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LEADER: 01719 am a2200289 a 45 0
001 7072217
008 100326s1656 enkc eng d
035 $a(OCoLC)6957189
100 1 $aTradescant, John,$d1608-1662
245 10 $aMusaeum Tradescantianum,$bor, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London /$cby John Tradescant.
246 3 $aCollection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by John Grismond, and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooke ...,$c1656.
300 $a[24], 179, [5] p. :$bports.
500 $aCatalogue 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).
500 $aIncludes 'Catalogus plantarum in horto Johannes Tradescanti nascentium', pp. 73-178.
500 $aCompilation of catalogue "with the assistance of two worthy friends" [i.e. Elias Ashmole and Thomas Wharton]. Cf. D.N.B.
500 $aIncludes portraits of the two Tradescants etched by W. Hollar.
510 4 $aWing,$cT2005.
541 $cPurchase;$aJonathan A. Hill;$c2010;$eRB281533.$5CaOTUTF
590 $aFisher copy: With the ink bookstamp (crest and initials) of Francis Ferrand Foljambe. In box, made by James Brockman, Oxford.$5CaOTUTF
596 $a32
700 1 $aHollar, Wenceslaus,$d1607-1677
700 1 $aTradescant, John,$dd. 1637
700 1 $aAshmole, Elias,$d1617-1692
700 1 $aWharton, Thomas,$d1614-1673
700 1 $aFoljambe, Francis Ferrand,$d1750-1814$e(association)
926 $aFISHER$bRAREBOOKS$chollar 00052$dBOOK$f1