92d. Palladio, Andrea.
LES QVATRE LIVRES / DE L'ARCHITECTVRE / D'ANDRÉ
PALLADIO. / Mis en François; / Dans lesquels, / a prés vn petit Traité
des / cinq Ordres, auec quelques-/vnes des plus necessaires ob-/seruations
pour bien bastir, / Il parle de la construction des / maisons particulieres,
des grand / chemins, des Ponts, des Pla-/ces publiques, des
Xystes, / des Basiliques, & des / Temples. / A PARIS, / De l'Imprimerie
d'Edme Martin. / ruë S. Iacques, au Soleil d'or. / M. DC. L.
Folio. Title page (1 leaf); translator's note (1 leaf); text with many
woodcut illustrations (1-329).
It should be noted that the illustrations are woodcuts and not engravings
as stated in Sowerby.
For information on Roland Fréart de Chambray, the translator, see
No. 46. His estimation of Palladio was high: "Je diray donc seulement
tout en un mot, auec le consentement uniuersel des intelligens, qu'il est
premier entre ceux de sa profession, & qu'on peut tenir ce Liure comme
un Palladium de la uraye Architecture" (Translator's note). This translation
of Palladio by Fréart de Chambray was first issued in this edition
of 1650 (see Plates CIII-CVI; compare Plates CV and CVI with Plate
XCIV).
Jefferson sold his copy to Congress. Kimball (p. 98) says it had
entered his library between 1785 and 1789. It was not ordered for the
University, whose present copy has recently entered its collections, the
gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
M
Sowerby 4181
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