Les caracteres de Theophraste . traduits du grec; avec les caracteres ou les moeurs de ce siecle. Par Mr. de la Bruiere.
Theophrastus (c.372-287 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1693
Materials
Place of origin
Belgium
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3060229
Summary
Bibliographic description
[54],462,465-584,[8]p. . 12mo.. Pagination: [52], 584, [8] p. With leaf V4. manuscript notes on contents ("Clef de quelques") on front pastedown and fly-leaf and rear fly-leaf and pastedown.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate on title page verso: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23d. 1702. [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751). Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled sheepskin binding; gold-tooled spine.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Theophrastus (c.372-287 BC) Jean de La Bruyère (1645 - 1696)