Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LOCKE, JOHN. Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke, and Several of His Friends. [4], 540 pages. bound after: LEEDS, THOMAS OSBOURNE, Duke of. Copies & Extracts of Some Letters written to and from the Earl of Danby (now Duke of Leeds) in the years 1676, 1677, and 1678 . . . Second Edition. [2] (of [4]), v-xiii, [3], 364, [4] pages; lacks first (blank?) leaf. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, worn, top of spine chipped. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1708; John Nicholson, 1710

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first edition, consisting chiefly of correspondence between Locke, William and Sir Thomas Molyneux, and Philipp van Limborch. "This collection of letters is unusual for the reason that unlike the customary practice it contains both sides of the correspondence"--Pforzheimer 611. Yolton 346.