Thesaurus Zeylanicus, exhibens plantas in insula Zeylana nascentes; inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia iconibus illustrata, ac descripta cura & studio Joannis Burmanni, ...
Johannes Burman (1706?-1779)
Category
Books
Date
1737
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032547
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 235, [17], 33, [1] p., [1], 110 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 4to. Former shelfmark: 36.f.10. Running number: 5827. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title label on spine. Red burnished edges.
Makers and roles
Johannes Burman (1706?-1779), author Joannes Hartog, author Paul Hermann (1646-1695)., author Henrik Bernard Oldenland (d.1699), author Jacobus Houbraken (Dordrecht 1698 - Amsterdam 1780), engraver (printmaker) Adolf van der Laan (1717-1740), engraver (inciser) Jan Mauritz Quinkhard (Rees 1688 - Amsterdam 1772), publisher