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Locke, John Et AlBiblio.com

The Works of John Locke in Four Volumes. the Eighth Edition. Volume the First.

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Some Familiar Letters Between Mr. Locke and Several of his Friends

170869391London: A. and J. Churchill 1708. Full Description: LOCKE John. Some Familiar Letters Between Mr. Locke and Several of his Friends. London: A. and J. Churchill 1708. First edition. Octavo 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 187 x 112 mm. 4 540 pp. Some of the letters are in English and others in Latin. Contemporary full speckled paneled calf very neatly rebacked to style. Spine with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed brown others speckled red. Board edges tooled in gilt. Some old ink noted on front endpapers. Small loss to the upper corners of the free endpapers. A small neat ink stamp on bottom margin of title-page. Internally the book is very clean. Overall a very good. copy. Housed in a full green cloth clamshell with morocco spine label. According to Attig this collection of letters was probably assembled by Peter King and Anthony Collins. It contains Locke's correspondence with the Molyneux brothers among others. "This collection on letters in unusual for the reason that unlike the customary practice it contains both sides of the correspondence. It should also be observed that the manuscript letters of Thomas and William Milyneux to Locke here published are in this collection. The printer used the originals for copy and they still bear his marks." Pforzheimer 611 "William Molyneux 1656-1698 was an Irish experimental philosopher and politician who played a major role in the intellectual life in seventeenth-century Dublin. He became Locke's friend and correspondent in 1692 and was probably Locke's philosophicallymost significant correspondent. Locke approached Molyneux for advice for revising his Essay concerning Human Understandingas he was preparing the second and subsequent editions. Locke made several changes in response to Molyneux's suggestions; they include major revisions of the chapter 'Of Power' 2.21 the addition of the chapter 'Of Identity and Diversity' 2.27 and the addition of the so-called Molyneux Problem 2.9.8. Molyneux repeatedly requested that Locke develops his views on morality. Additionally their correspondence turned to questions concerning education and Molyneux's keen interest in the topic likely prompted Locke to publish Some Thoughts Concerning Educationin 1693. Moreover Molyneux drew on Locke's anonymously published Two Treatises of Governmentin his The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated which was first published in the spring of 1698. Molyneux revealed Locke's authorship of Two Treatisesagainst Locke's will yet their friendship continued until Molyneux's untimely death in October 1698." Locke and William Molyneux Ruth Boeker: University College Dublin. Attig 807. Pforzheimer 611. Yolton 346. HBS 69391. $2000. A. and J. Churchill unknown

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LOCKE, JOHNBiblio.com

A Collection of Several Pieces. Never before printed or not Extant in his Works. Publish'd by the Author of Life of the evermemorable Mr. John Hales &c. - LOCKE'S MAIN WORK ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

172041467London J. Bettenham 1720. 8vo. Nice contemporary English Cambridge-style full calf binding with five raised bands and gilt title-label to spine. Neat minor repair to extremities. A bit of overall wear but a nice and tight copy. Internally nice and clean with only some occasional soiling that is very light. Engraved title-vignette 36 - i.e. title-page dedication XXIV i.e. "The Character of Mr. Locke" by Peter Coste 2 - i.e. contents 362 18 - i.e. index 4 - i.e. errata advertisements pp. one plate "The Solar System". First edition of this important collection of hitherto unpublished works by Locke containing the first printing of his unique work on Natural philosophy "The Elements of Natural Philosophy" as well as first printings of other important works. Assisted by Anthony Collins in 1720 the journalist Pierre Desmaizeaux brought out a new collection of Works and pieces by John Locke that had not previously been published. This collection "A Collection of Several Pieces" came to play a great role in the Locke scholarship not least in recent times and not least because it contains the first printing of his "Elements of Natural Philosophy"The "Elements of Natural Philosophy" constitutes Locke's main work in natural philosophy and it is a work that pas puzzled Locke scholars and readers ever since its appearance. The work seems to need some further explanation; at a firsthand glance it doesn't look very much like Locke - the greatest of the English philosophers who has so frequently been accused of not understanding the exact sciences and who even encouraged the youth not to learn these but to educate themselves in superficial and useful party-conversation. Thus numerous attempts have been made to establish the influence that resulted in this educational work of natural science. The two dominating answers to the question of influence are now: Newton and Descartes. It now seems to be fairly commonly recognized that Newton a personal friend of Locke even contributed directly to the work. "When Locke himself at the end of his life came to compose a treatise on natural philosophy for a pupil we have reason to believe that he obtained the advice and help of the most brilliant scientist of the century his close friend Isaac Newton. As we shall see this unique educational work itself "The Elements of Natural Philosophy" belies the myth of Locke the scientific smatterer." Axtell Locke Newton and the Elements of Natural Philosophy p. 244. However Descartes influence also seems to be obvious; "The influence of the "Principles" by Descartes is also obvious in Locke's posthumously published "Elements of Natural Philosophy". There is a striking similarity in the order of exposition although there are also considerable differences: Locke carefully eschewed Descartes' "a priori" metahpysics of nature. We find him rather emphasizing the essential role of experience. For example Locke introduced Newtonian universal gravitation as follows:. Thus according to Locke empirical support was necessary to establish the law of nature. Although the exposition looks quite similar to Descartes' "Principles" the "Elements" in fact contain several anti-Cartesian remarks in favour of the experimental philosophy." Aoki Descartes and Locke on the Nature of Matter. In: Hutton and Schuurmann edt. Studies on Locke p. 77."Elements of Natural Philosophy" was printed in no less than nine times during the 1th century and appeared in both Russian and French during the 18th century as well.The present "Collection of several Pieces" furthermore included a collection of letters from Locke to Anthony Collins "Remarks upon some of Mr. Norris's Books." "Some Thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman." and "Rules of a society." all printed here for the first time as well as an English translation of Coste's Eulogy "The Character of Mr. Locke" originally published in French in 1705 and reprints of "The fundamental Constitutions of Carolina" and "A Letter from a person of Quality."."Remarks upon some of Mr. Norris's books." is the third of Locke's replies to Norris. "Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman" constitutes Locke's reply to Samuel Bold's question on behalf of a parishioner on how to create a course of reading and study. "Rules of a Society" constitutes the rules that Locke set up for a small group of friends who met once a week to discuss "useful Knowledge" and to promote "Truth and Christian Charity". Throughout his life Locke created several of these "societies" one of which led to his "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" another one being "The College" in London after the Revolution. hardcover

