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1693106030London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill 1693. First edition of Locke's seminal treatise on the education of gentlemen which for over a century was the most important philosophical work on education in England. Octavo bound in full calf with morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt raised bands and ruling to the spine. ruling and floral cornerpieces to the front and rear panels stamped in blind all edges speckled red. In very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. A scarce and important work. While in political exile during the 1680s Locke wrote letters to his friend Clarke of Chipley about the education of his children. These letters form the substance of his influential Thoughts on Education considered a classic in the subject. "Clarke had spoken of the letters to Thomas Molyneux then studying medicine at Leyden. A correspondence began between Locke and Molyneux's brother WIlliam who insisted that the letters be published"DNB XII 33. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the eighteenth century and nearly every European writer on education after Locke including Jean-Jacques Rousseau acknowledged its influence. Printed for A. and J. Churchill hardcover books
1925140945556New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with with rubbing to boards especially at edges two indentations to rear cover at spine and a light crease the rear board at the top corner. Former owner bookplate to front free endpaper. Pages tanned with occasional soiling several preliminary hinges slightly over-opened. <p>The leading African American poets and writers of the early 20th century are featured in this important anthology which came to define the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen Claude McKay Jean Toomer Georgia Douglas Johnson Jessie Fauset and more. Albert and Charles Boni unknown
169326181<p><strong>1693 TRUE 1ed John LOCKE Concerning Education GOBLINS Boogeyman Bloody Bones</strong></p><p><em>"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." </em></p><p>– John Locke</p><p>After studying medicine under the teaching of Thomas Sydenham John Locke began his journey of philosophical thinking that would develop into some of his most famous works. In 1693 Locke published a treatise on education entitled '<em>Thoughts Concerning Education'</em>. Throughout the 18th-century it was <strong><u>the most important work on the philosophy of education in England</u></strong>. This work was an extension from 'Concerning Human Understanding' in which he describes how to educate the 'blank slate' mind described in<em> 'Human Understanding'.</em></p><p>Perhaps the most intriguing sections found in this work is Locke's perspectives on <u>goblins sprites and the Boogeyman</u>! Locke describes recorded instances of <strong>Bloody-Bones</strong> being used to scare children into behaving! From this 17th-century printing:</p><p>"It being the usual method of servants to awe children and keep them in subjection by telling them of Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones as carry with them the ideas of some hurtful terrible things in habiting darkness." p. 159</p><p>This incredibly rare printing is notable for being one of the earliest printed editions of Locke and includes the desirable text misprint in the dedication. <u>An absolutely incredible printing of Locke's "<em>Education</em>"!</u></p><p>Item number: #26181</p><p>Price: $7500</p><p>LOCKE John</p><p><strong><em>Some thoughts concerning education</em></strong></p><p>Printed for A. and J. Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row London 1693. <strong><u>True first edition!</u></strong></p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->8 262 2</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Title page i.e. A1 provided in professional facsimile</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->References: Wing L 2762;</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Edition point:</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Verso of A3 line 19: "Patronnge" instead of "Patronage"</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Armorial bookplate – J. Gibson A.M.</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~7in X 4.5in 18cm x 11cm</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Exceedingly rare valuable and desirable with auction records and price comparisons between $11000-$15000</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>26181</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row hardcover
