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JACKSON, W. The Beauties of Nature, displayed in a Sentimental Ramble through her Luxuriant Fields [etc.]. [18], 288 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, spine brittle, top and bottom and lettering piece chipped, joints starting; contents browned, imperfectly erased signature in upper margin of title. Birmingham: J. Baskerville for the Author and M. Morgan in Lichfield, 1769
first edition of an extravagantly written work on natural philosophy containing mostly dissenting references to Newton. Gaskell 37; not in Babson, Gray, or Wallis. American Book Prices Current records only the copy sold at Parke-Bernet in 1946.
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