Observations topographical, moral, & physiological; . made in a journey through part of the low-countries, Germany, Italy, and France: with a catalogue of plants not native of England, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues. By John Ray, Fellow of the Royal Society. Whereunto is added a brief account of Francis Willughby, Esq; his voyage through a great part of Spain.
John Ray (1627-1705)
Category
Books
Date
1673
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3144942
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 499, [9], 115, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) . ill.., port. . 8vo.. Imperfect: wanting all after p.98 (second sequence). Old Wimpole shelfmark: E/7 [pencil]; Aa.4 [pencil]; E.2.14 [ink] Occasional seventeenth-century annotations in Catalogus stirpium, and other marginal marks.. 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: Seventeenth-century mottled calf; gold-tooled spine; red spine label, gold-lettered: Iohn Ra[y] Iourney.
Makers and roles
John Ray (1627-1705) Francis Willughby (1635 - 1672)