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WARBURTON (William): - A Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, as related by Historians. With an Essay towards restoring a Method and Purity in History. In which, the Characters of the most celebrated Writers of every Age, and of the several Stages and Species of History, are occasionally criticized and explained. In Two Parts.

London: Printed for Thomas Corbett, at Addison's-Head, without Temple-Bar. M.DCC.XXVII, 1737.. FIRST EDITION. 12m0 (in 6s), 158 x 91 mms., pp, [iii] iv - xxii [xxiii - xxiv blank], 137 [138 blan, 139 -142 Contents], contemporary sheepksin, with spine restored; edges worn, but a good copy with With signature of Robert Harry Inglis (1786-1855), 2nd Baronet, to the front endpaper, which he dates to 1808, plus Inglis's small circular ownership ink-stamp on the verso of the title leaf. There are a few pencil marks in the text, and in a 19th century hand at the end of the text, "Stolen most impudently from the Aeropagitica [Milton] & dispensed unconcerned with the theft."
GBP 715.00 [Appr.: EURO 841.5 US$ 951.89 | JP¥ 138190] Book number 10382

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