Recherches curieuses d'antiquité, contenues en plusieurs dissertations, sur des medailles, bas-reliefs, statuës, mosaïques, & inscriptions antiques; enrichie d'un grand nombre de figures en taille douce. Par Monsieur Spon, docteur aggregé au College des Medecins de Lyon, & à l'Académie des Ricovrati de Padouë.
Jacob Spon (1647-1685)
Category
Books
Date
1683
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3017467
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 538 [i.e. 530], [22] p. : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 5962. Provenance: manuscript price on front fly-leaf: "0:14:-". Manuscript code on rear pastedown: "Ka". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; double and single blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; stained stripe pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine; gilt title label on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jacob Spon (1647-1685) Pierre Mathieu Ogier (1676-1710), artist and engraver