Shelfmark
Ga.6.02(02)
Author
Title
De stirpium collectione tabulae tum generales, tum per duodecim menses, : cum Germanicis nominibus, & alijs hactenus à nemine traditis, / olim per Conradum Gesnerum conscriptae ac aeditae: nunc authoris opera locupletatae, & de nouo in vsum pharmacopolarum luci datae, per Casparum VVolphium Tigurinum medicum. Accesserunt de stirpibus & earum partibus tabulae ex Theophrasti praecipuè libris confectae, eodem Gesnero authore.
Varying form of title
De stirpivm collectione tabvlae tvm generales, tvm per dvodecim menses
Publication, distribution, etc.
Tiguri : In officina Froscho., Anno M.D.LXXXVII. [1587]
Physical description
[8], 146, [2] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo.)
Note
Initials.
Note
Errata at foot of leaf *8r.
Note
Signatures: *⁸ A-R⁸ S⁴ T⁸ (T7 blank).
Note
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Names of plants given in Latin and German.
Citation/references note
Wellcome cat. of printed books, 2806
Citation/references note
Pritzel, 3305
Citation/references note
Adams, G525
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College. Inscription on verso of second flyleaf: Liber Collegij Etonens. juxta Windsora[m].
Binding
Contemporary Oxford dark brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet frames; gold tooled floral fleurons at each corner of inner frame; gold stamped flower-in-urn centrepiece (Ker no. 51); blind tooled double fillet and gold tooled fleuron on spine; four raised bands; yellow stained edges; author name written on fore-edge in ink.
Copy-specific note
Second of two items bound in volume.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Dd.7.7, Eg.8.4.
Copy-specific note
Annotations (including recipes) in early seventeenth century hand on front flyleaf.
Subject
Materia medica Early works to 1800.
Subject
Botany, Medical Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Froschauer, Christoph, ? - -1564 printer.
Added entry--name
Officina Froschouiana printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Zurich.
Language code
lat ger grc
Identifier
B46364