Historia sacra turpitudinis incestae continens Dissertationem de honestate & extensione legum Levit. xviij. Quomodo noviter utramque illustrare ac tueri sive debuit sive potuit Paulus Hulsius, ...
Paulus Hulsius (1653-1712)
Category
Books
Date
1714
Materials
Place of origin
Groningen
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3186495
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 133, [3], 58 p. ; 4to. Running number: 4062. Provenance: armorial binding of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Charles Henri, Comte d’Hoym), book collector and ambassador in Paris of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Lot 4708 in Hoym library sale catalogue 'Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym ...' (Paris, 1738). Bought by Sir Richard Ellys for 4 livres 1 sous according to his priced copy of the sale catalogue. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century polished calf; calf; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of the arms of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Boyet and Du Seuil were Hoym’s binders); gilt roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with floral stamp decoration, and gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Paulus Hulsius (1653-1712), author