Rev john barrett (5 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 15 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Quarterly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. with 40pp, DISBOUND PAMPHLET, in very good condition, paperback, PRINTED BY JOHN HUTCHINSON, HULL, 1838 .

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. viii, [1], 4-232 pages. Pagination a bit odd at the start, but matches that on the entry on Library Hub. Bound in more modern cloth. Spine lightly faded. Ink stamps to the front free end paper, half title and title page of Roberts, Glassenbury, Cranbrook, Kent. Light browning to pages throughout.…

Hard Cover Maroon Suede Guilt. Condición: New. No Jacket. Deluxe Hardcover Facsimile Edition Priva. Exact Facsimile Reprint of Original Edition Published: 1800. 200p.Contents: I. In Which the Generally Received Opinions on the Subject areStated & Considered. II. Further Arguments to prove the Universality &Antiquity of this Division; & which server to shew that the PhysicalExplanation cannot be the true one. III. Concerning the Signification &Meaning of the first Six Signs. IV. Concerning the last Six Signs & theirprobable Interpretation. V. Concerning the Prophetical Sense of the XIISigns. VI In which the same Conclusions are attempted to be established byMeans of the Opinions which have prevailed among all Nations: and it isthe endeavored to be shewn that they all arose from the Persuasion thatthe Zodiac contained the Knowledge of Futurity. VII. In which theMythology of Greece is attempted to be translated from natural Language.VIII. In which the Objections which may be made to this Hypothesis arebriefly considered. IX. In which the Uses to be derived from this Systemare pointed out.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Rev. John Barrett, D. D. and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. An Enquiry into the Origin of the Constellations that Compose the Zodiac, and the Uses they were Intended to Promote. Dublin: Printed by and for R. E. Mercier and Co. No. 31, Anglesea Street; and Vernor and Hood, London, 1800. First edition, 4to, [iii], viii, [1], 198pp, [2], errata on recto of final leaf. Half black calf over marbled boards, red morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Spine ends chipped, corners worn. Some underlining and marking in pencil and light foxing throughout. This later work of Christian Astrology written by vice-provost and language professor of Trinity College, Dublin, Rev. John Barrett, D. D., was an "extraordinary example of learned ingenuity," though in it, Barrett was "said to have been more happy in opposing the hypotheses of Macrobius, La Pluche, and La Nauze than in establishing his own." (Leslie Stephen - ed. Dictionary of National Biography, Vol III, pg 282). The book is scarce with the ESTC (T121764) showing four holdings in North America. …