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17101395682Amstelodami Amsterdam: Sumptibus Thomæ Fritsch Thomas Fritsch 1710. Hardcover. Quarto 12 xxviii 580 324 60 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in full vellum has gilt ornamentation to boards and spine. Binding with armorial stamp on both boards. Boards have slight yellowing small brown dots to front board and minor cracking to head of front joint. Extremities have slight discoloration from wear and mild bumping to corners in some cases exposing the board. Contains 1 of 4 ties intact. Textblock has slight separation and closed tears along the pastedowns splitting along the gutter between the second front free end page and titlepage age toning and foxing ranges from mild to moderate plus and speckling to edges. Text in Latin and Greek. Shelved in Room A. 1395682. Special Collections. Sumptibus Thomæ, Fritsch [Thomas Fritsch] hardcover
175967615in two parts xxiv 340 pages 8 10 engraved plates including frontispiece engravings in text throughout initials friezes head and tail pieces music The Angler's Catch inscriptions to upper endpapers blanks and title page including notes with page references inscription to lower pastedown "Algernon Percy" printed note and armorial bookplate to upper pastedown 'Edmund Ferrers' Printed by Henry Kent hardcover
1731361626London : printed for Emanuel Matthews at the Bible in Pater-Noster-Row; Richard Ford at the Angel and Richard Hett at the Bible and Crown both in the Poultry 1731. Fourth Edition Corrected. Hardcover. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age.Title page damaged with part of top edge cut our rest of text is not affected. Physical description; 6 365 5 pages. Subjects; Logic ; Early works to 1800. Conduct of life ; Early works to 1900. Conduct of life ; Early works to 1800. London : printed for Emanuel Matthews, at the Bible in Pater-Noster-Row; Richard Ford, at the Angel, and Richard Hett, at the Bi hardcover
176517201Amsterdam 1765. Engraved hand-colored map matted and framed. A beautiful hand-colored map of the American southwest focusing on the Southern California Baja California the Gulf of California and Arizona notwithstanding the title there is no portion of New Mexico depicted. Tirion names San Diego the Santa Catalina Islands Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas on the coast plus Casa Grande on the River Gila which though marked as a mission was a large site of a Native American ruin. He includes images of missions and forts in Baja at San Jose del Cabo and Loretto.<br /> <br /> This is apparently the earliest printing of the map published in Tirion’s Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand-Atlas 1765. It was re-issued a number of times over the next decade. <br /> <br /> Tirion 1705-1765 was a Dutch publisher in Amsterdam. He produced several atlases and Dutch town plans as well as a number of pamphlets which are all quite scarce. unknown
171011775Hanoviae Hannover: NP 1710. Second revised. Hardcover. fair. Folio. 7 pp .L.3-343 f.9 1 L. 11 f . 3/4 calf over brown blind-embossed cloth boards with gilt lettering. Marbled end papers. 2 Title pages Hebrew and Latin. Dedication in Latin. Commentary on the Hebrew Bible by renowned Medieval Jewish philosopher Don Isaac Abarbanel 1437-1508 see below. Age wear to binding. Front board detached but present. Rear endpaper reinforced with gray binder's tape along gutter. Publisher's mark on Title and endpaper. Minor browning throughout with sporadic foxing. In Hebrew. Binding in fair inside in good condition. On the author Source: Public Domain:<br /> Isaac ben Judah or Yitzchak ben Yehuda Abravanel 1437 - 1508 was a Jewish statesman philosopher Bible commentator and financier. In many works he is referred to solely by his last name which is variously spelled as Abravanel Abarbanel and Abrabanel. Many Torah and Talmud scholars today simply refer to him as "The Abarbanel". He was born in Lisbon Portugal. He died in Venice and was buried in Padua next to Rabbi Judah Minz Rabbi of Padua. Isaac Abravanel developed many works during his lifetime which are often categorized into three groups: exegesis philosophy and apologetics. Exegesis refers to biblical commentary his philosophy dealt with the sciences and how the general field relates to the Jewish religion and traditions and apologetics defends the Jewish idea of the coming of the Messiah. Abravanel’s exegetic writings were different from the usual biblical commentaries because he took social and political issues of the times into consideration. He believed that mere commentary was not enough but that the actual lives of the Jewish people must be deliberated on as well when discussing such an important topic as the Bible. He also took the time to include an introduction concerning the character of each book he commented on as well as its date of composition and the intention of the original author in order to make the works more accessible to the average reader. Christian scholars appreciated the convenience of Abravanel's commentaries and often used them when preparing their own exegetical writing. This may have had something to do with Abravanel’s openness towards the Christian religion since he worked closely with Messianic ideas found within Judaism. Because of this Abravanel’s works were translated and distributed within the world of Christian scholarship.<br /> Ozar Hasefer p164 item #65. NP hardcover
