Stukeley, William (1687-1765)

Inter-leaved copy with holograph MS. notes and additions, of 'Palaeographia sacra: or, discourses on monuments of Antiquity that related to sacred history. Number I. A comment on an Ode of Horace, shewing the Bacchus of the Heathen to be the Jehovah of the Jews'. London: W. Innys and R. Manby. MDCCXXXVI. Inside the upper cover is note by Stukeley '26 august this year 1736 the Duchess of Ancaster dyed; at Grimsthorp. my great friend and patroness'. Produced in Stamford.

1736

1 volume 5 ll. + pp. vi. + 77 pp. + 6 ll. 4to. 24 × 181/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1928.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Armorial book-plate of the St. John Family.