1799068560London: Printed for Alexander Donaldson 1799. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. respectively. FIRST EDITION 1779. TWO VOLUME COMPLETE SET. The First History of South Carolina. Howes H452. Printed for Alexander Donaldson London 1779. Matching hardcover set. Rebound in black cloth covers are plain. Spines bear orange leather labels stamped in gilt along with the volume numbers. Top edges gilt. Endpapers are gray. Leaves are printed on laid paper. Includes "The first set of the fundamental constitutions of South Carolina / as compiled by Mr. John Locke"/ pages 321-347. Vol. I: xiv 347 pp; Vol II: ix 309 pp. On a shelf this set spans 2.5 inches. <br><br>ABOUT THIS SET: The "earliest history of the region" Howes H452. "Justin Winsor calls this work the 'earliest account of South Carolina cast in a sustained retrospective spirit'. Hewatt an Englishman who at one time lived at Charleston was a keen collector of historical documents". Streeter II 1133. "In Volume I Hewatt gives a sympathetic and balanced account of Indian life and customs based in part on his own observations. 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. In Volume II he describes and criticizes slavery in the colonies and the treatment of slaves; he maintains that slaves should be given some instruction in morals and religion. He discusses diseases in Carolina and describes the cultivation of indigo in some detail. His factual account of the 'present state and condition of the colony' probably refers to the latter 1760s or early 1770s; he quotes some statistics of 1776." Clark I 225. De Renne 217. Turnbull I 223. <br><br>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alexander Hewatt came to Charleston in 1763 as minister of the Scots First Presbyterian Church there. Fascinated with the history of South Carolina he soon became a keen collector of historical documents. When the British fleet arrived at Charleston in 1776 Hewatt and other ministers were required to renounce their loyalty to the king. When he refused Hewatt was given sixty days to leave the colony. He sailed for Great Britain where he devoted the next two years to completing his history. In 1780 he was awarded the Doctor of Divinity form the University of Edinburgh an indication of the esteem in which he and his work were held. "Hewatt's account reflects the influence of William Robertson and the Scottish school of historiography. less concerned with a strict 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" both of whom he hoped would see the importance of continuing South Carolina's close ties to the Crown" ANB. The work includes detailed descriptions of the climate topography and fauna of South Carolina as well as discussions of slavery there. He warned that the mistreatment of slaves was likely to "fire them with desires of liberty and vengeance." Chapter 5 in the first volume includes a full account of the Yamasee War while chapter 10 is devoted to the war with the Cherokee. <br><br>CONDITION: This set is overall VG with general shelf wear. Removal of bookplate on the front pastedown on both volumes and clipped rectangular front endpaper removed in both volumes. Leaves are in remarkable condition with extremely minimal foxing. Completely free from marginalia or annotation. Bindings are tight. An incredible set. <br><br>Additional photographs available upon request. This set will be delivered with "adult signature required". Full refund if not satisfied. Printed for Alexander Donaldson hardcover
165426966Oxoniæ: Leonardus Lichfield Academiæ Typographus 1654 1654. First edition. Yolton 251; Wing O-902; NCBEL II 1836; ESTC R203114. Blue morocco faded in spots on the boards; edges a little worn; very good copy with generous margins; rare in the trade. Small 4to 19th century straight-grain blue morocco blind and gilt decorations and lettering a.e.g. Title-page with a border of printer's ornaments. ¶ A collection of over 90 poems in various languages Latin Greek Hebrew English French Anglo-Saxon etc. written by Oxford students and graduates in celebration of Oliver Cromwell's Treaty of Westminster which brought to a conclusion the First Anglo-Dutch War. The most notable contributor is John Locke and his two poems - one in Latin eight lines and one in English 44 lines - constitute his first publication. ¶ Bookplate of Robert S. Pirie on the front paste-down. <br/><br/> Oxoniæ: Leonardus Lichfield Academiæ Typographus, 1654 hardcover books
169166937A Founding Document of Democracy The First of John LockeÃs Works to be Translated from His Native English LOCKE John. Du gouvernement civil ou l'on traitte de l'origine des fondemens de la nature du pouvoir et des fins des societe politiques. Traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang 1691. First edition in French of LockeÃs groundbeaking work and the first of his works to be translated from his native English. Twelvemo 5 7/16 x 3 inches; 138 x 75 mm. 12 321 1 blank pp. Title page with printerÃs woodcut device. Short marginal tears to M7 & 8 repaired and with no loss. Contemporary light salmon paper over boards rebacked at a very early date in similar paper manuscript spine lettering red speckled edges. Small number of upper blank of title and front endpaper. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. Overall an excellent copy; very clean and in a contemporary binding. Originally published in 1690 as ëTwo Treatises of GovernmentÃ. ìLockeÃs anonymous text is here an anonymous translation traditionally attributed to David Mazel. ëOne of the Huguenot pastors living in Hollandà of the second treatise in its 1R version with the first chapter omittedì Yolton. ìThe second treatise contains a plain statement of the principles of democracy. In an age and country in which the practice of democracy had just been triumphantly vindicated LockeÃs theories although anticipated to some degree by the ëWhigà tradition of political thought-Aristotle Aquinas Hooker Grotius-had all the freshness of novelty. Like Hooker Locke presupposes an original and necessary law of reason and bases the constitution of society on it rather than on the de facto