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LOCKE, JOHNBiblio.com

Posthumous Works. Viz. I. Of the Conduct of Understanding. II. An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of "Seeing all things in Gord". III. A Discourse of Miracles. IV. Part of a Fourth Letter for Toleration. V. Memoires Relating to the Life of Ant. - THE UNCOMPLETED FINAL CHAPTER OF LOCKE'S "ESSAY"

170651322London Printed for W.B. and J. Churchill 1706. 8vo. Nice contemporary brown full calf very neatly rebacked. Title-page and second leaf strengthened at fore-margin. A bit of brownspotting to last quire otherwise very nice. 4 336 pp. First edition of this influential collection of Locke's posthumous works in which we find the first printing of his highly important "On the Conduct of Understanding" takes up the larger part of the volume namely pp. 1 - 137 which he himself considered of the utmost importance. He had actually intended it to be the final and largest chapter of his "Essay" his seminal magnum opus which constitutes "the first modern attempt to analyze human knowledge" PMM 164 but he did not completely finish it before his death 1704 and it thus didn't make it into the fourth edition of the "Essay" where Locke had planned to make it the greatest part and the concluding chapter. "In 1697 Locke had written to Molyneux: "I have lately got a little leisure to think of some additions to my book the Essay against the next edition and within these few days have fallen upon a subject that I know not how far it will lead me. I have written several pages on it but the matter the farther I go opens the more upon me and I cannot yet get sight of any end of it. The title of the chapter will be Of the Conduct of the Understanding which if I shall pursue as far as I imagine it will reach and as it deserves will I conclude make the largest chapter of my Essay." Locke #847 vol. 6:87 The new chapter was intended as a new final chapter to be added to the 4th edition 1700 Locke #231 but Locke did not complete it. It was published in 1706 by King and Collins and has often been reprinted independently with other works by Locke or with Bacon's Essays." Attig Locke Bibliography Pennsylvania State University.Before his death Locke had left instructions for his literary executors Anthony Collins and Peter King. These instructions mentioned four works which did not see publication in his life-time but which he felt deserved publication among these were "On the Conduct of the understanding" "Seeing all things in God" and "A Discourse on Miracles" which were all published for the first time in the present collection of "Posthumous Works". As will be seen from the title-page the collection also contained the unfinished "Fourth letter for toleration" some notes for a biography of the first Earl of Shaftesbury and an English translation of "Méthode nouvelle de dresser un recueil". All these posthumous works were included in the collected edition of Locke's "Works" from 1714 as well as in all subsequent editions. The work of the greatest consequence included in this collection is no doubt "Of the Conduct of Understanding" which takes up more than a third of the volume. It became one of Locke's most read and popular works; during the 18th century alone it was printed no less than 8 times and is now as it were considered a most important part of Locke's writings and an essential part of all collections of Locke's works. It was first published separately in 1754. unknown

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Ragionamenti sopra la moneta l'interesse del danaro le finanze e il commercio.

