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
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3024569
Summary
Bibliographic description
12v.,plates . ill.. . fol.. 12 v. in 13. Old Wimpole shelfmark: D/1 [pencil]; F.5.1-8; F.6.1-5 [dark blue ink]; T.4 [v.1, pencil]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt tooled spine; on six raised bands; text-block edge sprinkled red; gilt lettered red spine-label: Thesav Antiqv Graeca ; [lettering varies]. Insect damage on endpapers of some vils; endpaper torn in v.8.
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