An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies; by help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England. Useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations. By Richard Cumberland, D.D. Ex aedibus Lambeth. Octob. 12. 1685. Imprimatur. Jo. Battely, R. Rmo. P. Domino Wilhelmo Archiep. Cantuar. à sacris domesticis.
Richard Cumberland (1631-1718)
Category
Books
Date
1686
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3117926
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 140, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 6057. Provenance: manuscript code on front pastedown: "C-o-W". Remnants of red wax seal at foot of title page. Manuscript codes on rear free endpaper: "R-W" and "d-w". Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto five cords; blind roll pattern along board edges; five raised bands; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on red goatskin label on spine. Red and brown mottled edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Cumberland (1631-1718)