An history of the wonderful things of nature:. set forth in ten severall classes wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens, II. Of the elements, III. Of meteors, IV. Of minerals, V. Of plants, VI. Of birds, VII. Of four-footed beasts, VIII. Of insects, and things wanting blood, IX. Of fishes, X. Of man. Written by Johannes Jonstonus, and now rendred into English by a person of quality.
Joannes Jonstonus (1603-1675)
Category
Books
Date
1657
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221380
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 354, [2] p. ; fol. Scrap card page marker, p.221. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "Circe her boke from ye Fox" [i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959) poss. from Alexander McDonnell (1857-1945), son of the 5th Earl of Antrim and Clerk of the House of Lords, or his sister Lady Jane Clinton nee McDonnell (1863-1953)]; inscribed beneath in separate hand "Alexander McDonnell ... 1881. Inscribed on verso of advertisement leaf in seventeenth-century hand: Blackston or Johnson Blenkinstixx [repeatedly]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll border; gilt tooled spine, with red and black spine labels; rebacked, nineteenth or early twentieth-century. Stamped: Bound by Zaehnsdorf.
Makers and roles
Joannes Jonstonus (1603-1675) Andreas Libavius (d.1616) Rowland, John, M.D