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Trostspiegel in Glück Und Unglück Francisci Petrarche, des Hochberümpten, Fürtrefflichen,un[d] hochweisen Poeten vnd Oratorn, zwey Trostbücher, Von Artznei vnd Rath, beydes in gutem vnd widerwertigem Glück. Allen Haußuättern, vnd Regimentspersonen . sehr nützlich vnd tröstlich zuwissen.

PETRARCH. PETRARCA (Francesco) Folio, 303 x 193 mms., foliated, [iv], [222], title-page in red and black, illustrated throughout with full-page and vignette woodcuts (262, so far as I can tell). [BOUND WITH]: De rebus memorandis. Francis Petrarcha der Hochgeleert vnd weitberümpt Orator vnnd Poet von allerhandt fürtrefflichen Handlungen. Franckfurt am Meyn: Bey Christian Egenolffs seligen Erben, 1566. Foliated [6], 102 [6 index and register], title-page in red and black, with woodcut on last pages of text bound in contemporary pigskin, panelled in blind, with decorations and images also in blind; small piece cut from top margin of front free end-paper, binding soiled, missing one clasp. This is the second edition by Egenolff. The web site "Money Museum" says this of Petrarch's work: "Misfortune is our own fault. The Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) was convinced of this. Hardly any author of the popular help-yourself literature on the subject of "happiness" says that so openly - in five minutes, without effort, with a money-back guarantee . Petrarch does not offer such superficial and light fare. But he also wrote a lucky guide in 1366. His late work was written in Latin and bore the somewhat unwieldy name "De remediis utriusque fortunae", i.e. something like "On the remedies for happiness and misfortune". In the language of the educated, it was initially aimed at an intellectual elite that was very familiar with Petrarch's ancient models. But then it became apparent that this text appealed to everyone. By 1756, the bestseller went through 28 editions in its original Latin edition alone and was translated into more than 50 languages, including 13 times into German, where it was soon marketed under catchy titles such as "Glückbuch" and "Trostspiegel". The illustrations of the so-called Master of Petrarch also contributed to the success of the German version. The congenial woodcuts show that he was one of the greatest draftsmen of his time. But what kind of book was it that inspired the whole of Europe and established Petrarch's reputation as Italy's most important poet? Entirely in the antique style, personifications appear who discuss happiness and misfortune in a dialogue about concrete everyday problems. Reason, joy and pain rise in the intellectual boxing ring. The readers have to be prepared for some uppercuts. While some people can still endure severe blows of fate such as poverty or illness with a certain calm, the real danger lurks, says Petrarch - in luck! Who, in their wealth and success, would not be swept away by their joy? But Fortuna is busy turning the wheel of fortune and whoever is on top today will be crushed under the wheel tomorrow. Worldly possessions and achievements, therefore, should be viewed as fleeting and accepted with gratitude, but not clinging to them or striving for them with all our might. Against this background, Petrarch's devastating exclamation is to be understood: "The love of money testifies to a poor spirit." The author could certainly see himself as an expert in his field. He experienced the harshness of exile early on. For a long time, Petrarch led a life of financial insecurity because he had given up studying law for his true passion, literature. Thus the young poet was forced to alternate between wealthy patrons and families. It took him from southern France to Rome and from Milan to Venice. Petrarch saw friends dying of the plague and had to accept that the love of his life had already been married to someone else. His conclusion: "I can hardly find anything more fragile and restless than human life." Today we are convinced that the state protects us and that our insurance relieves us of most other worries for a small monthly fee. People 650 years ago were much more on their own. With the "word medicines", as Petrarch himself calls the instructions, he wanted to help his contemporaries like a modern coach. Back then, people mainly struggled with external dangers, today we are working on our behavior patterns and attitudes. Reason enough to check Petrarch's wisdom for its current use. He has no convenient panacea for happiness, but many a stimulating suggestion on how not to become unhappy. And that's more than many of its modern competitors can offer."
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Julii Caesaris Scaligeri Exotericarum exercitationum liber quintus decimus, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum.

