De lucernis antiquorum reconditis libb. sex : in quibus earum recens inuentarum adhuc ardentium obseruationes multæ primum afferuntur, aliorum opiniones omnes de ipsarum attributis dein expenduntur, earum causæ, proprietates, differentiæque singulæ deinceps ex rei natura deteguntur, pluresque dubitationes e traditis emergentes demum eluuntur : explicatis diligenter abditissimis quæstionibus de ignium causis, origine, varietate, duratione, motu, & extinctu, de antiperistasi, fumo, cinere, lentore, mistis incombustibilibus, brutorum funeribus, & alijs naturae arcanis : declaratisque plurimis antiquitatis ritibus lychnos supra centum effigiantibus : cum indicibus locupletissimis. / Autore Fortunio Liceto Genuense ...
Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657)
Category
Books
Date
1662
Materials
Place of origin
Padua
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3160783
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 3-4 p., 5-1280 columns, [28] p. : ill. ; fol. With printed slip under columns 1153-54. Manuscript scribbled “cf” against column 1010. Pencil “441” on front free endpaper verso. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on flyleaf in a late seventeenth-century hand: Edw. Browne Ex bibliotheca Marchionis Nointelij Fratris Gallici in Aula Ottomanicâ. … Quaere Octavij fferrarij lib. de re vistiana et lucernis veterum sepulchralib. Pat. 1670. Anonymous armorial gilt centrepiece: [Charles Francois Olier, Marquis de Nointel (1635-1685)]. Armorial bookplate on titlepage verso: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. 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 over boards, gilt spine tooling, red-brown spine label, gilt armorial centrepiece on covers [Charles Francois Olier, Marquis de Nointel (1635-1685)], gilt roll on board edges, red and blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657), author