42
Voiage d’Italie de Misson.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 28, as
above.
MISSON,
François
Maximilien
.
Voyage
d’Italie.
From
the information given by Jefferson in his manuscript catalogue and in the 1815
Library of Congress Catalogue (repeated in the catalogue of 1831), it is not
possible to determine which edition of this work was sold to Congress by
Jefferson. The entry is omitted from the later Library of Congress catalogues.
Neither Jefferson nor the 1815 Catalogue calls for an edition in more than one
volume, though no edition in one volume seems to have been published.
The first edition was
published in two volumes at La Haye in 1691. In this edition, and all editions
before that of 1722 (as well as in some editions after that date), the title
began with the word “Nouveau” (
Nouveau
Voyage d’Italie . . .
) and the name of the author is not on the
title-page, but is to be found at the end of the dedicatory epistle. The
editions after the first were in four volumes.
The first edition with the title
Voyage d’Italie, and with the
author’s name on the title-page, as called for by Jefferson (and which is
considered the best edition), was published in Utrecht in 1722, 4 vol. 12mo:
Voyage d’Italie de Monsieur Misson,
avec un Mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le même
voyage. Cinquieme Edition, plus ample & plus correcte que les précédentes,
enrichie de nouvelles Figures et Augmentée d’un quatrieme volume traduit de
l’Anglois, & contenant les Remarques que Monsieur Addisson a faites dans
son Voyage d’Italie. Tome Premier
[-
Quatrieme.]
A Utrecht: chez Guillaume vande Water
et Jaques van Poolsum.
mdccxxii. These volumes have numerous engraved
plates, and the engraved frontispiece (made for this edition) has the title
Nouveau Voyage
d’Italie
.
Barbier III, 524. Quérard
VI, 164. Haag VII, 427. Boucher de la Richarderie II, 480.
Jefferson’s copy of this work (apparently one volume
only) was bound by John March in calf, gilt, price $1.00, in October
1804.
In the preface to his
Remarks on Several Parts of
Italy
[q.v. no. 3907] Joseph Addison gives an account of the various
writers on Italy including Misson: “Monsieur Misson has wrote a more correct
Account of Italy in general than any before him, as he particularly excells in
the Plan of the Country, which he has given us in true and lively Colours . .
.”
François Maximilien Misson, 1650?-1722, was born
in France, but had to leave after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and
settled in England. He travelled in Holland, Germany and Italy (the Grand Tour)
in 1687 and 1688, as tutor to Charles Butler, the grandson of the Duke of
Ormonde (afterwards the Earl of Arran), and dedicated this book to him. The
first edition in English appeared in London in 1695.
[3901]
43
Burnet’s travels.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 30, as above.
BURNET,
Gilbert.
Bishop Burnet’s Travels through France, Italy, Germany,
and Switzerland: Describing their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs,
Natural History, Trade, &c. And illustrated with curious observations on
the Buildings, Paintings, Antiquities, and other curiosities in Art and Nature.
With a detection of the frauds and folly of Popery and Superstition in some
flagrant instances, also characters of several eminent persons, and many other
memorable things worthy the attention of the curious. Written by the Bishop to
the Hon. Robert Boyle. To which is added, an Appendix, containing remarks on
Switzerland and Italy, by a person of Quality, and communicated to the Author.
Edinburgh: Printed by
Sands, Murray, and Cochran, for
Thomas Glas Bookseller in
Dundee,
mdcclii
. [1752.]
