Live auction - Lot 1160
[Globes - Books]
An introduction to the use of the globes, and the orrery: also, the application of astronomy to chronology [...].
London, printed for J. Nourse, J. Buckland, E. & C. Dilly, 1766
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: xi-[1]-127 (= 172)-[10] pp.; 5 pl. (browning and soiling).
Contemp. calf (rebacked, corners def.), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, red leather title label.
Later edition (first 1747) by the English Dissenting minister and tutor D. Jennings (1691-1762). Ill. with 5 folding engraved plates. The appendix deals with a number of astronomical difficulties in the Book of Genesis: "First, that the earth is said to be enlightened, and the succession of day and night settled the first day; and yet the sun (whose light makes day to the earth) not created until the fourth day".
Ref. Houzeau & Lancaster 9759. - COPAC. - ESTC N28981.