171623892London: James Round Jacob Tonson and William Taylor 1716. leather_bound. Orig. cambridge style full brown calf rebacked. Very good. 3 Vols. 783 5 381 7 390 6 pages. Folio 36 x 24 cm. Vol. II the 4th edition corrected and Vol. III the 3rd edition corrected. In 1660 Barrow was ordained and appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Cambridge. In 1662 he was made professor of geometry at Gresham College and in 1663 was selected as the first occupier of the Lucasian chair at Cambridge. During his tenure of this chair he published two mathematical works of great learning and elegance the first on geometry and the second on optics. In 1669 he resigned his professorship in favour of Isaac Newton. For the remainder of his life he devoted himself to the study of divinity. As the Lucasian chair at Cambrige In he published two mathematical works of great learning and elegance the first on geometry and the second on optics. In 1669 he resigned his professorship in favour of Isaac Newton. For the remainder of his life he devoted himself to the study of divinity. Modest chipping to fore-edges first and last few pages in Vol. I. Text clean and fresh. Raised bands spine panels lettered in gilt. James Round, Jacob Tonson and William Taylor unknown
1795338787London: t. Cadell & W. SDavies 1795. First Edition. xxiii1 226pp. 8vo. In Original boards uncut. Very Good in cloth slipcasze. First Edition. xxiii1 226pp. 8vo. ESTC T109852; Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica B20; CBEL III 1278 t. Cadell & W. SDavies unknown
179512064Dublin: John Gough 1795. Later printing. Leather bound. Good. Isaac Jackson's The True Reading Made Easy printed in Dublin by Quaker printer John Gough in 1795 an important work in establishing piracy laws in England. Sixteenmo 142 2 pp. Period leather binding double ruled line border blind stamped on covers. Corners and edges rubbed worn through in places. Spine worn cracked with partial separation at front and back joints some loss of leather at ends. Some soiling and dampstaining to covers. Despite issues binding is stable. Woodcut illustrations all pages present. Toning to text pages some dog-eared pages from handling corners torn on pages 65/66. No notations except for a gift inscription on the front pastedown. Additional title page precedes the 1795 title page with the imprint listed as Dublin Printed and Sold by and for Robert Jackson 1793. Robert Jackson was Isaac Jackson's son and he had printed an edition of this book prior to his death in 1793. OCLC locates only one copy of the 1793 edition in the British Library. No copies of this 1795 Gough edition located in OCLC or NUC. Even with its flaws this is a nice example of a scarce eighteenth century primer. Isaac Jackson 1705-1772 was a printer bookseller and typefounder. Before becoming a printer in 1737 Jackson was a Quaker schoolmaster. He compiled his first Reading Made Easy in the 1740s and after several pirated editions began to appear he revised this work in 1759. When Jackson died in 1772 his printing and bookselling business passed to his son Robert 1748-1793 who printed The True Reading Made Easy in 1793. Robert died this same year and the business passed to his sister Rachel 1755-1836. The following year Rachel decided to retire and chose John Gough as her successor. Gough carried a large selection of children's books in his shop and he too printed The True Reading Made Easy in 1795. Gough died in 1818. John Gough unknown
1771906645Edinburgh: Alex Mccaslan 1771 A Very Rare Copy Of This Book. At Some Point The Book Was Rebound And The Spine Replaced With Brown Leather The Original Boards Attached And New Eps. The Block Text Is All Original. The Original Ffep Has A Hand Written Name And Date Of 1851. All Pages Are Foxed And Some Edges Worn But Text Is All Intact. . Ambrose Dedicated The Book To The Right Honourable William Earl Of Bedford Lord Russel Baron Of Thornhaugh And This Is Printed On Page A2. The Book Is Divided Into Books I Ii Iii And Iv Parts I Ii Iii Iv V And Vi Followed By Book V And Is Listed Such In The Contents Pages At The Rear Of The Book. Last Page Is The Names Of Books By This Printer. 577 Pages. The Boards Are Leather Original Worn At The Corners Which Are Rounded. The Spine Has Been Professionally Added No Titles. Rubbing To The Leather On The Boards. A Rare Find Of An Isaac Ambrose Book In Excellent Condition. Alex Mccaslan hardcover
