Shelfmark
Iaa4.5.08
Author
Title
Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. Whereunto is added Religio Medici: and A discourse of the Sepulchral-Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyrus. or the quincuncial lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations. / By Thomas Brown Doctour of Physick.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
Edition
The last edition, / corrected and enlarged by the authour. Together with some marginal observations, and a table alphabetical at the end.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed for Nath. Ekins, at the Gun in Pauls Church-yard, 1659.
Physical description
[12], 326, [14], 64 p. [2] leaves of plates ; fol.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces, initials, printed marginal notes.
Note
All printed pages of Pseudodoxia enclosed in a plain rule-border; the other works printed in double columns.
Note
A reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1658 Ekins edition of Pseudodoxia epidemica.
Note
'Religio Medici' and the other works have a separate title page, pagination and register. T.p. bears the imprimatur: Printed for the good of the commonwealth.
Citation/references note
Keynes, Browne, 77
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5163
Citation/references note
ESTC, R39941
Citation/references note
Quarrie, Eton 1440-1990, p. 32.
Provenance
Ownership inscription on t.p., partly obliterated: Trin. Coll. Camb. still legible.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Henry Babington Smith (1863-1923).
Provenance
Bookplate recording donation to Eton College by David Babington-Smith.
Provenance
Book label of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: H Babington Smith, Jan 1911.
Binding
Contemporary mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet frame with ornaments at each corner; rebacked in 20th century red brown leather; gold tooled letters on spine; red sprinkled edges; 19th or 20th century endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Only one of the 2 leaves of plates present: engravings of the urns from Hydriotaphia, and the quincunx from the t.p. of Garden of Cyrus on a single leaf, bound between pp. 48 and 49 of Pseudodoxia.
Subject
Common fallacies Early works to 1800.
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
Ekins, Nathaniel publisher.
Added entry--name
Smith, Henry Babington, 1863 - 1923 Former owner.
Added entry--title
Religio Medici.
Added entry--title
Hydriotaphia.
Added entry--title
Garden of Cyrus.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B39351