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1690173569London: J.M. for H. Herringman 1690. Hardcover. Good boards unattached pages foxed and browned but all pages readable. Marbled boards Riviere binding 54 2 pp no illustrations. An adaptation of the French Psyché by Molière P. Corneille and Quinault. Sometimes considered the first English opera was produced at the Dorset Garden theatre in 1674. A very rare book in readable condition. J.M. for H. Herringman hardcover
1690173569London: J.M. for H. Herringman 1690. Hardcover. Good boards unattached pages foxed and browned but all pages readable. Marbled boards Riviere binding 54 2 pp no illustrations. An adaptation of the French Psyché by Molière P. Corneille and Quinault. Sometimes considered the first English opera was produced at the Dorset Garden theatre in 1674. A very rare book in readable condition. J.M. for H. Herringman hardcover books
169724368<p><strong>1697 John LOCKE Commonplace Book BIBLE Interpretation Miracles Demons Angels </strong></p><p><em>"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." </em></p><p><em>– John Locke </em></p><p>John Locke was without question one of the world's most important philosophical thinkers. He published books on human understanding and was the first to describe the idea of 'blank state' of the mind. However in 1685 Locke published the first of his 'commonplace books' in which he described the formulas for understanding ideas quotations and sayings. This style of writing proved effective for learners so many other writers began publishing common-place books to build on the popularity established by Locke.</p><p>One such work was "<em>A Commonplace Book to the Holy Bible</em>" – an anonymously published supplement to scripture reading and interpretation. It provides extensive descriptions on the character of God the relationship between Christ and the church on saints and the roles and duties believers. This book has long been attributed to John Locke but this attribution has been contested in modern scholarship.</p><p>Item number: #24368</p><p>Price: $995</p><p>LOCKE John attributed</p><p><strong><em>A common-place book to the Holy Bible or The scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in scripture</em></strong></p><p>London: printed by Jones for Awnsham and Churchil 1697.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->16 310 10</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->References: Wing L 2737</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~8in X 6.5in 20.5cm x 16.5cm</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>24368</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> Jones for Awnsham and Churchil hardcover
1690187184London: first: Printed for Awnsham Churchill 1690; second & third: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill 1690 & 1692. Locke's three letters on toleration in a single volume with a probable connection to Locke's Somerset friends First editions of the Second and Third Letters second edition in English of the First collecting in a single volume all the works on toleration published by Locke in his lifetime. Following Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 Locke was moved to publish views he had previously circulated only in manuscript. Although intended primarily for Christians and particularly for dissenting Protestants the three Letters outline a hugely influential conception of the proper relationship between government and religion. For Locke the state cannot and should not compel individuals to adopt particular faiths. Churches are re-conceived as voluntary societies which can be joined or left without incurring civil penalties - subject to the concerns of civil society and foreign influence. Locke's original Epistola de tolerantia 1689 was swiftly translated into English by his friend William Popple who was responsible for the phrase often attributed to Locke himself "Absolute Liberty Just and True Liberty Equal and Impartial Liberty is the thing that we stand in need of" p. iv. In April 1690 an Oxford clergyman disputed the Letter's rejection of force which prompted Locke to reply that summer under an assumed identity with the Second Letter and then under his own identity with the much longer Third Letter of 1692. A fourth was left in manuscript at Locke's death in 1702; it was first published in the Posthumous Works 1706. The first and second Letters bear the contemporary ink signature of Thomas Musgrave on their title pages. This is probably a member of the Musgrave family of Nettlecombe Somerset whom Locke knew well. William Musgrave 1655-1721 was a fellow member of the Royal Society while Dr George Musgrave d. 1721 a country physician married the daughter of Edward Clarke one of Locke's closest friends. Locke himself a trained physician knew George Musgrave well enough to write letters praising his medical skills: the latter returned the compliment by providing some of the first admiring reviews of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1694. The Somerset archives contain the 1723 will of one Thomas Musgrave of Nettlecombe. A similar hand possibly that of Musgrave has made a further annotation on the rear free endpaper verso. 3 works bound in 1 vol. the first duodecimo 139 x 70 mm the others quarto 205 x 142 mm; pp. iv 87 5; pp. iv 68; pp. iv 350 2. Contemporary panelled calf edges sprinkled red. Joints and extremities restored spot of wear to corners light bumping faint offsetting to several leaves Third Letter with minor loss to upper outer corner of half-title and short closed tears to outer margins of Gg4 & Yy1 each just touching text: still a very good volume indeed. ESTC R21477; R5484; R5673; Printing and the Mind of Man 163; Wing L2748 L2755 L2765; Yolton 4; 25; 27. See Sowerby 1338. unknown
