Shelfmark
Fi.5.06(02)
Author
Title
A chronological essay on the sacred history, from the creation of the world to the birth of Christ: being a defence of the computation of the Septuagint. With tables, wherein the Greek and Hebrew accounts are compared together and adjusted to the Julian period. To which is added An essay on the confusion of languages, and a discussion of that question, Whether the primitive language be any where remaining? By Thomas Brett, LL.D.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for Fletcher Gyles, against Gray's-Inn in Holborn., MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical description
[2], 94 p., [5] folded leaves of plates : tables (letterpress) ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Note
Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 750 copies printed.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T72166
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1754.
Binding
18th-century sprinkled calf; gold-tooled roll to form a border; five raised bands.
Copy-specific note
?Bookseller's cyphers on t.p.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: Marshall, Benjamin. Three letters in farther vindication of the late Bishop Lloyd's hypothesis of Daniel's prophecy of the seventy weeks. London : Printed for James and John Knapton, 1728.
Copy-specific note
Previously Eb.8.02.
Copy-specific note
Ms. price "2.6" on volume front flyleaf.
Subject
Bible Chronology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Bible History of biblical events.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--name
Gyles, Fletcher, ? - d. 1741 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Bowyer, William, 1663 - 1737 printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B37986