Fg.5.27(03)
Gb.6.01(01) (Copy 2)
Anselmi Boetii de Boodt Brugensis Belgæ, Rudolphi Secundi, Imperatoris Romanorum, personæ medici, Gemmarum et lapidum historia, qua non solum ortus, natura, vis & precium, sed etiam modus quo ex iis, olea, salia, tincturæ, essentiæ, arcana & magisteria arte chymica confici possint, ostenditur. Opus principibus, medicis, chymicis, physicis, ac liberalioribus ingeniis utilissimum..
Portion of title: Gemmarvm et lapidvm historia
Portion of title: Gemmarum et lapidum historia
Anselmi Boetii de Boodt Brvgensis Belgæ, Rvdolphi Secvndi, Imperatoris Romanorum, personæ medici, Gemmarvm et lapidvm historia
Anselmi Boetii de Boodt Brugensis Belgae, Rudolphi Secundi, Imperatoris Romanorum, personae medici, Gemmarum et lapidum historia
Hanouiæ, : Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Ioannis Aubrii., M. DC. IX. [1609]
8, [12], 294 [i.e. 284], [16] p., [2] folded leaves of tables : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Signatures: [dagger]-2[dagger]⁴ 2[dagger]² A-2M⁴ 2N² 2O-2P⁴.
Errors in pagination.
Printer's device featuring Pegasus on title page and on final leaf (2P4v).
Woodcut illustrations throughout text.
Head-pieces; tail-piece; woodcut initials; printed marginal notes.
Copy 1: Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Copy 1: Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College, obscuring earlier ownership inscription dated 1693/4.
Copy 2: Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on verso of title-page.
Copy 2: Possibly from the library of John Harrison, Head Master of Eton, 1630-1642, according to the card catalogue record. List of items within the volume on flyleaf facing title-page may be in his hand.
Copy 1: 17th-century brown calf; inner frame roll-tooled in blind with outer corner fleurons, blind double fillet outer border; gold roll on board edges; four raised bands; red morocco spine label.
Copy 2: Contemporary mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet frame; blind tooled single fillet on board edges; blind tooled double fillet compartments on spine, with single fillet hatching on head and tail; red sprinkled edges.
Copy 1: Imperfect: wanting the folded tables. Cropped with partial loss of imprint.
Copy 1: Bound with two other works; ms. contents list on flyleaf.
Copy 1: Previously: Ea.4.13.
Copy 2: Imperfect: wanting pp. 57-80 (sheets H-K). Missing pages supplied with blank sheets.
Copy 2: Bound with four other items.
Copy 2: Previous shelfmarks: Dd.4.11, Fd.4.11.
Stone Early works to 1800.
Precious stones Early works to 1800.
Marne, Claude de, ? - -1610 printer.
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Haeredes Johannis Aubrii printer.
Andreae Wecheli Heredes printer.
Germany Hanau.
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