Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
CONDILLAC, ÉTIENNE BONNOT DE, Abbé de. Traité des Sensations. [2], vi, 345, [1]; [4], 335, [1] pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 12mo, 162x97 mm, late 19th-century/early 20th-century 1/4 sheep, spines badly worn, chipped at top, joints cracked or starting; contents toned, contemporary 1/4 sheep gilt, rebacked retaining most of original backstrips; cloth slipcase. London & Paris: De Bure l'Aîné, 1754

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first edition. "The most extreme statement of the notion that the mind is a tabula rasa formed completely by experience. Condillac focused entirely on the sensations as the source of knowledge"--Rieber & Gach 114. Garrison-Morton 4968; Tchemerzine (1977) II, 479.