Musæum Tradescantianum: or, A collection of rarities : Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant.

  • Tradescant, John, 1608-1662
Date:
M.DC.LVI. [1656]
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Musæum Tradescantianum
Collection of rarities

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by John Grismond, and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill, M.DC.LVI. [1656]

Physical description

28 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits (metal cuts).

Notes

A catalogue of the nucleus of the present-day Ashmolean Museum, compiled by Tradescant with the assistance of Thomas Wharton and Elias Ashmole.
The first leaf is blank.
The portraits are signed by Wenceslaus Hollar.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 1st".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) T2005.
Madan, III, 2292.
Thomason E.1613[4].

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 204:E1613[4]) s1999 miun s

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