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Lot 49

BUNNY (EDMUND)
Of Divorce for Adulterie, and Marrying Againe: that There is No Sufficient Warrant So to Do, first edition

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Footnotes

Three scarce and unusual works, including the first edition of an attack on the idea of remarriage by the calvanist theologian Edmund Bunny, who was Sub-dean of York Minster for twenty-five years. Gataker's Of the Nature and Use of Lots defended the lawfulness of lots when not used for divination. "This exposed him to attack as an advocate of games of hazard, and in 1623 James Balmford reprinted his 1594 diatribe against card-playing, adding criticisms of Gataker's work. The latter immediately issued a spirited restatement of his views, against the 'Imbecillitie' of Balmford's arguments in A Just Defence of Certain Passages in a Former Treatise" (ODNB).

Provenance: N. Ellison, early ownership inscription with index in his hand.

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