Author: Sir Thomas Browne; John Carter [ed.]
Title: Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus
Description: Cambridge , Cambridge at the University Press, 1958. Cloth. A new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's discourses on urn burial and The Garden of Cyrus edited by John Carter. A new edition of this work, edited by John Carter in occasion of the tercentenary year of its first publication. Complete with its increasingly scarce dust wrapper, price clipped. With preface and appendices by John Carter. 'Urne Buriall' and 'The Garden of Cyrus' are together regarded as Sir Thomas Browne's major literary contribution to Hermetic wisdom. The discourses concern burial ritual and customs, ancient and contemporary, and with the use of the quincunx as a geometric pattern in art and nature.Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of numerous works ranging from science and medicine to religion and the esoteric. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with only light bumping to head and tail of spine. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1958. Dust wrapper sound with some shelf wear, chipped to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.

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