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Facsimile edition of work first published in abridged edition of 1558, and then in this full English edition in 1658. A miscellany of early scientific beliefs, observations, and experiments by della Porta and his little group of amateur…

Add a descriptionSignatures [A] through [L] are printed within square brackets.
Translation of De augmentis scientiarum, which is itself an enlarged translation of the author's Advancement of learning.
Includes index.

Includes index

Reproduction of original from the National Library of Medicine.

Title in red and black.
Head- and tailpieces; initials.
Each section has special half-title; pagination and register continuous.
Signatures: pi²)( -2)(² 3)(1 A-4N⁴ 4O-4R² 4S1 a-d² chi².

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],…

Illustrated t.p., engraved by Christof le Blon.
"Printed by John Lichfield"--Colophon.
Signatures: [*]² **² a-k⁴ [par.]² A-4O⁴ 4P² ; 380 leaves.
Placement of leaves varies in different copies. If the dedication to George Berkeley is placed after…

[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…

Signatures: A⁸ a⁴ ²a-f⁴ B-4G⁸ 4H⁴ ; 640 leaves.
Leaf a2 is missigned a3.
Mostly roman and italic with some Hebrew and Greek type; title "English physician" in black letter.
Errata on p. [23], first group.
Leaf a4 has table with instructions to…

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],…