Catalogus auctorum qui librorum catalogos, indices, bibliothecas, virorum litteratorum elogia, vitas, aut orationes funebres, scriptis consignârunt: ab Antonio Teisserio, uno è viginti sex Academiae Regiae Nemausensis adornatus. Cum Philippi Labbaei Bibliotheca nummaria in duas partes tributa. I. De antiquis numismatibus, Hebraeis, Graecis, & Romanis. II. De monetis, ponderibus & mensuris. Et Mantissa antiquariae supellectilis, ex annulis, sigillis, gemmis, lapidibus, statuis, obeliscis, inscriptionibus, ritibus, similibúsque, Romanae praesertim antiquitatis, monimentis collectâ.
Antoine Teissier (1632-1715)
Category
Books
Date
1686
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005012
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 559, [1], 27, [5] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7717. Imperfect: wanting Appendix (27, [5] p. at end). Provenance: eighteenth-century[?] manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: "P.1.7." [possibly in the hand of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript note on front fly-leaf in scrawly eighteenth-century hand: "[symbol] Mr. Quick icones. il vetó past à Londres". Manuscript bookseller's code beneath imprint on title page. Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; damp damage at foot of front cover, what looks to be leather from an adjoining binding which was sticking to this binding; sewn on four vellum cords; fore-edges of covers extended slightly and folded-over to a sharp ridge; gilt title on brown leather (sheepskin?) label on spine; earlier manuscript title at head of spine; spine cracked, partially missing at tail. Red and blue sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Antoine Teissier (1632-1715), author Philippe Labbe (1607-1667), author