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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Printed for R. Bentley, 1693 First edition. 16mo. Pp. [16], 469, [3, ads]. Newer three-quarter calf, marbled boards, red leather spine label, new endpapers. Upper inner corner of title with minor repair, lower corner of p.97 torn off affecting one word, expert repair to gutter of last leaf, faint circular embossed library stamp on title (withdrawn). Text sheets lightly browned. A handsome copy. Fine. In his "Natural History", Blount collected observation from 'the Best Modern Writers' (title page) on various phenomena (amber, coral, tea and coffee, silver, diamonds, glow-worms, spiders, volcanoes, and the like). Blount was well regarded in his lifetime as a cultivated and retiring man. He died of apoplexy on June 30, 1697. He was forty-seven. (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)..