Description
Mercurius centralis: Or, a discourse of subterraneal cockle, muscle, and oyster-shels, found in the digging of a well at Sir William Doylie's in Norfolk, many foot under ground, and at considerable distance from the sea. In a letter to Thomas Brown, M.D. London: J.G. for J. Collins, 1664. 12mo, contemporary sheep, imprimatur leaf stuck to front board
Footnote
Note: Keynes, Browne 260; Wing L687; Rare. This is one of the variant copies identified by Keynes, with the Collins imprint. Sir William Doylie lived at Shotesham, near Norwich. Library of the Earl of Macclesfield, part 1 lot 51, Sotheby's, 16 March 2004.