Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
October 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 13 (Natural History); Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 60r
Notes:
Not listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue; 1st edition = Leiden,169n; Du Simitière had 1705 edition; inscribed by Du Simitière "Bought at public auction at Philadelphia, being part of the books which composed that large and valuable Library of the Family of the Byrds of Westover in Virginia. October 1781 for five shillings currency"; has Benjamin Smith Barton's signature on verso of printed title and initials on recto of engraved one; bought from Barton's estate shorty after his death in 1815 by Pennsylvania Hospital (O/S QK41 H42). Kevin J. Hayes, The Library of William Byrd of Westover (Madison, 1997), no. 647; Edwin Wolf 2nd, "The Dispersal of the Library of William Byrd of Westover," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 68 (1958): 26n, 77
Valued at 2s in Du Simitière's estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 4
"Cuts" indicates the presence of illustrations (usually engraved).
Title Information:
Paradisus Batavus
Imprint Information:
Leiden: Apud Petrum Van Der Aa, 1705
Repository:
Pennsylvania Hospital Library, Philadelphia, call no. O/S QK41 H42