SCALIGER. Jules César Scaliger; FIRST EDITION. 4to, 217 x 147 mms., foliated, [iv], 476, [30 index, 31 printer's imprint], attractively bound in near contemporary light brown calf, ornamented with gold fleurs de lys, with in a gilt border, spine gilt in compartments to the same motif, red leather label, with the armorial bookplate of "John Marques[s] of Tweeddale, Earle of Gifford, Viscount Walden, Lord Hay of Yester, &c." and a later (probably 18 century) note on the recto of the front free end-paper, a very good and attractive copy, except for the title-page, which has been vandalized by the cutting out of a portion of the leaf, measuring 75 x 58 mms. from, the centre Born in Italy, Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484 – 1558), spent most of his adult life in France and began his career in the military of the emporer Maximillian. His first work, printed in 1531, was an oration against Erasmus in defence of Cicero and his allies. Wikipedia notes, "He is best known for his critical Exotericarum Exercitationes on Cardan's De Subtilitate (1557), a book approaching natural philosophy and which had a long popularity. The Exercitationes display encyclopaedic knowledge and accurate observation; but, as noted by Gabriel Naudé, they are not flawless. They had an influence upon natural historians, philosophers and scientists such as Lipsius, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Johannes Kepler. Charles Nisard wrote that Scaliger's object seems to be to deny all that Cardan affirms and to affirm all that Cardan denies. Yet Leibniz and Sir William Hamilton recognize him as the best modern exponent of the physics and metaphysics of Aristotle."
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The Crafty Courtier: Or the fable of Reinard the Fox: Newly done into English Verse, from the Antient Latin Iambics of Hartm. Schopperus, And by him Dedicated to Maximilian then Emperor of Germany.

REYNARD THE FOX 8vo, 188 x 117 mms., pp. [viii], 311 [312 adverts], including half-title, contemporary calf, panelled in blind; joints slightly cracked, no label, but a good to very good copy with a clean text, and the armorial bookplate of "Sr. Robert Eden, Bart" on the front paste-down end-paper. The army officer and colonial governor Sir Robert Eden (1741 - 1784) was Governor of Maryland, and ODNB records that he did not have an easy time, "when the crisis in relations between colonists and crown came to a head during his governorship. Although he retained the good will of his Maryland subjects, he was unable to reconcile the colonists to continued parliamentary rule despite his best efforts to act as a buffer between the two sides. Eden succeeded in remaining in Maryland as nominal governor until June 1776, but his effective authority had ended two years earlier when the first extra-legal Maryland convention assembled in June 1774. 'He [had] survived without being able to prevail' (Land, 309). Finally, in May 1776, Maryland's sixth convention resolved 'that the Publick quiet and safety require that [Eden] leave the Province and that he is at full liberty to depart peaceably with all his effects' (Beirne, 173). On 26 June he sailed for England on HMS Fowey, his wife and children having departed earlier." The earliest version of this famous story seems to have been written in the middle of the 13th century. The versifier here is unknown, but he or she used the Latin of Harman Schopper, first published in 1567. The opening lines unmistakely derive from Virgil: Nor Arms I sing, nor of Adventurous Deeds, Nor Shepherds playing on their Oaten Reeds, But civil Fury, and invidious Strife, With the false Pleasures of a Courtiers Life. To whom ye Muses, will my Theme belong.
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The Survey of Cornwall. And An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. Now first Published from the Manuscript. With the Life of the Author, By H*** C***** Eaq. [Pierre Des Maizeaux].

