Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
William Dalrymple, fl. 1777. This book is in the form of letters dated from various cities in Spain and Portugal, the first from Cordova, June
29th, 1774, and the last (the account of the Spanish expedition against Algiers) from Gibraltar, Oct. 1, 1775. According to
Foulché-Delbosc, this is not the first edition, but was preceded by a Dublin edition in the same year, 12mo.
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Voiage de Figaro en Espagne.
18
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 25, as above,
but reading
16s.
FLEURIOT,
Jean Marie Jérôme,
dit
Marquis de
Langle
.
Voyage de Figaro, en Espagne.
Saint-Malo,
1784.
First
Edition. 12mo. 151 leaves; no copy was available for collation.
Quérard III,
133.
Foulché-Delbosc, no. 188A.
Boucher de la
Richarderie III, 468.
The first two editions only of this work have the title
Voyage de Figaro en Espagne,
as called for by Jefferson, the first printed in Saint-Malo in 1784 in
duodecimo, and the second in Seville in 1785 in octavo. Subsequent editions
were printed in two volumes and with the author’s name on the title-page:
Voyage en Espagne, par M. le Marquis
de Langle
. The title quoted by Jefferson (and entered similarly in his
undated manuscript catalogue, with the non-existent format 18s, and with the
price
2.8) makes it clear that he must have had the smaller of the two editions
so titled, that is to say the first edition, in 12mo.
Jefferson’s entry is repeated in the Library of
Congress catalogues of 1815 and 1831. The later catalogues which distinguish
Jefferson copies assign an edition to him of Paris, 1785 (Premiere Partie,
16s.) with the Marquis de Langle’s name on the title-page, not that of Figaro.
According to Foulché-Delbosc, op cit., the first edition with a Paris imprint
appeared in 1796.
There is the possibility
that Jefferson had changed the entry in the manuscript catalogue used for the
sale of the books to Congress, but this seems unlikely as the Library of
Congress catalogues of 1815 and 1831 repeat the title as entered by Jefferson
in his manuscript catalogues.
The author of
this work, whose name is variously given as Jean Marie Jérôme Fleuriot or
Jérôme Charlemagne Fleuriau, in both cases
dit le Marquis de Langle, was
born in 1749 and died in 1807. The first edition was ordered to be burned by an
arrêt of the
parlement of February 26,
1788. According to the bibliographers the sixth edition, published in Paris by
Perlet, Lebour in 1803, with the title
Voyage en Espagne, par L. M. de Langle, was the
only one acknowledged by the author. The book was reprinted many times and
translated into several languages.
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Voiage en Espagne de Bourgoyne
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 135, as
above.
[BOURGOING,
Jean François, Baron
de
.]
Nouveau Voyage en
Espagne, ou Tableau de l’État Actuel de cette Monarchie . . . Avec une Carte
enluminée, des Plans & des Figures en taille-douce. Tome Premier
[-Troisieme].
A
Paris: chez
Regnault [de l’Imprimerie de
Cl. Simon]
m. dcc. lxxxix
. Avec
Approbation & Privilége du Roi. [1789.]
DP34 .B77
First Edition, second issue. 3 vol. 8vo. 188, 194 and
206 leaves, the last a blank, folded engraved plates in vol. I and III. On the
back of the title of vol. I is the
Avis au Relieur, pour placer les Planches, 3
lists of
Fautes à corriger,
printer’s imprint at the end of the last volume.
Barbier III, 525.
Quérard I, 472.
Foulché-Delbosc,
page 137, no. 189 B.
Boucher de la Richarderie III, 416.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Froullé in
Paris on June 13, 1789, price
12.0.
Before
acquiring his copy Jefferson had mentioned his interest in it in an undated
letter to William Short: “
Th:
Jefferson in writing to m
(
~
r)
Short
forgot to mention that the present occasion by m
(
~
r)
Blake
will be a happy
”