1697PCKLeLOC34London: Printed by H.Clark for A. and J.Churchill and Edw. Castle 1697. 1697. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 227 1ad. complete with half-title. paneled calf antique narrow strip from blank upper margin of title cut away; some light foxing. First Edition Second Issue. BOUND WITH: LOCKE John. Mr. Locke's Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Letter Concerning some Passages Relating To Mr. Locke's Essay Of Humane Understanding: In A Late Discourse of his Lordships In Vindication of the Trinity. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 174 1 leaf 7 1errata 2ads. complete with half-title. upper portion of last leaf of ads cut away; some light foxing. London: Printed by H.Clark for A. and J.Churchill and E.Castle 1697. First Edition. In 1696 deist John Toland published his Christianity not Mysterious a work professing to be a strict theological application of Lockean philosophy. It drew immediate response from Edward Stillingfleet Bishop of Worcester who in his Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity attacked Toland and Locke alike and charged Locke with disallowing mystery in human knowledge. A heated controversy ensued Locke responding with a Letter and two Replies the second of which appeared in 1699. Wing L2749 & L2754. NCBEL II 1837. Christophersen pp. 37-41. Rand I 342. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Printed by H.Clark, for A. and J.Churchill and Edw. Castle, 1697. Hardcover
1690151201London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Ave-Mary Lane 1690. First edition of John Locke's landmark second Letter of Toleration a profound influence on Jefferson Madison and the architecture of the American Constitution on freedom of religion. Octavo bound in three quarter calf with gilt titles to the spine marbled endpapers. In very good condition paper repair to lower corner D1 faint early ink ownership inscription to title page. Rare. John Locke’s Letters on Toleration 1689–1692 articulate one of the most influential defenses of religious toleration in Western political thought. Written in the aftermath of the religious conflicts that followed the Reformation and England’s own civil strife Locke’s argument became foundational for modern liberal constitutionalism—especially principles later reflected in First Amendment doctrines such as free exercise of religion and the separation of church and state. Locke's idea of toleration has been described as "one of the defining topics of political philosophy… a way of thinking about First Amendment rights such as the free exercise of religion and the wall of separation between church and state" Williams and Waldron Toleration 1. Jefferson and Madison in particular "grounded their commitment to freedom of conscience on the foundation laid by Locke in his Letter Concerning Toleration" which Locke wrote in Latin Epistola de Tolerantia in 1685 while in exile in Holland Ravitch & Witeritti Making Good Citizens 245. Soon after publication of Locke's first Letter in the virtually unobtainable 1689 English edition he was anonymously caught up in a heated debate with Jonas Proast whose 1690 Argument of the Letter Concerning Toleration quickly prompted Locke to reply the same year with A Second Letter Concerning Toleration. Locke continued developing his philosophy with "the largest work in the exchange A Third Letter for Toleration almost ten times the lengthy of his original Letter… In recent years… the Locke-Proast controversy has attracted more attention than ever before"—marking a seminal "divide between two conceptions of politics" Vernon Career of Toleration 3-6. Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Ave-Mary Lane unknown
1700AQ17273London: Printed for A. and J. Churchil 1700. 8 308pp 4. Contemporary panelled calf recently rebacked to style recent contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Boards rubbed. Later armorial bookplate of Waldegrave Pelham Clay to FEP minute worm-trail to margins of first half of text-block lightly spotted. The second edition a significant abridgement of John Locke's 1632-1704 An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding; the foremost modern attempt at an analysis of human knowledge greeted with as much opposition as applause upon it's appearance in 1690. The abridgement by John Wynne of Jesus College Oxford was first printed in 1696; such was it's popularity among students seeking clarification of Locke's philosophy that a further 17 editions appeared the following century. ESTC R20235 Wing L2736. Second edition corrected and enlarged. 8vo. Printed for A. and J. Churchil hardcover
