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![] - PHILOSOPHY. Protest of Unwritten against Written Revelation. Prepared, but Presented too late, for the Anthropological Society’s Missionary Discussion of July last. By a T'hen Member. London, F. Farrah, 1866 10s 6d 8vo. 26 pp. Unbound. The initials “‘G. R. Temple, July 1865,” appear at the end. The author was certainly a Rationalist, & does not uphold missionaries, or the moral effect of contact of Western civilisation or Eastern. 449 (Freethinking). — Modern Christianity and the First Millennium. <A Poem, by “ Outis.”” Privately Printed, 1877 18s 8vo. 19 leaves. Full red tooled calf, gilt. Presumably the author’s own copy, as there are 17 pages of further stanzas in manuscript. An interest- ing & by no means unskilful attack on orthodox religion. 450 (Helvetius).—De I’ Esprit. 1758 £5 5s Large 4to. Contemporary French mottled calf, hinges weak. xxii + 643 pp. Original edition of this famous work, one of the outstanding books in the history of philosophy and of materialism in par- ticular. It was of great influence on Bentham and Beccaria. It was published anonymously. 451 Toland (John) Tetradymus, containing I. Hodegus, or the Pillar of Cloud and Fire, that guided the Israelites in the Wilderness, not miraculous. ... Il. Clidophorus, or of the Exoteric and Esoteric Philosophy. 7. LE. Hypatia,- or the history ofa most beautiful . . . Lady who was torn to pieces by the clergy of Alexandria. .. . ‘TV. Mangoneutes, being a defense of Nazarenus. London, 1720 And : Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile, and Maho- metan Christianity, containing the history of the ancient gospel of Barnabas . . . also the original plan of Christianity .. . with the relation of an Irish Manuscript of the Paris, Durand, Four Gospels. Second edition, revised. London, 1718 And : {Curll (Edmund)| An Historical. Account of the Life and’ Writings of .'. .\ John Poland...) in asletter to’ the Lord: . .. London, 1722 . £2 10s 8vo. Old boards, roughly rebacked. Three works bound together. xxii, 226 pp., errata leaf; xxv, 85, 57, 16 pp. ; 102 pp. (William) The Religion of Nature Delineated. London, Printed by Samuel Palmer, in Bartholomew:Close, and Sold by B. Lintot (and others), 1726 21s 4to. 219 pp., 6 leaves. Original calf. Fine por- trait. Small waterstain on inner margin of title-page and following leaf. Name on title. PORTUGAL. (General) An Account of Portugal as it appeared in 1766 to Du- mouriez, since a celebrated General in the French army. London, 1797 21s 8vo. Old russia. 274 pp. 454 Eliot (Wm. Granville) A Treatise on the Defence of Portugal . . . to which is added a sketch of the manners and customs of the inhabitants and principal events of the campaigns under Lord Wellington. Secona edition, with considerable additions. Lon- don, 1811 15s: 8vo. Half calf. 304 pp. and 6 folding maps and plans; JOSEPH PRIESTLEY. (Joseph) An History of the Corruptions of Christianity. Second edi-. tion. Birmingham, 1793 308% 8vo. 2 vols. Old calf. hinges weak. Epistle to Joseph: Priestley, LL.D., F.R.S. London, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791 4to. 30 pp. Half morocco. An uncommon and very hostile poem on Priestley. Not in Halkett & Laing; Stonehill & Block; or: Cushing’s Anonyms. Bound with: The Sphinx’s Head Broken :. or, A Poetical Epistle, with Notes, to: Thomas James M*th**s, Proving him to: be the Author of the Pursuits of Literature.. By Andrew Oedipus. 14 pp. London, J.. Bell, No. 148, Oxford Street, 1798 £2 Qs: PROSTITUTION. dans l Antiquité: Etude d’Hygiéne Sociale. Paris, Librairie Meurillon, 1887. 15s. 8vo. 219 pp. Half morocco. University of Edinburgh) Prostitution Con- sidered in Relation to its Cause and Cure. Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox, 1859: 10s 6d. 8vo. 38 pp. Unbound. . . « by Mary Smith, a Penitent, late of the Magdalen. Hospital . . . with a: Poem by, Mr. Pratt, on the same Subject. Second Edition. To which are Prefixed, Pre- liminary Observations ; and an Address to the Legislature, Containing Some Proposed Measures for the Suppression of Seduction and Female Prostitution. London, Effing- ham Wilson, 1808 2Is Tall 12mo. 112 pp. Unbound. 460 Rabataux (M.) De la Prostitution en Europe depuis PAntiquité jusqu’a la Fin du XVle Siecle. Avec une Bibliographie par M. Paul Lacroix, et Quatre Planches hors Texte. Paris, Seré, 1851 218 4to. Half morocco. SEXUAL SCIENCE. (John) Curiositates Hrotice Physiologice ; or Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated. In Six Essays, viz.: 1. Genera- tion. 2. Chastity and Modesty. 3. Marriage. 4. Circumcision. 5. Eunuchism. 6. Hermaphrodism. London, Privately Printed, 1875 £2 28 Sm. 4to. 216 pp. Half roan. SCIENCE. Specimen Philo- sophiae Naturalis praecipua Physices Capita exponens ... accedit de Fontium Flu-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33153589_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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