EIGHT SERMONS, PREACHED AT THE HON. ROBERT BOYLE'S LECTURE, IN THE YEAR MDCXCII. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THREE SERMONS ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS
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- Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1809
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1809. A New Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early nineteenth century edition of Eight Sermons, Preached at the Hon. Robert Boyle's Lecture [...] to which are added Three Sermons on Different Occasions. The first year of the 'Boyle Lectures', given in 1692 by Richard Bentley. Variously titled "A Confutation of Atheism [...]" with three additional lectures by Bentley, the lectures focus on Newtonian Physics and their evidence of Intelligent Design. Armorial bookplate of Charles Almeric Belli, Vicar of Prittlewell, Witham, and South Weald, on the front pastedown. Foxing to the endpapers; boards reattached by a conservator, with Japanese tissue repair to the extremities of the spine. Full calf. Very Good. (DNB II, 306-314. ). Very Good binding.