Histoire naturelle des insectes selon leurs differentes metamorphoses observeés par Jean Goedaert. Primier partie.
Johannes Goedaert (1617-1668)
Category
Books
Date
1662
Materials
Place of origin
Middelburg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008156
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : ill., port. ; 8vo. Running number: 5725. First fifteen leaves in vol. 1 are wormed. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 3. vol." [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: "ιβ'." [i.e. iota beta' = Greek number 12]. Manuscript number (price?) on vol. 1 front pastedown: "6.5.". Binding: seventeenth-century[?] full plain vellum over boards; manuscript title "Goedard Histoire des insectes" and vol. number on spines (very faint on vol. 3). Blue and red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Johannes Goedaert (1617-1668) Johannes de May (1617-1678) Willem Cornelisz. Eversdijck (1616-1671), artist Reinier van Persyn (1614-1668), engraver (printmaker)