Author
Berlicom, Andreas van
Title
Elementorum de rerum naturalium : gravitate, pondere, impulsu, motu, loco. et motuum, et actionum caussis, rationibus, ac modis. Libri XII. / Auctore Andrea van Berlicom..
Varying form of title
Elementorum de rervm naturalivm
Imprint
Roterodami. : Ex officinâ Arnoldi Leers., M D C LVI [1656]
Physical description
[8], 230 [i.e. 236] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Note
Page 236 is misnumbered "230".
Note
Signatures: *4 A-Z4 Aa-Ff4 Gg2.
Note
Woodcut printer's device on the title-page, with motto "Labore et vigilantia"; woodcut initials.
Note
Leaf Ee1 (pages 217-218) is folded; contains full-page illustration on verso (page 218).
Note
With errata on final page.
Citation/references note
CLC, B830
Provenance
Pressmark of Seth Ward (1617-1689) on upper endleaf: D:3:6.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
17th-century reddish-brown calf over paper boards; sewn on four supports; boards decorated with blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with additional vertical blind fillets towards spine; spine with four raised bands, blind and gilt fillets, and blind hatching; gilt fillet around board edges; gilt hatching on endcaps; text block edges sprinkled red and blue; printed waste used as pastedowns.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: Raei, Clavis philosophiae naturalis, seu, Introductio ad naturae contemplationem, Aristotelico-Cartesiana (Leiden, 1654).
Subject
Physics Early works to 1800.
Subject
Gravity Early works to 1800.
Subject
Planets Early works to 1800.
Subject
Astronomy Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Leers, Arnout, -approximately 1674 printer.
Added entry--name
Ward, Seth, 1617-1689 former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Rotterdam.
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