The Valley of Varietie: or, Discourse fitting for the times, containing very learned and rare passages out of Antiquity, Philosophy, and History. Collected for the use of all ingenious Spirits, and true lovers of Learning , first edition, engraved frontispiece by Wenceslaus Hollar, woodcut head-pieces and initials, lacking initial and final blanks, sig.A staining to inner gutter to varying degrees, light water-stain at foot at beginning, occasional spotting or marking, 19th century diced calf, gilt, upper cover detached, corners little worn, [Grolier 658; STC 19518], 12mo, M. P[arsons] for Iames Becket, 1638. Rare at auction. The last copy we can trace was in 1995, which makes no mention of a frontispiece. It was this little book that supposedly sparked Richard Heber's bibliomania. Subjects covered in the work include the Dead Sea, eating locusts and snakes, glass, bells and poisons.