Speculum mundi. Or, A glass representing the face of the world : Shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. The whole of which, may be fitly called an hexameron. Or a discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six days of the world's creation
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Type of record: Book
Title: Speculum mundi. Or, A glass representing the face of the world : Shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. The whole of which, may be fitly called an hexameron. Or a discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six days of the world's creation
Classmark: BC Sc/SWA
Creator(s): Swan, John (1671)
Publisher: printed by W.R. for W. Whitwood at the Rose and Crown in Little-Britain
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1698
Language: English
Size and medium: [ix], 96, 95-108, 111-246, 245-356, 355-485, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286304
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002245989705181
Description
A reissue of the sheets of 1670 (Wing S6240), with two new leaves (Advertisement, with blank recto and conjugate title, with blank verso) in place of the original title [A1].
With four preliminary contents leaves.
Text and register are continuous despite pagination.
Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) S6240A.
Additional description
Signature of John Badger, 1760 and of Henry Lines, 1838, on recto of Advertisement Badger's (?) MS comment on title-page. Signature Jck: Pilkington on back pastedown
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