Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum, in quo continentur lectissimi quique scriptores, qui superiori aut nostro seculo Romanae reipublicae rationem, disciplinam, leges, instituta, sacra, artesque togatas ac sagatas explicarunt & illustrarunt, congestus a Joanne Georgio Graevio. Accesserunt variae & accuratae tabulae aeneae. Tomus primus[-duodecimus]. Scriptores hujus tomi post prooemium ad lectorem invenientur.
Joannes Georgius Graevius (1632-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1694 - 1699
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3024604
Summary
Bibliographic description
12 v. : ill. (inc. fold. plates), maps, plans, port., tables ; fol. Vol. 3 imperfect: wanting title-page and additional engraved title-page. Frontispiece portrait of Graevius in vol. 12. Publisher's advertisements ("Catalogus librorum, quos Petrus Vander Aa, bibliopola Lugduno-Batavus, ...") bound-in at end of vol. 12. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206) in each vol., lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. either William Windham II (1717-1761) or William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Vol. 1 has a few pencil marks in the preface, a sign that William Windham III has read the text. Bookseller's note in pencil on vol. 1 rear pastedown: "W8 12 vols complete". Binding: late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; sewn on seven supports; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines; gilt title and vol. number lettered directly onto spines; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Joannes Georgius Graevius (1632-1703), author Jan Goeree (Middelburg 1670 - Amsterdam 1731), artist Joseph Mulder (b.1659/60), engraver (printmaker) Jacob Baptist (fl. 1694-1704), engraver (printmaker) Johannes van den Aveele (d.1727), engraver (printmaker) Jan Van Vianen (b. ca. 1660), engraver (printmaker)