Musæum Tradescantianum
Subtitle: or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London
By: by John Tradescant
Contributors: Tradescant, John, 1608-1662; Gunther, R. T. (Robert Theodore), 1869-1940; Ashmolean Museum
Series: Old Ashmolean reprints -- 1.
Publisher: [University of Oxford]
Published: 1925
Place of publication: Oxford]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Natural History; Natural history
Notes: "... Prepared by R. T. Gunther for the opening of the Old Ashmolean Museum "

"Pages 74 to 178, containing the remainder of the Catalogus plantarum in horto Iohannis Tradescanti nascentium, are omitted in this reprint"

Catalog of a collection made by John Tradescant and his son, 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, but was later dispersed. The first natural history museum in Britain.

Facsimile reprint of the London : John Grismond, 1656 edition.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coombes