Author: MacGregor, Arthur. (ed.).
Title: Tradescant's rarities. Essays on the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683. With a catalogue of the surviving early collections. [At head of title: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford].
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press], 1983. XIII,382 pp. 74 b./w. figs, 86 b./w. ills on [128] plts & 5 loose microfiches in rear pocket. Orig. hardcover (blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine), d./j. 4to. - Dust jacket with very light shelfwear; two small stamps on verso of the title page.Rather rare publication on the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford, Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678-1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.

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