Gemmarum et lapidum historia. . Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, ... Postea Adrianus Tollius ... recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, ... Tertia editio longe purgatissima. Cui accedunt Ioannis de Laet, ... De gemmis & lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De lapidibus, Gr. & Lat. cum brevibus notis.
Anselmus de Boodt (1550-1632)
Category
Books
Date
1647
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3008224
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],576,[24];[64],210,[6]p.,[2] folded plates . ill.. (woodcut) . 8vo.. Old Wimpole shelfmark: [brown ink] Qq4-8. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf; quarter double blind fillet, and borders; gilt tooled on spine; gilt lettered on red spine-label: Boethius &c. De gemmis & Lapidibus. Leather much worn; insect damage; upper board detached.
Makers and roles
Anselmus de Boodt (1550-1632) Joannes de Laet (1581-1649) Adrianus Tollius (fl.17th century)