Johannis Jacobi Scheuchzeri, Tigurini, medicinae doctoris, ... Herbarium diluvianum.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733)
Category
Books
Date
1723
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3199992
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 119, [5] p., [1], XIV leaves of plates : ill., port. ; fol. Running number: 5502. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 14. Tabb." [i.e. catalogue code and collation note by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ι'." [i.e. iota = Greek number 10]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt double fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt spine with stamp, fillet and roll tooling; gilt title on brown sheepskin label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733), author Joseph Nutting Johann Melchior Füssli (1677-1736) Johann Heinrich Huber