Shelfmark
Gc.5.31
Author
Title
Hobbius heauton-timorumenos. Or A consideration of Mr Hobbes his dialogues. In an epistolary discourse, addressed, to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. By John Wallis. D.D. Professor of Geometry in Oxford..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Consideration of Mr Hobbes his dialogues
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford. : Printed by A. & L. Lichfield, for Samuel Thomson, at the Bishops-head in S. Pauls Church-yard, London,, 1662..
Physical description
[4], 160 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note
"A sustained, technical, acrid criticism" of Thomas Hobbes's "Examinatio & emendatio mathematicæ hodiernæ" (Wing H2236) and of his "Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris" (Wing H2229)--Madan.
Note
Dated at end: Oxon. Febr. 20. 1661/2.
Note
Another edition (ESTC R235180) has "S. Pauls Church-yard, Lon." at end of imprint.
Note
Signatures: pi² A-K⁸.
Note
Errata at foot of p. [4].
Note
Title in double ruled border.
Note
Initial, head- and tail-pieces.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R38416
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W589
Citation/references note
Madan, III, 2618
Provenance
Bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton in 1731. Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Contemporary calf; border of blind double fillets with additional double fillets parallel to spine; rebacked in 20th century goatskin.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dp.6.18.
Subject
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588 - 1679 Dialogus physicus de natura aeris.
Subject
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588 - 1679 Examinatio et emendatio mathematicæ hodiernæ.
Subject
Mathematics Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Lichfield, A., fl. 1657 - 1671 (Anne), printer.
Added entry--name
Lichfield, Leonard, ? - -1686 printer.
Added entry--name
Thomson, Samuel, active 1657 - 1666 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B49251