Natalis Comitis Mythologiae, siue explicationis fabularum, libri decem: . in quibus omnia propè naturalis & moralis philosophiae dogmata contenta fuisse demonstratur. Nuper ab ipso autore recogniti & locupletati. Eiusdem libri IIII. De venatione. Cum indice triplici, rerum memorabilium, vrbium & locorum à variis heroibus denominatorum, ac plantarum & animalium singulis diis dicatorum. Opus cuiusuis facultatis studiosis perutile ac propè necessarium. Accessit G. Linocerij Musarum mythologia, & Anonymi obseruationum in totam de diis gentium narrationem, libellus.
Natale Conti (1520 - 1582)
Category
Books
Date
1610
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3093257
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],1123,[163]p. . 8vo.. Former shelfmarks: Ii/8 (in pencil), Ii.3.3 (pencil), Zz.2.1 (black ink).. 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]. manuscript inscription on title page: "Jeff: Gilbert 1710" [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728].. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf binding; triple blind fillet border; blind hatched roll and single fillet on board edges; pair of holes in both boards for ties (missing); blind fillets on spine. Edges stained red. Leaf of printed waste (17th century?) at rear.
Makers and roles
Natale Conti (1520 - 1582) Geofroy Linocier