THE PRIVATE DIARY OF DR. JOHN DEE, And the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge.. This item is unavailable.THE PRIVATE DIARY OF DR. JOHN DEE, And the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

First edition, small 4to., pp.viii,102,35 (Camden Society Members List and notes), uncut, decoratively blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; light toning to margins, wear at headband, with bruising to corners and lower edge of front board, light marking to cloth, a very good copy of this scarce volume. Orchard notes in his introduction that the Catalogue is valuable for the notices which it preserves of several middle-age treatises not now extant and that Dee was said to have expended the vast sum of £ 3000 on this collection. The diary, 1577-1601, is preceded by notes of nativities during 1554-75; the catalogue was made in 1573. The final section of the volume comprises Camden Society material including a Report of the council, Laws, and a full list of members.