Memoir's for a natural history of animals. . Containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Englished by Alexander Pitfeild, ... To which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy, and Englished by Richard Waller, ...
Claude Perrault (1613-1688)
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139530
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14],267,[13];[4],40p., [36] leaves of plates . fol.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: B/5 [pencil]; B.4.16 [dark blue 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 sheep; double blind fillet borders; blind tooling on boards; gilt tooling on spine and board edges; six raised bands; spine title: Pitfield memoirs; both joints cracking at top of spine.
Makers and roles
Claude Perrault (1613-1688) Jean Picard (1620-1682) Alexander Pitfield (1658-1728) Richard Waller (1665 - 1705)