1690168757London: by Eliz. Holt for Thomas Basset 1690. One of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy First edition first issue with the Holt imprint. Locke worked for nearly two decades on his investigation of "the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge" PMM and the resulting landmark work influenced many Enlightenment philosophers. Locke argued that all our knowledge comes from experience and through our senses rather than innate ideas. The mind is at birth a clean sheet a tabula rasa; since only material things can affect our sense we can know nothing but matter and must accept a materialistic philosophy. Locke concluded that "though knowledge must necessarily fall short of complete comprehension it can at least be 'sufficient'; enough to convince us that we are not at the mercy of pure chance and can to some extent control our own destiny" ODNB. Locke's Essay quickly ran to several editions and was popularized on the continent through French translations. "Few books in the literature of philosophy have so widely represented the spirit of the age and country in which they appeared or have so influenced opinion afterwards. The art of education political thought theology and philosophy especially in Britain France and America long bore the stamp of the Essay or of reaction against it" Grolier. Voltaire and Diderot accepted Locke with little question Hume and Kant continued the investigation and Bishop Berkeley rejected it with his own immaterialism. The edition was reissued with a cancel title bearing an Edward Mory imprint. Provenance: inscription to front free endpaper "Robert Kirktowne London: 1698" a Robert Kirktowne is recorded as a naval surgeon in the period 18th-century inscription to the front pastedown "Ex libris Gulielmi Byrd MTS". This is possibly William Byrd II 1674-1744 a large landowner in Virginia who studied at Middle Temple in London explaining the MTS Middle Temple School initials. Folio 318 x 192 mm pp. xii 362 22. Contemporary speckled calf red morocco label covers bordered in blind edges speckled red. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Ninteenth-century shelf label at head of spine. Skilful restoration at extremities leaf D2 with defective inner margin resulting in a number of missing words supplied in manuscript in early hand. A few splashes and scratches to covers else well-preserved contents a little toned else clean: a very good copy. Attig 228; ESTC R22993; Garrison-Morton 4967; Grolier English 100 72; Pforzheimer 599; Printing and the Mind of Man 164; Hook & Norman 1380; Wing L-2738; Yolton 61A. unknown
161545061London: J. Churchill and Samuel Manship 1716 15. Seventh edition two volumes 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. Brief contemporary inscription to the fly leaf in volume II booklabel of Professor J.D.M. Derrett to the fly leaf in volume I with his inscription in both volumes. Contemporary panelled calf old repair to the corners recently rebacked with maroon morocco labels. "Locke's design. covers a remarkably wide field of investigation into human knowledge: it is the first modern attempt to analyse it." Printing and the Mind of Man 164. London: J. Churchill and Samuel Manship 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
1694149739London: 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 1694. Rare second edition of this fundamental work in the history of Western thought the first to name Locke as the author and to include the frontispiece portrait of him. Folio bound full paneled calf morocco spine label lettered in gilt elaborated diced stamping to the spine in five compartments within raised bands engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke by P. Vanderbanck after Sylvester Brounower. In very good condition. From the library of the Isle of Wight Institution with stamps to the title page page 175 and verso of final leaf; ownership signature of British missionary Daniel Tyerman 1773-1828 of Newport Isle of Wight dated 1804 to the title page. 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 indicative of the celebrity Locke acquired with the publication of the first edition in 1690. "When Thomas Basset was running out of copies of the first edition in February 1693 he signed a contract with Locke to pay him ten shillings per sheet for additional materials for a new printing. These additions included an expansion of Book I Chap. IV; the chapter on power was almost entirely new; a new chapter 'Of Identity and Diversity' was inserted as 2.27 making chapters 27-31 to be renumbered as 2.28-32; and a discussion was added to 2.9.8. Other numerous additions were made throughout sectional summaries added in the margins and an analytical index supplied" Yolton. "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. It is in this work that Locke 1632-1704 lays the foundations of British empiricism and the concept of the mind as a tabula rasa. "Locke summed up the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to freedom of conscience and right to property in his faith in science and in his confidence in the goodness of humanity. His influence upon philosophy and political theory has been incalculable" Columbia Encyclopedia. Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row, and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near hardcover
