Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details
| Language and size: | Libri Latini, &c. in Octavo |
| Lot number: | 463 |
| Page number: | 31 |
| Author: | Becher, Johann Joachim |
| Title: | Novum Organon Philologicum |
| Publication place: | Frankfurt |
| Publication date: | 1674 |
| Catalogue notes: | Author's initial given as 'D.' in catalogue |
| Price fetched: | 0.5.0 |
| Location: | Wellcome Library, London, shelfmark EPB Suppl. B 58210/B |
| Provenance: | Prior to Hooke: Robert Boyle (1627-1691)? After Hooke: Trotter family (18th century, bookplate); McKie, Douglas (1896-1967) |
| Provenance references: | Mandelbrote, 'Sloane's Purchases' (2009), p. 135; Hooke, Diary, 1688-1693 (1935), p. 225; Wellcome Library, London, catalogue. The latter references D. McKie, "Three historical notes", Nature, v. 163 (1949), pp. 627-8 for a possible Robert Boyle provenance as "implied by a note in Robert Hooke's diary: see McKie." |
| Annotations: | Inscription on front free endpaper verso 'R. Hooke pd. 21d. Mar.25.1693 MF [Moorfields]'. |
| Other notes: | The full title in the Wellcome Library Catalogue is Joannis Joachimi Becheri Novum organum philologicum : pro verborum copia in quavis materia acquirenda, das ist: Neuer Werkzeug der Wohlredenheit. |
| database ID: | auct_BH_1453 |