Petri Baptistae Burgi Genuensis De bello Svecico commentarii : quibus Gustavi Adolphi, suecorum regis, in Germaniam expeditio usq. ad ipsius mortem comprehenditur.
Pietro Battista Borgo
Category
Books
Date
1639
Materials
Place of origin
Liège
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3160614
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 416, [2] p. ; 12mo. Provenance: armorial gilt centrepiece on covers: three bunches of grapes and chevron, with coronet and greyhounds supporters [probably Charles-François Olier, marquis de Nointel, d. 1685]. 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 calf over boards on five raised cords, remains of gilt spine tooling and brown spine label, gilt armorial centrepiece on covers, gilt roll on board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges, pink silk bookmark.
Makers and roles
Pietro Battista Borgo, author