Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details
Language and size: | Libri Latini, &c. in Quarto |
Lot number: | 505 |
Page number: | 19 |
Author: | Gregory, James |
Title: | Optica promota |
Publication place: | London |
Publication date: | 1663 |
Price fetched: | 0.2.2 |
Location: | [Unknown; see notes] |
Provenance: | Inscriptions 'Ex Biblioth. Hookiana 2s. 2d.' and 'bought Dec: 30th 1778 of T. Phillips. Price 5 shillings' presumably by David Steuart Erskine (1742-1829, bookplate) who inscribed the book to John Millar (1735-1801) on 12 June 1794 |
Provenance references: | Gunther's notes in Hooke, Diary, 1688-1693 (1935), p. 193; Mandelbrote, 'Sloane's Purchases' (2009), p. 137; Sotheran catalogue 843 (1935), no. 1421. |
Annotations: | Inscription 'Liber Rob: Hooke ex auct: Ballard 15 Oct. 1691. 4d.' [ref: Gunther]. |
Other notes: | John Bullord's A Catalogue of Excellent Greek, Latine and English Books, . . . which will be sold by auction . . . on . . . the 13th of Octob. 1691 lists a 'Gregorii optica' on page 9 as lot 83 in 'Libri Theologici, Historici, Miscellanei, &c. in Quarto' section. Bullord's catalogue (ESTC citation no. R230316) is available via EEBO. |
database ID: | auct_BH_864 |