Musœum Tradescantianum: or a collection of rarities preserved at South Lambeth neer London / By John Tradescant.

  • Tradescant, John, 1608-1662.
Date:
1656
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About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by J. Grismond for N. Brooke, 1656.

Physical description

10 unnumbered leaves, 179 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : 2 engr. portraits ; (8vo)

Notes

Catalog of a collection made by John Tradescant and his son (also named John) and left by the latter to Elias Ashmole, who presented it to Oxford University in 1683, where it formed the nucleus of the old Ashmolean Museum (the first natural history museum in Great Britain), but was later dispersed
Copy 2 Note: Bound with Ducarel, A.C. A letter from Dr. Ducarel to William Watson. 1773. Mounted on single leaves. The heraldic frontispiece mentioned in the BM Cat. is wanting.

References note

MgGill/Wood 600
Yale/Ripley 291
Sotheby's. Lib. of H.B. Martin: ornithology, 1989 1925
Wing T2005
ESTC R203792
Madan, III, 2292
Thomason, E.1613[4]
Wing (2nd ed.), T2005

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Where to find it

  • Copy 1

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    Closed stores
    EPB/A/51869
  • Copy 2

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    EPB/B/20998.2

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