The scripture chronology demonstrated by astronomical calculations, and also by the year of jubilee, and the sabbatical year among the Jews: or, An account of time from the creation of the world, to the destruction of Jerusalem; as it may be proved from the writings of the Old and New Testament. In a method hitherto unattempted; and which was first proposed by the learned Archbishop Usher. In which the Hebrew text is vindicated; and the objections against it, as consisting of many mutilations, and numerical alterations, are occasionally considered; and the authority of the Samaritan and Septuagint versions, in opposition to the original copy, is confuted. Together with the history of the world, from the creation, to the time when Dr. Prideaux began his connexion. Illustrated with a great variety of tables, maps, and copper plates. By Arthur Bedford, M. A. Rector of Newton St. Loe in the County of Somerset, and Chaplain to the Haberdashers-Hospital at Hoxton near London.
Arthur Bedford (1668-1745)
Category
Books
Date
1730
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3154825
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], vi, [4], 774, [24] p., [26] leaves of plates (12 single, 7 double leaves) : ill., maps, plans ; fol. Running number: 2875. Large paper copy. Provenance: subscriber's copy: "Sir Richard Ellys Bar. Large paper" in list of subscribers [i.e. Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt fillet and roll pattern border; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Marbled endpapers. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Arthur Bedford (1668-1745)