[Rarebooks] FS: Large paper copy of Browne's "Pseudodoxia Epidemica..." London: 1672

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Browne, Sir Thomas. PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA: or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths, Together with the Religio Medici. The Sixth and Last Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by the Author with Many Explanations... and a Table Alphabetical at the End... London: Printed by J. R. for Nath. Ekins. 1672. 4to. 2 parts in 1, each with its own title page. (22),440,(12);(8),144pp. Index. A "large paper copy" (26 x 17cm.). Copper engraved frontispiece portrait. Cont. calf, nicely rebacked in period style, red morocco spine label.	$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The last edition published during Browne's lifetime (1608-1682). It contains a chapter printed for the first time (Book V, Chapter 21, "Of the Picture of Haman hanged"). Large paper copies are excessively scarce. Keynes 79.


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