University of Virginia Library

111c. Scamozzi, Vincenzo.

OEUVRES / D'ARCHITECTURE / DE / VINCENT SCAMOZZI, /
Architecte de la République de Venise. / NOUVELLE ÉDITION.
/ Revue & corrigée exactement sur l'original Italien. / A PARIS, RUE
DAUPHINE, / Chez Jombert, Libraire du Roi pour l'Artillerie / & le
Génie à l'Image Notre-Dame. / M. DCC. LXIV.

Large 8vo. Engraved frontispiece ([ii]); title page ([iii]); preface (vxi);
table of contents (xii-xviii); life of Scamozzi (xix-xxix); errata (xxxxxxi);
binding order for plates (xxxii); text ([1]-240); 82 engraved
plates, of which 2 are folding, inserted, and several woodcut tailpieces.

The frontispiece (see Plate CXX) was engraved by Grégoire Huret
(1606-70), who was born at Lyons. He worked there at first then went
to Paris where he became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture
et Sculpture in 1663. The frontispiece is engraved "Oeuvres d'architecture
de Scamozzi: A Paris chez Jombert rue Dauphine 1764." Although
the frontispiece is undated, its inscription is obviously superimposed over
the earlier engraving.

See No. 111a for information about Scamozzi. The book is Part III
of the Bibliothèque portative d'architecture issued by Jombert. See No.
46 for further information about this series. The Oeuvres consists of
three divisions devoted to the orders and one to houses, mostly palaces,
by the author.

Jefferson ordered the book for the University in the section on "Architecture"
of the want list, but there is no record of its having been
received. The library's present copy has been recently acquired, the gift
of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

U. Va.

*NA2810.S35.1764

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Plate CXX. From No. 111c. Frontispiece.