Arcana seculi decimi sexti. Huberti Langueti legati, dum viveret, et consiliarii saxonici Epistolae secretae . ad principem suum Augustum sax. ducem & S.R.I. septem virum. ... Primus e museo edit Io. Petr. Ludovicus ...
Hubert Languet (1518-1581)
Category
Books
Date
1699
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005316
Summary
Bibliographic description
XVIII,240;315,[1];368,737-597 [i.e. 759],762-858,489-496;16p.,plate . port.. (metal cut) . 4to. Running number: 1335. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire (entered in catalogue of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys), with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "θ¹" [i.e. theta¹ = Greek number 9¹]; and catalogue code (possibly Mitchell's) on front pastedown: "M-9-". Eighteenth-century letters inscribed beside imprint on title page: "g [over] n". Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards (abraded) with double blind fillet border and blind roll foliate pattern parallel to and near spine. Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Five raised bands; gilt tooling and gilt title on leather label. Endbands with front beads. Pastedown and endleaves at both ends. Red sprinkled edges. Front board detached.
Makers and roles
Hubert Languet (1518-1581)