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Les œuvres d'architecture de Pierre Contant d'Ivry, architecte du Roi. P[remi]ere. partie. *La 2e. partie paroitra séparément, et contiendra plusieurs batimens executés par l'Auteur; avec différens projets de comparaison sur des edifices anciens et modernes qui peuvent être utiles a la théorie de l'architecture
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CONTANT D'IVRY, Pierre (1698--1777)
Les œuvres d'architecture de Pierre Contant d'Ivry, architecte du Roi. P[remi]ere. partie. *La 2e. partie paroitra séparément, et contiendra plusieurs batimens executés par l'Auteur; avec différens projets de comparaison sur des edifices anciens et modernes qui peuvent être utiles a la théorie de l'architecture
A Paris (Place), se trouve chez l'auteur. Chez Dumont professeur d'architecture qui a dirigé les gravûres. Huquier. Joullain Md d'estampes,, 1769.
72 engr. pl. (i.e. 71 leaves carrying 80 impressions), engr. frontis. port. ; 54.1 cm. (2º)
No more published. The engraved title-leaf incorporating a perspective rendering of a triumphal arch is numbered as plate 1. 'Se trouve chez l'Auteur, rue de Harlay près le Palais' precedes 'A Paris' in the imprint, and the title as transcribed above is followed by '*Nul': both are absent from an earlier state of this plate represented by the Royal Academy and Institut national d'histoire de l'art copies, which have most of the plates in unnumbered states, suggesting the Soane copy represents a later issue. The frontispiece portrait of Contant d’Ivry is etched by Vincenzo Vangelisti after Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet). One plate bears two numbers (17--18), and nine leaves bear two impressions with duplicate numbering (63--71). Plate 62, 'Projet et Elévation, différemment variée, de la façade principale du fond de la Cour d'un Hôtel situé Faubourg St. Germain à Paris' has two flaps attached showing alternative designs for the upper façade. Most of the plates are engraved by L.G. Taraval; the remainder are signed by Barabé, by Poulleau, or unsigned.
Copy Notes Bought from Mons. Salmon (Paris) for 2N [= 40 Fr], September 1819. (Priv. Corr. XIV.B.4.6). The frontispiece and title-plate bear an unidentified collector's stamp with monogram 'FC' (or 'TC'?) within an oval frame; the frontispiece is additionally inscribed in ink Cammaly 1793. Scraps of paper with traces of watercolour inserted as bookmarks at plates 45, 55, and 60.
Binding C18th half sheep, brown Kleisterpapier boards, brown leather spine-label, paper spine-label with library shelfmark (?) in ink.
Reference Number 5591
Additional Names J.$Salmon; Cammaly
Les œuvres d'architecture de Pierre Contant d'Ivry, architecte du Roi. P[remi]ere. partie. *La 2e. partie paroitra séparément, et contiendra plusieurs batimens executés par l'Auteur; avec différens projets de comparaison sur des edifices anciens et modernes qui peuvent être utiles a la théorie de l'architecture
A Paris (Place), se trouve chez l'auteur. Chez Dumont professeur d'architecture qui a dirigé les gravûres. Huquier. Joullain Md d'estampes,, 1769.
72 engr. pl. (i.e. 71 leaves carrying 80 impressions), engr. frontis. port. ; 54.1 cm. (2º)
No more published. The engraved title-leaf incorporating a perspective rendering of a triumphal arch is numbered as plate 1. 'Se trouve chez l'Auteur, rue de Harlay près le Palais' precedes 'A Paris' in the imprint, and the title as transcribed above is followed by '*Nul': both are absent from an earlier state of this plate represented by the Royal Academy and Institut national d'histoire de l'art copies, which have most of the plates in unnumbered states, suggesting the Soane copy represents a later issue. The frontispiece portrait of Contant d’Ivry is etched by Vincenzo Vangelisti after Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet). One plate bears two numbers (17--18), and nine leaves bear two impressions with duplicate numbering (63--71). Plate 62, 'Projet et Elévation, différemment variée, de la façade principale du fond de la Cour d'un Hôtel situé Faubourg St. Germain à Paris' has two flaps attached showing alternative designs for the upper façade. Most of the plates are engraved by L.G. Taraval; the remainder are signed by Barabé, by Poulleau, or unsigned.
Copy Notes Bought from Mons. Salmon (Paris) for 2N [= 40 Fr], September 1819. (Priv. Corr. XIV.B.4.6). The frontispiece and title-plate bear an unidentified collector's stamp with monogram 'FC' (or 'TC'?) within an oval frame; the frontispiece is additionally inscribed in ink Cammaly 1793. Scraps of paper with traces of watercolour inserted as bookmarks at plates 45, 55, and 60.
Binding C18th half sheep, brown Kleisterpapier boards, brown leather spine-label, paper spine-label with library shelfmark (?) in ink.
Reference Number 5591
Additional Names J.$Salmon; Cammaly