Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters
Subtitle: necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five books, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory
By: By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, gentleman
Publisher: Printed by Richard Badger, for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the grene-dragon.
Published: 1635
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Science; Philosophy; Combat
Other titles: Surveigh of rare and excellent matters.
Notes: Books 2-5 have individual special title pages.

"Cotes pr[inted]. (a)-(e)⁴ Aa-Nn⁴ Oo²; Badger pr[inted]. the rest, using R. Barker's materials"--STC.

The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A" within an ornamental frame.

2A1 is cancelled by (2A1-2), including a dedication to Thomas Lord Binning. Variant: 2A1 is cancellandum; dedication lacking.

Signatures: A⁴ (a)-(e)⁴ B-D⁸ [par.]² *² E-G⁸ 2*² H-M⁸ N⁸ (-N8) 3*² O-R⁸ S⁴ (2A1±((2A1)+(2A2)) 2B-2N⁴ 2O²

Leaf (2A1), cancellans, unsigned.

STC 19781.

European Americana, 635/100.

The John Carter Brown Library copy has both the cancellans ((2A1) and (2A2)) and the cancellendum (2A1). Leaf *1 is bound before [par.]1. Gathering a-e are bound at end.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.