8vo. [2], v-xxx, 546pp, [28]. With table of contents and a scripture index bound at rear. Modern black morocco-backed marbled boards, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Very lightly rubbed. Book-label of John Stephens to FEP. Manuscript mark to head of title page, with library-stamp above subtitle; title page laid down. Very occasional marginal paper repairs. Leaves browned, with scattered spotting and staining.

The first edition of a substantial prose work by English theologian and Platonist Henry More (1614-1687), in which he most concisely presents his idea of reconciling Christian Platonism with 17th-century science, expanded on further in his later Divine Dialogues (1668). More was well-known for his disputes with the philosophy of René Descartes, rejecting Cartesian dualism, objecting to the idea that animals were machines, and emphasising the necessity of immaterial principles in scientific thought,