Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.

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"Cotes pr[inted]. (a)-(e)⁴, Aa-Nn⁴ Oo² ; Badger pr[inted]. the rest, using R. Barker's materials"--STC. The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A" within an ornamental frame. 2A1 is cancelled by (2A1-2), including a dedication to Thomas Lord Binning. Variant: 2A1 is cancellandum; dedication lacking. The second through fifth books each have separate dated title page; the fifth book has separate pagination; register is continuous. The page before 126 is numbered 126. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.