Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 158

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GLANVILL, JOSEPH. Scepsis Scientifica; or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; In an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion, with a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius [with Scire/i tuum nihil est]. [36], 184; [16], 92 pages, including longitudinal half-title, license leaf, and errata leaf. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked; occasional light marginal soiling, scattered pencil marginalia. Kenneth Garth Huston bookplate. London: E. Cotes for Henry Eversden, 1665
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first edition of an expanded version of Glanvill's 1661 treatise on skepticism The Vanity of Dogmatizing, published in response to a 1663 rebuttal of the original work by the Catholic priest and Aristotelian philosopher Thomas White. DSB V, 416; Wing G827, G828.