£220
Browne (Sir Thomas), Certain Miscellany Tracts. Written by Thomas Brown, Kt, and Doctour (sic) of Physick; late of Norwich, first edition, second impression, London: Charles Mearne, and are to be sold by Henry Bonwick, at the Red Lyon, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1684, black-ruled title-page, portrait frontispiece engraved by Peter Vanderbank, pp: [vi], 215, [6] (index), contemporary speckled calf, blind-ruled boards, speckled edges, 8vo, Browne (Sir Tho, Knt., M.D.) & Digby (Sir Kenelm), Religio Medici […], [with] Sir Kenelm Digby’s Observations, London: J. Torbuck, et al., 1736, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf (tired, upper-cover coming loose), 12mo, (2).
Provenance: 1st: Mary Robinson, of Hendon, Barnet, North-West London; her 19th century book label to recto pastedown. 2nd: The Rev. John Riddell, Moffat United Presbyterian Manse, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; his book label to pastedown, title-page with earlier manuscript inscription: John Riddell, Liverpool/1842.
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