Astro-theology or a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from a survey of the heavens. . Illustrated with copper plates. By W. Derham, ...
William Derham, FRS (1657-1735)
Category
Books
Date
1715
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3051311
Summary
Bibliographic description
lviii,[6],240,[16]p., [3] folded leaves of plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Variant. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: R/9 [pencil]; S.2.37 [black ink]. Pencil "E61" on flyleaf. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: Jeff: Gilbert [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. 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: Eighteenth-century sprinkled panelled sheep over boards, blind tooling on covers, gilt roll on board edges, gilt spine title, red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
William Derham, FRS (1657-1735)