The posthumous works of Robert Hooke, ... . Containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society. ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, ... Publish'd by Richard Waller, ...
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1705
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139523
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],xxviii,209,[i.e.210],[2],279-572,[12]p., [15] leaves of plates . ill.. . fol.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: B/4 [pencil]; B.5.15 [black ink]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled, panelled calf; double blind fillet borders; six raised bands; gilt lettered on red spine-label.
Makers and roles
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)