Lot 104
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The History of Philosophy
The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician
Auction: 23 October 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
containing the Lives, Opinions, Actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of Every Sect. By Thomas Stanley. London: for W. Battersby [and others], 1700. Third edition, folio (36.4 x 23cm), contemporary panelled calf, covers with decorative central panels of stencilled arabesque designs incorporating heart motifs, [36] 658 [12], [4] 63 [1] pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, engraved full-length portraits of philosophers throughout the text, 'The history of the Chaldaick Philosophy' with separate dated title-page, engraved bookplate of the Right Honourable the Lord John Drummond to verso of title-page, binding rubbed, small section of skinning to lower corner of rear board, moderate spotting and browning to contents, paper-disruption to 3Q2 [ESTC T102824];
Stillingfleet, Edward. Origines Britannicae, or the Antiquities of British Churches. London: by M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, 1685. First edition, folio (31.5 x 19.2cm), contemporary mottled calf, red morocco spine label, blind panels to covers [2] lxxiii [9] 364 pp. [ESTC R20016];
and 2 others (Bible; Greek; Septuagint, Septuaginta interpretum … Summa cura edidit, Joannes Ernestus Grabe, Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1707-9, first edition, volumes 1-2 of 4 bound in 1, folio, contemporary calf, main text in Greek; and Humphrey Prideaux, The Old and New Testament connected in the History of the Jews, 1724, seventh edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved plates, spine-labels perished)
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