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Ref NoEFP/094/A 094/1654/21
Finding NumberA094/1654/21
TitleA vievv of the people of the vvhole vvorld: or, A short survey of their policies, dispositions, naturall deportments, complexions, ancient and moderne customes, manners, habits & fashions· : A worke every where adorned with philosophicall, morall and historicall observations on the occasions of their mutations & changes throughout all ages. For the readers greater delight figures are annexed to most of the relations. Scripsit J.B. cognomento chirosophus, M.D
LevelItem
Date1654
DescriptionAnthropometamorphosis; Short survey of their policies, dispositions, naturall deportments, complexions, ancient and moderne customes, manners, habits & fashions; View of the people of the whole world; View of the people of the whole world: or, A short survey of their policies, dispositions, naturall deportments, complexions, ancient and moderne customes, manners, habits & fashions
Frontispiece signed: T. Cross sculpsit.; Portrait signed: W: Faithorne sculp.; Signatures: A[sup]4 *-4*[sup]4 5*1 B-4G[sup]4.; An unsigned leaf bound after S2 contains woodcut illustrations on both sides.; A reissue, with cancel title page printed in red and black, of the 1653 edition (Wing B5461); Copy filmed imperfect; minus plates and all preliminaries before B1 except for cancel title page.; -all before 2*4, plates; t.p. supplied in MS.; 256508.; Originally published in 1650 as: Anthropometamorphosis.; Includes index and a final bibliography leaf.; Short survey of their policies, dispositions, naturall deportments, complexions, ancient and moderne customes, manners, habits & fashions.; View of the people of the whole world.; View of the people of the whole world: or, A short survey of their policies, dispositions, naturall deportments, complexions, ancient and moderne customes, manners, habits & fashions.; Microfilm.; ESTCR3856.
AuthorJ. B (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682
SubjectAnthropology; Manners and customs; Self-mutilation; Mutation (Biology)
Physical Description[50], 559, [31] p., [3] leaves of plates : port., ill. (woodcuts) ; 4j.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLondon : printed by William Hunt, 1654.
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