Language and size:	Libri Latini, &c. in Folio
Lot number:	153
Page number:	4
Author:	Dobrzensky, Jacobus
Title:	de admirando Fontium Genio. cum fig.
Publication place:	Ferrara
Publication date:	1658
Price fetched:	0.1.2
Location:	Burndy Library Collection at the Huntington Library call number 752421
Provenance:	Lapthorne, Richard (c. 1637-1723) Trotter family (18th century, bookplate) Dibner, Bern (1897-1988)
Provenance references:	Mandelbrote, 'Sloane's Purchases' (2009), p. 133; Keynes, Bibliography (1960), p. xv; Huntington Library catalogue.
Annotations:	Inscription on front free endpaper: 'R. Hook: pd. 3½s. Lapthorn Auct. Nov. 20. 1691.' [Mandelbrote dates the note to 1691; Keynes and the Huntington Library catalogue to 1697; however the Lapthorne auction was in November 1691].
Other notes:	Extant copy is dated 1657; the Huntington Library catalogue notes that "Both title page and colophon have been altered from 1657 to 1659." Hooke had been interested in this book at least 3 years prior to finally purchasing it from Lapthorne's auction. The same Ferrara edition appears on Hooke's list of desiderata on fol. 149r of British Library, MS Sloane 1039; this list can now be linked to the auction of Edward Wray's library, and the book matches lot 47 (listed as Jac. de Nigro Ponte & Amaeniora de fontibus Philosophia figuris) on p. 6 of William Cooper's Catalogus librorum bibliothecae instructissimae Eduardi Wray de Barling . . . quorum auctio habenda est . . . Junii 20. 1687, available online via EEBO. It is also listed on fols. 147v and 144v of British Library, MS Sloane 1039. These lists can now be linked to the auction of Robert Scott's library, and the books match lot 197 on p. 118 and lot 81 (listed as Philosophia de fontibus cum multis fig. Machinarum, &c.) on p. 133 of Benjamin Walford's Catalogus librorum Roberti Scott . . . quorum auctio habenda est . . . decimo tertio die Februarii, 1687/8, available online via EEBO.
database ID:	auct_BH_164

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