Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details
| Language and size: | English Books in Octavo |
| Lot number: | 89 |
| Page number: | 46 |
| Author: | Greaves, John |
| Title: | Descript. of the Cyramads in Aegypt |
| Publication place: | [London] |
| Publication date: | 1646 |
| Price fetched: | 0.1.1 (?) |
| Provenance: | Prior to Hooke: Smith, Richard (1590-1675). |
| Provenance references: | Henderson & Poole, ‘Library of Lodwick’ (2009), p. 13. |
| Other notes: | The correct title is Pyramidographia:, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt. Hooke purchased this book for 5s 6d from the auction of Richard Smith in 1682, following the hammer copy of Bibliotheca Smithiana (London, 1682) (ESTC, citation no. R40617, available online via EEBO), where it is listed on page 201. |
| database ID: | auct_BH_2193 |