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
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 3139531
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14],267,[13];[4],40p., [36] leaves of plates . fol.. Former shelfmark 114. Provenance: early nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate: “ Tatton Park” (Potten 7) [Wilbraham Egerton,1781-1856]. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, double fillet, five raised bands, lacking spine label, edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Claude Perrault (1613-1688) Jean Picard (1620-1682) Alexander Pitfield (1658-1728) Richard Waller (1665 - 1705)