Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques, et modernes, tant dans la ville de Rome, ques autres villes et lieux d'Italie
By: desiné et mis en lumière par moy Adam Philippon
Contributors: Mewès, Charles Frédéric, 1860-1914; Mitchell, Herbert; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library)
Publisher: Chez l'Autheur, proche la Porte Sainct Martin, ruë du Verbois au croissant
Published: 1645
Place of publication: [Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Decoration and ornament; Early works to 1800; Louis XIII style; Louis XIV style
Other titles: Cvrievses Recherches De Plvsievrs Beavs Morceavs D'ornemens Antiques, et Modernes, tant dans la Ville de Rome que autres villes et lieux d'Italie ...
Notes: Avery Classics copy: Bookplate of Charles Frédéric Mewes on front pastedown; also with his monogram, gilt, on front cover; each engraving also stamped with his monogram in red ink.

Avery Classics copy: Leaf numbered 15 in manuscript numbered 2 in plate differs both in style and subject from other components of the collection.

Avery Classics copy: No. 35 wanting, replaced by a blank leaf.

Avery Classics copy: Image of a ceiling mounted on leaf after leaf 44.

Avery Classics copy: Two engravings of heads, one numbered 23 in ink the other numbered 17 in plate,  originally laid in now housed separately in four-flap.

Avery Classics copy: Gift of Herbert Mitchell.

Berlin.  Ornamentstichsammlung, 312

Guilmard, D.  Les maîtres ornemanistes.  Paris : Plon, 1880. No. 72, p. 55

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell