Description anatomique d'un cameleon, d'un castor, d'un dromadaire, d'un ours, et d'une gazelle.
Claude Perrault (1613-1688)
Category
Books
Date
1669
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3204306
Summary
Bibliographic description
120 p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill ; 4to. Running number: 5834. Provenance: armorial bookplate: 'Claude Bernard Rousseau auditeur des comptes' [i.e. Claude Bernard Rousseau (1648-1720), auditor of the Chambres des comptes]. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 5 planches" [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: "β½." [i.e. beta½ = Greek number 2½]. Manuscript codes on front and rear pastedowns. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf (very worn); gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title stamped on spine. Red and green sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Claude Perrault (1613-1688) Sébastien Le Clerc (Metz 1637 - Paris 1714)