List of Sources
A list of primary and secondary resources which contributed to the creation of the exhibit.
Lindsey Betts
Lindsey Betts
2015
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The compleat chymical dispensatory, in five books
Medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions Early works to 1800
Materia medica Early works to 1800
Pharmacy Early works to 1800
Pharmacopoeias Early works to 1800
Materia medica
Medicine.
Pharmacopoeias.
Pharmacy
Early works
Early works to 1800
Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions Early works to 1800
[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 publisher's advertisements.
Schroeder, Johann, 1600-1664
Herbert Hoover Collection of Mining & Metallurgy, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
London: Printed by John Darby, for Richard Chiswell
1669
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
[6], 545 (i.e. 445) pages : illustrations ; 29 cm (fol.)
English
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain
Discours de la conservation de la veue, des maladies melancholiques des catarrhes
Medicine Early works to 1800
Eye Diseases Early works to 1800
Eye Diseases
Medicine
Early works
Early works to 1800
Imperfect: leaves 25-34 wanting.
Library holds 1620 volume and printed fragment removed from early binding.
Microfilmed for preservation.
Binding: vellum.
Laurens, André du, 1558-1609
Robert Burton Collection, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
Printed by Rouen for Claude Le Villain
1620
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
[8], 204 (i. e. 206) leaves ; 15 cm
French
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain
A natural history: containing many not common observations
Natural history Pre-Linnean works
Natural history
Natural History
Early works
Natural history Pre-Linnean works
Early works to 1800
Inscription on title page: Ex libris ... Nicolson.
Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679
Herbert Hoover Collection of Mining & Metallurgy, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
London: R. Bentley
1693
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
8 preliminary leaves, 469 pages 17 cm
English
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain
Memoir's for a natural history of animals
Zoology Pre-Linnean works
Anatomy, Comparative Early works to 1800
Geodesy Early works to 1800
Triangulation Early works to 1800
Zoology
Anatomy
Earth (Planet) Figure Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
Early works to 1800
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. 823.
Académie des sciences (France)
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
London: Joseph Streater
1688
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
[17], 3-267, [13] pages ; [2], 40 pages : plates ; 31 cm
English
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain
Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy
Science Early works to 1800
Medicine Early works to 1800
Medicine
Natural History
Science
Early works
Early works to 1800
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], [19] p. (last page blank).
Signatures: *-**⁴, A², B-S⁴, a-n⁴, O⁴, p-2o⁴, 2P-2Q⁴, 2r-3g⁴, 3h² ; 292 leaves.
Pages 49-56 are omitted in numbering pt. 2; p. 263 is misnumbered 632.
Printer's devices on title pages; initials; head- and tail-pieces.
Errata at the end of each part.
Oxford copy has spine title: Boyle's Experiments.
Oxford copy has bookplates of Bradbury Hall, Henry Rouse Viets, and David P. Wheatland.
Oxford copy has dealer's description laid in.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
William W. Clary Oxford Collection, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
Oxford: Printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis
1663
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
2 v. in 1 (various pagings) : 1 ill. ; 20 cm (4to)
English
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain
The historie of the world: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus
Natural history Pre-Linnean works
Natural history
Early works
Pre-Linnaean works
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], 632, [86] p.
Errors in pagination: v. 1, p. 227, 293, 484, and 559 incorrectly numbered 127, 693, 489, and 549; v. 2, p. 265, 276, 409, 420, and 492 incorrectly numbered 276, 266, 421, 409, and 592.
A reissue of STC 20020 with title page reset.
Printer's device (McKerrow 330) on title pages; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
First word of titles is xylographic.
First leaf is blank.
With a final "advertisement" to the reader; the last leaf is blank.
Includes indexes.
Plinius Secundus, Gaius, 23-79
Herbert Hoover Collection of Mining & Metallurgy, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
London: Adam Islip
1634
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
2 v. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
English
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain
De piscibus libri V, et De cetis lib. unus
Fishes Early works to 1800
Whales Early works to 1800
Zoology Pre-Linnean works
Natural history Pre-Linnean works
Fishes
Natural history
Whales
Zoology
Early works
Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
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 superatur."
Register on final p. of Index.
Signatures: [cross]³ A-3Q⁶ 3R⁸.
Title within historiated border; head- and tail-pieces; initials; side notes.
T.-p. missing.
Aldrovandi, Vlyssis, 1522-1605
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
Bononiae [Bologna]: Apud Nicolaum Thebaldinum
1638
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
[6], 732, [28] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (fol.)
English
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain
The works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt., Doctor of Physick
Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.
English prose literature Early modern, 1500-1700
Physicians Religious life Early works to 1800
Christian ethics Early works to 1800
Gardening Early works to 1800
Urn burial
Agriculture
Mortuary Practice
Philosophy, Medical
Religion and Medicine
Antiquities
Christian ethics
English prose literature Early modern
Gardening
Physicians Religious life
Norfolk (England) Antiquities
England Norfolk
Early works
1500 - 1700
Early works to 1800
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 1686.
Pagination: [20], 316, [26], 102, [8], 52, [6], 103 [i.e. 73], [5] pages.
Signatures: pi² A⁴ a⁴ B-3I⁴ 3K⁶ 3L-3Q⁴ 3R⁶ 3S-4D⁴ 4E² ; 304 leaves.
In "Certain miscellany tracts" pages 69-73 are misnumbered 99-103.
Title page in red and black; printer's devices on some title pages; initials; head-pieces.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
London: Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome
1686
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
4 parts in 1 volume : illustrations, portrait ; 34 cm (folio)
English
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Seventeenth century
Great Britain
An English dictionary: explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick
English language Dictionaries
English language
Dictionary
Dictionaries
With an initial leaf of advertisements.
Imperfect: lacking the leaf of advertisements.
Coles, Elisha, 1640-1680
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
London: Printed for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin
1724
Lindsey Betts, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2015, CMC 2016
Public domain
[338] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)http://earlymodernscience.omeka.net/
English
Text
Science, Religion, and Everything in Between: Early Modern Science Texts
Early Modern Era
Eighteenth century
Great Britain