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Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588 - 1638)
Category
Books
Date
1649
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3143089
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v., tables . ill. . fol.. Bound in 2 vols.. Provenance: In ink on flyleaf of second bound volume, in the hand of John Robartes, (1606-85, 1st Earl of Radnor), a series of manuscript notes, mostly references to the contents of the book, but including 'the 26 day of January [probably 1676/7] the french dancing master came to Lanhidrock'. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf, with fine blind-fillet frame and quarter line. Edges sprinkled red. Rebacked, with new endpapers and pastedowns, nineteenth century.
Makers and roles
Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588 - 1638)