1791007574London: S. W. Fores 1791. First Edition. 18th Century broadside of song lyrics and hand-colored etching of foxhunting scene. Uncommon in physical form. Dibdin 1745-1814 was a singer-songwriter nearly two centuries prior to the elevation of that combination. There were always composers who publicly performed their own music of course. He was more versatile than that though. He also wrote operas novels and plays. He collaborated with legendary theater manager David Garrick and served for a time as the Music Director at Covent Garden. The "Oddities" for which this song was written was performed in 1789. Visible part of broadside under glass and matting 36 by 24 cm. With wood frame and matting 50 by 36.5 cm. The frame is of a burled cherry we believe the matting green with a thin white beveling and we believe most would find the framing attractive and worth retaining. S. W. Fores unknown
178471938London printed for John Francis and Charles Rivington 1784. WITH NOTES HISTORICAL CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY. BY SIR JOHN HAWKINS. THE FOURTH EDITION WITH LARGE ADDITIONS. together with THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART II. BEING INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO ANGLE FOR A TROUT OR GRAYLING IN A CLEAR STREAM' 8vo. lxxxii2671pp. Engraved woodcut frontispiece and 12 full-page engraved woodcut plates; xxxiv11110pp index and 3 full-page engraved woodcut plates. Woodcut text illustrations throughout. Published in two parts. Includes a new memoir of Cotton by Sir John Hawkins unknown
173031377AB1730. The Fifth Edition. London Printed for Emanuel Matthews 1730. Small Octavo. 5 156 1 pages. Hardcover / Original early 18th century full-leather with armorial embossing to both boards. New spine-label. Ruth Corker's Library-stamp verso the titlepage. This used to be Ruth Corker's mother's book prior to her own and the name Mary Falkiner is written in ink on top of the Preface-page. Manuscript entry "Ruth Corker Her Book 1731" on halftitle with several entries informing on marriages and relationships within the Falkiner and Corker and Robinson - family added obviousy by a later relative Ruth Robinson who was married to Robert Robinson. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Armorial Bindings held in University of Toronto Libraries: Corker Ruth 1693 -1760 Mrs Ruth Corker of 41 St Stephen's Green Dublin was born Ruth Falkiner the only daughter of Richard Falkiner and Mary Mason of Dublin. She married Thomas Corker 1700-1772 merchant of Dublin. She died in 1760. Her name appears as one of the subscribers to Oldmixons The history of England during the reigns of King William and Queen Mary London 1735. Stamp Information of the Armorial Binding of Ruth Corker: Monogram: R R C Source: utoronto.ca Isaac Watts 17 July 1674 25 November 1748 was an English Congregational minister hymn writer theologian and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" "Joy to the World" and "Our God Our Help in Ages Past". He is recognized as the "Godfather of English Hymnody"; many of his hymns remain in use today and have been translated into numerous languages. Wikipedia hardcover
176429779AB1764. Four Volumes complete set. London Printed for J. and R. Tonson J.Buckland H. Woodfall etc. 1764. Small Octavo 11 cm x 17 cm. Frontispiece 2 300 14 Frontispiece 3 336 13 Frontispiece 5 318 16 Frontispiece 7 320 12 pages. Hardcover / Oiginal 18th century full leather with original spinelabels and gilt lettering on spine. All four Volumes complete and in protective Mylar. Housed in a wonderful bespoke Solander-Box. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner Connerville / Manch House with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume. Includes wonderful and bizarre articles of 18th-century literature: Earthquakes Pills against them / Education Proposals for reforming the education of Females / Wax-work in Germany / Wine-Brewers / Instructions to unmarried women / Women the happiness or misfortunes of mankind depend on them / Women have ill fancies in their dress / Machiavel author of a mischievous sect / Xerxes why he burst into tears / Mr.Walpole going to England with the Preliminaries of Peace / Witchcraft described and explained / Women natural to talk to themselves / Women More understanding than men in their own affairs / etc. The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 and published for two years. It represented a new approach to journalism featuring cultivated essays on contemporary manners and established the pattern that would be copied in such British classics as Addison and Steele's Spectator Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Idler and Goldsmith's Citizen of the World. The Tatler would also influence essayists as late as Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt. Addison and Steele liquidated The Tatler in order to make a fresh start with the similar Spectator and the collected issues of Tatler are usually published in the same volume as the collected Spectator. Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele who used the nom de plume "Isaac Bickerstaff Esquire". This is the first known such consistently adopted journalistic persona which adapted to the first person as it were the 17th-century genre of "characters" as first established in English by Sir Thomas Overbury and then expanded by Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristicks 1711. Steele's conceit embodied in the title "Tatler" was to publish the news and gossip heard in various London coffeehouses in reality he mixed real gossip with invented stories of his own and so he declared in the opening paragraph to leave the subject of politics to the newspapers while presenting Whiggish views and correcting middle-class manners while instructing "these Gentlemen for the most part being Persons of strong Zeal and weak Intellects.what to think." To assure complete coverage of local gossip he pretended to place a reporter in each of the city's four most popular coffeehouses and the text of each issue was subdivided according to the names of these four: accounts of manners and mores were datelined from White's; literary notes from Will's; notes of antiquarian interest were dated from the Grecian Coffee House; and news items from St. James's Coffee House. The journal was originally published three times a week and Steele eventually brought in contributions from his literary friends Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison though both of them pretended to be writing as Isaac Bickerstaff and authorship was revealed only when the papers were collected in a bound volume. The original Tatler was published for only two years from 12 April 1709 to 2 January 1711. A collected edition was published in 171011 with the title The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. In 1711 Steele and Addison decided to liquidate The Tatler and co-founded The Spectator magazine which used a different persona than Bickerstaff. Wikipedia hardcover
179829839AB1798. First Edition. Aberdeen Printed for Isaac Forsyth Bookseller Elgin 1798. Octavo 14 cm x 215 cm. Folded hand-coloured Frontispiece-Map by William Millar Frotispiece-Engraving of the "Elgin Cathedral" VIII 353 pages. Original Hardcover / Original 18th or early 19th century leather with original spinelabel. The large hand-coloured Map with a minor tear only. Corners slightly bumped. Spine slightly starting but overall in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Interesting Provenance and signed manuscript dedication by the Cartographer and Mapmaker William Millar: From the library of Aberdeen Highlander Major Hugh Houstoun with a dedication: "April 27th 1798 - To Major Hugh Houstoun - from his Much obliged and Humble Servant William Millar". The fantastic Map in this publication was produced by William Millar who is identified inside the publication in the text of an Advertisement placed verso the titlepage and in which the Publisher Isaac Forsyth of Aberdeen gives thanks: ".For the very handsome manner in which the two first chapters were furnished by the Revd. Mr.Grant of Elgin and the other two by the Revd. Mr.Leslie of Darkland he offers this testimony of his grateful remembrance. Nor can he omit expressing his sense of obligation to Mr.William Millar Engineer of the Sutherland Coal Work for the Most accurate Map of the Province of Moray ever offered to public notice." The publication includes for example stories about the "First Inhabitants Celts Picts Scots Surnames in Moray Thanes Earls of Moray Family of Gordon Family of Grant Family of Shewglie Family of Innes Family of Brodie Family of Calder Family of Kilravock Family of Dunbars Family of Grangehill and Durn Family of Comyn of Altre Family of Fraser of Lovat Family of Mackintosh Family of Macpherson Family of Macdonalds of Glengary Family of Duff Earl of Fife Family of Gordonstown Family of Lethin Family of Findrassie Family of Murreffs of Duffus Population of Moray Antiquities of the Province with Roman Progress in Moray Vitrified Forts etc. etc. hardcover
1784FF2537London:: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington . . . 1784. 1784. 16mo. 80 x 140 mm. viii 317 23 pp. Original full crimson turkey morocco with massed gilt stamping on both covers and spine all edges gilt two clasps black leather spine label; head of spine a bit chipped at corner clasps missing the movable element pages trimmed closely with occasional loss but a very good copy with a lovely period binding. Bookplate of Oscar Ehrhardt Lancaster. Good. With a fore-edge painting of Richmond Bridge Surrey. Painted circa 1948-60 by Samuel E. Stevens. PROVENANCE: Pre-fore-edge: Mary Strand 1790 – Mary S. Partridge 1792; After fore-edge: Oscar Ehrhardt Lancaster 1887- Lancaster collected fore-edge paintings. Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington . . ., 1784. hardcover