CAREW (Richard) FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 225 x 172 mms., pp. [ii] [ii] iii - xix [xx blank], [viii], then foliated, [1] - 159 [160 - 163 indexes], followed by "An Epistle of Richard Carew Esq: concerning the Excellencies of the Engllsh Tongue," with separate title-page, pp. [2] 3 - 13 [14 blank], title-page in red and black, contemporary calf, rebacked in lighter calf, red morocco label; last six leaves (the "Epistle" stained a lower margin, but a good copy, with the armorial bookplate of Henry Waymouth on the front paste-down endp-paper, the autograph "J Harry Cook/1895" on the upper margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, an ownship inscription dated 1727 scored out on top margin of recto of adverts leaf, with adverts on verso. "Carew became a member of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries, where his scholarship was clearly valued. He assisted Sir Henry Spelman with the latter's researches into the history of tithes, and was rewarded with the dedication of the resulting treatise. Greatly interested in language, and particularly in etymology, Carew's panegyric on 'The excellencie of the English tongue' was first published in the second edition of William Camden's Remaines (1614). It constituted a qualified rebuttal of Richard Verstegan's Restitution of Decayed Intelligence of Antiquities (1605), which rejected the British contribution to England's history and languages in favour of Germanic elements. Carew thereby became entangled in a dispute which involved (among others) Verstegan, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare, over the extent to which English should either assimilate foreign words or attempt to maintain a degree of linguistic integrity. Carew accepted Saxon as the 'natural language' of England (Jones, 220), but he was much more willing to recognize the contributions of foreign tongues and cultures than Verstegan was" (ODNB).
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The History of Joseph. A Poem. In Six Books. With Cuts proper to each Book

ROSE (William) FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 192 x 115 mms., pp. [xii], 179 [180 adverts], engraved frontispiece and 5 other engraved plates (by Kirkall after F. Boitard), contemporary panelled calf; fore-margins of last blank leaves affected by damp with a little loss, last two leaves of text slightly affected by damp but with no loss, front joint slightly cracked, upper rear joint slightly cracked, wear to top and base of spine. Inscribed on upper margin of recto of front free end-paper, "Rog. Bridgemans Book/ the Gift of Mr Webster/ 1728." The history of Joseph as related in Genesis in the Old Testament is one of its most powerful narratives; Rose suggests an analogy between Joseph's life and that of Jesus. Famously, Potiphar's wife, whose name history has never disclosed, tried to seduce him, and on the last occasion, Joseph rushed away, leaving her holding his robe. Rose relates her passion thus: "Not long, howe'er her casual Grief restrains/ Lover's stronger Passion struggling in her Veins./ The friendly Part dismiss'd, her Flame returns, And for her Slave, with other Cause, she mourns. His well-proportion'd Limbs, his manly Grace; His flowing Locks, and his Angelick Face,/ (Guiltless Incentives of her shameless Fault)/ Engage in base Designs her busie Thought./ Of her soft Sex she summons all the Art,/ In equal Ardours to inflame his Heart." Readers unfamiliar with the story will be pleased to hear that she is defeated "in all her lewd Designs"; alas for virtue, Joseph, well, I'm not giving away all the plot, but it's rather a good poem in heroic couplets. Rose's History of Joseph (1712) is rare in commerce. This is ESTC T124874, and there are no other editions or variants found by ESTC. American holdings are particularly eccentric: though Harvard has it, there is no copy at Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, or Princeton. There are, interestingly, three copies of other books in the Huntington Library with exactly the same ownership inscription regarding Bridgeman and Webster: A copy of Homer's Illiad(1676); a Sophocles from 1669; and another Sophocles from 1668. This Roger Bridgeman is Roger Bridgeman, D.D. (1700-1750), sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, later a clergyman, the second surviving son of Sir John Bridgeman, third Baronet. This Roger Bridgeman is said to have become "rector of Plemstall, in Cheshire, in or before the month of October, 1727, which had become vacant by the death of Mr. Webster; and on 18th December of the same year he was appointed minister of Castle Bromwich chapel, in the county of Warwick, both of which were then donatives in the gift of Sir John Bridgeman" (George T. O. Bridgeman, The History of the Church and Manor of Wigan in the County of Lancaster, Part III, 1889, p. 629; see also p. 628). One unsurprising scenario would be this: a surviving relative of this Webster, a male relative (so another Mr Webster), might have decided to gift some of the deceased rector's books to the new incumbent as a welcoming gesture. Moreover, the 1676 Homer in the Huntington bears the bookplate of Weston Library with the arms of the Earl of Bradford. The Earls of Bradford and this Bridgeman family are very much genealogically intertwined.
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Boezio Severino Della Consolazione della Filosofia Tradotto dalla Lingua Latina in Volgar Fiorentino da Benedetto Varchi. Con Annotazioni in margine, Argomenti de’ Libri, e Tavola delle cose più segnalate. Si aggiunge la Vita dell’ Autore scritta latinamente da Giulio Marziano Rota, ed ora esattamente volgarizzata.

