considerations touching style scriptures (6 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). Second. 254 pages, several pages closely cropped at the top, 12mo, 3/4 brown calf, London: Henry Herringman, 1663. Second edition. Very good. A very nice copy of the second edition, printed two years after the first edition.

Leather. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). A scarce collection of two works of theology by Robert Boyle. Two volumes bound in one. Robert Boyle was an Irish 17th century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor. He was noted for his writings in theology to which he devoted much time, showing a very decided leaning to the practical side and an indifference to controversial polemics. In a full calf binding. Externally, rubbed with bumping and some loss to leather. Front joint and hinge failed with board detached but present. Rear joint and hinge starting but generally firm. Endpapers missing but otherwise complete. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with spotting, handling marks and ink stains throughout. Ink signatures to first title page. Good. book.

Pp. [40], 254. 1 vols. 8vo. Fourth edition. Fourth edition. Pp. [40], 254. 1 vols. 8vo. This is the first of Boyle's devotional works. Wing B4028; Fulton 44 Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spine. Spine and extremities very rubbed, some chipping, and cracking along joints,light browning or soiling of endpapers else a very good copy with some contemporary manuscript marginalia on some leaves with underlining, bookplate of Henry C. Compton on pastedown.

London, Henry Herringman, 1663. Small 8vo. Cont. full calf, blindtooled borders. Spine ends defective, back and corners somewhat worn. Old names on title. (42),252 pp. (should be 254 pp., last leaf lacks). Some traces of use, but internally fairly good. Second edition. The first published 1661. - Fulton No. 42: "The Style of the Scriptures, the first of his devotional works, is a remarkable forerunner of modern higher criticism which is said to have begin nearly a century later with Astruc (1773).".