Author:

Le Grand, Antoine -1699  Search this

Publisher:

Zieger, Johann  Search this

Printer:

Gerhard, Christoph 1624-1681  Search this

Engraver:

Schurtz, Cornelius Nicolaus  Search this

Former owner:

Dashwood, Charles Vere DSI  Search this

Dashwood, Robert 1662-1734 DSI  Search this

Physical description:

[14], 445, [19] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo)

Type:

Pre-Linnean works

Early works to 1800

Early works

Date:

1678

Notes:

Engraved half-title signed C. Nico. Schurtz.

Woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, initials; side-notes.

Signatures: ):(⁸(-):(8) A-2F⁸.

Includes index.

SCNHRB copy (39088003109246) has armorial bookplate of Charles Vere Dashwood.

SCNHRB copy has armorial bookplate of Rich. Dashwood, esq. on verso of title page.

SCNHRB copy has blind-embossed stamp on 2nd leaf: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; and pencilled accession no. 164086.

SCNHRB copy bound in later plain vellum; housed in a linen-covered dropback box.

SCNHRB copy bound with the author's Scydromedia, seu, Sermo ... [Nuremberg] : Impensis Johannis Ziegeri, 1680 -- the author's Dissertatio de carentia sensus & cognitionis in Brutis ... Norimbergae : Impensis Johannis Ziegeri, 1679. Bound together subsequent to publication.

Topic:

Natural history  Search this

Science  Search this

Physics  Search this

Call number:

Q155 .L517 1678

Q155.L517 1678

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_161533