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Priestley's Discourses on Revealed Religions
Priestley's Discourses on Revealed Religions
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Author: Priestley, Joseph
Title: Discourses on the Evidence of Revealed Religion.
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for J. Johnson
Date Published: 1794
Description:

xiii, 420, [8] pp. (Small 8vo) 21x12.5 cm (8¼x5"), full period calf, leather spine label, lettering and rule in gilt. First Edition.

Theological work by Joseph Priestley. Ink ownership signature of the previous owner John Watkins on upper margin of title page, dated 1795.

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was a British natural philosopher, dissenting clergyman, political theorist, theologian, and educator. Today he is best remembered for his isolation of "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen), but his determination to defend phlogiston theory left him isolated within the scientific community. His outspoken support of the French Revolution aroused public and governmental suspicion; he was eventually forced to flee in 1791, first to London and then to the United States after a mob burned down his home and church. He spent the last ten years of his life living in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.

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Slight wear to calf, front joint cracked, board coming loose; rear hinge cracked, faint marginal age-toning, occasional foxing throughout; very good.
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