Varia: Readings from Rare Books

Ex libris John M. Brown, book plate with Latin motto "Floreat Majestas" and rampant lion. Previous owner's name on title page "J M Brown / Dunedin / 1874". Previous owner's rubber stamp with same rampant lion design on blank page at rear. Some rubbing and moderate marks to boards. Overall quite a nice copy of this title. ; viii, [2], 341, [3 (blank)] pages + 16 pages advertisements. Frontispiece (portrait of Sir Thomas Browne) within the pagination. Title page vignette. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Black border on both boards. Page dimensions: 178 x 118mm. Contents: The Angelic Doctor [Thomas Aquinas]; Nostradamus; Thomas a Kempis and the Imitatio Christi; Dr. John Faustus; Quevedo; Madame J. M. B. de la Mothe Guion and Quietism; Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus, Bombast of Hohenheim; Howell the Traveller; Michael Scot; Lodowick Muggleton; Sir Thomas Browne; George Psalmanazar; The Highwayman - Real and Ideal; The Spirit World and its Literature.

Product Info

Publisher: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston

Year: 1866

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

RenaissanceBooks

Address: PO Box 335 Dunedin, Not Required

Website: https://renaissancebooks.co.nz

Country: New Zealand