Musaeum Tradescantianum, or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London / by John Tradescant.

  • Tradescant, John, 1608-1662.
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1656
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London / by John Tradescant. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The original may be consulted at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

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London : Printed by John Grismond, and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooke ..., 1656.

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24 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : portraits ; cm.

Notes

Catalogue 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).
Includes 'Catalogus plantarum in horto Johannes Tradescanti nascentium', pp. 73-178.
Compilation of catalogue "with the assistance of two worthy friends" [i.e. Elias Ashmole and Thomas Wharton]. Cf. D.N.B.
Includes portraits of the two Tradescants etched by W. Hollar.

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Wing, T2005.

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The original may be consulted at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

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