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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

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…

Vols. 2-6: Printed for W. Johnston [etc.]
Title vignette: portrait of the author
Edited by Thomas Birch
"The life of the Honourable Robert Boyle. By Thomas Birch ... ": v. 1, p. [v]-ccxviii
"List of the titles of the mss. ... not inserted": v.1,…

Signatures: a-b⁸ A-3A⁸ 3B² (b8 blank)
Engraved t.p.
Bound in mottled brown calf

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.

Signatures: A-2K4, 2L2 (last leaf (blank) wanting)
STC 15458
Translation by Thomas Newton of De habitu et constitutione corporis
Microfilmed for preservation
Binding: calf

Translation of: Euonymus : Conradi Gesneri ... De secretis liber secundus, the second part of Gesner's Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri. First English ed. (1576) has title: The newe iewell of health.
Running title: The first[-fourth] booke of…