Historia deorum fatidicorum, vatum, sibyllarum, phoebadum, apud priscos illustrium: cum eorum iconibus. Praeposita est dissertatio de divinatione et oraculis.
Pierre Mussard (1627-1686)
Category
Books
Date
1675
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3079831
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 169, 180-249, [5] p. : ill., ports. ; 4to. Running number: 5683. Provenance: manuscript initial on second front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript sum for "1d-14s 10" on front fly-leaf. Manuscript bookseller's code on half-title. Manuscript inscriptions on title page: "pr 9s", "L", and (written vertically in the gutter margin) "Tho: Abbott Howtleton"[?]. Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on four tawed leather cords; double blind fillet border with blind foliate cornerpieces; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine with floral tooling and title panel; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Pierre Mussard (1627-1686), author Jacques Louis Durant (b. 1622), engraver (printmaker)