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Theodore Browne, RELIGIO MEDICI, 1736.

[Early Printing]. Theodore Browne. Religio Medici. Lon: J. Torbuck and C. Corbett, 1736. 12mo. xxxvi,253,(9 ads)pp. Full paneled calf, edges lightly speckled red. 2 parts in 1 volume, followed by ''Observations upon Religio Medici,'' a letter by Kennelm Digby. 2nd edition. ''The most famous work of English literature ever written by a physician. Browne did not intend to have it published, but manuscripts of the work circulated privately. Two unauthorized and inaccurate editions were issued surreptitiously by the same publisher in the same year'' - G&M 6612.90 citing 1642 edition).