existence of a government based on the actual submission of the governed to the rulers. This consent is thus a prior condition of the ësocial contractà not a result of it so that the civil rulers hold their power not absolutely but conditionally; government being essentially a moral trust which lapses if the trustees fail to maintain their side of the contract. Locke was to reinforce these liberal opinions by his Letters on Tolerance and they combine with the Treatises on Government to provide a classic example of the empirical approach to the social and political economy which has remained ever since the basis of the principles of democracyî PMM. Its influence on the development of French and American political though cannot be overstated. Graesse IV 243. Printing and the Mind of Man 163. Yolton Locke 46. No copies of this edition have come up at auction in the last thirty years and OCLC only located twelve copies. HBS 66937. $6000 Chez Abraham Wolfgang hardcover books
176567041First Collected Edition of LockeÃs " Letters Concerning Toleration" LOCKE John. Letters Concerning Toleration. London: Printed for A. Millar. 1765. First collected edition of LockeÃs four letters on toleration. Quarto 11 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 289 x 222 mm. 8 399 1 blank pp. Includes the Latin ìEpistola de tolerantiaî pp. 1-28 ìA Letter Concerning Tolerationî pp. 29-66 ìA Second Letter Concerning Tolerationî pp. 67-116 ìA Third Letter for Tolerationî pp. 117-379 and ìA Fourth Letter for Tolerationî pp. 381-399. Edited by Thomas Hollis and Richard Baron. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke by F.B. Cipriani after Kneller with a Cap of Liberty beneath the portrait. Another Cap of Liberty at foot of last page of text. Bound to style in full modern calf for front board matching rear board and spine. With the contemporary rear board still present. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine ruled in gilt. With original black morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed yellow. Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page dated 1789. A few light pencil marking throughout. Frontispiece portrait a bit foxed. A few neat tiny holes to title-page and final leaf not affecting text. Small previous owner Peter Laslett Trinity College Cambridge plate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. ìLockeÃs concern for the toleration of religious dissent for the interaction of individual conscience and public authority was long-standing. In his early tracts on the civil magistrate.he had felt that the need for order in society justified the authority of the magistrate over matters indifferent to salvation. Under the influence of Shaftesbury and of his own investigations of the scope of certain knowledge his emphasis changed. Without certainty in matters of religion the conscience must be allowed liberty; the authority of the magistrate must be confined to preserving the existence of society and the safety and property of the citizen. LockeÃs thoughts on this subject as on so many others matured during his stay in Holland where his circle of friends consisted primarily of dissenters from the established church such as the Remonstrant pastor and theologian Philippus van Limborch. In 1686 Locke drafted a letter in Latin to his friend which was published probably by Limborch in 1689î Attig p. 12. The Epistola de tolerantia was almost immediately translated into English and published in London. It was ìimmediately attacked in two anonymous pamphlets the most significant of which was ProastÃs Argument March 1690. LockeÃs own response was equally swift and his Second letter appeared in June. Proast replied to LockeÃs Second letter with his Third letter concerning toleration 1691. Locke in response published A third letter for toleration the following year. Proast did not return to the attack until 1704 when he published his Second letter to the author of the three letters for toleration. Locke was defended by an anonymous author probably John Shute Barrington in the postscript to The rights of the Protestant dissenters. At the time of his death that same year Locke had begun his own reply. The draft was published by his executors Peter King and Anthony Collins in 1706î Attig pp. 18-19. Attig 93. Rothschild 2733. Yolton 28. HBS 67041. $6000 Printed for A. Millar... hardcover books
169166937Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang 1691. A Founding Document of Democracy The First of John Locke's Works to be Translated from His Native English<br> <br> LOCKE John. Du gouvernement civil ou l'on traitte de l'origine des fondemens de la nature du pouvoir et des fins des societe politiques. Traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang 1691.<br> <br> First edition in French of Locke's groundbeaking work and the first of his works to be translated from his native English. Twelvemo 5 7/16 x 3 inches; 138 x 75 mm. 12 321 1 blank pp. Title page with printer's woodcut device. Short marginal tears to M7 & 8 repaired and with no loss.<br> <br> Contemporary light salmon paper over boards rebacked at a very early date in similar paper manuscript spine lettering red speckled edges. Small number of upper blank of title and front endpaper. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. Overall an excellent copy; very clean and in a contemporary binding.