en Angleterre, en France et en Italie, large folded engraved map at the end by le Sr. de la Rochette, 1783; on the back of the half-title a list of booksellers in various cities where the book may be bought; list of errata
on the penultimate, and approbation on the last leaf.
This edition not in Quérard, and not in Haag.
Boucher de la Richarderie I, 290.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
5.0.
Louis Dutens, 1730-1812, French writer, spent a great part of his life in England, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society. While in
England he took orders, and in 1758 was appointed chaplain and secretary to the English minister at the court of Turin. He
later returned to Turin as chargé d’affaires. He died in London.
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Specimen Islandiae Historicum et chorographicum. per Arngrim Jonam,
p 4
to.
Amstelodami.
1643.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 117, as above, but reading
Amsterdam.
JONSSON,
Arngrimur.
Specimen Islandiæ Historicvm, et Magna ex parte Chorographicvm; Anno Iesv Christi 874. primum habitari cæptæ: quo simul sententia
contraria, D. Ioh. Isaci Pontani, Regis Daniæ Historiographi, in placidam considerationem venit; per Arngrimvm Ionam W. Islandvm . . .
Amstelodami. Anno Christi
cIɔ Iɔc xliii. [
Jean Jannsen, 1643.]
DL336 .J8
First Edition. 94 leaves, printer’s device on the title-page.
Graesse III, page 474.
Ebert 10872.
Haeghen,
Marques Typographiques, Vol. I.
Arngrimur Jonsson (
or
Jonas), 1568-1648, Icelandic scholar, was born on the island and educated at the University of Copenhagen; on his return to Iceland
he was ordained a minister. The revival of literature in Iceland in the seventeenth century is largely due to his scholarship
and erudition.
Johannes Isaacius Pontanus, 1571-1640, Danish scholar.
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Description de l’Islande de Horrebow.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 10, as above.
HORREBOW,
Niels.
Nouvelle Description Physique-Historique, Civile et Politique de l’Islande, avec des Observations Critiques sur l’Histoire
Naturelle de cette Isle, donnée par M. Anderson. Ouvrage traduit de l’
Allemand, de M. Horrebows, qui y a été
