33
Smeaton’s Narrative of Eddystone lighthouse.
g. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. Y, as above, but reading
gr. fol.
SMEATON,
John.
A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone: to which is subjoined,
an Appendix, giving some Account of the Lighthouse on the Spurn Point, built upon a Sand. By John Smeaton, Civil Engineer, F.R.S.
London: Printed for the Author, by
H. Hughs: sold by
G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall,
1791.
TC375 .S63
First Edition. Atlas folio. 106 leaves of text, 23 full-page engravings by Wm. Faden, 1784, 5, 1789, 90; Henry Roberts, 1761, 2; J. Record, 1784, 5, 6, 1788, 90 and Ed. Rooker 1663, engraving on the title-page by A. Birrel, 1789, after M. Dixon; Advertisement to the Reader tipped in on the leaf of Preface.
Lowndes V, 2415.
Kimball, page 100.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him from London by Benjamin Vaughan. In a letter to him dated from Philadelphia May 11, 1791,
Jefferson wrote: “
. . . I thank you, my dear Sir, for the Sacontalá, and for Smeaton’s book: but the latter is of a value which obliges me to
request you to put more reasonable bounds to your liberalities, neither the state of the sciences nor of the arts here putting
it in my power to fulfill that reciprosity which my wishes would lead me to . . .
”
James Smeaton, 1724-1792, English engineer, was appointed to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone reef immediately after the destruction
by fire of the existing lighthouse in 1755. Smeaton’s book contains an account of the two lighthouses which had been erected
on this reef previous to his own. The first, designed by Henry Winstanley, was begun in 1696 and destroyed by a gale in November
1703. The second, designed by Rudyerd, was built in 1706, and lasted until 1755.
The building of Smeaton’s lighthouse was begun on August 3, 1756, and completed in 1759. The plates also contain illustrations
of Winstanley’s and of Rudyerd’s designs, as well as of those of Smeaton.
[4213]
34
Plans des maisons de Paris par Krafft et Ransonnette
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. 21, as above.
KRAFFT,
Johann Karl,
and
RANSONNETTE, Pierre Nicolas.
Plans, Coupes, Élevations des plus belles Maisons et des Hotels construits a Paris et dans les Environs. Publiés par J.-Ch. Krafft, Architecte, et N. Ransonnette, Graveur. A
Paris: chez Les deux Associés,
Krafft, Architecte, et
Ransonnette, Graveur;
Ch. Pougens, Imprimeur-Libraire;
Fuchs, Libraire;
Calixte Volland, Libraire;
Levrault, Libraire . . .
Grundrisse, Durchschnitte und Aufrisse der Schoensten in Paris und der umliegenden gegend befindlichen Haeuser und Pallaeste.
Herausgegeben von J. Ch. Krafft, Baumeister, und N. Ransonnette, Kupfestecher.
Paris: bey Im Verlage bey den Herausgebern, dem Baumeister
Krafft, und dem Kupferstecher
Ransonnette;
Carl Pougens, Buchdrucker und Buchhaendler;
Fuchs, Buchhaendler;
Calixte Volland, Buchhaendler;
Levrault, Buchhaendler . . .
Plans, Forms, Elevations of the most remarkable Houses and Hotels erected in Paris and its Environs published by J. Ch. Krafft, Architect, and Ransonnette, Engraver.
Paris: by Sold
[
sic
--
Ed.
] by the Editors,
Krafft, Architect, and
Ransonnette, Engraver;
Ch. Pougens, Bookseller;
Fuchs, Bookseller;
Calixte
