Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LOCKE, JOHN. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding . . . Fourth Edition. [42], 438 [i. e., 432], [12] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait. Folio, 325x210 mm, contemporary panelled calf, badly worn, bottom spine compartment off, covers detached with portrait attached to front cover and index leaves to rear cover; contents toned with heavy marginal foxing throughout, front free endpaper lacking. sold as is. London: Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship, 1700

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"One of the great books in the history of ideas, this is the foundation text for empirical psychology and the beginning of British empiricism"--Rieber & Gach 267. Wing L2742; Yolton 64 (this edition); Garrison-Morton 4967; Printing and the Mind of Man 164 (all citing the 1690 original edition).