<br> <br> Originally published in 1690 as 'Two Treatises of Government'. "Locke's anonymous text is here an anonymous translation traditionally attributed to David Mazel. 'One of the Huguenot pastors living in Holland' of the second treatise in its 1R version with the first chapter omitted" Yolton. "The second treatise contains a plain statement of the principles of democracy. In an age and country in which the practice of democracy had just been triumphantly vindicated Locke's theories although anticipated to some degree by the 'Whig' tradition of political thought-Aristotle Aquinas Hooker Grotius-had all the freshness of novelty. Like Hooker Locke presupposes an original and necessary law of reason and bases the constitution of society on it rather than on the de facto existence of a government based on the actual submission of the governed to the rulers. This consent is thus a prior condition of the 'social contract' not a result of it so that the civil rulers hold their power not absolutely but conditionally; government being essentially a moral trust which lapses if the trustees fail to maintain their side of the contract. Locke was to reinforce these liberal opinions by his Letters on Tolerance and they combine with the Treatises on Government to provide a classic example of the empirical approach to the social and political economy which has remained ever since the basis of the principles of democracy" PMM. Its influence on the development of French and American political though cannot be overstated.<br> <br> Graesse IV 243. Printing and the Mind of Man 163. Yolton Locke 46. No copies of this edition have come up at auction in the last thirty years and OCLC only located twelve copies.<br> <br> HBS 66937.<br> <br> $6000. Chez Abraham Wolfgang unknown
1925140947068New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing of this Harlem Renaissance cornerstone. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with rubbing through to edges with heavier wear to corners and spine ends covers worn. Contents tanned with several leaves roughly opened. <p>The leading African American poets and writers of the early 20th century are featured in this important anthology which came to define the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen Claude McKay Jean Toomer Georgia Douglas Johnson Jessie Fauset and more. Albert and Charles Boni unknown
1700150333London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row and Samuel Manship at the Ship in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange 1700. Rare fourth edition of this fundamental work in the history of Western thought the first to name Locke as the author and include the frontispiece portrait of him. Folio bound in in full speckled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt turn-ins engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke. An exceptional example. The second edition of Locke's essay contains a number of important changes and additions to the text. It was the first to name Locke as the author and include the frontispiece portrait of him. "It is Locke's second edition of the 'Essay on Human Understanding' that is the masterpiece we remember; the first 1690 edition did not bear Locke's name nor did it include a number of emendations that finished the work as Locke wanted it" Matthews Collecting Rare Books 97. "Locke was the first to take up the challenge of Bacon and to attempt to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge when confronted with God and the universe" PMM 164. Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row, and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near unknown
1707007735London: Printed by J.H. for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-Row 1707. This volume is compose of five parts each with its own title page and pagination the whole is proceeded by two volume title pages both dated 1707 and a preface. i-ii iii-xviv Galatians 1706 second edition title page2 publisher's message to the reader and publisher's adverts2pages 43 pages. I Corinthians 1706 advertisment2 title page1-2107 pages 208blank. II Corinthians 1706 : title page123-58 2adverts. Romans 1707 : title page1-23-142 pages. 2adverts. Ephesians 1707 : title page1-23-60 pages. 8 X 9.7 inches. Bound in contemporary full calf with tooled ruled borders and decorations title label to spine with only fragments remaining. externally very rubbed with wear to corners spine ends and edges cracking along outer and inner hinges both boards attached. Inside all complete as described here Initial "P" in ink on corner of front free endpaper and a name and date 1734 at the top of the title page. Browning and offsetting to endpapers Some browning and foxing to the pages of the preface and a water stain on the margin of several pages of the preface. Therafter all quite clean throughout with no further foxing or marking. No annotations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Printed by J.H. for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-Row Hardcover
