Thesaurus historiae Helveticae continens lectissimos scriptores, qui per varias aetates reipublicae Helveticae rationem, instituta, mores, disciplinam, fata et res gestas sermone Latino explicarunt et illustrarunt: quorum pars antehac edita; nunc vero ob raritatem recusa, et ex ipsorum auctorum chirographis vel aucta, vel correcta; nonnulla nunc primum in lucem prodeunt. Cum indice copioso.
Johann Konrad Fuessli (1704-1775)
Category
Books
Date
1735
Materials
Place of origin
Zurich
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3213259
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], 86, [2], 16, 28, [4], 30, 35, [1], 8, 32, [4], 84, 132, 131-138, [4], 104, 60, 76, 10, [20] p. ; fol. Running number: 6287. Pagination: [42], 86, [2], 16, 28, [4], 30, 35, [1], 32, 8, [4], 84, 132, 131-138, [4], 104, 60, 76, 10 p. 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 Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ιά½." [i.e. iota alpha ½ = Greek number 11½]. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto six sewing supports; six raised bands; gilt roll pattern border; gold-tooled spine, with fillet, roll and stamp decoration; brown goatskin title label on spine. Red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Konrad Fuessli (1704-1775) Felix Hemmerlin (1388-1458) Johannes of Winterthur (fl.1348) Johann Heinrich Schweitzer (fl.1607) Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530) Henricus Glareanus (1488-1563) Josias Simmler (1530-1576) Franz Guillimann (1568-1612) Jean Baptiste Plantin (1624-1700) Leonhard Pappus (1607-1677) Walter Schnorf