Shelfmark
Iaa4.5.23 - Iaa4.5.24
Author
Uniform title
[Pseudodoxia epidemica. French]
Title
Essai sur les erreurs populaires ou examen de plusieurs opinions reçues comme vrayes, qui sont fausses et douteuses. Traduit de l'anglois de Thomas Brown, chevalier & docteur en médicine..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Paris : chez Pierre Witte, rue S. Jacques, proche de S. Yves, à l'Ange Gardien. Didot, Quay des Augustins, près du pont S. Michel, à la Bible d'or., M. D. CC. XXXIII. [1733].
Physical description
2 v. 17 cm.
Note
Translated by Jean Baptiste Souchay.
Note
Head-pieces.
Note
Pagination: [34], 546, [4] p. ; [4], 342, [16] p.
Provenance
Ms. initials: "HBS" [Henry Babington Smith].
Provenance
Bookplate recording donation to Eton College by David Babington-Smith.
Provenance
Booklabel of Eton College Library.
Binding
?18th century brown leather binding speckled binding; gilt lettering and decoration on spine; red stained edges; marbled endpapers.
Subject
Common fallacies Early works to 1800.
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
Souchay, Jean Baptiste, 1688 - 1746 translator.
Added entry--name
Witte, Pierre, 1671? - 1742? bookseller.
Added entry--name
Didot, François, 1689 - 1757 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Smith, Henry Babington, 1863 - 1923 former owner.
Added entry--name
Babington-Smith, David former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre eng
Identifier
B45441