Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths, . together with the Religio Medici. By Thomas Brown Knight, M.D. ...
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
Category
Books
Date
1672
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3143764
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 440, [12]; [8], 144p. . port.. . 4to.. Christies Lot No. 5174. - Imperfect: missing additional title page for "Pseudodoxia Epidemica".. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: "Antony Gibbs Tenax Propositi" [i.e. Antony Gibbs (1841-1907); family motto]. - Armorial bookplate: "Tenax Propositi" [i.e. Gibbs family motto] loose. - Ms on title page: "This work was published first in Soho 1646.". - Extensive ms on title page verso of "Religio Medici": "Some have inferd from this treatise that the author was an atheist...".. Binding: Nineteenth-century maroon morocco; gold and blind-tooled spine and boards; gold-tooled board edges, board inners and doublures; marbled endpapers; gilt edges; signed: "Bound by Zaehnsdorf" on left board inner and gold stamp on back pastedown.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)