BOETHIUS. 8vo, 170 x 110 mms., pp. xxii [xxiii - xxiv contents and license], 184, fine engraved portrait of Boethius as frontispiece, contemporary vellum, gilt spine; boards slightly sprung so a near-fine copy, beautifully printed. The Italian author and editor Benedetto Varchi (1503 - 1565 ) was an exceptional translator and editor of Latin texts; the earliest printing of this translation that I have found occurred in 1562. WorldCat notes that "Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. The Consolation was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. The Consolation was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante." The work alternates between verse and prose, with Boethius speaking his own person in prose, and philosophy answering in verse. In his History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell writes of Boethius: "During the two centuries before his time and the ten centuries after it, I cannot think of any European man of learning so free from superstition and fanaticism. Nor are his merits merely negative; his survey is lofty, distinterested, and sublime. He would have been remarkable in any age; in the age in which he lived, he is utterly amazing."
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Stray Leaves. by E. E. C. St. Neots. Published by Request.

[CHAPMAN, Mrs E. E.] FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 142 x 115 mms., pp.[iii] viii - xii, 75 [76 blank], bound in light brown original cloth with title and author blocked in gilt on front cover, all edges gilt; corners very slightly crushed but a very good to fine copy, inscribed on recto of front free end-paper, "Fanny Hodgson/ May 1894/ From Miss E. Jackson." This is the first edition of the sole book known from the pen of Mrs E. E. Chapman of the small village of St Neots in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. The book has a preface by the Rev. William O'Mant of Kimbolton, which is presumably the town of Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire, not the village in Herefordshire. The printer is Henry Berrill of Potton in Bedfordshire, a county that shares a border with Cambridgeshire, and at one point overlapped with it. Reilly knew of this book, but noted only the British Library copy, and identified "E. E. C." as Mrs E. E. Chapman of St Neots (Catherine W. Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Biobibliography, p. 90). Library Hub (COPAC) finds only the British Library copy of this first edition, like Reilly, but it does find also one copy of a later edition from 1878, though it, too, is at the British Library only. The latter entry in Library Hub, the one for the 1878 edition, identifies the author as Elizabeth Emma Chapman based on "a newspaper cutting, contained in this volume", which cutting records the author's death at the age of 72, but the cataloguer, maddeningly, neglects to say in what year the author died. Gwenn Davis and Beverly A. Joyce in Poetry by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers (1991) list no E. E. C., nor any Mrs E. E. Chapman, presumably not realising, from its title, that this book, Stray Leaves, is a book of poetry. There is no copy of either edition of Chapman's Stray Leaves in the poetry collection at UC Davis, nor any at Cambridge University Library. Surely, however, more can be learned about the mysterious provincial poet Mrs Elizabeth Emma Chapman of St Neots by some diligent literary detective!
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The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors. Second Edition.

