Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane / [By Pierre Boaistuau. Translated] By E. Fenton.

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Certaine secrete wonders of nature, containing a descriptiõ of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane / [By Pierre Boaistuau. Translated] By E. Fenton. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Imprinted by H. Bynnemann, 1569.

Physical description

6 unnumbered pages, 148 leaves : illustrations, t.page with woodcut border, woodcuts ; (4to)

Notes

Signatures: A4, *2, A-Z4, Aa-Oo4 (Oo1,4 wanting; Nn4 incorrectly bound in following Oo3)
Translation of Histoires prodigieuses
Copy 1 Note: T.p. and Do1 defective. Sigs. U1-4, X4, Mm1-4 and Nn1-4 wanting.

References note

STC 10787
ESTC S105563
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 3164.5
STC (2nd ed.), 3164.5

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