Thomae Bartholini De unicornu observationes novae.
Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007588
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 381, [15] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 5720. 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)]. Manuscript booksellers' codes on front and rear pastedowns. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "1s-6". Red wax crest seal on engraved half-title: dog and chapeau. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; blind double and single fillet border, with quarter blind double and single fillet parallel to spine-edge; gilt dotted roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; brown leather label with gilt title on spine. Red and blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) Caspar Bartholin (1655-1738) Romeyn de Hooghe (Amsterdam 1645 -1708), engraver (printmaker)