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Shelfmark

Iaa4.5.06

Author

Title

Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. / By Thomas Browne Dr of Physick.

Varying form of title

Portion of title: Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths

Edition

The second edition, / corrected and much enlarged by the author. Together with some marginall observations, and a table alphabeticall at the end.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London, : Printed by A. Miller, for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, at the Gunne in Ivie Lane., 1650.

Physical description

[16], 329, [11] p. ; fol.

Note

Head- and tail-pieces, initials, printed marginal notes.

Note

Errata at foot of leaf 2Y2 recto.

Note

Signatures: A-2X⁴ 2Y².

Note

All printed pages enclosed in a plain rule-border.

Note

Imprimatur on leaf B4 verso: 'March 14th 1645. I have perused these learned animadversions ... I approve them as very worthy to be printed and published. John Downame.'

Citation/references note

Keynes, Browne, 74

Citation/references note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5160

Citation/references note

ESTC, R2160

Citation/references note

Quarrie, Eton 1440-1990, p. 32.

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of W.H. Thompson, possibly William Hepworth Thompson (1810-1886), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of Henry Babington Smith (1863-1923), with annotation 'Bt at sale'.

Provenance

Bookplate recording donation to Eton College by David Babington-Smith.

Provenance

Book label of Eton College Library.

Provenance

T.p. Inscription: Rowld. Berkeley. Possibly Sir Rowland Berkeley

Binding

Contemporary mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet frame; board edges reinforced; rebacked in 20th century calf; gold tooled letters on spine; red stained edges; 19th or 20th century endpapers.

Subject

Common fallacies Early works to 1800.

Subject

Natural history Pre-Linnean works.

Added entry--name

Ekins, Nathaniel publisher.

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Thompson, W. H. (William Hepworth), 1810 - 1886 (William Hepworth), former owner.

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Added entry--place

England London.

Identifier

B39238
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