Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths / By Thomas Brown.

  • Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
Date:
1672
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About this work

Also known as

Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by J.R. for N. Ekins, 1672.

Physical description

440 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 4to (25 cm)

Edition

6th and last ed.,

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) B5165

Notes

Another "6th and last ed., corrected and enlarged by the author" of Pseudodoxia epidemica was published by Ekins in 1672. It also contained Religio medici and Observations upon Religio medici, by Sir Kenelm Digby, each of which had special t.p., with imprint: London, Printed for Andrew Crook, 1672.
Signatures: [a]², *⁴, **⁴, ***², B-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa-Lll⁴, Mmm² (Hhh₂ incorrectly signed Hh₂).
Pages 190-191 incorrectly numbered 290-291.
Copy 2. Imperfect: lacks title page and all before *2. Bound in 19th century marbled papers, calf spine and corners, black goatskin labels with binder's title 'Vulgar errors'. Title and date in manuscript on flyleaf.

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Where to find it

  • Copy 1

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    EPB/B/15732
  • Copy 2

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    Closed stores
    EPB/B/61134

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