Notes Observations Passages Scripture Gregorii by Gregory John (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4to [7.50 tall x 5.50 wide]. [FIRST WORK] Collates complete [24], 175p. A good, solid and clean copy. Minor marks, blemishes or light reading wear commensurate with age else sound. [SECOND WORK] Collates complete, [26], 330p. A good, solid and clean copy. Minor marks, blemishes or light reading wear commensurate with age else sound. Multiple title pages to the various parts. Occasional engraving or diagram within the text. A nice copy. Bound in 20th.c. half leather binding. Raised bands, blind lines and a gilt-lettered label to the spine. MULTIPLE ADDITIONAL PHOTO IMAGES AVAILABLE. CONTACT US TO REQUEST.

Two separate works bound together in a contemporary binding. The second work being the first posthumous collection of the unpublished works by the author, published in London & printed by William Du-gard, for Laurence Sadler, 1650. Quarto (19 x 14.5cm). 'John Gregory was the miracle of his age for critical & curious learning. He attained to a learned elegance in English, Latin, and Greek, and to an exact skill in Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, Arabic, Ethiopic, &c. He was also well versed in philosophy, and had a curious faculty in astronomy, geometry and arithmetic, and a familiar acquaintance with the Jewish rabbines, ancient fathers, modern critics & commentators.'- Athenae Oxonienses. Observations: pp. [xxiv],176. Tracts: pp. [xxiv],330. The second work divided into seven sections, of which the last six have their own title-pages, all dated 1649, Observations (first work) with upper corner torn with very slight loss to text. First volume with some contemporary marginal annotations. With a handful of woodcuts & copper engravings on the letterpress. A quite excellent copy in contemporary calf, the lower board corners very slighty worn, Vg. [Madan 1879; Wing G1920 & G1925; Athenae Oxonienses III, 205; Watt 440f; Lowndes 941; Thomason I, 448; Hazlitt II, 697].