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Recherches sur la nature du feu de l'enfer : et du lieu où il est situé. / Par M. Swinden ... ; traduit de l'anglois par M. Bion ... avec figures.

Accession number
PML 129296
Creator
Swinden, Tobias, 1659-1719.
Published
A Amsterdam. : [s.n.], 1757.
Credit line
Gift; Mrs. R. H. Mathews; 1978.
Notes
Translation of An enquiry into the nature and place of hell.
First English ed. published in London, 1714.
Ornamental device on t.p.; head- and tail-piece; initial.
With 2 leaves folded plates of the planetary orbits and the Sun as discovered in 1635 by P.P. Kircher and Scheiner.
"Feu de l'enfer"--Binder's spine.
Page [1] at end is blank.
Title page with annotations crossed out and dated 177-?.
Description
xvi, 271, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
From John Ruskin's library with the Brantwood bookplate; Mrs. R. H. Mathews.
Binding
old calf, red edges, marbled endpapers.
Classification
Department