Marmorea basis colossi, Tiberio Caesari erecti ob civitates Asiae restitutas post horrendos terrae tremores. Cujus colossi fides, à Jo. Meursio oppugnata defenditur, tantum non oculis exhibetur & venusta proponitur. Tempus, numerus & nomina civitatium restitutarum ubique falsus & varius, à recentibus commentatoribus traditus, verus & certus ex Marmorea basi publico instrumento feliciter probatur. Primus trans Alpes vulgavit, revocavit, notis uberioribus & novis observationibus ac nummis illustravit Laurentius Theodorus Gronovius.
Laurentius Theodorus Gronovius (fl.1685)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3090253
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 186, [14] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 5871. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; double gilt fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt fillets, stamps and title label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Laurentius Theodorus Gronovius (fl.1685), author Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (1579-1639)., author