8vo. [16], 231pp, [1]. With a portrait frontispiece and nine further engraved plates. Contemporary panelled calf, contrasting morocco lettering piece, neatly recornered, and rebacked with the original spine laid down. Modern bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP. Light wear, occasional marking to the (very generous) margins. Presentation copy, inscribed 'Ex dono authoris' to head of title.

A choice copy of the new English translation, the recipient frustratingly unidentified, by the Trinity College, Cambridge educated clergyman and classical scholar Samuel Dunster’s (1675-1754) translation of Jesuit author Jeremias Drexel's (1581-1638) De aeternitate considerationes, first published Dresden, 1620. The nine copperplate illustrations, newly engraved for this edition by Joseph Nutting, correspond to the nine 'considerations'; each is inspired by a Biblical quotation, referenced above the illustration and captioned by the text itself.