Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
by Browne, Thomas Sir
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Errors, Gardening, Urn burial, Urns, Antiquities, Funeral Rites, Common fallacies, Natural history, Gardens, History, Pre-Linnean works, Early works to 1800, Superstition, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Burial, Anthropology, Natural sciences, Funerals, Learning and scholarship, Superstitions| Edition | Availability |
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
1658, Printed for Edward Dod, and are to be sould by Andrew Crook at the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard
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- The fourth edition. With marginal observations / and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of urn-burial.
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Edition Notes
Errors in page numbering: p. 166 and 167 transposed. p. 196 and 302 misprinted 199 and 202 respectively. Pp. 119-134 and 357-368 omitted.
Second t.p.: Hydriotaphia. Urne-buriall, or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk, together with the Garden of Cyrus, or the quincunciall lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered; with sundry observations. By Thomas Browne D. of Physick. London : Printed for Hen. Brome at the Signe of the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1658.
Third t.p., p. [32] of second sequence: The Garden of Cyrus. Or the quincuncial lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially naturally, mystically considered. By Thomas Brown D. of Physick. Printed in the year, 1658.
Hydrotaphia and Garden of Cyrus have continuous pagination.
Errata: p. [16] of prelims to Pseudodoxia epidemica.
Alphabetical table: [15] final unnumbered pages of Pseudodoxia epidemica (p. [16] blank)
Publishers' advertisements: p. [74-75] of second part.
Leaf preceding Hydrotaphia t.p.: Longitudinal label: Dr Brown's Enquiries & Gardens of Cyrus"--Advertising label for booksellers?--cf. Keynes.
Wing (2nd ed.) B5162.
Keynes: Works of Sir Thomas Brown 76.
ESTC R207236.
Thomason, E.752[1]
Thomason, E.752[2]
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5162.
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sir W. Paton's executors Note: Binding: Contemp. calf, rebacked. From the library of Sir William Paton. Signature of Thos. Wagstaff on front endpaper.
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