April 12, 2024
1669 SUPERSTITION Funerary RITES Urns BURIALS Pagans EGYPTIANS Science BROWN
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Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Ver Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, By Thomas Brown Dr. Of Physick . The Fifth Edition, with Marginal Observations, and a Table Alphabetical. Whereunto are now Added Two Discourses, the one of Urn-Burial, or Sepulchral Urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or Network Plantations of the Antients. Both Newly Written by the Same Author Brown, Thomas. London: Printed for the Assigns of Edward Dod, 1669. Fifth Ed. A famous collection of superstitions and beliefs first published in 1646, containing ".an extraordinary amount of learning and research. To modern readers [it] presents an inexhaustible store of entertainment. The attainment of scientific truth was not for Browne the sole object; it is in the discussion itself that he delights, and the more marvellous a fable is, the more sedulously he applies himself to the investigation of its truth" (DNB). Wing B5164, B5155. "Hydriotaphia" was first published separately in 1658, but this edition is usually found issued alongside "Pseudodoxia Epidemica.". Condition: Original leather 4to, bound in well worn calf ruled in blind. Leather with heavy wear and loss, as shown in the pics. Upper hinge partially split, endpaper joints cracked and strained, both with old paper repair; the contents heavily shaken
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