[WOODWARD, John.]

An account of some Roman urns and other antiquities lately digg'd up near Bishopsgate. With brief reflections upon the antient and present state of London. In a letter to Sir Christopher Wren, Kt. Surveyor-General of Her Majesty's Works.

London, Printed for E. Crull, 1713. 8vo, pp. [2], xii, [2], 32, dust-soiling to title-page and final leaf, some light toning, in recent half calf and marbled sides. First edition. Woodward discusses some Roman antiquities discovered in Bishopsgate in London, particularly focusing on remains of the London Wall. He also takes issue with Gale who had advocated the theory that London was first founded on the south side of the Thames. John Woodward (1665-1728) is best remembered for his scientific collection of 'fossils', amassed between 1688 and 1724 and carefully documented in his catalogue of the collection, An attempt towards Natural History (London, 1729). See D. Price, 'John Woodward and a surviving British geological collection', in Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 1, no. 1 (1989), pp. 79-95.

• GBP 250.00 > 其他币种价格
• 订书号：: a715

• 书商: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (GREAT BRITAIN)