- Owner's entry on title-p.; a few lvs. w. annots. in pen and ink; occas. (sl.) foxed/ stained; 2 lvs. lack portion from right margin. Worn/ dam. at/ on top of spine; rubbed spots along extremities.

= Bookplates on first endpapers, incl. coat of arms of one of the Viscounts/ Earls Fauconberg. First ed. of the English transl. of this controversial book on biblical criticism by the French priest Richard Simon (1638-1712). The work was destroyed and censored in France, for Simon claimed that Moses could not have been the author of the Pentateuch. Cf. New Schaff-Herzog X, p.422.

AND 1 other: P. VAN LIMBORCH, Theologia Christiana ad praxin pietatis ac promotionem pacis Christianae unice directa (Amst., 1686, woodcut printer's mark, contemp. calf w. richly gilt spine, 4to. Sl. wormholed; dam. spine).