The remarkable sayings, apothegms and maxims of the Eastern nations; abstracted and translated out of their books, written in the Arabian, Persian and Turkish language: with remarks. By Monsieur Galland, who liv'd many years in those countries. Translated out of French.
Antoine Galland (1646-1715)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005883
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 142, [2] ,77, [7] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 7549. 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 Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "2/3" [i.e. two-thirds]. Seventeenth or eighteenth-century manuscript shelfmark on front pastedown: "Space 2. Shelf. b. No. 5". Small oval armorial label (Franks 3677?) containing the Bridgeman family arms (Azure, ten roundels on a chief argent a lion passant gules) and lettered 'Richard Bridgeman' pasted on verso of title page [probably either Richard Bridgeman (b. 1621), son of John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester (1577-1652), merchant and agent for the East India Company in Amsterdam; or Richard Bridgeman (d. 1742), whose widow Katherine apparently sold his library after his death]. Binding: late seventeenth or eighteenth-century full sprinkled sheepskin; sewn on four raised bands; gold-tooled spine (faded); gilt title lettered directly on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Antoine Galland (1646-1715)