1744L57-1626London 1744. Hardcover. Very Good. Speckled calf gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine. Both volumes a little rubbed along spine and edges of boards with small chips at head of spine and numbered stickers affixed to tail of spine. Some faint browning along edges of paste-down prelims and terminals -- but overall a nice clean text block. <br/><br/>Includes an interesting bookplate on the front paste-down engraved by Benjamin Levi for Isaac Mendes in London 1746 the earliest known bookplate made for a Jew. hardcover
1742040691A La Haie The Hague: Pierre De Hondt 1742. 467 & 320 pages plus notice and catalogue at rear. Full contemporary vellum with raised spine bands and inked name on spine. Blind stamped outlines and decorative devices. Penciled notations on front paste down and smudges on front free end leaf. Leaves are a little darkened on edges. Scattered light creases and very light wear. Overall volume remains tight and attractive. . First Edition. Vellum. Good/No Dust Jacket. sm 4to. Pierre De Hondt hardcover
179945232London: Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly 1799. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. 8vo. Pp. xxiii 427 1 folding coloured map 3 folding plans 7 folding plates. Vol. 2 pp. xii 376 1 folding plan 4 folding plates. Bound in half leather over marbled boards. Gilt titles to the spine spine heavily rubbed and scuffed leather lifting at the hinges but boards still firmly attached. Well worn exterior but clean and bright interior would benefit from a good re-backing. The Irish topographer's first youthful work. He preferred Canada to the U.S. but left "without a sigh and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit it." Well received it went through several editions and re-issues and was translated into French Italian German and Dutch. Howes W235; Cf TPL 708-9. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly hardcover
1789373872Boston: John W. Folsom 1789. 31711; 265 1 xii pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf minor wear. Provenance: Anna Duryee inscription on front endpaper dated 1791. 31711; 265 1 xii pp. 12mo. The Psalms unrecorded by Evans are an edition of Mycall's revision with all references to Great Britain and the King removed to make it more palatable to the nascent United States first printed in 1781. A scarce edition with only a handful of institutional holdings of either the Psalms or Hymns printed by Folsom here bound together. Evans 21687 Hymns; ESTC W4418 Psalms and W25174 Hymns John W. Folsom unknown
1760B4388Gothenburg c. 1760. In very good condition. Binding: Contemporary half calf with speckled boards. Notes: Ex Libris Abel E. Berland. First Edition in Swedish after original 1733 First Edition in English. <br><br>Newton's work: Observations on the Prophecies on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Prophecies of St. John. Six years after his death Newton's nephew Benjamin Smith published a small portion of Newton's later writings on the prophetic Books of Daniel and Revelation. For more than two centuries this book provided the only glimpse into Newton's prophetic thought. In addition scientific historians suggest that “Newton was an apocalyptic thinker†Snobelen Canadian Journal of History who “arrived at his theory of gravity partly through his exploration of alchemy and early biblical theology†White 358. Size: 8vo: 115mm x 190mm Volume: 2 Volumes in 1 Pages: P. Title Printer infoforward iii-vi Contents vii-viii 1-324 Category: Book Religious Christianity hardcover
1723332777Londres: Pour le compte de l'Auteur 1723. Published the same year as the first edition in English. Frontispiece and 6 plates 3 folding backed. 12 121 1pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemp. calf front hinge off. Published the same year as the first edition in English. Frontispiece and 6 plates 3 folding backed. 12 121 1pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Martin an English merchant who was arrested in Malaga in 1718 and spent 8 months in the hands of the inquiition. He recounts his experiences in great detail. Pour le compte de l'Auteur unknown
175679166London:: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton 1756. First edition. old full calf rebacked with a later calf spine and gilt-lettered spine labels. . Three old bookplates on front pastedown; text and plates in very attractive condition with a few double-page plates mis-folded; binding quite scuffed; but tight and sound. Folio. Engraved frontispiece plus all plates listed in the Table of Plates and two additional plates not listed. Although 122 plates are listed the numeration is irregular with double-page plates listed as two plates a few plate numbers repeated and others skipped. Title page in red and black. Additional postage applicable for this very large and heavy book. Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, unknown
