Praedium rusticum, in quo cuiusius soli vel culti vel inculti pla[n]tarum vocabula ac descriptiones, earúmque consere[n]darum atque excolendarum instrumenta suo ordine describuntur. In adolescentulorum, bonarum literarum studiosorum, gratiam.
Charles Estienne (1504-1564)
Category
Books
Date
1554
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005537
Summary
Bibliographic description
648, [48] p. : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 5735. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. With manuscript annotations in a sixteenth-century hand. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; brown sheepskin label with gilt title on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Charles Estienne (1504-1564)