Search Results: the natural history of staffordshire by plot robert

Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1686 x, 450pp plus index 10. Thirty six of the thirty seven plates, lacks plate 23 and the map. The plates are of high quality suggesting that they are early impressions. Sometime rebacked and the hinges reinforced, the boards though are the original speckled calf. Robert Plot was the first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and Profesor of 'Chymistry' at the University of Oxford. He was born in Borden, Kent and is buried there.

Oxford. Very Good. 1686. Hardcover. 16pp, + 450pp + index, 11 single page engraved plates, 26 double page engraved plates, title page with engraved vignette, folding map of County is facsimile. Bound in modern half calf/green cloth. A scarce book; Quarto .