NIEUWENTIJDT, BERNARD. Het Regt Gebruik der Werelt Beschouwingen . . . Den Sevenden Druk. 28 folding engraved plates. [18], 916, [18] pages, including engraved additional title and portrait of the author. 4to, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, stain across spine and front cover; minor marginal dampstaining at end, lightly affecting plates. Amsterdam: Adrianus Douci, 1759
Massive treatise first published in 1714 and widely reprinted and translated, " . . . intended to demonstrate the existence of God by teleological arguments . . . Nieuwentij[d]t . . . reviewed the whole of natural sciences to show in detail how marvelously things fitted in the world. His work looks like a manual of up-to-date science"--DSB X, 120.
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