des Desseins illustratifs. Par Robert Mitchell, Architecte.
London: printed, at
the Oriental Press, by
Wilson & Co. for the Author: and sold by
J. Taylor;
R. Faulder;
J. and T. Carpenter;
T. Evans; and
J. White,
1801.
NA2620 .M5
First Edition. Atlas folio. 18 leaves of text, printed in
English and
French,
French imprint at the end of the text, 18 plates after R. Mitchell, one printed in colors, all with the legend in
English and
French.
Lowndes III, 1579.
Redgrave, page 204.
Kimball, page 96.
Dr. Kimball notes that Jefferson acquired this book between 1801 and 1805: “The date of publication fixes the earlier limit,
the date of binding, August, 1805 (bill of J. March, Jefferson Papers, Mass. Hist. Soc.), the later limit.” The binding bill of John March for this date available
to us does not list this work.
Robert Mitchell, fl. 1800, English architect, designed a number of residences in England and in Scotland, including Selwood Park, Berkshire,
Moor-Place, Hertfordshire, Preston Hall, Edinburgh, and in 1801 published this book of plans and views of his designs for
these buildings.
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Monumens de Nismes de Clerissault.
g. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. S, as above, but reading
gr. fol.
CLÉRISSEAU,
Charles Louis.
Antiquités de la France, par M. Clérisseau, Architecte, de l’Académie Royale de Peinture & Sculpture de Paris, Membre de la Société Royale de Peinture, Sculpture &
Architecture de Londres. Premiere Partie.
A
Paris: de l’Imprimerie de
Philippe-Denys Pierres; et se vend chez l’Auteur, Le Sieur
Poulleau, Graveur, Le Sieur
Joullain, M
d d’Estampes,
m. dcc. lxxviii
. [1778.]
NA335 .N5 C6 fol
First Edition. Atlas folio. Part I. [all published] 12 leaves of text, including the half-title reading:
Monumens de Nismes
and 1 leaf with the list of Subscribers names. Engraved vignette on the title-page, engraved head-pieces, engraved cul-de-lampe
by C. Poulleau after Clérisseau, engraved frontispiece of the Temple de Diane à Nimes by Poulleau, 41 engraved plates of the Maison quarrée and other antiquities of Nîmes, numbered, full-page or double-page, some unsigned,
others signed C. R. G. Poulleau. The subscribers’ names include M. le Duc de Rochefoucaud, Pair de France; M. le Comte de Tessé, Grand d’Espagne; M. Silvestre,
Chevalier de Saint-Michel; M. l’Abbé Arnaud, de l’Académie Francaise, M. Molinos, Architecte and a number of others from France,
four from Italy and nineteen from England including Milord Dunmore and Milady Dunmore.
Quérard II, 227.
Not in De Ricci-Cohen.
Kimball, page 93.
Jefferson bought this book from Clérisseau himself. An entry in his notebook, under date June 2, 1786, reads:
pd. Clerissault for a book
72 f.
The book is entered by him in his undated manuscript catalogue with that price. This purchase was made the year before Jefferson visited Nîmes. For Jefferson’s accounts of Nîmes, see no.
3886.
Charles Louis Clérisseau, 1722-1820, French painter and architect, studied the models of antiquity in Rome. In addition to being a member of the Academies
at Paris and London as stated on the title-page, he was also a member of the academy at St. Petersburg, and took the title
of painter to the Empress, Catherine II. Clérisseau achieved a great reputation in France, and survived the Revolution.
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Lubersac sur les monumens publiques.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. 20, as above.
LUBERSAC DE LIVRON,
abbé Charles François de.
Discours sur les monumens publics de tous les âges et des tous les peuples connus, suivi d’une description de monument projeté
à la gloire de Louis XVI et de la France, terminé par quelques observations sur les principaux monumens modernes de la ville
de Paris, et plusieurs projets de décoration et d’utilité publique pour cette
