The improvement of human reason, exhibited in the life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan:

written in Arabick above 500 years ago, by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail. In which is demonstrated, by what methods one may (...) attain the knowledg of things natural and supernatural (...) Illustrated with proper figures. Newly translated from the original Arabick, by Simon Ockley (...). With an appendix, in which the possibility of man's attaining the true knowledg of God (...) is briefly consider'd. London, E. Powell, 1708, (12),195,(1) p., with 2 (of 6) engraved plates (incl. frontispiece), 19th-century cardboard.

Lacks 4 plates (compared to a copy available online); slightly foxed, and with annotations at beginning and old owner's name "Benj. Hill" on the title page. Paper across hinges split. The very rare original English edition. Ibn Tufail (c. 1105-1185), Andalusian homo universalis, writer, islamic theologian, philosopher, physicist, astronomer, vizier and advisor to the court. See extensively on him: https://tinyurl.com/y6uw564s.