Accession number
PML 38771
Creator
Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.
Published
Imprinted at London : By Iohn Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saynt Martines, Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis June 1, 1565.
Credit line
Purchased in 1946.
Notes
First published in Latin, Tiguri, 1554; first ed. in English, 1559.
Second ed.--(STC 11801).
Translated by Peter Morwen, Morwent or Morwinge (1530?-1537?).
Second ed.--(STC 11801).
Translated by Peter Morwen, Morwent or Morwinge (1530?-1537?).
Description
10 prelim. leaves, 408, [15] p. : ill.
Inscriptions/Markings
Provenance notes in various hands on flyleaf. Occasional manicules.
Provenance
Henry Cunliffe (1826-1897), armorial bookplate and literary and bibliographical annotations, through inheritance to: Sir Robert Neville Cunliffe (1884-1949), armorial bookplate (by J.F. Badeley, 1926); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at the Cunliffe sale, 15 May 1946, lot 217.
Binding
Modern vellum.
Classification
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Department