169032820531<p>FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE with the integral Eliz. Holt title-page. An excellent fresh copy of this classic of philosophy the first modern attempt to analyze knowledge. "Few books in the literature of philosophy have so widely represented the spirit of the age and country in which they have appeared or have so influenced opinion afterwards" Fraser.</p><p>"<b>The Essay has long been recognized as one of the great works of English literature of the 17th century and one of the epoch-making works in the history of philosophy. It has been one of the most repeatedly reprinted widely disseminated and read and profoundly influential books of the past three centuries</b>" Nidditch.</p><p>"Locke is often classified as the first of the great English empiricists ignoring the claims of Bacon and Hobbes. This reputation rests on Locke's greatest work the monumental An <i>Essay Concerning Human Understanding</i>" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.</p><p>Locke sold the copyright to the publisher Thomas Basset for thirty pounds plus six bound copies of every later edition and ten shillings for every sheet of additions to later printings. By 1800 twenty editions had appeared indicating work's great influence. Locke's intellectual heirs include Berkeley Hume and Bentham and the Radicals.</p><p>"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. In the past similar enquiries had been vitiated by the human propensity to extend them beyond the range of human understanding and to invent causes for what it cannot explain. Therefore Locke's first task was to ascertain 'the original certainty and extent of human knowledge' and excluding 'the physical consideration of the mind to show how far it can comprehend the universe.' His conclusion is that though knowledge must necessarily fall short of complete comprehension it can at least be 'sufficient'; enough to convince us that we are not at the mercy of pure chance and can to some extent control our own destiny" Printing and the Mind of Man 164.</p>Folio. Contemporary paneled calf red leather label. Rebacked preserving spine old endpapers. Manuscript correction on A3v. A very good fresh copy. Liz Holt
170005904AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING IN FOUR BOOKS 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 Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged the last edition to be published in Locke's lifetime four books in one volume complete folio 438 pp plus 12 pp index and errata full leather covers detached and worn base of leather spine chipped lower fore edge corner of front free end-paper and title page chipped and worn however with no loss of text to the title page much less chipping and fore edge damage to the next seven leaves again with no loss to the text some staining to the bottom section and center gutters of the last 31 leaves entering the text but never defacing it faint narrow and unobtrusive stain to the lower fore edge section of most pages some staining to the first 20 leaves again entering the text but never defacing it. A decent candidate for rebinding as a majority of the text block is without significant damage. Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row; and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near hardcover
1694044491London: Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship 1694. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary paneled calf worn rebacked and with small repairs to the corners new endpapers added. Lacking the portrait and with an old repair in the gutter of the title a little yellowed and the first few pages adhered slightly in the inner margin. A touch of marginal browning early on but generally a clean bright well margined copy. The first concentrated attempt to define the limits of human knowledge and the human capacity for comprehension - Hume and Kant built more ornate structures on these same ideas but the foundation was all Locke's. "Philosophy without Dogma" PMM 164 for the first edition of 1690. xl 407 blank 11 blank. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Philosophy; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044491. Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship hardcover
170049185xl 438 pages index 11 & errata 1 at rear portrait frontispiece of the author signed on the reverse of frontispiece by J. F. Pettit and James Cardinal 1756 of Earls Colne Essex also signed by James Cardinal at head of title page Published by Awnsham and John Churchil hardcover
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
170076523Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte 1700. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in French of this classic of human thought. Locke's monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1689 is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics. Regarded as among the most important Enlightenment thinkers Locke 1632-1704 greatly influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers as well as the American Revolutionaries. Quarto: 56 936 22 p. with an engraved frontispiece portrait. Full period vellum binding with a red morocco spine label five raised bands and decorative blind stamping. Light spotting to the endpapers with a small bookplate to the front pastedown. The front joint is just starting. A bit of bowing to the boards which are stained and soiled more so along the spine and extremities with some scuffing to the spine label. Chez Henri Schelte hardcover
170058040Amsterdam 1700. 4to. Samtidig helskinnbind med opphøyde ryggbånd og rik gulldekor på ryggen. 56 936 22 s. med et gravert portrett av Locke.4to. Contemporary full calf with raised bands and gilt decorations to spine. 56 936 22 pp. Engraved portrait of Locke. Chez Henri Schelte. Avec Privilége de Nosseigneurs les Etats de Hollande & de West-Frise Fransk. <br/><br/><em>2 cm. tear in the leather at head of spine slight dampstain to top margin on app. the last 80 pages. Otherwise a fine copy.The first French edition of ""An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"". </em> hardcover
