Father Malebranche his Treatise concerning the search after truth. : The whole work complete. To which is added the author's Treatise of nature and grace: being a consequence of the principles contained in the search. Together with his answer to the animadversions upon the first volume: his defence against the accusations of Monsieur De la Ville, &c. relating to the same subject. / All translated by T. Taylor, M.A. late of Magdalen College in Oxford. The second edition, corrected with great exactness. With the addition, of A short discourse upon light and colours, by the same author. Communicated in manuscript to a person of quality in England: and never before printed in any language.
Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
Category
Books
Date
1700
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3052730
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 40, 168, 8, 159, 170-196 p. : ill. ; fol. 'A treatise concerning nature and grace' bound at the end, giving [12], 168, 8, 159, 170-196, 40 p. (text is continuous). Eighteenth-century manuscript instructions for spine label lettering on second flyleaf: Malebranche his search after truth. Provenance: manuscript inscription on flyleaf: Jeff: Gilbert 171[0] [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]; manuscript inscription on title page: Jeff: Gilbert [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Late seventeenth- early eighteenth-century sprinkled, polished, panelled sheep over boards on six raised cords; remains of brown spine label; double blind fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers; gilt roll on board edges; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) , author Thomas Taylor (1669-1735), translator