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Speculum mundi or A glasse 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. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation

Archive Print Item: BC H de W/SWA

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Type of record: Book

Title: Speculum mundi or A glasse 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. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation

Level: Item

Classmark: BC H de W/SWA

Creator(s): Swan, John (1671)

Additional creator(s): Marshall, William (fl. 1617-1650) (Other)

Related people: Marshall, William

Publisher: Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel,] the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge

Publication city: [Cambridge]

Date(s): 1635

Language: English

Size and medium: [18], 504, [28] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/296717

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003614699705181

Description

First edition.


Dedication signed: John Swan.


With an additional title page, engraved, with the printers' names in imprint, signed: Will: Marshall. sculpsit.


The first leaf is blank except for woodcut ornament; the last leaf is blank.


[Par.]3 is a cancel.


Includes index.


Indexed in: STC 235516.

Additional description

Wanting final leaf, blank? Rivière facsimile of a Samuel Mearne binding

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