Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 104
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Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675-1729). A Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation. In Answer to Mr. Hobb[e]s, Spinoza, the Author of the Oracles of Reason, and other Deniers of Natural and Revealed Religion. Being, Sixteen Sermons, preach'd at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, in the Years 1704, and 1705, at the Lecture founded by the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esq; . . . Sixth Edition.<> [24], 119, [19], 299, [1], 48, [2] pages, including ad leaf at end. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, spine ends chipped, joints discreetly reinforced. Armorial bookplate of Lord Somers. London: W. Botham for James Knapton, 1725

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"His fame as a philosopher and theologian rests on the two series of Boyle Lectures that he delivered . . . in 1704 and 1705"--EP II, 118-119.<