Engraved title page: Dialogvs de systemate mvndi autore Galilæ Galilei, lyncæ, serenissimo Ferdinando II, Hetrvr. magno duci dicatus. Aug. Treboc., impensis Bonav. et Abr. Elzevir, Leydens, 1635.
Colophon: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton. M.D.XCVII., Epistle Dedicatorie [to Sir William Cecil, baron Burghley] -- [Commendatory verse and prose, mainly in Latin] -- To the courteous and well-willing Readers. -- First booke of the Historie of Plants, containing Grasses, Rushes, Corne, Flags, Bulbose, or Onion-rooted Plants. -- Second booke ... Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs for meate, medicine, or sweete smelling vse, etc. -- Third booke ... Containing Trees, Shrubs, bushes, Fruit-bearing plants, Rosins, Gums, Roses, Heath, Mosses: some Indian plants, and other rare plants ... Also Mushroms, Corall, and their seuerall kindes, etc. -- Index latinvs ... stirpivm. -- Index nominum Herbarum, quibus Pharmacopolarum officinæ, Barbari & Arabes vtuntur. -- Nominvm et opinionvm harmonia et consensus. -- Table of the English names. -- Supplement or Appendix vnot the generall Table, and to the Table of English names : gathered. -- Table, wherein is contained the Nature, Vertue, and Danger of all the Herbes, Trees and Plants., Errors in paging., Signatures: A⁴, B⁶, A⁸-Vvv⁸, Xxx¹⁰; Aaaa-Tttt⁸, Vvvv⁶; Aaaaa-Iiiii⁴, last verso blank., and Title, mended, within elaborate engraved border, coat of arms of Lord Burghley on verso. Full page portrait of author facing p.1, dated 1598.
Translated from Claude Boutet's Traité de mignature. Cf. Bibl. Nat. and With: The British legacy. London : T. Chandler, 1754
Publisher:
Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, facing St. Magnus-Church, London-Bridge, and M. Cooper, at the Globe, Pater-Noster-Row,
Subject (Name):
Hilles, Frederick Whiley,--1900---Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Colors--Early works to 1800, Drawing--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800, Engraving--Early works to 1800, and Miniature painting--Early works to 1800
2 works in 1 volume. Quarto. Tan calf; gold tooling on front and back covers and spine, gold lettering on spine. Illustrations, 1 leaf of manuscript notes by Wm. Herbert 1772 on Turberville. Spine height: 7 1/4 inches., Bound with [Turberville, G.] The noble art of venerie ... 1611., Printed throughout in black letter type., and Title vignette, "representing the Earl of Warwick in hawking costume"? cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 57, p. 321.