Notes and Observations Upon Some Passages of Scripture / Gregorii Posthuma: or, Certain Learned Tracts &c.

GREGORY John.

Published by Oxford: Printed for H. Hall Printer to The Universitie, for Ed Forrest Junior, 1646

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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 The second work being the first posthumous collection of the unpublished works by the author, published in London & printed by William Du-gard, for Laurence Sadler, 1650.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].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes and Observations Upon Some Passages of Scripture / Gregorii Posthuma: or, Certain Learned Tracts &c.
• Publisher: Oxford: Printed for H. Hall Printer to The Universitie, for Ed Forrest Junior
• Publication Date: 1646