Author: [ASPLIN, WILLIAM]
Title: Alkibla. A Disquisition Upon Worshipping towards the East. Wherein are Contain'd, The General Antiquity, Rise, and Reasonableness of this Religious Ceremony in the Gentile World: It's early Adoption into the Church of Christ: With a Free and Impartial Examination of the Reasons assigned for it by the Ancient Fathers. By a Master of Arts of the University of Oxford. The second editon. [Part I, Part II). (2 Parts in 1 Vol.]
Description: London, Printed for J. Noon, at the White-Heart, near Mercers-Chapel in Cheapside., 1740, 1731. (2), XVI, 52; XXIV, 152 pp. TItle partly damaged without loss of text, with small stamp, pp. 2/3. neatly fastened, otherwise internally good.Contemporary leather boards, crudely rebacked, worn, bookblock loose. Second edition of Part I; first edition of Part II. The titlepage of the first edition of London, 1731, preceeds the titlepage of Part I, second edition, including a list of contents of the two parts of the book. Part II is a first edition, with another address: London, Printed and Sold by J. Roberts, near Oxford-Arms in Warwick Lane ; and A. Dodd, without Temple-Bar, 1731. Bookplate of Edw. Chatterton-Orpen on upper pastedown.

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