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SPRAT, Thomas. The History of the Royal Society of London for Natural Knowledge. London: Printed for J. Knapton... and T. Longman, 1734. Fourth edition. With the bookplate of Stillman Drake. 4to., recently rebound with a tan calf spine, marble boards, raised bands, leather spine labels, (16), 438pp. With two folding plates. Dampstain in lower margin of about 75 pages o/w a near fine copy. SPRAT, THOMAS [1635-1713], English divine, educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship (1657-1670.) Having taken orders he became a prebendary of Lincoln in 1660. In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Ilappie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector (London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters. His chief prose works are the Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbiers Voyage into England (London, 1665), a satirical reply to the strictures on Englishmen in Samuel de Sorbire-s book of that name, and a History of the Royal Society of London (London, 1667), which Sprat had helped to found. In 1669 he became canon. of Westminster, and in 1670 rector of Uffington, Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to Charles II. in 1676, curate and lecturer at St Margarets, Westminster, in 1679, canon of Windsor in 1681, dean of Westminster in. 1683 and bishop of Rochester in 1684. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant, he assisted at the coronation of William and Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed Wrens restoration of the abbey. $650.00 (CAD) |