Werner's Nomenclature of colours :. with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences, particularly zoology, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, and morbid anatomy ; annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms /
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 - Dresden 1817)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3161153
Summary
Bibliographic description
47,[1] p., [13] leaves of plates (hand-coloured) ; 8vo. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Manuscript inscriptions on flyleaf: Professor Jameson / 21, Royal Circus, / Gardner Wilkinson. [i.e. Robert Jameson (1774-1854) Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper sides. Spine lettered vertically in gilt.
Makers and roles
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 - Dresden 1817) Patrick Syme (1774-1845)