In Thomae Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio epistolica. : Ad amplissimum eruditissimúmque virum D. Iohannem Wilkinsium S.T.D. Collegii Wadhamensis Gardianum. Autore Setho Wardo in Academia Oxoniensi Astronomiae Professore Saviliano. Cum subjicitur appendicula, ad calumnias ab eodem Hobbio (in sex documentis nuperrimè editis) in authorem congestas, responsoria.

Oxoniae : Excudebat H. Hall Academiae typographus, impensis Richardi Davis, 1656.

[16], 359, [1] p. ; (8vo)

A diatribe against Hobbes in the form of a letter to John Wilkins, warden of Wadham College, Oxford.

In part a reply to Thomas Hobbes's "Six lessons to the professors of the mathematiques" (Wing H2260) and to the 1655 edition of his "De corporae" (Wing H2230)..

Vertical half-title reads: Wardi exercitatio Hobbii philosophiam.

Leaves A3 and A4 mis-signed A2 and A3.

Signatures: A-Y⁸, Z⁴, 2A⁸ (A3 and 4 signed A2 and 3).

Errata on Z4v.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), W822
Madan, F. Oxford books, III, 2317
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R4140

Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.

W822

184991. Provenance: inscribed on front paste-down: "Reginald [?] / 1901"