Volland, Bookseller;
Levrault, Bookseller; De l’Imprimerie de
Clousier, n.d. [
1801,
2.]
NA7348 .P2 K8 fol.
First Edition. Imperial folio. Engraved frontispiece Inventé et Gravé par N. Ransonnette, printed title as above, 1 leaf of Advertissement, followed by the Explication des Planches on 21 leaves, the text throughout
in
French,
German and
English in parallel columns, 120 numbered engraved plates by Ransonnette after Krafft.
Brunet III, 694.
Quérard IV, 315.
Graesse IV, 46.
De Ricci-Cohen, col. 530.
Kimball, page 95.
The copy in the Library of Congress is without date. In all the bibliographies consulted with the exception of De Ricci-Cohen
the work is dated an IX and X (1801, 2). De Ricci-Cohen dates the work (
vers 1800).
Jefferson bought his copy from
Reibelt of Baltimore on December 24, 1804, price $
40.00. It was offered to him by Reibelt in a letter dated from Baltimore, December 13, 1804: “Le dernier Exemplaire, qui me restoit,
des Plans des Maisons de Paris--n’a certainement pü être mieux place que dans
votre bibliothèque.
"Je n’en ai plus, mais j’en attends et j’aurois l’honneur de vous en envoyer 2 Exempl. aussitot que je les aurois reçus .
. .”
On December 15, Reibelt wrote to say that Jefferson would find it in the first case of a number with books sent on approval for selection by the Secretary
of State. On December 24, Jefferson sent Reibelt a list of those he had selected for his personal library, of which the first was this work. The book appears on several lists of books bought during the year 1804 made by Jefferson including a statement in his own hand of his account with Reibelt, with the date of purchase, December 24, and the price 40D.
The binding bill of John March, Georgetown, includes under the date March 7, 1805, the entry: “
1 vol. folio. Maisons de Paris plates reduced difficult Ex
t. Calf gilt 5.00.
”
The work was issued in 20 livraisons, each containing 6 plates and the accompanying text. On January 20, 1806, Jefferson wrote
to Reibelt at Baltimore: “
. . . I have at length found a moment to revise the Catalogue you were so kind as to send me in your’s of the 11
th. and I reduce my wants at present to those above stated, & shall avail myself of the kind offer of m
(
~
r)
Guestier to have them brought from Bordeaux . . .”
The first of those “above stated” was “
Des plans et coupes des Maisons de Paris par Krafft et Ransonet in fol. la [ ]
livraison et suiv en feuilles.”
Immediately after this Reibelt announced his departure for New Orleans, and arrangements were made for the importation of Jefferson’s books from Europe.
On June 16, Dufour of Amsterdam sent to T. H. Backer a bill for books for Monsieur le President Jefferson, and in a footnote
explained: “
La 20me livraison des Plans, coupes &c. des maisons & Hotels de Paris par Krafft est la deniere de l’ouvrage.”
Johann Karl Krafft, 1764-1833, was born in Austria, but spent the greater part of his life in Paris. He published a number of books on architecture.
Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette, 1745-1810, French engraver, engraved the plates for a number of the French illustrated books issued in the eighteenth century.
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J.35
Bibliotheque d’Architecture de Jombert. partie 4
me. viz. Parallele de l’architecture antique et Moderne par Errard et Chambray.
8
vo.
d
o. 2
de. partie. Architecture de Palladio.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 129, no. 6, Bibliotheque d’Architecture de Jombert, partie 4me. Parallele de l’Architecture antique et
moderne, par Errard et Chambray, et 2de partie Architecture de Palladio, 2 v 8vo.
Bibliotheque Portative d’Architecture élémentaire, à l’usage des Artistes. Divisée en six Parties. Seconde Partie. Contenant
l’Architecture de Palladio. [-Quatrieme Partie. Contenant le Parallele de l’Architecture Antique avec la Moderne.]
NA2515 .P254 1764
NA2810 .F8
Together 2 vol. 8vo. uniformly bound in mottled calf, gilt, r.e., marbled endpapers, the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate
in both volumes.
