Mithridates. De differentiis linguarum tum veterum tum quae hodie apud diuersas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt, Conradi Gesneri Tigurini obseruationes.
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)
Category
Books
Date
1555
Materials
Place of origin
Zurich
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3201572
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 78 leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates ; 8vo. Running number: 5592. Folded plate attached to tab which is pasted onto title page. 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 manuscript marginal annotations, some very faint (washed out). Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)