1700185<b>FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Large quarto. Portrait of Locke. 937pp. Contemporary full calf. Spine is decoratively tooled in gilt compartments with red morocco gilt lettering label . An excellent copy with clean pages. First edition in French of John Locke's Essay Concerning Humane Understanding first published in English in 1690. A stellar copy.</b> Chez Henri Schelte hardcover
169064538London: Printed for Tho. Basset and sold by Edw. Mory 1690. The First Modern Attempt to Analyze Human Knowledge<br> <br> LOCKE John. An Essay Concerning Humane Human Understanding. In Four Books. London: Printed by Elizabeth Holt for Tho. Basset and sold by Edw. Mory 1690.<br> <br> First edition title-page containing the inverted "SS" of "Essay" the type ornament composed of twenty-three pieces and without Elizabeth Holt's name in the imprint. With the dedication undated and with the errata uncorrected. It was once thought that the Holt imprint was the priority but recent studies have noted that the priority cannot be established. In his introduction to the Clarendon Press edition of the"Essay" Peter Nidditch changes his former opinion that the Holt imprint is the first issue and John Attig's bibliography records it as a varient. Folio 12 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 320 x 200 mm. 12 362 22 Contents pp. Pages 287 296 and 303 misnumbered 269 294 and 230 respectively.<br> <br> Contemporary brown mottled calf. Boards ruled in blind. Spine in six compartments lettered in gilt on brown calf spine label. Edges speckled red. Expertly rebacked to style with corners repaired. Title page is short at the fore-edge by half an inch due to the stub being turned behind A4. Marginal paper flaws on D1 P 3 and Dd3 not affecting text. Very small marginal hole on Hh not affecting text. The errata are corrected by a contemporary hand with ink and there are two contemporary ink notes on the back free endpaper. Locke's name is written in a contemporary hand on the title page as "IOHN LOCK: Gent:" Previous owner's name Brockett on the back pastedown. Previous owner's name Samuel Gaskell on the top margin of title page and previous owner's name Roger Gaskell dated 1813 on front free endpaper. A very clean and crisp copy in an excellent contemporary binding.<br> <br> Locke 1632-1704 considered the father of English empiricism "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. In the past similar enquiries had been vitiated by the human propensity to extend them beyond the range of human understanding and to invent causes for what it cannot explain. Therefore Locke's first task was to ascertain 'the original certainty and extent of human knowledge' and excluding 'the physical consideration of the mind to show how far it can comprehend the universe'. His conclusion is that though knowledge must necessarily fall short of complete comprehension it can at least be 'sufficient'; enough to convince us that we are not at the mercy of pure chance and can to some extent control our own destiny" Printing and the Mind of Man.<br> <br> Locke's investigation was continued by Hume and Kant. John Stuart Mill considered him to be the founder of the analytic philosophy of mind.<br> <br> Attig 228. Grolier 100 English 36. Grolier Wither to Prior 527. Pforzheimer 600. Printing and the Mind of Man 164. Wing L2739.<br> <br> HBS 64538.<br> <br> $32500. Printed for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory unknown
1699020537London: Printed By H. C. For A. And F Churchill 1699. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 12.5 X 20cm. complete: pp. 4 452; in this copy the errata leaf is bound in after the title page. Textually a very good copy with full margins the leaf measuing 120 x 190mm. Full contemporary calf fair only with leather covering to the spine chipped with loss and now loosely tucked into the book. Both board firmly attached but by cords only. Contents very good early initials to title page some leaves a little softened to top edge with slight staining the last few leaves a little more so with a few very short nicks and slight chipping to corners none affecting text. Some gatherings loosening. A good copy ideally in need of rebinding. Printed By H. C. For A. And F Churchill Hardcover
169019072London: Awnsham and John Churchill 1690 1692. First editions of both volumes of Locke's Second and Third Letter Concerning Toleration. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo contemporary calf rebacked. In excellent condition with the text clean contents clean except for light browning rebacked. From the library of James Stonhouse with his signatures and armorial bookplate. Exceptionally rare. The Second Letter Concerning Toleration is a response to the attack on A Letter concerning Toleration Locke's The Argument of the 'Letter concerning Toleration' Briefly Consider'd and Answer'd. In the first letter Locke had claimed 'Toleration to be the chief Characteristical Mark of the True Church'. His views on religious toleration continued to be the subject of controversy and he penned two more letters the fourth of which was published posthumously. Awnsham and John Churchill unknown
