Historia rerum Britannicarum: ut et multarum Gallicarum, Belgicarum, & Germanicarum, tàm politicarum, quàm ecclesiasticarum, ab anno 1572, ad annum 1628: auctore Roberto Jonhstono [sic], ...
Robert Johnston (1567-1639)
Category
Books
Date
1655
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3210227
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 737, [23] p. ; fol. Shelfmarked in ink on rear pastedown: A.V.11. Eighteenth-century ink numbering on pastedown: no 436 ; [numbered in pencil, nineteenth-century?] 202. Provenance: not indigenous. Late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century armorial bookplate: Ex bibliotheca Nicolai Joseph Foucault comitis consistoriani [i.e Nicholas-Joseph Foucault, 1st Marquis de Magny (1643-1721). Flyleaf inscribed in eighteenth-century hand: Lamare Cauigny [?]. Afterwards library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, with armorial bookplate 'North Library. Press mark 32.D.5 ... 1860'. Macclesfield armorial blind stamp through preliminary leaves. Former Macclesfield shelfmark on paper spine labels: A.5.11. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; sewn onto six raised bands; gilt tooled spine; spine directly gilt lettered: Historia Britanni.
Makers and roles
Robert Johnston (1567-1639) Johann Ravestein Willem van der Hoeve (1639-1685)