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HOBBES (THOMAS) Elementa philosophica de cive, 1647; and 13 others, including Calvin, Heylyn, John Burton, etc (14) image 1
HOBBES (THOMAS) Elementa philosophica de cive, 1647; and 13 others, including Calvin, Heylyn, John Burton, etc (14) image 2
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HOBBES (THOMAS)
Elementa philosophica de cive, 1647; and 13 others, including Calvin, Heylyn, Cumberland, etc (14)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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HOBBES (THOMAS)

Elementa philosophica de cive, engraved pictorial title, thin trace of worming to opening half, mostly lower margin but touching letters on some pages, later vellum, upper hinge split [Willem 1048, 3 variants, our copy pp. [48], 403, issued without portrait], 12mo, Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1647--HEYLYN (PETER) A Help to English History, Containing a Succession of All the Kings of England, some early ink annotations, light damp-stain at inner margin to a few pages, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover near detached [ESTC R18864], 8vo, T. Basset and C. Wilkinson, 1680--CUMBERLAND (RICHARD) De legibus naturae disquisitio philosophica, blank piece of lower margin torn away from 3 leaves, light browning throughout, several ink and numerous pencil annotations throughout, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached [ESTC T101673], 8vo, Dublin, J. Carson, 1720--[CHARLES II] Eikōn basilikē deutera. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II. With his Reasons for Turning Roman Catholick... Found in a Strong Box, engraved frontispiece, later calf, worn, upper cover detached [ESTC R14898], 8vo, [London, no publisher], 1694--CALVIN (JOHN) The Institution of Christian Religion... Translated into English, title within decorative woodcut border (laid down with some small losses at lower section), arc of damp-staining to lower section of approximately 200 opening leaves, later calf, worn, joints weakened [ESTC S107162], small folio, John Norton, 1611--BURTON (JOHN) Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, 3 folding maps and plates, fore-edges softened to opening leaves, contemporary calf, worn [ESTC T153577], folio, for the Author, by N. Nickson, 1758; and 8 others (14)

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Provenance: Third title, Robert Conway, inscription dated 1769 on dedication leaf; Fourth, "Found amongst the ruins after the destruction of the House of Commons by Fire in 1833", ink note on front free endpaper.

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