1751111216London: S. Birt D. Brown T. Longman 1751. 1751 edition of the collected works of John Locke "the most worthy. of the indisputably great philosophers." Folio three volumes bound in full contemporary brown calf raised bands gilt titles and tooling to the spine morocco spine labels copper-engraved frontispiece portrait by George Vertue to volume one. In very good condition text clean with large margins. John Locke is regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and the Father of Classical Liberalism. "Locke was the first to take up the challenge of Bacon and to attempt to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge when confronted with God and the universe" PMM 164. This is the first edition of the first collected edition of his work and the earliest to put his name to "Two Treatises on Government" as well as the letters on "Toleration"and "The Reasonableness of Christianity". Contents include: Volume 1: An Essay concerning Human Understanding. In Four Books; A Letter to the Right Reverend Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester concerning some Passages relating to Mr. Locke's Essay of Human Understanding in a late Discourse of his Lordship's in Vindication of the Trinity; Mr. Locke's Reply to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Worcester's Answer to the Letter; Mr. Locke's Reply to the Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Second Letter. Volume 2: Some Considerations of the Consequences of the lowering of Interest and raising the Value of Money. In a Letter send to a Member of Parliament. 1691; Short Observations on a printed Paper entitled For encouraging the coining SilverMoney in England and after for keeping it here; Further Observations concerning raising the Value of Money. Wherein Mr. Lowndes's Arguments for it in his late Report concerning An Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coin are particularly examind'd; Two Treatises of Government. In the Former the false Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer and his Followers are detected and overthrown. The Latter is an Essay concerning the true Original Extent and End of Civil Government; A Letter concerning Toleration; A Second Letter concerning Toleration; A Third Letter for Toleration: To the Author of the Third Letter concerning Toleration; The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures; A Vindication of The Reasonableness of Christianity From Mr. Edwards's Reflections; A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity. Volume 3: Some Thoughts concerning Education; A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Galatians I and II. Corinthians Romans and Ephesians. To which is prefix'd An Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles by consulting St. Paul himself; Posthumous Works viz. I. Of the Conduct of the Understanding. II. An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing all things in God. III. A Discourse of Miracles. IV. Par of a Fourth Letter for Toleration. V. Memoirs relating to the Life of Anthony first Earl of Shaftesbury. VI. A new Method of the Common-Place-Book written originally in French and translated into English; Some familiar Letters between Mr. Locke and Several of his Friends.The work was published ten years after his death and is the first time his works were published as a collection. S. Birt, D. Brown, T. Longman hardcover books
19251405855New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xviii 446 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's quarter tan cloth and navy blue paper boards with blue lettering to spine. General shelf wear with moderate to heavy rubbing along extremities. Some sunning and scratching to boards. Fading to red dye on top edge of textblock. With pink pictorial endpapers. Previous bookseller's sticker adhered to rear pastedown. Mild tearing to fore edges of pages xv-xviii. Light age toning with minor penciling scattered throughout. Shelved in Case 1. "The New Negro: An Interpretation" is an anthology of fiction poetry and essays on African-American and African art and literature. The title lent itself to The New Negro Movement a contemporary name for what is now commonly known as the Harlem Renaissance. Editor Alain LeRoy Locke was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a professor at HBCU Howard University in Washington DC. 1405855. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Albert and Charles Boni hardcover
1722149219London: Printed for A. Churchill and A. Manship 1722. Rare second edition of the collected works of John Locke “the most worthy… of the indisputably great philosophers.†Folio three volumes bound in full speckled brown calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine with morocco spine labels in seven compartments within raised gilt bands gilt turn-ins all edges stained red. Frontispiece of John Locke to volume one. In very good condition bookplate to the front pastedown and ownership signature to the front free endpaper of volume one. An exceptional example. John Locke is regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and the Father of Classical Liberalism. "Locke was the first to take up the challenge of Bacon and to attempt to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge when confronted with God and the universe" PMM 164. This is the first edition of the first collected edition of his work and the earliest to put his name to "Two Treatises on Government" as well as the letters on "Toleration"and "The Reasonableness of Christianity". Contents include: Volume 1: An Essay concerning Human Understanding. In Four Books; A Letter to the Right Reverend Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester concerning some Passages relating to Mr. Locke's Essay of Human Understanding in a late Discourse of his Lordship's in Vindication of the Trinity; Mr. Locke's Reply to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Worcester's Answer to the Letter; Mr. Locke's Reply to the Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Second Letter. Volume 2: Some Considerations of the Consequences of the lowering of Interest and raising the Value of Money. In a Letter send to a Member of Parliament. 