Memoir's for a natural history of animals. Containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Englished by Alexander Pitfeild, Fellow of the Royal Society. To which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy, and Englished by Richard Waller, S.R.S.
Claude Perrault (1613-1688)
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3200186
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 267, [13]; [4], 40 p., [35] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Running number: 5508. With twelve blank leaves bound-in at rear, formerly folded into four. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ε'." [i.e. epsilon' = Greek number 5]. Manuscript code on front pastedown: "CaK". Manuscript price[?] on front fly-leaf: "10.6". Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; upper board detached; blind double fillet border with small blind floral cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; six raised bands; blind fillets on spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine: 'Pitfields Hist: of animals'. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Claude Perrault (1613-1688) Académie royale des sciences, France Jean Picard (1620-1682) Alexander Pitfield (1658-1728) Richard Waller (1665 - 1705)