BENNETT ([Anna Maria], Mrs.) 5 volumes. 12mo, 173 x 101 mms., pp. [iv], iv, iii [iv blank], 298; [iv], iv, 312; [iv], iii [iv blank], 353 [sic, for 343, 344 blank]; [iv, ii, 297 [298 blank]; [iv, iii [iv blank], 380, including half-title in each volume, contemporary sheepskin, gilt rules across spines, red leather labels. A very good to fine set. The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors was first published in 1797 by Lane in seven volumes, with a Dublin edition in three volumes in the same year. The work was "a record length of seven volumes a record even for its publisher, the Minerva Press, which was notorious for its three- to five-decker novels Contemporary critics, however, well aware of the financial considerations, criticised Bennett's fiction for its length, its many digressions, and its overly intricate plot. They appreciated her, on the other hand, above all for her rich gallery of characters"(cited in Art Imitates Life: The Life & Novels of Anna Maria Bennett by Sanna Fogt), The Critical Review made the same poinr: "Whenever quantity shall become the criterion of merit, we shall perhaps be able to estimate the value of this work more agreeably to the author's wishes than at present. There are scenes of tenderness, delineations of character, and some attempt at humour, which will not fail to please: but upon the whole the story is eked out with a strange excess of digression and with many superfluous characters." The comment on the number of volumes as being a "record length" seems to have been made by someone who had not read, or heard of, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Pamela, or Sir Charles Grandison. Raven, James, Antonia Forster, Peter Garside, Rainer Schöwerling, The English Novel, 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (OUP 2000). 1797.26
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Parvula; or, A Few Little Rhymes, about a Few Little Flowers, a Few Little Birds and a Few Little Girls; to Which Are Added, a Few Little Songs, and a Few Other Little Things. By Minimus.

[SPENCER (Peter)] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 165 x 101mms., pp. viii, 192, contemporary embossed green cloth, title in gilt on spine; binding a little worn and rubbed, but a very good copy. This is a family association copy and a presentation copy of a book of poetry of which I find only one other copy in the world, the copy at the British Library, but the BL's copy is not a presentation copy. This copy is a unique variant: it is bound in forest-green-coloured publisher's cloth, where the BL's copy is bound in plum-coloured publisher's cloth. Both bindings have the identical decorative pattern of a large lozenge embedded in stylized foliage. No other copies known. The British Library and Library Hub assert that the pseudonymous author, "Minimus", is Peter Spenser, but this is wrong. He is Peter Spencer. Son of another Peter Spencer (of St. Giles, Holborn), the poet Peter Spencer (1807-1871) was a Cambridge wit and poet who first matriculated at Pembroke College in the University of Oxford before attending Peterhouse in the University of Cambridge in 1826. This, his only known book of poems, is so rare that Catherine Reilly did not know of it, having no entry on the book or the author in her extensive survey Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879: An Annotated Biobibliography (2000). Another full book by Peter Spencer might have existed (in manuscript?) early in the nineteenth century, as suggested by this extraordinary passage from a letter by "the Rev. S. Tillbrook from Freckenham", November 6, 1831, to Dr Samuel Butler, headmaster of Shrewsbury School: "Touching Peter Spencer, B.A., of Peterhouse College. He was a pupil of mine, and a right funny dog was he. His father is a droll fellow enough, a dealer in feather-beds and bolsters, and, what is better, in choice wines. The son is a great reader, and I believe, indeed I know, that he is an author also. His father told me his book was beautiful, but I never read it. Young Peter is a rhymer and a doggerel wit; on his dog's collar was a distich to this effect: -- 'My name is Pet, to Pet. Coll. I came. / I'm an honest dog: I hope you're the same?' " (The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Head-Master of Shrewsbury School, 1798-1836 (1896), vol. 2, p. 4). Spencer was no doubt echoing the great dog-collar rhyme composed by Alexander Pope a century earlier for a puppy owned by the Prince of Wales: "I am his highness's dog at Kew; / Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?". The "Rev. S. Tillbrook" is Samuel Tilbrook (1784-1835), who was a Fellow at Peterhouse in Cambridge when Peter Spencer attended as an undergraduate. Tilbrook was also a friend of Wordsworth's, and a correspondent of Southey's. I do not know what book by Spencer that Tilbrook was referring to in the early 1830s. The book on offer from 1863, the second-known copy, is the only poetry of Spencer's that I know to survive. This is a very rare collection by an Oxford poet and a Cambridge poet. Cambridge records show Spencer, after his Peterhouse degrees, B.A. (1831), and M.A. (1835), was Canon at Folkestone, then Vicar of Temple-Ewell in Kent. He died in 1871, outliving his Cambridge tutor by more than three decades
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[Works]: The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from her Literary Correspondence. Edited by Walter Scott, Esq.

