Religio Medici and Other Essays. de Browne, Sir Thomas

Blackie & Son Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Good. 236 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Marginalia to a few pages. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges.

Brentano's New York, no date. reprint ed. hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, gray paper covered boards with gilt lettering, paper spine label, spine darkened, a finely printed book, many pages unopened, 281 pages" .

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gilt lettered light brown buckram. Boards tanned around the edges with some light rubbing to rear board. Revised edition. A very nice copy. Clean and bright throughout. Externally nice overall. Top edge gilt. Frontis portrait with tissue guard.

London: E. Grant Richards, 1906. Hardback. Good. No DW. Lilav cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board. The spine strip is faded. Text is tight and clean with some margin notes.Inside front cover is a most attractive ex-libris wood engraving of a rural ploughing scene. No inscriptions or annotations. Some bumping to book ends and smal nick at top of spine. Otherwise this is a copy in good condition considering its age. A Doctor's Religion. Published in 1906.. An English text translation of Browne's classic in which he uses scientific imagery to illustrate religious truths and discusses the relationship between science and religion. Frontispiece portrait of the author, with tissue guard. Sir Thomas Browne. (19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific… Leer más

London: The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd, n.d.. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. Pp. 236, printed in red & black, notes; small f'cap. 8vo; rebound in tan leather, spine ruled in gilt with gilt lettered green leather skiver label between 2 raised bands; ribbon marker; later marbled endpapers, the Contents page slightly creased, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd., London, n.d.[c. 191-?] *The notes are by Thomas Bayne. This edition first published by Blackie in 1906? Includes Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burialb..

Hardcover. Good. NO PUBLICATION DATE Offered by the UK charity Langdon Supporting men & women with disabilities

London: Chapman & Hall, [1911].. 8vo, (vi), 230, (2) pp. Later bookplate to fly leaf. Later limp purple morocco, t.e.g., gilt arms of Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, to upper cover, spine sunned otherwise very good.

London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1911. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. Octavo (8vo). 231 pages of text. Bound in the original hardcover grey paper covered boards, with a printed paper spine label, and gilt decoration on the front cover. The rear hinge is cracked, and the thick, stiff paper used in this publication, though fine and beautiful, lends toward the cracking of the spine within the text. Still, an attractive, mostly intact and functional original binding. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown (William Ronghead), and notation neatly on first free endpaper. Illustrated with a frontisportrait of Browne. Contains the essays "Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial"; "A Letter To A Friend"; and "On Dreams." One of the series "The Books of the Verulam Club." Beautiful paper and typography. There is no date of publication listed in the book, but it was published in 1911..

London: Chapman & Hall, 1911. Leather. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A smartly bound edition of this collection of religious essays from Sir Thomas Browne. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of spiritual and religious essays and an early psychological self-portrait. This work became a European best-seller bringing the author fame at home and overseas. Written by Thomas Browne, an English polymath and author of works in science, medicine, religion, and the esoteric. He is remembered for his deep curiosity towards the natural world during the Scientific Revolution. Bound by Baker & Son, Clifton. Bound in full navy blue calf. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. School bookplate to the front pastedown. Near Fine

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1911. First Thus. Near Fine. Early 20th century printing of this seventeenth century European sensation; considered an early example of psychological awareness couched in the religious and cultural English and European world in the midst of the Scientific Revolution and an instagator of the move into the Enlightenment. Bound in tooled red leather over boards with gilded lettering to the front and spine. Five raised bands on the spine, and two braided leather clasps - intact and fully present incluing brass fixtures. Top edge gilded, other edges rough cut. Creasing along the front hinge, some small scrapes to the leather; solid and square. With a sweet (3rd) anniversary inscription on first blank, dated 1919. The interior is clean and clear with no other markings. A Verulam Club book.  Pages: (10) 231 (3)     Dimensions: 7¾ x 6 x 1¼    .