£378
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
As contained in the Theses Theologicae of Robert Barclay. London: printed by J. Bettenham, and sold by E. Withers, 1758. First edition, 8vo, lii 348 pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, advertisement slip to rear, binding rubbed and scuffed, joints superficially cracked
Apparently the dedication copy of this rare work, inscribed ‘E libris R. Spearman, from the author, 20th August 1758’ on the front free endpaper, the work's ‘prefatory discourse’ being addressed to the English theologian Robert Spearman (1703-1761).