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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.
Portion of title: Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
London, : Printed for the assigns of Edward Dod, 1669.
[14], 192, 203-322, 309-414 [18]; [8] 70 p., [3] leaves of plates ; 4to.
Head- and tail-pieces, initials, printed marginal notes.
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.
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.
Title-page for The garden of Cyrus gives an imprint date of 1668.
Keynes, Browne, 78
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5164
ESTC, R19506
Quarrie, Eton 1440-1990, p. 32.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5154A (Hydriotaphia)
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.
Armorial bookplate of Henry Babington Smith (1863-1923).
Bookplate recording donation to Eton College by David Babington-Smith.
Book label of Eton College Library.
Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: H Babington Smith, Jan 1911.
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.
Lacks first plate (frontispiece portrait of the author). Two plates are bound in between the table of contents and the main text of Pseudodoxia.
Common fallacies Early works to 1800.
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
Ekins, Nathaniel publisher.
Smith, Henry Babington, 1863 - 1923 Former owner.
Religio Medici.
Hydriotaphia.
Garden of Cyrus.
England London.
B39356