Musœum Tradescantianum: or a collection of rarities preserved at South Lambeth neer London / By John Tradescant.

London : Printed by J. Grismond for N. Brooke, 1656.

10 unnumbered leaves, 179 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : 2 engr. portraits ; (8vo)

MgGill/Wood 600

Yale/Ripley 291

Sotheby's. Lib. of H.B. Martin: ornithology, 1989 1925

Wing T2005

ESTC R203792

Madan, III, 2292

Thomason, E.1613[4]

Wing (2nd ed.), T2005

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 natural history museum in Great Britain), but was later dispersed

Copy 2 Note: Bound with Ducarel, A.C. A letter from Dr. Ducarel to William Watson. 1773. Mounted on single leaves. The heraldic frontispiece mentioned in the BM Cat. is wanting.