SEWARD (Anna) FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo, 184 x 108 mms., pp. [ii] - vi, ccvi [ccvii drop-title, ccviii blank], 187 [188 colophon]; [iii], iv - ix [x blank], [ii] - viii], 402, with the armorial bookplate of John George Hamilton of the front paste-down end-paper of volume, . UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: Letters of Anna Seward: Written between the years 1784 and 1807. mIn Six Volumes. Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay & Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, William Miller, and John Murray, London. 1811/ 6 volumes. 8vo, 148 x 108 mms., pp. [iii] xi [xii blank], 399 [400 blank]; [iii] - vi, 3999 [400 blank]; [iii] - vi, 397 [398 blank]; [iii] - vii [viii blank], 397 [398 blank]; [iii] - vii [viii blank], 432; [iii] - vii [viii blank], 490, xiv, with engraved portrrait and folding facsimile in volume 1, engraved portrait of Thomas Seward in volume 2, engraved plate of Lichfiled as frontispiece in volume 3, 9 volumes The poet and letter writer Anna Seward (1742 - 1809), aka "The Swan of Lichfield," came to literature early under the tutelage of her father, Thomas Seward (1708 - 1790), who taught her to read at an early age. Her father was a year older than Lichfield's most famous son, Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784). Anna had an uneasy relationship with Johnson, whose achievement were far greater than those of her father. Onlyh after Johnson died she begin to publish her own writing. She had an even more interesting relationship with James Boswell: ODNB recors that, "a brief time, in 1784, Boswell and Seward had been on very friendly terms. Their confidential correspondence indicates that he was in 'a flutter' over their conversations and desired to have 'a lock of that charming auburn hair I admired so much the delicious morning I was last with you' (Heiland, 386). Rejecting the 'voluptuous inclination' suggested in Boswell's request, Seward eventually sent him the lock of hair on her own terms of a chaste friendship (ibid., 387)." Todd/Bowden 50A and 58a.
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The Nature and Place of Hell Discovered: or, a Fair Conjecture that the Sun is the only Tartaros, or Receptacle of the Damned; and that there is both Everlasting Material Fire there to torture the Body, and Inward Sorrow to torment the Soul. In Answer to a late, but atheistical Pamphlet, entituled, Heaven open to all Men; or, a Treatise solidly proving from Scripture and Reason, that without unsettling the Practice of Religion all Men who now are, or hereafter will be upon Earth shall be saved, or made finally happy. By the Rev. George Craighead, Late Minister of the Gospel in Virginia (now in London) and author of the Blow at modern Crutches.

CRAIGHEAD (George) FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [vi], 36, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, red leather label; corners a bit worn but a very good copy. In his survey of matters infernal, the historian of ideas Damian Frank Pearson notes in his study that George Craighead and another thinker, Tobias Swinden, contended that hell must be in the Sun: "Tobias Swinden (1726) and George Craighead (1748) both argued that Hell could not be in the earth as there would be no room for all the dead and not enough air and fuel to keep the fires burning for eternity, and Hell had been created to confine the fallen angels after the revolt in heaven. The location of Hell could not be in the earth. Their place for Hell was within the confines of the Sun, with the sun-spots being the gateways to the eternal fires. Craighead also challenged what he saw as the heretical and atheist views of Abraham Oakes (1740) and Charles Povey (1740), who both argued that hell had no place at all but was a state of mind borne by the disembodied spirit after death" (Descending Caves: Descent Narratives and the Subterranean Science and Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680-1830, doctoral thesis, 2018, p. 120). No doubt, George Craighead's Nature and Place of Hell Discovered (1748) will be an adornment to any collection of books on underworlds or dystopias -- or, indeed, on early astronomical theory. This is the first and only edition of the work, ESTC T78018, the database finding only two copies in Britain (British Library and the National Library of Scotland), and only four copies in the United States (Huntington Library, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Library of Virginia, and the Union Theological Seminary). The ESTC locates no copies elsewhere.
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