179926803London: Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly 1799. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo. 2 volumes. Pp. xxiv 427; xii 376 16 - publ. adverts. complete with folding frontispiece map of the Northern States of America with hand-coloured outlines plus 2 folding maps 2 folding plans and 9 plates. Recent rebinding in quarter dark navy calf and marbled boards new endpapers 5 gilt-ruled raised bands gilt-stamped maroon leather spine labels volume number direct to spine new endpapers. Covers fine. Top edges rough-trimmed others deckled. Water staining to top and bottom gutters and along top and bottom edges primarily to prelims and end pages and occasionally scattered throughout most plates affected however frontispiece map is clean and bright. Contemporary ink signature of Edward Tanqueray to title-page of volume 2. The Irish topographer's first youthful work. He preferred Canada to the U.S. but left "without a sigh and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit it." Well received it went through several editions and re-issues and was translated into French Italian German and Dutch. Howes W235; Cf TPL 708-9. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly Hardcover
173858701<p>NEWTON'S RADICAL THEOLOGICAL OPINIONS SANITIZED - RARE ISSUE FOR SALE IN IRELAND</p><p>first edition issue with title page indicating for sale in Ireland 4to.26 x 20.5 cms. xvi 376pp. 3 folding plates of the Temple of Solomon contemporary sprinkled calf double gilt fillet border on sides with tiny gilt leaf ornaments at corners. spine panelled by raised bands edges sprinkled red short crack at head of front joint lacks title label on spine front free endpaper pasted down very light water mark on early leaves running to about p.80 but always light and generally unobtrusive and generally diminishing so that by p.100 it is barely discernable very light waterstain at one point on fore-margin of the last few leaves else a fresh copy.</p><p>Contemporary inscription on upper edge of a terminal blank endpaper "10s.10d To E: Hudson" and a faint early signature in a small hand at upper margin of title page "G. T. Payne".</p><p>ESTC t30722 GRAY 'Newton Bibliography' 309<br />The imprint of the standard first edition ESTC n2784 names only the London booksellers Tonson Osborn and Longman but special cancel title pages were printed for copies destined to be sold in both Dublin and Edinburgh ESTC n962 and these are understandably much rarer than the standard one. <br />Newton 1642–1727 natural philosopher and mathematician had been elected a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge in 1667 and Lucastrian professor of mathematics in 1669. Those positions combined with income from his estate made him both financially secure and almost free from prescribed duties. His great researches on optics were the first fruits of that freedom. However at the same time he became an earnest student of both alchemy and of theology. His surviving manuscripts show that in the latter field he reached firstly an anti-Trinitarian or Arian position which developed into an even more radical position which saw Jesus as merely the latest of a series of prophets sent by God to reclaim mankind from false gods a position Newton developed in the 1680s in the unpublished manuscript of "his most important theological composition 'Theologiae gentilis origines philosophicae' 'The philosophical origins of gentile theology'" O.D.N.B.<br />Such opinions were completely unacceptable to contemporary society and Newton realising that they would have undermined his position kept them a closely guarded secret but in later life he revisited the treatise and "thoroughly purged it became his 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' 1728. The original treatise he kept to himself . When he died his heirs found the completed manuscript of the Chronology which they immediately sold to a publisher for £350" O.D.N.B. and the book was published shortly thereafter.<br />The book was distributed in Dublin by Smith and Bruce. John Smith an Ulster Presbyterian whose radical activities had led to his expulsion from Glasgow University in 1722 came to Dublin in 1724 where with the sympathetically minded William Smith and later William Bruce he established a book-selling business. They were notable for their intellectual and continental connections they were cousins of the philosopher Francis Hutcheson and their publication of works challenging conventional opinions. <br />E. Hudson is probably Edward Hudson 1703 ca. - 1757 of Ardee Co. Louth who having entered Trinity College in 1722 aged 19 became a Fellow in 1728 the year of publication of this book. He was later Rector of Omagh. The signature on the title page may be that of Rev. George Thomas Payne 1819-1888 of Kilkenny who had entered T.C.D. in 1833.</p> Printed for J. Tonson, J. Osborn, and T. Longman; and sold by Messieurs Smith and Bruce Booksellers on the Blind Key in Dublin hardcover
1743h2151London: J Millan. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed. Occasional slight marks. 1743. Second Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 240mm x 150mm 9" x 6". 100pp. 49 b/w plates 6 fold-out. . J Millan hardcover
