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The prodromus to a dissertation concerning solids naturally contained within solids : laying a foundation for the rendering a rational accompt both of the frame and the several changes of the masse of the Earth, as also of the various productions in the same

by: Steno, Nicolaus, 1638-1686; Oldenburg, Henry, 1615?-1677; Smithson, James, 1765-1829, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1671

Topics: Paleontology, Crystallography

Publisher: London : Printed by F. Winter, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ...

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

H.O. is Henry Oldenburg--Cf. DNB

Woodcut head-pieces, initials

Signatures: A-H⁸

Errata: p. [15], 1st pagination group

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [16], 1st pagination group

Wing (2nd ed.)

Rhees, W.J. Smithson and his bequest

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SCNHRB copy (39088012533022) inscribed in ink on original front free endpaper: 1675 / 23; inscribed in pencil: SB.6 (?). Some of the pages numbered in pencil

SCNHRB copy has upper right corner of t.p. torn away, slightly affecting text

SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p.: "E K" and purchase price

SCNHRB copy from the James Smithson Collection

SCNHRB copy quarter bound in recent brown goatskin and light brown cloth, title stamped in blind along spine