[Rarebooks] fa: 17th and 18th-CENTURY CHURCH HISTORY & POLITICS, THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

The following titles are on eBay now, ending Sunday, June 17, w/o 
reserves... They can be found at the URL below, or by searching under 
the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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George Berkeley ALCIPHRON & A NEW THEORY OF VISION 1732
	The FIRST GREAT PHILOSOPHICAL WORK WRITTEN IN AMERICA
[George Berkeley:] Alciphron: or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven 
Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion against 
those who are called Free-thinkers. London: Printed for J. Tonson, 
1732. The second London edition (issued the same year as the first) of 
Berkeley's famous defense of Christianity against free-thinking, 
regarded not only as one of the great literary works of philosophy of 
the eighteenth century but, as it was composed in Rhode Island, the 
first important philosophical work to be written in America. Included 
in the second volume is his pioneering psychological treatise, An Essay 
Towards a New Theory of Vision, first published in 1709. Widely 
influential, the New Theory is commonly considered the century's most 
important work in the field of psychology. Adam Smith hailed it as "one 
of the finest examples of philosophical analysis that is to be found, 
either in our own, or in any other language."

BRITANNIA LIBERA - Dublin 1710 - Rare CHURCH "HISTORY"
Ninian Wallis: Britannia Libera. A True Narrative of the Antiquity, 
Independency, Purity, and Uniformity of the British Churches... Dublin: 
Printed by S. Powell, for the Use of the Author, 1710. A truly scarce 
title: OCLC WorldCat locates no copies in any libraries worldwide. The 
only other copy we can find is the one in the British Library, from 
which the "electronic resource" version derives.

Edward Stillingfleet: ORIGINES BRITANNICAE, or, the Antiquities of the 
British Churches. With a Preface concerning some pretended Antiquities 
Relating to Britain, in Vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph. By Ed. 
Stillingfleet, D.D. Dean of St. Paul's and Chaplain in Ordinary to His 
Majesty. London: Printed by M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, at the 
Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1685. First Edition. A handsome copy 
of Stillingfleet's famous history.

BENJAMIN HOADLY vs. OFFSPRING BLACKALL -3 Titles 1708-9
	Church Controversy re: PASSIVE OBEDIENCE & DIVINE RIGHT
[Offspring Blackall:] The Divine Institution of Magistracy, and the 
gracious Design of its Institution. A Sermon Preach'd before the Queen 
At St James's, On Tuesday, March 8, 1708 ... By Ofspring Lord Bishop of 
Exon. London: printed by J.R. for W. Rogers, 1709. [WITH:] Benjamin 
Hoadly: Some Considerations Humbly offered to the Right Reverend the 
Lord Bishop of Exeter. Occasioned by His Lordship's Sermon Preached 
before Her Majesty, March 8, 1708. London: Printed for J. Morphew, 
1709. Third Edition. [WITH:] Benjamin Hoadly: An Humble Reply to the 
Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Exeter's Answer. In which the 
Considerations lately offered to his Lordship are vindicated... London: 
Printed for E. Sanger, 1709. Three disbound pamphlets.
The opening salvos in an extended and vituperative "pamphlet war" that 
erupted over  the theological and constitutional question of the degree 
of obedience the church, and hence the people, owed their monarch.

Allestree - GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE - Oxford 1693
	On Lying, Flattery, Atheistical Discourse, Obscene Talk
[Richard Allestree;] The Government of the Tongue. By the Author of The 
Whole Duty of Man, &c.At the Theatre in Oxford, 1693. Fifth Impression.

ST. IGNATIUS EPISTOLAE GENUINAE - London 1680
Isaac Vossius [Isaac Voss] (editor): S. Ignatii Martyris; Epistolae 
Genuinae ex Bibliotheca Florentia : Adduntur S. Ignatii Epistolae, 
Quales vulgo circumferuntur. Ad haec S. Barnabae Epistola. Accessit 
universis Translatio vetus... Editio Secunda Londini [London]: Typis 
Joannis Gellibrand & Roberti Sollers, 1680.  In full period vellum...

Papers Relating to the QUAKERS TYTHE-BILL... London : Printed for J. 
Roberts in Warwick-lane, 1736.

SAMUEL CLARKE - A Letter to HENRY DODWELL - 1718 - Re: the IMMORTALITY 
OF THE SOUL and JOHN MILTON

Villanueva - CATECISMO DEL ESTADO - Madrid 1793 FE
Joaquin Lorenzo Villanueva: Catecismo del Estado : Segun los Principios 
del Religion. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1793. First Edition in full tree 
calf with gilt-stamped rules and morocco label on spine... Important 
and uncommon anti-republican "state catechism" promoting civil order 
and the divine right of kings, published in 1793 as an attack against 
the growing revolutionary influence of neighboring France, which had 
executed Louis XIV in January of the same year. Joaquin Lorenzo 
Villanueva (1757-1837) was a poet of note as well as chaplain to the 
hapless Spanish king Charles IV.

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