1691; Short Observations on a printed Paper entitled For encouraging the coining SilverMoney in England and after for keeping it here; Further Observations concerning raising the Value of Money. Wherein Mr. Lowndes's Arguments for it in his late Report concerning An Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coin are particularly examind'd; Two Treatises of Government. In the Former the false Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer and his Followers are detected and overthrown. The Latter is an Essay concerning the true Original Extent and End of Civil Government; A Letter concerning Toleration; A Second Letter concerning Toleration; A Third Letter for Toleration: To the Author of the Third Letter concerning Toleration; The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures; A Vindication of The Reasonableness of Christianity From Mr. Edwards's Reflections; A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity. Volume 3: Some Thoughts concerning Education; A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Galatians I and II. Corinthians Romans and Ephesians. To which is prefix'd An Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles by consulting St. Paul himself; Posthumous Works viz. I. Of the Conduct of the Understanding. II. An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing all things in God. III. A Discourse of Miracles. IV. Par of a Fourth Letter for Toleration. V. Memoirs relating to the Life of Anthony first Earl of Shaftesbury. VI. A new Method of the Common-Place-Book written originally in French and translated into English; Some familiar Letters between Mr. Locke and Several of his Friends.The work was published ten years after his death and is the first time his works were published as a collection. Printed for A. Churchill and A. Manship unknown
24256In Firenze, Appresso Andrea Bonducci, 1751. Titles printed in red and black, large folding table, engraved vignette on title of first volume. Two volumes in one. xxxiii, (1, blank), 191 (misnumbered 189), (1, blank) pp.; xxiii, (1, blank), 316, (2), 116 pp. 4to. Contemporary Italian vellum boards, label with gilt lettering to spine, a very nice copy. Einaudi 3476; Goldsmiths 8635; Higgs 115; Yolton 164 (only four copies); Attig 507; Kress, Italian Economic Literature, i, 275. First Italian edition, rare. A very good copy of this handsomely printed book translating John Locke's 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), 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. At the end of the second volume is a 116 pages essay by Pagnini on the correct price and value of money entitled Essay on the just price of things, the correct value of money and on the trade of the Romans. Pagnini was destined to become one of the major economic historians in the eighteenth century with the publication of his History of the tithe in 1765-66.The year of publication of this translation, and the translation itself, represent an interesting moment in time: 1751 is also the year Galiani's famous and important Della Moneta was published. Galiani's roots were firmly planted in the southern culture which had been rekindled by the work of Locke and Newton. One of Galiani's first intellectual undertakings had been the translation of Locke's essay on financial problems, which he dropped when he heard that in Florence another version was being produced, edited by Pagnini and Tavanti (the present work) (Carpanetto and Ricuperati, Italy in the Age of Reason 1685-1789, p. 250). - Front paste-down with a few wormtracks, an old bookplate verso of the front blank, a very fine large paper copy, printed on heavy paper.
121874London Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row and Samuel Manship at the Ship in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange 1695. . Third edition; folio 33 x 21 cm; engraved portrait frontispiece of Locke after Sylvester Brounower ads to verso of final f. of text ownership inscription in pen to title upper margin obscured inscription in pen to front pastedown contemporary corrections annotations and notes in pen to pp17 18 33 93 131 and 190 slight dampstaining to title and prelims and occasionally thereafter; blind-panelled calf later contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece to spine spine head cap and bottom corner of upper cover expertly repaired a little rubbed very good; 40 407 13pp.<br /> The third edition of John Locke's 1632-1704 major philosophical work an excellent lifetime example with contemporary annotations and notes in pen for the fourth edition published in 1700.<br /><br />The Essay Concerning Human Understanding seeks to explain how it is that we as humans acquire our ideas and knowledge. In it Locke refutes the suggestion of rationalist philosophers like Descartes that man is born with some form of innate understanding instead famously describing the mind as a 'white paper' i.e. blank slate 'void of all Characters without any Ideas' which is then filled through sensory experience p.41. As such the text is considered one of the primary sources of empiricism in early modern philosophy.