A discourse of the Romane foot, and denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures, and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced. By Iohn Greaves, Professor of Astronomy in the Vniversity of Oxford.
John Greaves (1602-1652)
Category
Books
Date
1647
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3095451
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 134, [2] p. : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 5864. Authorial MS. corrections on p. [6], 14 and 66. 2nd issue: on p. 14 "... LXXXIV. pounds ..." has been altered in manuscript to read "... LXXX. pounds ...". With a folded plate following p. 88. Wanting final blank leaf K4. Provenance: manuscript note in English written in a seventeenth-century[?] hand on verso of title page, largely illegible: "... in Italy Greece & Aegypt & through ... of all books of ... nature", and signed with initials "JB"[?]. Pencil marks in margins throughout text. Manuscript note in English written in the same seventeenth-century[?] hand at foot of p. 134, largely illegible. Binding: eighteenth-century polished calf; double blind fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine-edge; blind roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Greaves (1602-1652)