Johannis Seldeni Angli Liber de nummis. . In quo antiqua pecunia Romana & Graeca metitur precio ejus, quae nunc est in usu. Hiuc [sic] accedit Bibliotheca nummaria, sive Elenchus auctorum, qui de antiquis numismatibus, Hebraeis, Graecis, Romanis; necnon de monetis, ponderibus, & mensuris, ad hunc usque annum scripserunt.
Alessandro Sardi (1520-1588)
Category
Books
Date
1675
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3106596
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],19,[3],86p. . 4to.. Former shelfmarks: Vv.2 (in pencil), Vv.7.5 (ink). manuscript inscription on rear pastedown: "(60:)". Bound with "The Jesuits catechism", 2nd ed. (London, 1681), and 3 other 17th century English tracts.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors]. This bookplate has been pasted over manuscript inscription of "Tittenhanger library" [i.e. from the library at Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire formed by Thomas Pope Blount, grandfather of the wife of Charles Yorke (1722-1770)].. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border, with blind floral cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll on board edges; blind fillet and red gilt title label on spine. Marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Alessandro Sardi (1520-1588) Philippe Labbe (1607-1667) John Selden (1584-1654)