Undoubtedly the three books in this blogs are in some form are represented in most libraries. Of course EEBO or microform and certainly in later reprints or variorum editions. I need not here discuss the importance of original editions, yet... Continue Reading →
883G Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 The Works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich.containing I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II Religio Medici: With Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial:... Continue Reading →
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883G Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 The Works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich.containing I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II Religio Medici: With Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial:... Continue Reading →
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883G Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 The Works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich.containing I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II Religio Medici: With Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial:... Continue Reading →
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883G Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 The Works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich.containing I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II Religio Medici: With Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial:... Continue Reading →
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361G Mather, Cotton. 1663-1728 Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, from its First Planting in the Year 1620. Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. In Seven Books. I. Antiquities: In Seven Chapters. With an Appendix.... Continue Reading →
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Every time I open this book, I get another and new appreciation for the Seventeenth century, even by 1708 I think people thought it was amazing. This volume of MISCELLANEA CURIOSA is ' a collection of Voyages" but it is... Continue Reading →
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Feeling Like a Fossil myself quite often, I guess it would seem natural that an attempt to understand the remains of the nonexistent would be comfortable territory for me. l Including The First Printed Illustration of a Dinosaur Fossil... Continue Reading →
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Francis Bacon has always been " THE Seventeenth Century in England" to me, he was a polymath's polymath. His books are all weirdly accessible and fun to read. Sylva Sylvarum is on of my favorite books to show to people... Continue Reading →
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