Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations.
John Arbuthnot (1667 - 1735)
Category
Books
Date
1727
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3016556
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 327, [1] p., 18 leaves of plates (1 folded) : tables ; 4to. Running number: 6110. Leaves Ss1-Tt4 and plates at end all wormed, with loss of some text on plates. With errata slip at foot of p. 327. Provenance: manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "Arbuthnot" [i.e. author note and catalogue entry for anonymous works, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript note on rear fly-leaf: "Aureus 25 Denarii p 180". Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled and plain calf; gilt roll pattern along board edges; five raised bands; plain spine; remnants of gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled edges on textblock.
Makers and roles
John Arbuthnot (1667 - 1735) Charles Arbuthnot (d.1731), author