Pseudodoxia Epidemica:; Or, Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents, And commonly Presumed Truths . . . Together With some Marginall Observations, and a Table Alphabeticall at the end.
London: Printed by A. Miller, for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1650. Second Edition. Small 4to, [i-xvi] 329 + [10]pp; modern three-quarter brown morocco and cloth. American Antiquarian Society library stamp to title page; scattered annotations, mainly contemporary; title page and last leaf mended, edges strengthened; pages marked and with with some wear to corners and edges, but still intact and relatively clean. Item #205747
Revised and expanded from its 1646 first edition, this is Browne's exploration of a wide range of erroneous beliefs, mistaken common wisdom, and various and sundry quackery.
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