Again, in the letter of March 16, the similar request for Piranesi’s drawings is followed by a similar request for the work
of Desgodets: “
. . . to this I wish Frouillé would add Desgodetz’s antient buildings of Rome. I must on another occasion open a correspondence
with him to send me the books I may want, & have their amount remitted to him once a year. I mention this book now as immediately
wanting & as a good opportunity may occur for sending it . . .
”
Antoine Babuty Desgodets, 1653-1728, French architect, was born in Paris. This work was published at the expense of the King and by order of Colbert
after the return of Desgodets from Rome where he had spent sixteen months in study. The first edition appeared in 1682.
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Architettura del Alberti.
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 129, no. 5, as above.
ALBERTI,
Leonbatista.
L’Architettvra di Leonbatista Alberti tradotta in Lingva
Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli, Gentilhuomo, & Academico Fiorentino. Con la aggiunta de’ Disegni.
In
Venètia: Appresso
Francesco Franceschi, Sanese,
1565.
NA2515 .A33
4to. 276 leaves in eights, including 2 leaves (1 double leaf) inserted after sig. V, included in the numbering, the second
leaf marked X on the recto, with a double page woodcut illustration on the verso of the first, and the recto of the second
leaf, the other sides blank, title within a woodcut symbolic border, woodcut portrait within an oval frame on the verso, numerous
woodcut illustrations in the text including 2 with pieces attached and folded, register and colophon at the end. Dedicated
by Cosimo Bartoli, the translator, to Cosimo de’ Medici, Dvca di Firenze, et di Siena.
Ebert 340.
Kimball, page 92.
Eighteenth century French calf, gilt back, gilt line borders on sides, mottled edges (back repaired), probably bound for Jefferson
in France, not initialled by him; marbled endpapers, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
4.
Leonbatista (
also written Leone Battista)
Alberti, 1404-1472, Italian architect, painter, poet and musician. This work was originally written in
Latin,
De Re Aedificatoria, and printed by Alemannus in Florence in 1485.
Casimir Bartoli, c. 1503-c. 1572, Italian architect and scholar, published the first edition of his translation of Alberti’s work in 1550.
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Elementi di Architettura del Padre Sanvitali...................................
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Elementi di Architettura del Preti....................................................
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Nuove ricerche sull’ equilibrio delle volte del Abate Mascheroni...
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Etienne d’un Ciment impenetrable à l’eau......................................
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1815 Catalogue, page 129, no. 16, as above, but reading
richerche.
Four books (actually five) bound together in 1 volume, French calf, back in compartments, with red morocco labels, lettered
in gilt: Architec/; Sanvital/ Preti/; Maschero/ Etienne/; marbled end-papers, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
It seems probable that Jefferson bought these books separately, and had them bound. They are entered bracketed together in
his dated and in his undated manuscript catalogues, and one of them, Etienne, has its own price added. A pamphlet is included in the binding, not mentioned
by Jefferson in his catalogues, and not listed in any of the Library of Congress catalogues. It is inserted between Preti
and Mascheroni, as follows:
MIGNERON DE BROCQUEVILLE.
Description du pont de Brienne, construit à Bordeaux en bois amélioré et ceintré, par Monsieur Migneron de Brocqueville, auteur de la découverte pour