1751126250Florence: Andrea Bonducci 1751. Rare first edition in Italian of Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money 1692 and Further Considerations concerning Raising the Value of Money 1695. It is the only early translation of Locke's papers on money based on the folio Works of 1740 and is furnished with extensive footnotes by the translators Giovanni Pagnini and Angelo Tavanti. It is issued here with a treatise by Pagnini appended at the end of the second volume. Locke's writings had a major influence on the then-ongoing Italian monetary debate. Economic unrest in Italy in the middle of the 18th century led to several publications on monetary theory. In the aftermath of the Succession Wars the possibility of devaluing currency to boost economic growth was considered a proposal which raised questions about Italy's move towards a commercial society and out of feudal systems. Most of the Italian writers opposed devaluation of the currency who cited Locke's similar arguments in the English recoinage crisis of the 1690s; the only major detractor was Galiani. Pagnini and Tavanti published the work in translation in the belief that Locke's ideas of sound money were relevant to the situation. "By publishing Locke's works on money in Italian Pagnini and Tavanti made available to an Italian audience a structured version of what had originally been a few long letters written to give advice on a specific issue that belonged to late seventeenth-century English politics. Yet in the following decades Locke's letters had risen to fame abroad where a myth had been formed of Locke as the defender of an honest commercial order of humankind. If Locke's letters contained a general message about commercial politics the work by Pagnini and Tavanti was supposed to bring it out" Stapelbroek p. 13. The appended treatise by Pagnini describes commercial society as one based on trust and peace; by devaluing the currency a government is undermining this society. 2 vols bound in 1 quarto 245 x 179 mm. Titles printed in red and black engraved vignette to first title large folding table at end of vol. Modern half vellum and plain paper boards new spine labels. Boards lightly marked small ownership stamp to first title and one or two minor stains; a crisp clean copy. Attig 507; Kress Italian 275; Yolton 164. Koen Stapelbroek "The Devaluation Controversy in Eighteenth-Century Italy" in History of Economic Ideas vol. 13 no. 2 2005. hardcover

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HEWATT, Alexander (1739-1824), LOCKE, John (1632-1704)Biblio.com

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. Volumes I-II

177940925London: Printed for Alexander Donaldson No. 48. St. Paul's Church-Yard London 1779. 8vo. 8 1/4 x 5 inches. First edition. Volume I: a-b4 A-Uu4 Xx2. i-xiv 2 1-347 1. 364 pp. Title Preface Contents Chapters I-VI The First Set of the Fundamental Constitutions of South Carolina as Compiled by Mr. John Locke. Volume II: a4 b1 A-Ss4 x1. i-ix 1 1-329 1. 340 pp. Last page misnumbered 309. Title Contents Chapters VII-XI With inscriptions of "Henry A. Jones" on both volumes unclear if it is the playwright of the same name. Bound to style in 18th-century calf spines with raised bands forming compartments gilt lettered red morocco lettering pieces in second compartments. Restoration to the the last text leaf in volume one First edition of the fundamental historical account of South Carolina and Georgia which Howes calls "the earliest history of this region" and Winsor states is the "earliest account of South Carolina cast in a sustained retrospective spirit." Streeter Hewatt or Hewat was a Scottish-born Presbyterian minister educated at Edinburgh who presided over the Scots First Presbyterian Church in Charleston when it was Charlestown South Carolina from 1763 to 1777. When the British fleet arrived at Charlestown in 1776 Hewatt and other ministers were forced by Patriots to renounce their loyalty to the king. When he refused Hewatt was given sixty days to leave the colony. His property was seized and he returned to the British Isles and wrote this historical account in London. Considered by Howe to be the earliest and best account of Colonial South Carolina and Georgia the book is bolstered by as Streeter states Hewatt being a "keen collector of historical documents." However his work remains important today because it is also based on his personal observations as a first-hand source from over a decade of lived experience in the region. Hewatt discusses the immigration of British French and other European migrants to the Carolinas due to religious persecution at home. He examines the lives they then created in the New World and the economies they built while doing so. But Hewatt also pays especial detail to the customs and cultures of those people these settlers displaced: the indigenous Native Americans of the region. "Hewatt gives a sympathetic and balanced account of Indian life and customs. He describes the climate soil natural resources fauna snakes and insects; how to make turpentine tar and pitch; and how to cultivate silk cotton and especially rice." De Renne An opponent of slavery as many Presbyterians were he chronicles the introduction of enslaved people from Africa and the ensuing social and economic problems it caused. He criticizes slavery in the colonies and the treatment of enslaved people while maintaining that they should be given instruction in morals and religion. He also warns that to mistreat enslaved people was to "fire them with desires of liberty and vengeance." Also covered in Volume I is the Yamasee War and in Volume II the War with the Cherokee. In 1780 after the publication of this work Hewatt was awarded the Doctor of Divinity from the University of Edinburgh an indication of the success of the present book. "Hewatt's account reflects the influence of William Robertson and the Scottish school of historiography. Less concerned with a chronology of events Hewatt instead focused on the interrelatedness of those events and their various causes and effects. His goal in doing so was to provide moral political and practical instruction to the colonists and to those in England." ANB His work especially his comments on Native Americans and enslaved people were used as the basis for David Ramsay's history though it went uncredited. The first volume includes the "first set of the fundamental constitutions of South Carolina" which have been attributed to the English political philosopher John Locke because he at the time was working as a paid secretary for one of the Province of Carolina's proprietors Anthony Ashley Cooper. The historian David Armitage and the political scientist Vicki Hsueh argue he was a co-author along with Cooper the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. The constitutions reflect Locke's classical liberalism safeguarding religious freedom while also setting up a reactionary neo-feudal form of government. Clark I 255. De Renne 217. Howes H452 b. Sabin 31630. Servies 522. Streeter Sale 1133. Turnbull I 223. Printed for Alexander Donaldson, No. 48. St. Paul's Church-Yard, London unknown

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