<br /><br />With contemporary manuscript annotations to the margins inserting the additions which were incorporated into the fourth edition of the text published in 1700 and correcting errors. These include in italics: p.17 Book I Chap. III 5 '.the highest perfection of humane Nature to do otherwise'; p.18 Book I Chap. III 8 '.nothing else but our own Opinion or judgement of the moral rectitude or pravity of our own actions'; p.33 Book I Chap. IV 16 'angles' for 'Angels'; p.93 Book II Chap. XIV 5 'Durtaion' for 'Duration'; and p.190 Book II Chap. XXVII 29 inserting the extensive anecdote of Prince Maurice and his Brazilian parrot.<br /> ESTC R20221; Yolton 63. London, Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhil unknown
1707EXP2-E-7London: J H Awnsham and John Churchill 1707. First edition. Leather. Fair. 9.5" by 7.5". None. A scarce collection of works by John Locke. The first collected edition compiled of various editions of earlier shorter works. Each work with a separate title page and pagination. Collated: Complete. With publisher's advertisements bound out of order to BL copy. Contains: An Essay for the Understanding of St Paul's Epistles by Consulting St. Paul himself 1707 First Edition A Paraphrase and Notes on the Episdtle of St. Paul to the Galatians 1706 Second Edition A Paraphrase and Notes on the First Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians 1706 First Edition A Paraphrase and Notes on the Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians 1706 First Edition A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistle of St Paul to the Romans 1707 First Edition A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistle of St Paul to the Ephesians 1707 First Edition John Locke was an influential English philosopher and physician of the Enlightenment. His work greatly influenced the development of political philosophy and the works of figures such as Voltaire and Rousseau. His religious beliefs varied over his lifetime and were rarely displayed in his writings. These works published posthumously provide important insight into his theology and the final years of his life. In a calf binding. Externally worn both boards detached but present. Loss to head at tail of spine and to leather at extremities. Light rubbing and worming to boards. Lacking front free-endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound although binding strained to Romans about half way through the volume. Title page and front blank detached but present. Title page with slight loss not affecting text. Pages bright with handling marks and dusting throughout occasional spotting. Marginal age toning and offsetting to first and last few pages. Pink ink annotations roman numerals indicating chapter numbers throughout. Light marginal worming to final work Ephesians not affecting text. Closed tear to page 29 of Ephesians. Overall: FAIR binding GOOD internally Fair J H Awnsham and John Churchill hardcover
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<br/> <br/> 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<br/> <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> 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
1939140939610Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art 1939. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 24 pp. Original orange stapled wraps. Very Good with a single vertical crease to wraps and all pages additional crease to back wrap corner a few ink checkmarks to margins. Contents bright with six black-and-white reproductions of paintings therein. Scarce with no other copies for sale in the trade currently a total of three copies found at auction and only 17 institutional copies found in a recent OCLC search. An important catalog of one of the first exhibitions of African American art and apparently the very first to be held in the South. The exhibition was historically significant for its contents and style as well; it was the first to frame Black art as "modern." Over 12000 visitors saw the 116 works by 29 artists including Jacob Lawrence Dox Thrash Samuel Joseph Brown Elton Clay Fax Archibald Motley James Lesesne Wells and Hale Woodruff. Over 80 years later the Baltimore Museum of Art commemorated this occasion with the exhibition "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA. The Baltimore Museum of Art unknown books
1940140946343Washington D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education 1940. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Alain Locke and inscribed to "an old friend" Allan R. Freelon on the front free endpaper. Freelon 1895-1960 was a prominent Harlem Renaissance artist pioneering educator and civil rights activist. 224 pp. with color frontispiece "Mother and Child" by Sargeant Johnson and 4 pp. color insert "The Amistad Murals" tipped in facing p 124. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with darkened spine and edges with light soiling overall. Extremities lightly worn with minor foxing to endsheets. Faint toning to edges of textblock. No jacket likely as issued. <p>An important association between Locke "Dean" of the Harlem Renaissance and popularizer of African American art and Freelon on the first serious book-length study of Black artists. Two of Freelon's Impressionist-style paintings are featured in this work alongside work by Edmonia Lewis Henry Ossawa Tanner Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence. Associates in Negro Folk Education unknown
