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Clarke, John.
ROHAULT'S SYSTEM OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. VOL. I.
London: James And John Knapton, 1729. Full-Leather. Second Edition. 285 pp. + 15 b/w fold-out charts. Leather cover is stamped with design of rules, inner frames with embellishments. The spine has been reinforced with a canvas backstrip glued down, with handwritten title. Cover has bumped and worn corners. Reinforcement is carried over front cover to paste-down. Eps are worn and soiled. P.o. label on paste-down, four other owners in ink on fly, one repeated on t.p. The title page states "Illustrated with Dr. Samuel Clarke's Notes. Taken mostly out of Sir. Isaac Newton's Philosophy. With Additions....Done into English by John Clarke, D.D., Dean of Sarum." Some t.p. lettering in red, a most attractive presentation. Pasted on the rear paste-down are two handwritten pages stating, in brief: "This book is of great historical value. Johnathan Ashley (one of the p.o.s) was the second minister of Deerfield, Mass. Solomon Ashley was his son. This book passed from the Ashley family into the hands of Eleazar Williams who studied divinity.....on his death..1858, the book passed into the hands of his executor (afterwards bishop of St. Louis) Mr. C.F. Robertson. The son of Bishop Robertson gave me the book, with the statement that it had been the property of E. Williams, as narrated. He was a son of Thomas Williams, a chief of the Caughnowaga Indians, who was a grandson of Eunice Williams, the 'redeemed captive' daughter of Rev. John Williams of Deerfield. About 1842 an effort was made to show that Williams was the Dauphin of France, a son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette." Signed, Frances E. Nipher, 1889, St. Louis. Book was a university textbook for many years. Foxed throughout, it is tightly bound and very readable. Very Good.
[Book #8575]
Price: $600.00
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