First Edition. 2 vol. Folio. General title printed in red and black; title to vol. II differs from that to vol. I, separate titles
for all the various parts; engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White; double page engraved map of Canaan and of the city of Jerusalem; without the map of the Temple.
Original calf (defective). Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the library of George Wythe, with his autograph signature on the upper margin of the title-leaf in vol. I, and marginal annotations by him in both volumes. Part of his bequest to Thomas Jefferson.
John Lightfoot, 1602-1675, English Biblical critic, and Hebrew scholar. This is the first collected edition of his works. It was received
and corrected by George Bright, with a memoir by John Strype. Lightfoot bequeathed his Oriental books to Harvard College, where they were burnt in 1769.
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Broughton’s history of all religions.
2. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 63. no. 176, as above.
BROUGHTON,
Thomas.
Bibliotheca Historico-Sacra: or, An Historical Library of the Principal Matters relating to Religion, antient and modern;
Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Mohammedan . . . The whole compiled from the best Authorities, and digested into an alphabetical
Order, in
Two Volumes, by Thomas Broughton, M.A. Reader at the Temple Church. Vol. I [-II].
London: Printed by
R. Reily, for
Stephen Austen,
1737-1739.
BL31 .B5
First Edition. 2 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 181 leaves collating in twos, engraved frontispiece by G. Scotin after Gravelot, list of subscribers on the third sheet, the last leaf with the publisher’s advertisement dated 1737; vol. II, 161 leaves;
titles printed in red and black.
Old calf; initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes.
Thomas Broughton, 1704-1774, English divine and author.
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Mori opera.
2. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 66. no. 185, as above.
MORE,
Henry.
Henrici Mori Cantabrigiensis Opera Omnia, tum quæ
Latinè, tum quæ
Anglicè scripta sunt; nunc vero Latinitate donata instigatu & impensis generosissimi juvenis Johannis Cockshuti Nobilis Angli . .
. [-Tomus alter.]
Londini: Typis impressa
J. Macock, sumptibus autem
J. Martyn &
Gualt. Kettilby,
1679.
B1299 .M5
2 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 410 leaves, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece of More by D. Loggan, full-page portrait of Cockshutt, full-page and smaller plates in the text, engraved arms of Cambridge University on the
title; vol. II, 396 leaves, title varies; list of errata at the end of both volumes.
Lowndes III, 1605.
STC M2633.
Hazlitt IV, 265.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. I, 875.
MacKinnon, page 240.
Calf, rebacked; vol. II in a different binding from vol. I. On the title-page of vol. II is the autograph signature of George Walker, Mill Creek, Virginia, 1770. It is possible therefore that this is
Jefferson’s copy acquired through the bequest of George Wythe whose mother was Margaret Walker of Mill Creek.
Henry More, 1614-1687, the Platonist, English theologian. John Cockshutt of the Inner Temple had bequeathed to More the sum of £300
for the purpose of translating into Latin three of his principal pieces. An earlier volume had appeared in 1675, sometimes
joined to these two volumes and described as 3 vol. folio. 1675-79.
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