Almagesti botanici mantissa : plantarum novissimè detect̂arum ultrà millenarium numerum complectens : cui, tanquam pedi jam stantis columnae, plus inscribere fas est : cum indice totius operis ad calcem adjecto.
Leonard Plukenet (1642-1706)
Category
Books
Date
1700
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3188012
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 191 p., [28] p., 22 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. Lacks three preliminary leaves, including letter and poem, reported by DSI. With added titlepage from Plukenet's 1696 work bound in. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gold fillet and blind roll border; gilt tooled spine; lacks spine label.
Makers and roles
Leonard Plukenet (1642-1706)