Item 851) Lectures in Natural Philosophy…Lough Neagh. [Dublin, 1751]. 2) Some Remarks Towards a Full Description of Upper and Lower Lough Lene… [Dublin, 1751]. 3) A Dialogue Concerning some Things of Importance to Ireland… [Dublin, 1751]. 4) Galileo to Urban VIII. Or, and History of Error Defeated… [Dublin, 1758]. 5) A Physico-Poetical Essay, Concerning the Wonders of Lake Neah, in Ireland. In Imitation of Lucretius. [Dublin, 1759].
Five works by the Irish Naturalist Richard Barton bound together, the last two being exceedingly scarce. Barton was born in 1706 in Painstown, County Meath, the son of John Barton, dean of Ardagh. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained his B.A. in 1726 and M.A. in 1731. He.....