An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In Four Books. Volumes I & II
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In Four Books. Volumes I & II

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In Four Books. Volumes I & II

LOCKE, John

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English philosopher and physician John Locke is widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and sometimes as "father of liberalism." This is an early printing of his great treatise on human knowledge and understanding that first appeared in 1689.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: Printed by T. W. for A. Churchill; And Edm. Parker
  • Edition: Vol. I states Ninth edition with large additions
  • Date Published: 1726
  • Place Published: London
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    2 vols.: iii, [26], 372; [16], 340, [25] p. 20 cm. Frontispiece engraving. Full leather with blank impressing. Spine labels missing, cracks to spine, corners and edges worn. Bookplates on front pastedowns for William Wilson, Surgeon in Greenock. Vol. I bookplate is loosening and front free endpaper has rough edge. Rear endpapers are also roughened and rear pastedown is lifting up.Tear in spine head of vol. II and front pastedown of vol. II loosening. Paper is unusually bright and clean with only a few minor marks.

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