Opus polyhistoricum, dissertationibus XXV. De osculis, subnexisq[ue] de Judae ingenio, vita & fine, sacris epiphyllidibus, absolutum; ob variarum gentium, per cuncta mundi climata usitatos ritus, historiarum[que] quibus refertum est, amoenitates, materiarumq[ue] ex sacrario theologiae, divae themidos cancellis, & salutaris medicinae theatro petitarum raritatem, maximé curiosum, ex omnium facultatum doctoribus, annalium conditoribus & geographis, improbo labore, & indefesso studio concinnatum â Martino Kempio.
Martin von Kempe (1642-1683)
Category
Books
Date
1680
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3210858
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 1040 [i.e. 1020] p. : port. ; 4to. Running number: 6099. Provenance: armorial binding of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Charles Henri, Comte d’Hoym), book collector and ambassador in Paris of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Lot 4409 in Hoym library sale catalogue 'Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym ...' (Paris, 1738). Bought by Sir Richard Ellys for 9 livres according to his priced copy of the sale catalogue. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in red pencil on rear fly-leaf. Binding: French, eighteenth-century full tan calf; gilt coat of arms of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) on both covers (Boyet and Du Seuil were his binders); gilt floral roll pattern along board edges and on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with stamps, rolls and fillets; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red sprinkled edges on textblock. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Martin von Kempe (1642-1683)