Thesaurus graecarum antiquitatum, . in quo continentur effigies virorum ac foeminarum illustrium, qui in graecis aut latinis monumentis aliqua memoriae pars datur, & in quocunque orbis terrarum spatio ob historiam, vel res gestas, vel inventa, vel locis nomina data, ac doctrinam meruerunt cognosci; ... Auctore Jacobo Gronovio.
Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716)
Category
Books
Date
1697 - 1702
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3024566
Summary
Bibliographic description
12 v. bound in 13v., plates . ill.. . fol.. Vol. 12 in 2 pts., pt. 2 containing the general index to the whole work. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 2, price £8 8s. Christie's, 21 June, 2004, lot 616.. Provenance: Bookplate in vols. 1-6, 9, 11, 13: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. Bookplate in vols. 7-8, 10, 12: Robert Myddelton Esqr of Chirk Castle Denbigh shr [i.e. Robert Myddelton (1678-1733)]; Jacobean armorial. Franks 21461.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf bindings; gilt roll on board edges; blind roll on turn-ins; gilt fillet panels on spines, with gilt interlaced circular stamps, title and vol. no. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716) John Potter (1673-1747) Archbishop of Canterbury Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - Rome 1696) Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) Pietro Santi Bartoli