JACOB BOBART.
(Vol. vii., pp. 428. 578.)
I am exceedingly obliged for the information afforded by Dr. E. F. Rimbault concerning the Bobarts. Can he give me any more communication concerning them? I am anxious to learn all I can. I have old Jacob Bobart's signature, bearing date 1659, in which he spells his name with an e instead of a, which seems to have been altered to an a by his son Jacob.
In Vertumnus it says Bobart's Hortes Siccus was in twenty volumes; but the Oxford Botanic Garden Guide only mentions twelve quarto volumes: which is correct, and where is it? In one of my copies of Vertumnus, a scrap of paper is fixed to p. 29., and the following is written upon it:
"The Hortus Siccus here alluded to was sold at the Rev. Mr. Hodgkinson's sale at Sarsden, to Mrs. De Salis, wife of Dr. De Salis."
Is there any pedigree of the family?
In a letter of Jno. Ray's to Mr. Aubrey is the following:
"I am glad that Mr. Bobart hath been so diligent in observing and making a collection of insects."
Is there any collection extant?
"He may give me much assistance in my intended Synopsis of our English Animals, and contribute much to the perfecting of it."
Did he do so?
Is the print of old Jacob Bobart, by W. Richardson, valuable?
Where can I pick up a print of him by Loggan del., Burghers sculp.? There is a portrait of Jacob Bobart the younger in Oxford Almanack for 1719; can I procure it?
H. T. Bobart.