Certain Miscellany Tracts. Brown, Sir Thomas. (Browne).

SECOND EDITION 1684, first published 1683, ESTC states: "A reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1683 edition". Published and edited by Thomas Tenison after the author's death, and he has signed "The Publisher to the Reader". Ex library copy with 2 ink stamps on verso title page and ink shelf number, and one page stamped "reserve" and a pale ink stamp on first pastedown, these are the only library marks, divided into13 tracts. 8vo, approximately 180 x 115 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, engraved portrait frontispiece, pages: [8], 1-215, [7], lacking original front and rear blanks, bound in full contemporary calf, title label on spine rubbed with loss of gilt, blind decoration to covers, marbled endpapers. Binding rubbed with small repairs to upper cover, slight wear to top of spine with slight loss to leather, upper hinge cracked, but covers holding firm, corners slightly worn with slight shelf wear to edges of covers, neat narrow repair to outer edge of title page, neat ink name and date 1752 to top of title page, engraved portrait has tip of top corner missing, tiny rust hole to 1 outer margin, not affecting text, 2 margins have tiny nicks, occasional pale stain and fox spot, 1 small repair to a lower margin and 1 lower corner, not affecting text, a good copy. See: Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne, page 93, No.128; James Harting Bibliotheca Accipitraria, A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern relating to Falconry, page 27, No. 36; John Resler Swift, Bibliotheca Accipitraria II, Falconry published in English 1486-2000, page 64; Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, Volume 1, page 85; Grolier Club, Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Wither to Prior, Volume 1, page 100, No. 109; ESTC R9918. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.