Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details
| Language and size: | English Books in Folio |
| Lot number: | 86 |
| Page number: | 40 |
| Author: | Pitfield, Alexander |
| Title: | Natural Hist. of Animals, with Fig. |
| Publication place: | London |
| Publication date: | 1688 |
| Price fetched: | 0.7.0 |
| Location: | University of Cambridge Libraries classmark Keynes.Q.6.4 |
| Provenance: | Strickland, George (19th century); Keynes, Geoffrey (1887-1982) |
| Provenance references: | Mandelbrote, 'Sloane's Purchases' (2009), p. 140; Keynes, Bibliography (1960), p. xv; University of Cambridge Libraries catalogue. |
| Annotations: | Inscription on the front pastedown: 'Presented to R. Hooke. Jan. 18. 1687/8. By his Worthy Freinde the Authour [Alexander Pitfield]', reproduced online on the Cambridge University Library Special Collections blog. |
| Other notes: | Title in the University of Cambridge Libraries catalogue: Memoir's for a natural history of animals : containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / [by C. Perrault et al.] ; Englished by A. Pitfeild. To which is added an Account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth / [by J. Picard] ; published by the same Academy, and Englished by R. Waller. English translation of Claude Perrault, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Paris, 1671). |
| database ID: | auct_BH_1869 |