Miscellanea curiosa. Containing a collection of curious travels, voyages and natural histories of countries, as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society. Vol. III.
Royal Society, London
Category
Books
Date
1727
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3188248
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 430, [2] p., 6 leaves of plates (4 folded) : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 4273. Shelved and uniform with vols. 1 (3rd ed., 1726) and 2 (1723). Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Plate 5th. is before plate 3d. & 4th. but all right" [i.e. collation note by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Royal Society, London William Derham, FRS (1657-1735) Edmund Halley (1656-1742)