Pratique curieuse, ou les oracles des Sibylles, sur chaque question propose. / Tirée des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque de Mr. Comiers.
Comiers, Claude
Category
Books
Date
1694
Materials
Place of origin
The Hague
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086933
Summary
Bibliographic description
[42], 10, 13-169, [7] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; 12mo. Bookseller’s price code on front pastedown. Instruction for lettering new label in pencil on free endpaper verso. Provenance: 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: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt spine tooling, brown spine label (damaged, revealing earlier gilt title underneath), red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Comiers, Claude