Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures in Three Parts: I. from the Geography of the East. II from the Natural History of the East. III from the Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations. in Two Volumes. Vol I (Only)

First edition (no additional printings listed) . Contemporary full tan leather, marbeled endpapers, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, xiv + 623 pp, no illustrations. Volume I ONLY (From the Geography of the East & From the Natural History of the East) . Hardcover, good. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and at spots along edges of boards, scuffed and chipped along spine, 1 inch chip off foot, 1/2 inch off head, front board detached (present) , crack along rear joint. Internally, two previous owners' signatures on second free front endpaper, erased pencil inscription on half title page, bit of sporadic foxing, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read. Quite thorough and scholarly discourse, with numerous examples from Hebrew, Greek, Roman and other sources, with the author's interpolations, making for both entertaining and quite informative reading. Various locations, geographic features, animals, insects, plants, etc are discussed at length, considering characteristics, opinons of the ancients, references in classical literature and the Bible and so forth. Rev Paxton was professor of theology under the Genral Synod at Edinburgh. Religion; theology; Bible studies; Christian.…