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Jacques Bongars (1554-1612)
Category
Books
Date
1611
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3218058
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ([56],621,[1],625-1207, [1] ; [12], 361 [1], [3] p.), [5] leaves of plates (3 folded) : 3 maps, 2 plans ; fol. Two vols. bound in three. Provenance: not indigenous. Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, with armorial bookplate 'North Library. Press mark 45.F.6-8 ... 1860'. [Purchased 2009 from Maggs Bros., lot no. 101284.] Macclesfield armorial blind stamp through preliminary leaves. Titlepage inscribed in v.1 in seventeenth-century hand: Ab. Seller [perhaps Abednego Seller (1646?-1705)]. Binding: nineteenth-century calf; double blind fillet borders; blind tooled acorn motif; five raised bands; spines firectly lettered in gilt. Binder's ticket, front pastedown: Hatton, binder, Manchester.
Makers and roles
Jacques Bongars (1554-1612) Sanudo, Marino