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[Remainder of imprint information]: " ... and are to be sold at the Sign of the Two Angels and Crown, in Little Brittain."
Title within double border.
Includes index.
Text in two columns.
Woodcut initials, decoration and illustrations.
Contains…

Imperfect: leaves 25-34 wanting.
Library holds 1620 volume and printed fragment removed from early binding.
Microfilmed for preservation.
Binding: vellum.

Inscription on title page: Ex libris ... Nicolson.

Added engraved title page.
"The measure of the earth" (2d group of paging) has special title page.
The text is of the same setting as the 1687 ed.
Translation from the Mémoires of Claude Perrault. Cf. British Museum catalogue, v. 179 (1963) col.…

Part 1 has half title; part 2 has special title page and half title; "An appendix to the first section of the second part" has half title.
"The publisher to the reader" signed: Ro: Sharrock.
Vol. 1: [20], 127, [7] p.; v. 2: [2], 417 [i.e. 409],…

An English translation, by Philemon Holland, of Pliny's Naturalis historia.
Signatures: pi⁴(pi1+2) [par.]⁴ a-b⁶ A⁸ B-3I⁶ 3K⁴ ²A-3G⁶ ²3H⁴ ²3I-3O⁶ ²3P⁸.
Vol. 2 has imprint: London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1634.
Vol. 1: [58], 614, [42] p.; v. 2: [12],…

Colophon: Bononiae. MDCLXI [1661], Typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij ... Sumptibus Marci Antonij Berniae.
Printer's device at colophon: Hercules slaying the Lernaean Hydra with a club, palm tree in background, motto: "Invidia virtute…

First collected edition; each part has special title page and separate paging; [part.] II ("Religio medici") has imprint date 1685; "Annotations upon Religio medici" and "Observations upon Religio medici" also have special title pages with date…

With an initial leaf of advertisements.
Imperfect: lacking the leaf of advertisements.