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[BURNET, THOMAS.] The Theory of the Earth . . . The Two Last Books, Concerning the Burning of the World, and Concerning the New Heavens and New Earth. [16], 224 pages, including engraved allegorical additional title. first edition in english * A Review of the Theory of the Earth, and of its Proofs: especially in Reference to Scripture. [2], 52, [1] pages, including final ad leaf. first edition. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, contemporary calf, spine worn, ends chipped, short crack at top of front joint; small piece torn out of blank outer margin of N4 in first work. London: R. Norton for Walter Kettilby, 1690; 1690
The first title is a translation of the second volume (of 2) of Burnet's Telluris theoria sacra. "The Sacred Theory of the Earth was Burnet's attempt to combine the idealism of the Cambridge Platonists, Scripture, and an explanation of the features of the earth's surface in order to account for the past and present states of the earth and to offer a prophecy about its future" (DSB). The translation of the first volume, on the Deluge and Paradise, originally appeared in 1690. DSB II, 613; Wing B5954, B5945.
