The prodromus to a dissertation concerning solids naturally contained within solids
Subtitle: laying a foundation for the rendering a rational accompt both of the frame and the several changes of the masse of the Earth, as also of the various productions in the same
By: by Nicolaus Steno ; English'd by H.O.
Contributors: Oldenburg, Henry, 1615?-1677; Smithson, James, 1765-1829, former owner
Publisher: Printed by F. Winter, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ...
Published: 1671
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Crystallography; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900; Paleontology
Work titles: De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus
Notes: H.O. is Henry Oldenburg--Cf. DNB.

Woodcut head-pieces, initials.

Signatures: A-H⁸.

Errata: p. [15], 1st pagination group.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [16], 1st pagination group.

Wing (2nd ed.) S5409

Rhees, W.J. Smithson and his bequest, p. 67

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SCNHRB copy (39088012533022) inscribed in ink on original front free endpaper: 1675 / 23; inscribed in pencil: SB.6 (?). Some of the pages numbered in pencil.

SCNHRB copy has upper right corner of t.p. torn away, slightly affecting text.

SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p.: "E K" and purchase price.

SCNHRB copy from the James Smithson Collection.

SCNHRB copy quarter bound in recent brown goatskin and light brown cloth, title stamped in blind along spine.