Shelfmark
Gb.1.10
Author
Title
Edoardi VVottoni Oxoniensis, De differentiis animalium libri decem. / Cum amplissimus indicibus, in quibus primùm authorum nomina, unde quæque desumpta sunt, singulis capitibus sunt notata & designata: deinde omnium animalium nomenclaturæ, itémque singulæ eorum partes recensentur, tam Græcè, quàm Latinè.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De differentiis animalivm libri decem
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De differentiis animalium libri decem
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Apud Robertum Foüet, via Iacobæa, sub insigni Occasionis., 1598.
Physical description
[9], 220, [14] leaves ; 34 cm (Fo.).
Note
Woodcut initials; printed marginal notes.
Note
In Latin with quotations and examples partly in Greek.
Note
Signatures: ã4, ẽ⁴, A-2N⁶, 2O⁴, a⁶, b-c⁴ (c4 blank).
Note
A reissue of the sheets of the 1552 edition, with the first sheet of preliminaries cancelled and a new title-leaf substituted. The colophon on fol. 220 has been excised and a blank slip pasted in.
Note
Not in Adams.
Provenance
Purchased for Eton College and bound by Vincent Williamson with an Eton College armorial stamp. An engraved armorial bookplate on verso of title-page.
Binding
Contemporary dark brown calf by Vincent Williamson; blind tooled triple fillet border, with blind tooled double fillet on board edges; traces of ring plate and clasps; gold stamped armorial device of Eton College as centrepiece; blind tooled single and double fillet on spine, with marks of binder's twine; vellum tabs; six raised bands; red stained edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dd.3.9.
Subject
Zoology Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
Foüet, Robert, ? - 1642 printer.
Added entry--name
Williamson, Vincent binder.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B46795