i.
Seconde Partie.
PALLADIO,
Andrea.
Architecture de Palladio, contenant les cinq Ordres d’Architecture, suivant cet Auteur, ses observations sur la maniere de bien bâtir, & son Traité
des grands Chemins & des Ponts, tant de charpente que de maçonnerie. Nouvelle Édition.
A
Paris: chez
Jombert, Libraire du Roi pour l’Artillerie & le Génie,
m. dcc. lxiv
. [1764.]
86 leaves, engraved symbolic frontispiece with title, 75 numbered engraved plates, full-page and folded.
Quérard VI, 568.
Kimball, page 98.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On the title-page is the autograph signature of Jno. W. Eppes, and on the fly-leaf Jefferson has written in pencil:
prime cost supposed 15 = 2.75
D
worth in the US 4.81
This work forms the second of the four volumes of the
Bibliothèque Portative d’Architecture élémentaire
, published by Charles Antoine Jombert, 1712-1784, French printer and publisher.
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ii.
Quatrième Partie.
ERRARD,
Charles,
and FRÉART DE CHAMBRAY
, Roland.
Parallele de l’Architecture Antique avec la Moderne, suivant les dix principaux Auteurs qui ont écrit sur les cinq Ordres.
Par MM. Errard & de Chambray. Nouvelle Edition augmentée des Piedestaux pour les cinq Ordres, suivant les mêmes Auteurs, & du Parallele de M. Errard avec M. Perrault, &c. Par Charles-Antoine Jombert.
A
Paris: chez l’Auteur, Libraire du Roi pour l’Artillerie & le Génie,
m. dcc. lxvi
. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roi. [1766.]
80 leaves, engraved frontispiece and 63 numbered engraved plates.
Quérard III, 30 and 201.
Kimball, page 94.
Not initialled by Jefferson, with a note by him in the margin of page 27, and on the plate no. 15, with a reference to Palladio and Desgodetz.
In a letter to N. G. Dufief (Philadelphia) ordering a number of books from France, and dated from Washington March 23, 1802,
Jefferson wrote: “
. . . In the Parallele de l’Architecture antique et Moderne par Errard et Chambray edited by Jombert, which I possess in 8
vo. he speaks of this as only the 4
th. volume of his
Bibliotheque portative d’architecture, and promises a 5
th. volume containing les elemens d’Architecture, peinture & sculpture, and a 6
th. under the title of le Manuel des artistes. I should be glad to possess the whole work compleat . . .
”
It is probably to this work that Jefferson referred in his letter to Dufief dated more than a year later, on May 5, 1803,
concerning a number of books, and in which he wrote: “
. . . I suppose Jombert’s works in architecture . . . were not to be had . . .”
Charles Errard, 1606-1689, French architect, was the director of the Académie de France at Rome. He obtained in Italy materials for a continuation
of the
Parallele de l’Architecture, but died before he was able to complete his project.
Roland Fréart, Sieur de Chambray, d. ?1676, worked with Errard.
This work forms the fourth and last volume in 8vo of Jombert’s
Bibliothèque Portative d’Architecture. Six 8vo volumes were planned, but only four were published, as follows:
i. Vignola.
Règles des cinq ordres d’architecture
, 1764.
ii. Palladio, as described above.
iii. Scamozzi,
Oeuvres d’architecture
, 1764.
iv. Errard et Chambray, as above.
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