Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. 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.
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. 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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for the assigns of Edward Dod, 1669.

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14 unnumbered pages, 192, 203-322, 309-414 pages, 18 unnumbered pages; 8 unnumbered pages, 70 pages, 3 unnumbered plates : illustrations, portrait ; 4to (21 cm)

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Includes index.
"Hydriotaphia, urn-burial", originally published in 1658, has separate pagination, register, and dated title page with "printed for Henry Brome" in imprint; "The garden of Cyrus" has separate title page dated 1668; pagination and register are continuous.
Copy 1 Note: Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: Ex libris Guil: Williams e Coll: Jesu. Oxon anno domini 1707. Manuscript note pasted in after page 90, recounts the case of Mr Brooks who was struck by lightning. Early 18th century (?) manuscript notes in English in margins.

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ESTC R19506
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B5164

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