The Lives of those Eminent Antiquaries Elias Ashmole, Esquire, and Mr William Lilly, written by themselves; containing, first, William Lilly's History of His Life and Times, with Notes, by Mr Ashmole: secondly, Lilly's Life and Death of Charles the First: and lastly, the Life of Elias Ashmole, Esquire. By way of Diary, with Several Occasional Letters, by ...
London, Printed for T. Davies, 1774. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) 'was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy.... Throughout his life he was an avid collector of curiosities and other artefacts. Many of these he acquired from the traveller, botanist, and collector John Tradescant the Younger..... More