Stanislai de Lubienietz Lubieniecii Rolitsii theatrum cometicum, duabus partibus constans, . Quarum altera frequenti senatu philosophico conspicua, cometas anni 1664 & 1665. Variis virorum per Europam clariss. cum quibus auctor de hoc argumento contulit, observationibus, dissertationibus, animadversionibus descriptos, & quinquaginta novem figuris æneis illustratos, exhibet: quibus immista sunt varia philosophica & Christiana exempla & monita, ad vitæ melius degendæ usum cuicunque hominum generi convenientia: ad sereniss. & potentiss. Fridericum tertium, Regem Daniæ, Norvegiæ &c. &c. &c. Altera continet historiam ccccxv. cometarum, à tempore diluvii ad Ann. 1665. cum 25 figuris & accurato indiculo, ...
Stanislaw Lubieniecki (1623-1675)
Category
Books
Date
1668
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Lanhydrock, Cornwall, South West, National Trust
NT 3041514
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : ill., charts, ports. ; fol. Bound in 1 vol. Manuscript inscription (in eighteenth/early nineteenth-century hand) on slip pasted onto title page: "For various prints belonging to this book see the portfolio"; in pencil beneath (in two nineteenth/twentieth-century hands) "Where is this portfolio. It is not the one in Shelf E.5" and "In F. bookcase". Portfolio not found 10/6/2002. Vol. 1 engraved title page pasted to verso of front endpaper. Many of the plates detached from the binding; fairly certainly some missing. Provenance: manuscript dedicatory inscription on front fly-leaf: "Illustrissimo excellantiss[im]o domino domino Robarts Baroni de Truro Magnae Brittanae Monarchiae secret: sigilli custodi &c &c: magno literatorum ac peregrinorum patrono domino suo plurimum honorando Opus hocce summâ eruditione insigniq[ue] industriâ Equ: Poloni elaboratum, suâ vero propria curâ acquisitum humillime offert. humillimus debitor ac servus Conradus a Sack Gleshinski e.G.P. Mpp." [i.e. given to John Robartes, 2nd Baron Robartes of Truro, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606-1685) by Konrad Gleshinski. Gleshinski, or Glesinski, seems to have been a Polish refugee in England during the reign of Charles II. According to the Gentleman's Magazine Feb. 1838, p. 147-150, he appears to have enjoyed the hospitality of a number of members of the aristocracy and of the universities, presenting books to them with dedicatory presentations]. Binding: seventeenth-century red morocco; double gilt fillet border; single panel of gilt fillets and roll pattern, with gilt cornerpiece stamps. Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Gold-tooled spine, with panels of repeated floral and foliate stamps. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Stanislaw Lubieniecki (1623-1675) Otto Guericken Gaspar Schott (1608-1666)