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Title

Gemmarum et lapidum historia / quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II. Imperatoris medicus ; postea Adrianus Tollius ... recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, & indice auxit multo locupletiore.

Author

Boodt, Anselmus de, 1550-1632.

Publication

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1647.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tollius, Adrianus, active 17th century
• Laet, Joannes de, 1593-1649.
• Theophrastus

Description

[8], 576, [24], [64], 210, [6] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill.; 19 cm. (8vo)

Alternative Title

• Ioannis de Laet Antvverpiani De gemmis et lapidibus libri duo
• Liber de lapidibus.

Subjects

• Precious stones > Early works to 1800
• Röhrer > Provenance
• Calle, Joseph de la > Provenance
• Rocks > Early works to 1800
• Fossils > Early works to 1800

Note

• Original ed. published: Hanoviae : Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1609.
• "Ioannis de Laet Antvverpiani De gemmis et lapidibus libri duo, quibus praemittitur Theophrasti liber de lapidibus Graece & Latine, cum brevibus annotationibus" (4th-6th groups of pages) has special t.p. and separate paging and signatures.
• Signatures: (?)⁴ A-2O⁸ 2P⁴ (2P4 blank), *-4*⁸, ²A-N⁸ O⁴.
• Illustrations: Numerous woodcuts in the text.
• Woodcut ornament (publisher's device) on title pages; ornamental initials.
• Two tables on folded leaves.
• Errata: p. [16] at beginning of "De gemmis et lapidibus libri duo."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Indexed In (note)

• Brunet
• Grässe
• BM (NH)

Call Number

*KB 1647 97-490

LCCN

15013953

OCLC

• 2827394
• NYPG97-B1048

Author

Boodt, Anselmus de, 1550-1632.

Title

Gemmarum et lapidum historia / quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II. Imperatoris medicus ; postea Adrianus Tollius ... recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, & indice auxit multo locupletiore.

Imprint

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1647.

Edition

Tertia editio longe purgatissima : Cui accedunt Ioannis de Laet ... De gemmis & lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De lapidibus, gr. & lat. cum brevibus notis.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Indexed In:

Brunet, I, col. 1108

Grässe, I, p. 494

BM (NH), I, col. 199

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary vellum.

Provenance: Joseph de la Calle; Röhrer, 1942 (autographs on t.p.).

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Local Subject

Calle, Joseph de la Provenance.

Röhrer Provenance.

Added Author

Tollius, Adrianus, active 17th century.

Laet, Joannes de, 1593-1649. De gemmis et lapidibus libri duo. 1647.

Theophrastus. History of stones. Latin & Greek. 1647.

Added Title

Ioannis de Laet Antvverpiani De gemmis et lapidibus libri duo

Liber de lapidibus.

Research Call Number

*KB 1647 97-490