Le cabinet de la Bibliotheque de Sainte Genevieve. Divisé en deux parties. Contenant les antiquitez de la réligion des chrétiens, des egyptiens & des romains; des tombeaux, des poids & des médailles; des monnoyes, des pierres antiques gravées, & des mineraux; des talismans, des lampes antiques, des animaux les plus rare & les plus singuliers, des coquilles les plus considérables, des fruits étrangers, & quelques plantes exquises. Par le R.P. Claude Du Molinet, ...
Claude Du Molinet (1620-1687)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008749
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 183, [2], 185-224, [8] p., [1], 45 plates [i.e. 51] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; fol. Running number: 6296. Plate 36 is bound in upside down. 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)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf (rubbed); sewn onto five sewing supports; seven raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with fillet panels, blind roll decoration and floral stamps; brown sheepskin title label on spine. Red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Claude Du Molinet (1620-1687), author Franz Ertinger (1640-1710), engraver (printmaker) Trouvain, Antoine, engraver (printmaker)