BUTLER

BUTLER, JOSEPH - THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED, TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE To which are added two brief dissertations: I. Of personal identity. II. Of the nature of virtue. London, James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. First edition, 4to, bound without the half-title, contemporary tree-calf, re-backed with red title label. Butler's magnum opus, described by Sir James Mackintosh as "The most original and profound work extant in any language on the philosophy of religion". ESTC T67971. Printing and the Mind of Man 193; MOSHEIM, JOHN LAWRENCE - AN ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY ANCIENT AND MODERN Translated...by Archibald Maclaine. Glasgow, Blackie & Son, 1839. Two volumes (complete), 8vo, engraved frontispiece to vol 1, half brown calf with gilt spines; and two other 18th and 19thc works. Provenance: St John's College, Nottingham (5)