Insectorum sive Minimorum animalium theatrum: olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero. Thomaque Pennio inchoatum: tandem Tho. Moufeti Londinâtis operâ sumtibusq[ue] maximis concinnatum, auctum, perfectum: et ad vivum expressis iconibus supra quingentis illustratum.
Thomas Moffett (1553-1604)
Category
Books
Date
1634
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007589
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 285, 296-326, [4] p. : ill. ; fol. Running number: 5848. Provenance: manuscript initial on second 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: "γ½" [i.e. gamma½ = Greek number 3½]. Manuscript codes on front fly-leaf stub. With manuscript annotations in English written in a seventeenth-century hand in the index on leaf A6v and occasionally throughout the text. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled sheepskin; blind double fillet border, four blind fillets along spine-edge, and with additional blind double fillet parallel to spine-edge; blind fillets on spine; gilt title label (partially missing) on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Moffett (1553-1604) Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne (1573-1655) Thomas Penny (d.1589) Edward Wotton (1492 - 1555)