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<dl><dd>Catalog 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 museum in Great Britain), but was later dispersed. Catalog compiled by Tradescant with the assistance of Thomas Wharton and Elias Ashmole</dd>
<dd>With an heraldic frontispiece. The portraits are signed by Wenceslaus Hollar</dd>
<dd>Woodcut head-pieces</dd>
<dd>Signatures: AaB-MN</dd>
<dd>Wing (2nd ed.)</dd>
<dd>MgGill/Wood</dd>
<dd>Yale/Ripley</dd>
<dd>Sotheby's. Lib. of H.B. Martin: ornithology, 1989</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy (39088002816577) has blind-embossed stamp on the 6th leaf: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 152927</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy lacking first blank leaf</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy in a modern brown goatskin binding, title in gilt on spine; with typescript conservation note by Carolyn Horton, November 1973, tipped-in at end</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Tradescant, John, -1637?; Tradescant, John, 1608-1662; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692; Natural history</div>
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<dl><dd>Tradescant, John, 1608-1662</dd>
<dd>Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692</dd>
<dd>Wharton, Thomas, 1614-1673</dd>
<dd>Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, ill</dd>
<dd>Grismond, John, printer</dd>
<dd>Brooke, Nathaniel, bookseller</dd></dl></div>
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