Theatrum universale omnium animalium piscium, avium, quadrupedum, exanguium, aquaticorum, insectorum, et angium [sic], CCLX. tabulis ornatum, ex scriptoribus tam antiquis quam recentioribus, Aristotele, Theophrasto, Dioscoride, ... & aliis maxima curâ à J. Jonstonio collectum, ac plus quam trecentis piscibus nuperrime ex Indiis Orientalibus allatis, ac nunquam antea his terris visis, locupletatum; cum enumeratione morborum, quibus medicamina ex his animalibus petuntur, ac notitiâ animalium, ex quibus vicissim remedia praestantissima possunt capi; cura Henrici Ruysch M.D. Amstelaed. VI. partibus, duobus tomis, comprehensum. Tomus I[-II].
Johannes Jonstonus (1603-1675)
Category
Books
Date
1718
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008073
Summary
Bibliographic description
Running number: 5839. These volumes are tightly bound and cannot be opened any more than 90°. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. all" [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on verso of vol. 1 front free endpaper: "36 Oot". Manuscript price in ink in eighteenth-century hand on recto of vol. 1 rear free endpaper: "80 tt 2 vol" [i.e. 80 livres tournois]. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; blind double and single fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spines; gilt title 'Theatrum animalium' and vol. number labels on spines. Red edges. Swirl-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Johannes Jonstonus (1603-1675), author Pietro Castelli (d.c.1657) , author Hendrik Ruysch (b.1671?), editor Jan Wandelaar (Amsterdam 1692 - Leyden 1759), artist and engraver