Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick ... 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.
- Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
- Date:
- 1658
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Also known as
Pseudodoxia epidemica
Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
Hydriotaphia urne-buriall half-title: Dr Brown's Enquiries & Garden of Cyrus
Publication/Creation
London : Printed for Edward Dod, and are to be sould by Andrew Crook at the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, 1658.
Physical description
16 unnumbered pages, 118, 135-356, 369-468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages; 12 unnumbered pages, 73 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (metal cuts).
Contributors
Edition
The fourth edition. /
References note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B5162.
Thomason E.752[1].
Thomason E.752[2].
Notes
Text of 'Enquiries' is continuous despite pagination.
Index, 'An alphabetical table': [16] p. at end of first number series.
"Hydriotaphia urne-buriall" has separate dated title page and pagination, and begins new register with quire 5[par]. "Garden of Cyrus" has separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous.
With a vertical half-title (Keynes' "longitudinal label") printed as 5[par]1, sometimes bound after the title page of "Hydriotaphia": Dr Brown's Enquiries & Garden of Cyrus.
With a final advertisement leaf.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 1st".
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 115:E752[1] and 115:E752[2]) s1999 miun s