Anatomical exercitations, . concerning the generation of living creatures: to which are added particular discourses, of births, and of conceptions, &c.
William Harvey (1578-1657)
Category
Books
Date
1653
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3013378
Summary
Bibliographic description
[46],566 [i.e. 556],[2]p. . 8vo.. Pagination: [46], 551, 562-566, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates. With a frontispiece portrait of the author.. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on frontispiece: "Tho: & Isabella Hervey" [i.e. Sir Thomas Hervey (1625-1694) and his wife Isabella (1625-1686)]. Armorial bookplate on title page verso: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23d. 1702. [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled sheepskin binding; double blind fillet border, with quarter double blind fillet; blind dotted roll on board edges. Rebacked in blind-tooled calf, with gilt title and date stamped on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
William Harvey (1578-1657)