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Description: Book size - 7.25 x 4.5 inches, pp. (14 ) + 506 , hardback with full calf contemporaneous binding, hand-sewn headbands. Book condtion - Good ; this copy contains a facsimile title page with a good imitation of the original (please see photo) ; the date of publication and the printer derive from correspondence of this copy's pagination and mis-pagination with the 1697 edition. Contents - preliminaries quite soiled and foxed but this diminishes greatly into the main textblock, 1st flyleaf with creasing and fraying of the fore-edge, 2nd flyleaf with some staining on the fore-edge and with an ink inscription - ! Mrs Stokes . A Present from her Mother in the year 1827" - . front flyleaves and title page with paper reinforcement down the length of the inner hinges (visible but neatly done), some creases in the pages towards the very end of the book, boards securely attached, lightly tipped in inside the rear board is a printed list of the contents, top, fore- and bottom edges originally coloured brown but now with some patchy losses of colour, the binding is a little cocked/skewed vertically ; full calf with simple 5 panelled spine and with boards having a a blind double-ruled central double rectangle with a floral motif at each corner ; corners a bit bent with some wear but firm, boards's edge all very sound, back with some light cracking of leather but remaining very sound and with no marks as such, rear spine sound with small split at base and small indistinct leather patch at the top, spine complete with some rubbing at head and tail, spine leather very sound and with no marks, front hinge expertly repaired with leather strip which blends well with the original, front clean and with some slight surface cracking and dullness towords the top . Please see photos for indications of condition and contents.(The darker area in the lower half of the front cover is caused by the photographer's shadow). John Norris (1657 1712), was an English theologian, philosopher and poet associated with the Cambridge Platonists. He became an early opponent of John Locke, whose ' An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ' (1690) he attacked in the same year; he also opposed Locke's theories in his 'Essay toward the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World ' . Norris wrote on numerous topics, including politics, religion, philosophy and the Christian life. ( Brief biographical information from Wikipedia and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ) This volume contains 6 of his works -- 'Reason and Religion : Or, The Grounds and Measures of Devotion, Consider'd from the Nature of God and the Nature of Man.' (Pages 1 to 262 ) : 'A Sermon Preach'd in the Church of Bath, before the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells .' (Pages 263 to 282 ) : 'The Charge of Schism Continued: Being A Justification of the Author of Christian Blessedness for his Charging the Separatists with Schism, Notwithstanding the Toleration' (Pages 283 to 346 ) : 'Two Treatises Concerning the Divine Light. The First , Being an Answer to a Letter of a Learned Quaker, which he is Pleased to Call A Just Reprehension to John Norris for his Unjust Reflections on the Quakers etc '. (Pages 347 to pages 428 ) : 'The Grossness of the Quaker's Principle of the Light Within, with their Inconsistency in Explaining it.' (Pages 429 to 453 ) : (Note : there is mis-pagination after page 448 : page 449 is mis-labelled as 443 ) : Spiritual Counsel : or, The Father's Advice to his Children. (Pages 455 to 506).
