Bibliotheca instituta et collecta
By: primum a Conrado Gesnero ; deinde in epitomen redacta, & nouorum librorum accessione locupletata, tertiò recognita, & in duplum post priores editiones aucta, per Iosiam Simlerum ; iam verò postremò aliquot mille, cùm priorum tùm nouorum authorum opusculis, ex instructissima Viennensi Austriae imperatoria bibliotheca amplificata, per Iohannem Ioacobum Frisium ... ; habes hic ... catalogum locupletissimum omnium ferè scriptorum, à mundi initio ad hunc vsque diem, extantium & non extantium, publicatorum & passim in bibliothecis latitantium.  Opus non bibliothecis tantum publicis priuatísue instituendis necessarium, sed studiosis omnibus, cuiuscunque artis aut scientiae, ad studia melius formanda vtilissimum. --
Contributors: Fries, Johann Jacob, d. 1611.; Simmler, Josias, 1530-1576.; Froschauer, Christoph, fl. 1552-1588; Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish, Duke of, 1790-1858 (association); K. K. Hofbibliothek (Austria); Chatsworth Library
Publisher: Excudebat Christophorus Froschouerus
Published: 1583
Place of publication: Tiguri
Language: lat
Number of pages: 835
Subjects: Universal bibliography.; Latin literature -- Bibliography; Greek literature -- Bibliography; Hebrew literature -- Bibliography; Bio-bibliography.
Notes: First published (Tiguri, 1545-55) under title: Bibliotheca universalis.

Includes index.

Fisher copy: Armorial binding, with the monogram and coronet of William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire in gold on spine. With the book label of the Chatsworth Library.