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ARCHAEOLOGIAE PHILOSOPHICAE: SIVE DOCTRINA ANTIQUA DE RERUM ORIGINIBUS.
by Burnet, Thomasi (C1635-1715)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Londini: Gualterus Kettilby. Very Good. 1692. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebacked with brown calf spine with 5 bands and rich gilt decoration & lettering over original ornately blind stamped, contemporary mottled brown calf boards. Hinges & text are tight & intact. One small engraved text figure. [16, 358pp, 8]. Leaves are generally bright & clean with last few pages, endpapers & some edges age toned. Armorial bookpate of John Orlebar (1697–1765) of Hinwick House, Bedfordshire. He was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Burnet considered whether The Fall of Man was a symbolic event rather than literal history. His views were totally unacceptable to contemporary theologians. Latin text. Philosophy, Religion. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 358 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17710
- Title
- ARCHAEOLOGIAE PHILOSOPHICAE: SIVE DOCTRINA ANTIQUA DE RERUM ORIGINIBUS.
- Author
- Burnet, Thomasi (C1635-1715)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Gualterus Kettilby
- Place of Publication
- Londini
- Date Published
- 1692
- Keywords
- Philosophy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Leaves
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- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Rebacked
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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