Seller: Peter M. Huyton, Hereford, United Kingdom
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Description: Octavo. [4], 173, [1, blank], [6] pp. Rebound in quarter calf over marbled boards. Very good. First edition. Wing L2749. Attig 440. Yolton 248.BII.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Description: 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 227, [1]ad. complete with half-title. paneled calf antique (narrow strip from blank upper margin of title cut away; some light foxing). First Edition, Second Issue. [BOUND WITH:] LOCKE, John. Mr. Locke's Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Letter, Concerning some Passages Relating To Mr. Locke's Essay Of Humane Understanding: In A Late Discourse of his Lordships, In Vindication of the Trinity. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 174, [1 leaf], 7, [1]errata, [2]ads. complete with half-title. (upper portion of last leaf of ads cut away; some light foxing). London: Printed by H.Clark, for A. and J.Churchill and E.Castle, 1697. First Edition. In 1696, deist John Toland published his Christianity not Mysterious, a work professing to be a strict theological application of Lockean philosophy. It drew immediate response from Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, who in his Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, attacked Toland and Locke alike, and charged Locke with disallowing mystery in human knowledge. A heated controversy ensued, Locke responding with a Letter and two Replies, the second of which appeared in 1699. Wing L2749 & L2754. NCBEL II 1837. Christophersen pp. 37-41. Rand I 342.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
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Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 227, [1]ad. complete with half-title. contemporary paneled calf, rebacked & recornered, endpapers preserved. armorial bookplate of Sir Henry Seton Bart. ownership entry on title of James Hood, dated 1728. First Edition, Second Issue, State III. [BOUND WITH:] LOCKE, John. Mr. Locke's Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Letter, Concerning some Passages Relating To Mr. Locke's Essay Of Humane Understanding: In A Late Discourse of his Lordships, In Vindication of the Trinity. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 174, [1 leaf], 7, [1]errata, [4]ads. complete with half-title. London: Printed by H.Clark, for A. and J.Churchill and E.Castle, 1697. First Edition, First Issue. In 1696, deist John Toland published his Christianity not Mysterious, a work professing to be a strict theological application of Lockean philosophy. It drew immediate response from Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, who in his Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, attacked Toland and Locke alike, and charged Locke with disallowing mystery in human knowledge. A heated controversy ensued, Locke responding with a Letter and two Replies, the second of which appeared in 1699. Yolton 248B.III & 249. Wing L2749 & L2753. Pforzheimer 604 & 606. NCBEL II 1837. Christophersen pp. 37-41. Rand I 342.
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Description: The first work grew out of StillingfleetÕs attack on Locke in his Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (1696). Locke had suggested that, as John Yolton puts it, Òimmateriality was not necessary for immortalityÓ and distinguished matter from particular instances of matter. There are a number of states and issues of this work, of little consequence to anyone but the bibliographer. This copy is of the second issue, with the title-page a cancel because Locke had not properly addressed the bishop with his courtesy title in the first issue. It is of the third state of the second issue, with the spellings ÒPater-Noster-RowÓ and ÒWhitehallÓ in the imprint. Stillingfleet replied to the above publication, prompting Locke to publish the second work. A final reply to Stillingfleet appeared in 1699. Octavo. [iv], 227, [1, advertisements]. ÑÑÑ. Mr. LockeÕs Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of WorcesterÕs Answer to his Letter, Concerning some Passages Relating to Mr. LockeÕs Essay of Humane Understanding: in a Late Discourse of his Lordships, in Vindication of the Trinity. London: Printed by H. Clark, for A. and J. ChurchillÉ1697. Octavo. [4], 173, [1, blank], [6] pp. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to style. Endpapers browned, ink signature, dated 1730. Overall in very good condition, complete with both half-titles. First editions. Wing L2749, L2753. Attig 440, 443. Yolton 248.BII; 249.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Description: First editions of the author's arguments for the separation of natural and religion knowledge, in a handsome contemporary binding. These exchanges constitute Locke's first published responses to critiques of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Locke's Essay attracted considerable attention, both favourable and unfavourable, particularly for its rejection of innate, a priori ideas. In 1696, John Toland had published Christianity not Mysterious, in which he adapts Locke's theories of knowledge to contend that all Christian doctrines had to be comprehensible by human reason, and not rooted simply in faith. In his Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (1696), Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), Bishop of Worcester, accused Locke and Toland of promoting a system of knowledge which implicitly undermined such foundational Christian mysteries as the doctrine of the Trinity. In response to Stillingfleet's criticism, Locke emphasizes the firm distinction, as he understands it, between the grounds for epistemology and those for faith. In the Letter, Locke reiterates that he would never presume to apply his theories of natural knowledge to the central mysteries of Christianity, as Toland had done. Locke's first two replies are collected in this volume: a third, considerably larger response was published at the end of 1698. Stillingfleet brought the debate to an abrupt end by dying shortly after the publication of the third response. The Letter is from the second issue, with the cancel title page in the second state, adding the "Right Reverend" title, and including the lower-case "n" in "Pater-noster Row". Yolton 248B. II & 249 Two volumes in 1, octavo (183 x 112 mm). Contemporary polished black morocco, spine with raised bands and compartments ruled and with floral decoration in gilt, red morocco label to second, covers with concentric panels and floral cornerpieces in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Stamp of Dorbil's Rare & Fine Books to rear free endpaper. Joints and extremities neatly repaired. Light bumping, minor foxing and spotting to endpapers and outer leaves, faint damp stain to outer margins of Reply: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom