Description du Danube, depuis la montagne de Kalenberg en Autriche, jusqu’ au confluent de la Riviere Jantra dans la Bulgarie: : contenant des observations geographiques, astronomiques, hydrographiques, historiques et physiques; / par Mr. le Comte Louis Ferd. De Marsigli, … traduite du Latin. …
Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730)
Category
Books
Date
1744
Materials
Place of origin
The Hague
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082913
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v., plates (some folded) : ill. ; 1mo. Pencil “417/6” on vol. 1 front pastedown. Imperfect: vol. 1 lacks plates 34, 38, 42, 45; vol. 2, plate 31 misbound at end of vol. 6; vol. 3, plates 9-10 bound in between plates 12-13. Old coffee? stain on back of plate 52 in vol. 2. Provenance: no marks of provenance. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled, polished sheep over boards on five raised cords plus two false ones, gilt diamond patters on spine, red and blue spine labels, gilt border roll on covers, gilt roll on board edges, green sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730), author