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Hobbius heauton-timorumenos. Or A consideration of Mr Hobbes his dialogues. In an epistolary discourse, addressed, to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. By John Wallis. D.D. Professor of Geometry in Oxford..
Portion of title: Consideration of Mr Hobbes his dialogues
Oxford. : Printed by A. & L. Lichfield, for Samuel Thomson, at the Bishops-head in S. Pauls Church-yard, London,, 1662..
[4], 160 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 17 cm. (8vo)
"A sustained, technical, acrid criticism" of Thomas Hobbes's "Examinatio & emendatio mathematicæ hodiernæ" (Wing H2236) and of his "Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris" (Wing H2229)--Madan.
Dated at end: Oxon. Febr. 20. 1661/2.
Another edition (ESTC R235180) has "S. Pauls Church-yard, Lon." at end of imprint.
Signatures: pi² A-K⁸.
Errata at foot of p. [4].
Title in double ruled border.
Initial, head- and tail-pieces.
ESTC, R38416
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W589
Madan, III, 2618
Bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton in 1731. Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Contemporary calf; border of blind double fillets with additional double fillets parallel to spine; rebacked in 20th century goatskin.
Previous shelfmark: Dp.6.18.
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588 - 1679 Dialogus physicus de natura aeris.
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588 - 1679 Examinatio et emendatio mathematicæ hodiernæ.
Mathematics Early works to 1800.
Lichfield, A., fl. 1657 - 1671 (Anne), printer.
Lichfield, Leonard, ? - -1686 printer.
Thomson, Samuel, active 1657 - 1666 bookseller.
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
England Oxford.
England London.
B49251