Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791 Dumont, Gabriel Pierre Martin, 1715?-1791? M Verennes, Jacques de
Published / Created:
1769
Call Number:
DG70 P3 B47+ Oversize
Image Count:
2
Description:
Dedication signed: Dumont (the "auteur des gravures")., Imperfect: plates 4, 6, 14 wanting., Signatures: [*]2a-c2A-E2., and Translated by Jacques de Varennes.
Publisher:
chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du Roi pour l'artillerie & le génie, à l'image Notre-Dame : and Et chez l'auteur des gravures, rue des Arcis,
"Fabelliedchen. Es sah' ein Knab' ein Rösslein stehn ...", attributed to Goethe: p. 57., "LvTruchsess, Bundorph, 1774." written on front end-paper; a few ms. notes, apparently by the same hand., According to [Truchsesee's?] ms. note on p.139, Goethe was the translator of Frisi's Versuch über die gothische Baukunst., and I. Auszug aus einem Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker [by Herder] -- II. Shakespear [by Herder]. Nachschrift [zu I.] -- III. Von deutscher Baukunst [by Geothe] -- IV. Versuch über die gothische Baukunst. Livorno, 1776. Aus dem Italienischen dees Frisi. -- V. Deutsche Geschichte [by Möser].
Publisher:
Bey Bode.
Subject (Name):
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803, Ossian, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Vitruvius Britannicus, ou l'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des bâtimens reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne
Description:
The title pages are engraved in volumes 1-2, 4-5., Vol. 3 contains "The geometrical plans of the most considerable gardens and plantations.", Vols. 4 and 5 are a continuation by Woolfe and Gandon., and BAC: British Art Center copy is a large paper copy, with volumes IV & V larger than volumes I to III. All volumes are first issues with lists of subscribers and volumes IV & V with the bookplate of Edward Harbord, Lord Suffield. Bound in contemporary calf; rebacked.
Publisher:
Sold by the author over against Douglas-Coffee house in St. Martins-Lane : John Nicholson in Little Britain : Andrew Bell at the Cross-Keys in Cornhil : W. Taylor in Pater-Noster -Row : Henry Clements in St. Pauls Church-yard : and Jos. Smith in Exeter Change
Bookplate: Ver Hayden de Lancey of the Middle Temple and Grey's Inn., Flyleaf note: "Diary of a stay in Rome 1764/64 and a journey from Rome to Berlin via Naples Marseilles - Genoa - Milan - Parma -Bologna , Venice and Vienna. by a member of the de Lancey family" , possibly in the hand of Baron Ver Hayden de Lancey., and Binding: original limp vellum with flap; remains of wax seal with coat of arms on flap and back cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Italy, and Naples (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Military art and science, Travelers' writings, English, Travel diaries, Description and travel, and History
Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.
Description:
Mutilated and wanting plates 2-4, 7-8, 10, 12-13, 17-21, 23, 27-29, 32-34, 41-42, 45, 54, 57-59, 61. Manuscript note on fly-leaf: "Given to the library of Yale college ... by Thomas Whately ... and transmitted to the said library by J. Ingersoll ... London, Jan. 12, 1765."
Publisher:
Printed for the avthor,
Subject (Name):
Palace of Diocletian (Split, Croatia) and Whately, Thomas--Presentation inscription to Yale University Library.