Voyage du Sieur Paul Lucas au Levant . On y trouvera entr'autre une description de la huate Egypte, suivant le cours du Nil, depuis le Caire jusques aux cataractes, avec une carte exacte de ce fleuve, que personne n'avoit donnée. Tome premier. (-Second).
Paul Lucas (1664-1737)
Category
Books
Date
1705
Materials
Measurements
173 x 110 x 34 mm
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3112280
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: red nad black printing ink, black engraving ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British? End Leaves: Left: inserted tipped bifolium of white handmade laid paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board over an earlier pastedown. Right: sewn single fold of white handmade laid paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board Structure: British Edges: plain-cut, sprinkled with red and brown pigment, polished, after endbanding Spine Lining: moderate round, angled joints, adhesive. There appear to be the extensions of full-height transverse linings inside the right board. These are not apparent in the left board. End Bands: sewn L-R 1x1 in blue and white thread over a rolled paper core Bookmark: none Boards: 3 mm rope-fibre couched laminate paper board, back-cornered, all slips laced, 3-hole head and tail, otherwise 2 hole, perpendicularly Covering: full brown tanned calf, finely sprinkled with a black pigment Tooling - Spine: Late 18th-century red goatskin title label in panel 2 and green goatskin vol. number label in panel 3, the rest with a gold-tooled 2-line border frame with centre and corner tools, gold-tooled roll in infill panel at tail. Tooling - Sides: No tooling Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: N/A
Bibliographic description
2v., plates (fold.) . ill.., plates, map (fold.) . 12mo.. Former shelfmark: Gg.1.26. 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 used in books acquired by his successors]. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, gold-decorated spine, red and black spine-labels, bound in one volume.
Makers and roles
Paul Lucas (1664-1737)