Miscellaneous discourses concerning the dissolution and changes of the world. Wherein the primitive chaos and creation, the general deluge, fountains, formed stones, sea-shells found in the earth, subterraneous trees, mountains, earthquakes, vulcanoes, the universal conflagration and future state, are largely discussed and examined. By John Ray, Fellow of the Royal Society.
John Ray (1627-1705)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007628
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 259, [1] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5739. Signature B1r: B is under the word "catastrophe". 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 former shelfmark on front pastedown: "R.1.27.". Manuscript book or inventory number on front fly-leaf: "(286)". Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; blind double fillet border with blind roll pattern along spine-edge; gilt dash roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets and roll pattern on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
John Ray (1627-1705)