Shelfmark
Gg.8.06
Author
Uniform title
[De mensuris et ponderibus antiquis]
Title
Edvardi Bernardi De mensuris et ponderibus antiquis libri tres..
Varying form of title
Edwardi Bernardi De mensuris et ponderibus antiquis libri tres
Varying form of title
De mensuris et ponderibus antiquis libri tres
Edition
Editio altera, purior & duplo locupletior..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxoniæ. : E Theatro Seldonio, anno Domini MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
Physical description
[16], 261, [83] p., [4] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Language
Chiefly in Latin, with some references in Greek and Chinese (the table of ancient Chinese weights and measures).
Note
With an etched and engraved title page vignette, depicting the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.
Note
Includes: "Epistola N.F.D. de mari aeneo Salomonis" (caption title) by Nicolas Fatio de Dullier on Nn2v-Qq1v.
Note
Includes: "De mensuris & ponderibus Sinensium epistola" (caption title) by Thomas Hyde on Qq3v-Uu2r.
Note
Signatures: [dagger]⁴-2[dagger]⁴ A-Uu⁴.
Note
With woodcut initials.
Note
Illustrated with four leaves of etched and/or engraved plates, including a table of Chinese weights and measures (the last is sometimes bound double-page).
Citation/references note
ESTC, R14059
Citation/references note
Wing, B1987
Provenance
Red and black Eton College Library booklabel.
Binding
18th century sprinkled and smooth calf skin Cambridge style binding; light and dark stained calf skin frames with blind tooled fillet and roll borders; sprinkled edges; blind tooled roll border on head and tail of spine.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Gg.
Subject
Weights and measures, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Weights and measures China Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Fatio de Duillier, Nicolas, 1644 - 1753 Epistola de mari aeneo Salomonis.
Added entry--name
Hyde, Thomas, 1636 - 1703 De mensuris & ponderibus Sinensium epistola.
Added entry--name
Oxford University Press publisher.
Added entry--name
Oxford University Press printer.
Added entry--name
Sheldonian Theatre printer.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
lat grc chi
Identifier
B49259