1925140949243New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. xviii 446 pp. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with moderate rubbing and toning to covers boards exposed at edges. Dust-soiling and light staining to upper edge of textblock contemporary bookplate and several small abrasions to front endsheet. Contents slightly overopened at several places.<br /> <br /> <p>A landmark African American anthology featuring stories essays and poetry by the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen Claude McKay Jean Toomer and more. Albert and Charles Boni unknown
1727PCKeLOCK34London: Printed For Arthur Bettesworth. 1727. 1727. 3 Volumes. folio. pp. 2 p.l. xxviii 2 575 16index; 1 p.l. 671 13index; 3 p.l. 668 15. 2 engraved plates incl. frontis. portrait by Vertue after Kneller & memorial plate. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf neatly rebacked preserving endpapers some scarring to covers but an attractive set. Third Edition including An Essay concerning Human Understanding Some Considerations of the Consequences of lowering the Interest and raising the Value of Money Two Treatises of Government Letter concerning Toleration Some Thoughts concerning Education Some Familiar Letters &c. but not the Remains or Le Clerc's account of Locke's life which was first added in the 1751 fifth edition. Christophersen 88. Rand I 341. NCBEL II 1836. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 164. Palgrave p. 633. London: Printed For Arthur Bettesworth., 1727. unknown
1955mon0000001555Published jointly by Technology 1955. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. Published jointly by Technology unknown
In-4 (243 x 201 mm), demi-veau fauve de l'époque à petits coins, dos à 5 nerfs surlignés de filets gras dorés, pièce de titre de veau blond, tranches mouchetées, (4), xvi, (2), 540 p., (16) p. d'index et colophon, (1) f. d'errata, titre rouge et noir, grande vignette de titre emblématique gravée par O. de Fries. Première édition collective des oeuvres de Leibniz. Elle contient l'édition originale de 'Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain' qui occupe la majeure partie du volume (p 1-496), avec la 'Théodicée' l’un des deux seuls ouvrages majeurs que Leibniz parvint à compléter. Composé en 1703 pour n’être publié qu’en 1765 dans ce recueil, l’ouvrage se présente comme une réfutation systématique de 'l'Essai sur l'entendement humain' de John Locke sous forme d’un dialogue imaginaire entre deux personnages: Philalète qui défend la position empiriste empruntée à Locke et Théophile qui soutient l'option rationaliste à l’aide des arguments forgés par Leibniz. Commentant son Essai, Leibniz déclara: "j’ai fort médité moi-même sur ce qui regarde les fondements de nos connaissances (…). De toutes les recherches il n’y a point de plus importante, puisque c’est la clef de toutes les autres". L’édition a été publiée sur les manuscrits originaux par l’érudit allemand Rudolf Erich Raspe et préfacée par Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner, mathématicien, professeur à l'université de Göttingen. Contient: Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain - Examen du sentiment du P. Malebranche que nous voyons tout en Dieu contre J. Locke - Dialogus de connexione inter res et verba, et veritatis realitate -- Difficultates quaedam logicae - Discours touchant la méthode de la certitude et de l'art d'inventer pour finir les disputes (…) - Historia et commendatio linguae charactericae universalis (…). (Müller, 'Leibniz-Bibliographie', 2155. River, 472. Stojan, 56. Yolton, 'John Locke, a Reference Guide', C.1765-4). Bel exemplaire, très frais, grand de marges, très bien relié à l’époque.
1753149022Edinburgh: Printed by William Gray 1753. Locke abridged for the younger reader First edition of this rare miscellany including an abridgement of John Locke's Of the Conduct of the Understanding 1706 a significant instance of the popularisation of Locke's philosophy in Scotland. Compiled by the retired schoolmaster Alexander Simm of the Scottish town of Bathgate the miscellany presents to "younger scholars" the "actions and sayings of the great good and wise men of antiquity as well as of the modern; which might instead of useless Trish Trash afford them an agreeable and profitable entertainment when otherwise unemployed" preface. Also included are remarks on the Copernican system Confucius the delusions of witchcraft and the raising of new islands by volcanos. A section on the Union of 1707 is present strongly in favour of the advantages which have accrued from it. Printed on poor-quality paper copies have not survived and the work is consequently rare - ESTC records only 3 copies British Library National Library of Scotland Bodleian. Octavo 170 x 102 mm. Contemporary unlettered sheep blind border to covers. Contemporary pen-trials and ownership signatures to endpapers. Light rubbing to sheep joints intact front free endpaper neatly excised a few minor nicks and peripheral chips to contents not affecting text. A very good copy. ESTC T119426; Yolton 311. unknown
