Catalogue Fifteen 2008

32. LOCKE, John Gedanken von Erziehung der Kinder, von neuem aus dem Englischen bersetzet, gegen des Herrn Costens franzsische bersetzung, nach der neuesten pariser Ausgabe von 1747 verglichen und mit dessen Anmerkungen begleitet. Leipzig: Krau, 1761 8vo, lvii, [i], 404 pp., contemporary calf, rubbed, uniform light browning and a small worm trace running through lower outer margin, a sound copy. First edition of this German version of Some Thoughts concerning Education (1693) Lockes single most-translated work, apart from the Essay. The translator is the Leipzig professor Johann Joachim Schwabe (171484). In his Vorrede Schwabe says hes aware of the two previous German translations (by Starck and Olearius, 1708) but finds them both unsatisfactory. His own translation is based on the English text of the 1722 Works edition, with additions from Costes French translation. The Preface is a German translation of Le Clercs Eloge to Locke. Yolton 214.

450.00

Presented to John Ryland, Jr. by Jonathan Edwards 33. MASTRICHT, Petrus van A Treatise on Regeneration. By Peter Van Mastricht, D.D. Professor of Divinity in the Universities of Francfort, Duisburgh, and Utrecht. Extracted from his System of Divinity, called Theologia theoretico-practica; and faithfully translated into English; with an appendix, containing extracts from many celebrated divines of the Reformed Church, upon the same subject. New-Haven: Printed and Sold by Thomas and Samuel Green, in the Old-CouncilChamber [1770]. 8vo, viii, 994 pp., rebound in mid-twentieth-century boards, inscribed on half-title John Ryland junr, the Gift of Dr Edwards of New-Haven, recd May 1790, uniformly browned, scattered contemporary notes and underlinings in ink, probably by John Ryland, a sound copy with a nice association. First edition of an important work by the Dutch theologian Petrus van Mastricht (16301706), opponent of Copernicanism and Cartesianism, and Voeiuss successor at Utrecht. Extracted from his Theoretico-practica theologia (2 vols, 16827), the text investigates the nature of the new birth that Jesus said was a precondition for entering the Kingdom of God. ESTC records no other edition in English; there was a translation into Dutch in 1749. The Preface includes Cotton Mathers strong endorsement (vi), and the book was indeed widely read in puritan New England. Jonathan Edwards had written in a letter to Joseph Bellamy dated January 15, 1747: take Mastricht for divinity in general, doctrine, practice, and controversy; or as an universal system of divinity; and it is much better than Turretin or any other book in the world, excepting the Bible, in my opinion. 400.00

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