Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 281
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CUDWORTH, RALPH. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part [all published]. [22], 899, [85] pages, including engraved allegorical frontispiece. Folio, 317x203 mm, modern 1/4 speckled calf with morocco lettering piece; dark stain in lower inner corners through first half of volume, scattered stains elsewhere, E2.5 heavily browned. London: Richard Royston, 1678

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first edition of the author's major work, "an antideterminist treatise that seeks an accommodation of theology and philosophy. It is in large part devoted to a philosophical refutation of atheism" (DLB). DSB III, 492. Wing C7471.
Bound at the end is Cudworth's A Discourse containing the True Notion of the Lord's Supper . . . Third Edition. [2], 93 pages. London: R. Royston, 1676. Wing C7468.