Bibliotheca curiosa in qua plurimi rarissimi atque paucis cogniti scriptores, interq[ue] eos antiquorum ecclesiae doctorum praecipuorum, et classicorum auctorum ferè omnium aetas, officium, professio, obitus, scripta, horumque optimae ac novissimae editiones indicantur. In gratiam philobiblōn collecta â Joanne Hallervordio Regiomontano Prusso.
Johann Hallervord (1644-1676)
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
Königsberg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3229745
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 416 p. ; 4to. Running number: 7848. Interleaved with blank leaves (unused) throughout. 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)]. Pencil marks in margins throughout text. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; five raised bands; double and single blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges; placard with swirls pattern marbled endpapers. Front board heavily water-stained, distorted.
Makers and roles
Johann Hallervord (1644-1676), author