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Title

Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With some marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of Urn-burial, or sepulchrall urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or network plantations of the antients. Both newly written by the same author.

Varying form of title

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

Publication, distribution, etc.

London, : Printed for the assigns of Edward Dod, 1669.

Physical description

[14], 192, 203-322, 309-414 [18]; [8] 70 p., [3] leaves of plates ; 4to.

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. 'Hydriotaphia' and 'The garden of Cyrus' have separate title-pages, and a new pagination and register.

Note

Title-page of 'Hydriotaphia': Hydriotaphia, urn-burial; or, a discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk. Together with The garden of Cyrus; or, the quincuncial lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considerd: with sundry observations. / By Thomas Browne, Dr of Physick. -- London, : Printed for Henry Brome, at the Star in Little-Britain, 1669.

Note

Title-page for The garden of Cyrus gives an imprint date of 1668.

Citation/references note

Keynes, Browne, 78

Citation/references note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5164

Citation/references note

ESTC, R19506

Citation/references note

Quarrie, Eton 1440-1990, p. 32.

Citation/references note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5154A (Hydriotaphia)

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of Madelene, Lady Agnew (1796-1858), wife of Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th baronet of Lochnaw. The bookplate bears the inscription DCA Agnew, 1858, presumably Lady Agnew's third son, David Carnegie Andrew Agnew.

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

Lacks first plate (frontispiece portrait of the author). Two plates are bound in between the table of contents and the main text of Pseudodoxia.

Subject

Common fallacies Early works to 1800.

Subject

Natural history Pre-Linnean works.

Added entry--name

Ekins, Nathaniel publisher.

Added entry--name

Added entry--title

Religio Medici.

Added entry--title

Hydriotaphia.

Added entry--title

Garden of Cyrus.

Added entry--place

England London.

Identifier

B39356
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