Noua plantarum, animalium et mineralium Mexicanorum historia a Francisco Hernandez medico in Indijs praestantissimo primum compilata, dein a Nardo Antonio Reccho in volumen digesta, a Io. Terentio, Io. Fabro, et Fabio Columna Lynceis notis, & additionibus longe doctissimis illustrata. Cum demum accessere aliquot ex principis Federici Caesii frontispiciis theatri naturalis phytosopicae tabulae vna cum quamplurimis iconibus, ad octingentas, quibus singula contemplanda graphice exhibentur.
Francisco Hernández (1517-1587)
Category
Books
Date
1651
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007886
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 464, [2], 459-950, [22]; 90, [6] p. : ill., music ; fol. Running number: 5845. 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 inscription in seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand on front pastedown: "His. Nat. 17". Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf (rubbed, surface of leather becoming de-laminated); gilt double and single fillet border; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title. Red sprinkled edges. Printed waste (black letter, fifteenth- or sixteenth-century) visible beneath front and rear pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Francisco Hernández (1517-1587) Nardo Antonio Recchi, editor Joannes Terentius (1576-1630), editor Giovanni Feber (1574-1629), editor Fabio Colonna (1567-1650)., editor Federico Cesi, Duke of Acquasparta (1585-1630), editor