Musaeum Tradescantianum
Subtitle: or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London
By: by John Tradescant
Contributors: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677; Tradescant, John, d. 1637; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692; Wharton, Thomas, 1614-1673; Foljambe, Francis Ferrand, 1750-1814 (association)
Publisher: Printed by John Grismond, and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooke ...
Published: 1656
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 179
Other titles: Collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London
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.

Wing, T2005.

Purchase; Jonathan A. Hill; 2010; RB281533.

Fisher copy: With the ink bookstamp (crest and initials) of Francis Ferrand Foljambe.  In box, made by James Brockman, Oxford.