Hortus Elthamensis seu Plantarum rariorum quas in horto suo Elthami in Cantio coluit vir ornatissimus et praestantissimus Jacobus Sherard M.D. Soc. Reg. et Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. Guilielmi P.M. frater, delineationes et descriptiones quarum historia vel plane non, vel imperfecte a rei herbariae scriptoribus tradita fuit. Auctore Johanne Jacobo Dillenio M.D.
Johann Jakob Dillenius (1687-1747)
Category
Books
Date
1732
Materials
Place of origin
London
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3102772
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2 v. (viii, 206; [2], 207-437, [1] p., CCCXXIV [i.e. 325] leaves of plates) : ill. ; fol. Running number: 5509. Wanting leaf 3F2 at end of vol. 1. All plates hand-coloured by the author. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full diced calf; wood boards; gilt double and single fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; six raised bands; gilt spines with fillet, roll and stamp tooling; gilt title and vol. number stamped on spines. Comb-marbled endpapers. Red sprinkled edges.
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Johann Jakob Dillenius (1687-1747)