Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 490

SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682) The works. Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome 1686 Pt. I: [18] 316 [11] pp.; Pt. II: [12] 102 pp.; Pt. III: [8] 52 pp.; Pt. IV: [5] 103 [3] pp., front., illus. 32.4 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 485

This first collected edition of Browne's works contains a full-page portrait by the sculptor R. White. In addition to Pseudodoxia epidemica, it contains his popular Religio medici, Hydriotaphia or urn-burial, The Garden of Cyrus, and other miscellaneous tracts. It does not contain two of his popular philosophically oriented works: A letter to a friend and Christian morals.

Cited references: Osler 4522; Waller 1539; Wellcome II, p. 253

Gift of John Martin, M.D.