8vo. [6[, xlix, [1], 546pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight cracking to joints and surface of spine. Slight spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of Moses's Principia, Part ii, the sequel to English theologian and natural philosopher John Hutchinson's (1674-1737) first work on Biblical natural philosophy. 1724's Moses's Principia, Part I. was written in retaliation to Dr. John Woodward's (1665-1728) mistreatment of the fossil collection and manuscript notes Hutchinson had entrusted to him, and included a vicious takedown of Woodward's Natural History of the Earth, as well as a genuine attempt to refute the Newtonian doctrine of gravitation. Hutchinson's theology emphasised that the Bible could serve as a source for all of rational philosophy, and decried the symbolism of modern interpretation, a formulation which was taken up by some members of the clergy - among them, Bishop George Horne of Norwich (1730-1792) spent a portion of his life an avid Hutchinsonian.