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Siris : a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water and divers other subjects connected together and arising one from another / by G.L.B.O.C.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RM84 .B4 1744
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
- Alchemy.
- Elixirs--Early works to 1800.
- Elixirs.
- Tar--Therapeutic use.
- Tar.
- Therapeutics--Early works to 1800.
- Therapeutics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 150, 14 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : 18 cm. (12mo)
- Edition:
- The second edition, improv'd and corrected by the author.
- Fingerprint:
- tolf n-t. rynd 32te (3) 1744 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Printed by Margt. Rhames for R. Gunne, bookseller ..., MDCCXLIV [1744]
- Notes:
- "G. L. B. O. C. = George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne."--ESTC.
- Signatures: A-P⁶.
- Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
- Gathering O wrongly imposed: text of leaves O5 and O6 printed on leaves O3 and O4, and vice versa.
- "A letter to T---- P----, Esq." has separate pagination (but signatures are continuous) and special title leaf, which reads: A letter to T---- P----, Esq; from the author of Siris. Containing some farther Remarks on the virtues of tar-water, and the methods for preparing and using it. ... Second edition, with amendments. Dublin; Printed for R. Gunne, M DCC XLIV.
- Errata on leaf P6r.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy has bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T125918
- OCLC:
- 14329313
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