Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis ejusdem classis facile distinguitur. Auctore Paulo Boccone Panormitano Siculo, serenissimi Magni Hetruriae Ducis olim botanico.
Paolo Boccone (1633-1704)
Category
Books
Date
1674
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3204167
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 96 p. : ill. (metal cuts) ; 4to. Running number: 5819. With an additional leaf containing a dedication to the Royal Society following leaf *4 and conjugate with leaf A1, headed on recto "Regiae Societati Anglicanae ad Scientiam Naturalem promovendam Institutae", and signed and dated on verso "Dabam Lutetiae Parisiorum 7. Aprilis 1673. Paulus Boccone"; pagination thus [18], 96 p. Provenance: manuscript capital letter on front pastedown: "H". Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Occasional manuscript marginal annotations, e.g. pp. 32, 65, 68, 75, 83, 85, 93, 95. Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over very thin boards; spine cracked, partially missing.
Makers and roles
Paolo Boccone (1633-1704) Robert Morison (1620-1683)