Shelfmark
Bh.8.18(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses mémorables, trouvée en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays étranges. Latin]
Title
Petri Bellonii Cenomani, plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Græcia, Asia, Ægypto, Iudæa, Arabia, aliisq; exteris prouinciis ab ipso conspectarum obseruationes, tribus libris expressæ. Carolus Clusius Atrebas è Gallicis Latinas faciebat.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1589.
Physical description
[16], 496p : ill. ; 8vo.
Note
Previously Be.5.11.
Note
Translation (French-Latin) of "Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses mémorables, trouvée en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays étranges ...".
Note
Part of ms. annotation on title-page (cropped) reads ". cauete ad hominibus".
With note
[Bound with:] "Petri Bellonii ... de neglecta stirpium cultura, atque earum cognitione libellus ...", 1589.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Topham stamp; bequeathed to Eton by Richard Topham in 1736.
Binding
16th/17th century blind-stamped calf with four gold-tooled corners and central ornament.
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works Middle East.
Subject
Middle East Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Clusius, Carolus, 1526 - 1609 translator.
Added entry--place
Belgium Antwerp.
Identifier
B12712