Book
Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586)
Category
Books
Date
1614
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3042605
Summary
Single bound volume of 4 works by Martin Chemnitz
Bibliographic description
4 pts. in 1 v. ([16], 188, [20]; [8], 243, [25]; [8], 206, [26]; [8], 160, [24] p.) ; fol. With two engraved plates from Raleigh's History of the World (1652) (copy at Lanhydrock) bound in. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "Hannibal Gamon Tandem-D.O.M." [i.e. Hannibal Gamon (1582?-1651), Rector of St. Mawgan]. Manuscript price (very faint) at head of title page: "11s.". With manuscript marginal annotation and underscoring of text by Hannibal Gamon. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; blind thin thick thin fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges. Stubs remain of pair of textile ties (linen?) on boards. Rebacked and repaired in calf. Gilt author/title on red morocco label on spine.
Makers and roles
Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586)