4 vol. 12mo. 202, 232, 172 and 120 leaves, half-title and errata list in each volume, in the last volume a folded leaf inserted,
with a Table of distances.
Barbier IV, 1065.
Not in Quérard.
Entered by Jefferson on his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
15. + rel.
In the Introduction the author gives an account of various books of travel in Italy, including those of Misson, Addison and
Lalande, q.v. Barbier has a note:
Ce Voyage a été revu et corrigé par Fabri, bourgmestre de Liége. Nothing seems to be known about the author except his own statement on the title-page:
Écuy., ancien Capit. d’Inf
e. au Service de France, &c.
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Guide pour le voyage d’Italie en poste.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 27, as above, but reading
Voiage.
Guide pour le Voyage d’Italie en Poste. Nouvelle Edition, avec les changemens dans les Postes, et augmentée des Routes des
etats de Terre Ferme de S. M. le Roy de Sardaigne. Et les regles à observer pour le passage du Montcenis.
Turin,
1786.
12mo. No copy of this edition was available for collation; no copy is listed in the National Union Catalog; the above title
was taken from later editions printed in Genoa. All these had an additional title in Italian:
Guida per il Viaggia d’Italia in posta . . . the
French and
Italian texts in parallel columns or on opposite pages, and illustrated with maps.
Not in Barbier.
Not in Melzi.
Not in Passano.
Not in Quérard.
Not in Brunet.
Entered by Jefferson on his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Jefferson visited Italy in 1787 and wrote his impressions of the country in his
Memorandums taken on a journey from Paris into the Southern parts of France, and Northern of Italy, in the year 1787
, upwards of 40 pages in his handwriting, of which one is devoted to a recipe for making the best Italian “maccaroni,” with
a pen and ink illustration, drawn to scale, of the box in which it is made.
Jefferson’s impressions of Turin, where this guide was published, are dated April 17 and 18:
. . . the first nightingale I have heard this year is to day, (18
th.) there is a red wine of Nebiule made in this neighborhood which is very singular. it is about as sweet as the silky Madeira,
as astringent on the palate as Bordeaux, & as brisk as Champagne. it is a pleasing wine. at Moncaglieri, about 6 miles from
Turin, on the right side the Po begins a ridge of mountains, which following the Po by Turin, after some distance, spreads
wide & forms the dutchy of Montferrat. the soil is mostly red & in vines, affording a wine called Montferrat, which is thick
& strong . . .
After his return to Paris in July, Jefferson’s letters to various correspondents contain accounts of northern Italy and his
impressions of the country and the people.
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Addison’s remarks on several parts of Italy.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 29, as above.
ADDISON,
Joseph.
Remarks on several Parts of Italy, &c. In the Years, 1701, 1702, 1703. By the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; . . .
London: Printed for
J. and R. Tonson and
S. Draper,
m dcc xlv
. [1745.]
12mo. 156 leaves, publishers’ advertisement on the back of the title; woodcut illustrations.
This edition not in Lowndes, not in Watt, and not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Jefferson appears to have obtained his copy from
Lackington in London, but the entry in his undated manuscript catalogue has a price in French money,
2f8. In a letter to John Trumbull, at the time in London, written from Paris on May 18, 1788, Jefferson requested him to perform a number
of commissions, including the purchase of books from Lackington’s last catalogue; in this list Addison’s travels in Italy
was no. 1487, price
two shillings.
Trumbull acknowledged the receipt of the letter on May 23, and promised to send the books.
