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.
Added entry--name
Dodd, Edward, active 17th century - ? publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Smith, Henry Babington, 1863 - 1923 Former owner.
Added entry--name
Thompson, W. H. (William Hepworth), 1810 - 1886 (William Hepworth), former owner.
Added entry--name
Berkeley, Rowland, 1613 - 1696 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B39238