Legends no histories: or, A specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal society [by Thomas Sprat]
Subtitle: Wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject
By: Translated out of Italian ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c. By [Henry] Stubbe ...
Published: 1670
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Notes: Errors in paging, including in pt. 2, 115-116 repeated in the numbering and 181 misnumbered 179.

Errata for pt. 1 on 2d (?) prelim. ℓ.; for pt. 2 on its 7th prelim. ℓ.

Part 2 has separate paging and signatures and special t.-p.: The Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.

No. 1 in a volume presented by Thomas Hollis labelled: Scientific tracts.

Parts 1 & 2 misbound in reverse order.

Imperfect: t.-p. mutilated and mounted; imprint supplied from Wing; errata leaf for pt. 1 clipped and mounted below t.-p.