Orbis terrarum veteris noti descriptio = A comparative atlas of ancient and modern geography, from original authorities, and upon a new plan, for the use of Eton School.
Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823)
Category
Books
Date
1828
Materials
Place of origin
Eton
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3185014
Summary
Bibliographic description
[3], [53] plates: maps (col.); fol.Annotated in pencil on title page, and in ink and pencil on final endpapers. Maps have watercolour details. Plate 26 also has watercolour trials in the inner margin. Traces of paper protective cover on the inside of the boards (with sealing wax fragments on lower board). Provenance: Inscribed on upper pastedown: "Alfred Curzon Weston Lodge, Derby" [possibly Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, 4th Baron Scarsdale (1831-1916)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter sheep [?] on marbled paper over boards.
Makers and roles
Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823) Eton College