Author: H. J.
Title: Arkaiosskopia, or, A View of Antiquity. Presented in a short, but sufficient Account of some of the Fathers…Who lived within the first Three Hundred Years after Christ. Serving as a Light to the Studious that they may peruse with better Judgement the Venerable Monuments of those Worthies. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY CALF
Description: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst and Jonathan Robinson,, 1677. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, title mildly age-browned; strongly bound in nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, leather label lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With the nineteenth century bookplate of Charles Noel Welman on front paste-down. With a lengthy and neatly calligraphed provenance (1860) by Welman on two preliminaries, eighteenth century MS signature on title verso and earlier MS notes on rear free endpaper. A crisp copy of what is arguably Hanmer's best-known work, though authorship has been attributed sometime to others. Jonathan Hanmer (1606-1687), ejected minister, and lecturer at Barnstaple from 1646 to 1662, was father to John Hanmer, an ancestor of the Welman family as outlined in the inscription. RARE.

Keywords: theology, christian fathers, hanmer, jonathan hanmer, charles noel welman


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