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(THEOPHRASTUS.) Hill, John. Theophrastus's History of English Stones with an English Version and Critical and Philosophical Notes... Title,
(THEOPHRASTUS.) Hill, John. Theophrastus's History of English Stones with an English Version and Critical and Philosophical Notes... Title, dedication, list of subscribers, preface, text title and text in parallel Greek and English text. [xxiv], 212 pages. 8vo, 19th century 1/4 marbled calf gilt; few signatures unopened. London: Printed for C. Davis against Grays-Inn in Holborn, 1746
- Notes: first edition of the first english translation of Theophrastus's earliest surviving Greek work on gems and minerals, known as Peri Lithon. Hill's translation is the first into a modern language for the work as well as the first scholarly discussion of it.
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