Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 260
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[HUTCHINSON, JOHN.] The Use of Reason Recovered, by the Data in Christianity. Volume 1 (of 2). 396 pages. bound with his: The Religion of Satan, or Antichrist, Delineated. [4], 116 pages, including initial blank; lacks the plate. Together, 2 volumes in one, with sporadic use of Hebrew type. 8vo, 185x116 mm, 20th-century buckram; contents generally clean, first work with 19th-century signature and later Meadville Theological School rubberstamp and perforated stamps on title, ink accession number on verso, and rubberstamp on page 44. London: H. Woodfall, 1736; 1736

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first editions. The second volume of the first work was published in 1739. Hutchinson rejected Newtonian natural philosophy on theological grounds and believed that the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible provided the symbolic key to an understanding of the universe. ESTC T59340, T59339.