1813 Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Description: Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which are Added, Hearne’s Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, The Seat of Browne Willis, Esq. and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq., The Whole Now First Published from the Originals in The Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with Biographical and Literary Illustrations, in Two Volumes, (Volume II in two parts, making this three volumes), Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1813, full leather, 8vo. In fair condition. Ex-library. Nicely bound. Spines have been re-backed. Boards show typical scuffing with slightly rounded edges. Front board of Volume II part two is detached. Typical toning and foxing to text blocks. Unmarked. All bindings intact. Please see photos. Two volumes in three books. Memoirs include letters on Hook. Boyle, Halley, Bacon, Newton and others, especially fellow members of the Royal Society. COLH1813CHIA

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