Tychonis Brahei, equitis Dani, astronomorum coryphaei, vita.
Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655)
Category
Books
Date
1655
Materials
Place of origin
The Hague
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3187941
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], LX, 373, [11] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 4to. Running number: 4220. Imperfect: wanting frontispiece portrait. Quires in wrong sequence after p. 344 (Vv4) as follows: Aaa (p. 369-373, [3]), Zz (p. 361-368), Xx-Yy (p. 345-360), Bbb (final [8] p.). Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "M. post pag. 344. foliorum ordo perturbatur, sed nihil deest" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price codes on title page. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border and single panel of double blind fillets, with blind cornerpiece stamps; blind dotted roll pattern on board edges. Recessed cords. Vertical blind fillet panel along spine, with blind stamp at head and foot. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) Johannes Jessenius (1566-1621) Jacob van Meurs (1619-1680) Johannes Jessenius (1566-1621)