1696166327London: A. and J. Churchill 1696. Locke's gospel of sound money First edition thus. Several Papers comprises an issue under a collective title page of the second editions of three of John Locke's economic tracts all relating to the recoinage controversy of the 1690s in which the government attempted to replace the country's clipped worn and widely forged coinage with a new devalued currency. Though Locke was writing in response to a specific crisis his works had a lasting impact on monetary theory. He soon gained and retained well into the 19th century the reputation as a defender of an honest commercial society free from currency manipulation by governments. "Locke's writings on money and his arguments against devaluation have almost been regarded as gospels for 'sound money' men" Ming-Hsun Li pp. 104. The tracts included are Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money first edition 1692 Short Observations. on Coining Silver Money first edition 1695 and Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money first edition 1695. The book is bibliographically complicated composed from existing sheets of the three works with a collective title page in two states. This copy has Yolton's second issue of the collective title page cancelled to read "By Mr. John Locke" rather than the original "By John Locke Esq;". The third work can be present in sheets of either its second or third edition here the second edition and retaining the distinguishing errata slip. Octavo 162 x 94 mm. Recent quarter calf marbled sides vellum tips. Housed in custom black cloth solander box. Contemporary ownership signature of one "Walter John Stone" to title page. Light browning and a few stains. A very good copy. ESTC R19558; Goldsmiths' 3315; Kress 1980; Wing L2757; Yolton 163B. Ming-Hsun Li The Great Recoinage of 1696-9 1963. hardcover
169666981London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill 1696. First collected edition of Locke's important writings on the fundamentals of economics. Small octavo 6 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches; 159 x 95 mm. 4 4 192; 24; 16 111 1 advertisement 1 eratta 1 blank pp. With general title-page and separate title-pages for Some Considerations and Further Considerations.<br> <br> Contemporary full speckled calf rebacked to style. Boards stamped in blind. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards a bit chipped and bumped. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> Comprised of:<br> <br> The Second edition Corrected of:<br> <br> Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money. In a Letter to a Member of Parliament 1691. London: for Awnsham and John Churchill 1696.<br> <br> and<br> <br> Short Observations on a Printed Paper Intituled For encouraging the Coining Silver Money in England and after for keeping it here. 1695<br> <br> and<br> <br> Further Considerations 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 Coins are particularly Examined. London: Printed for A. and J. Churchil 1695.<br> <br> ESTC lists two variants: one has "By John Locke Esq;" on the title-page 'Further Considerations' dated 1695 and 111 pages. The other issue has "By Mr. John Locke" on the title-page "Further Considerations" dated 1696 and 112 pages. This copy is a combination of the two with 'Further Considerations' dated 1695 and "By Mr. John Locke" on the title-page.<br> <br> "'The Great Recoinage' controversy of the 1690s was the impetus for Locke's writings on mercantile and monetary theory. In the 1660s Sir Josiah Child had argued that the legal rate of interest should be lowered. It was still a topic for political discussion in the early 1690s: Child was still pressing the argument and was supported by London merchants. Locke however defended a legal rate of interest but refused to fix it below the current rates. This was the occasion for his publishing Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money in 1692. When William Lowndes Secretary of the Treasury proposed in 1695 to raise the nominal value of coins Locke slightly revised Some Considerations and also published two further pamphlets Short Considerations and Further Considerations. At that time gold and silver coins had a value equivalent to their metal content representing nothing but their silver or gold quantity. Locke rejected devaluation basing his argument on this 'commodity theory' of money. He considered 'raising of the denomination or the increase of alloy' to be debasement and fraud" Yolton.<br> <br> "Locke's second major essay Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money 1695 while it reiterated many of his earlier arguments was mostly concerned with the issue of recoinage. Locke took issue with a proposal to devalue the official coinage by 20 per cent and argued strongly for recoining at the old standard the currently circulating coins debased by clipping and normal wear and tear. Money Locke argued was equivalent to gold and silver. People contracted for gold and silver and a government stamp was simply an assurance of the specie content of official coins. Hence a devaluation would only confuse trade and cause an increase in prices denominated in terms of pounds and shillings" The New Palgrave.<br> <br> Einaudi. Goldsmiths'. Kress.<br> <br> HBS 66981.<br> <br> $9500. Printed for A. and J. Churchill unknown
163866431London: Printed by John Haviland for Thomas Alchorn 1638. LOCKE John; TYMME Thomas. From the Library of John Locke<br> <br> LOCKE John association. TYMME Thomas. A Silver Watch Bell The Sound whereof is able by the Grace of God to win the most prophane Worldling and careless Liver if there be but the least spark of Grace remaining in him to become a true Christian indeed that in the end he may obtain everlasting Salvation; Whereunto is adjoyned A Treatise of the Holy Sacrament of The Lord's Supper in part augmented. By Thomas Tymme. XVIIIth Impression. London: Printed by John Haviland for Thomas Alchorn 1638.<br> <br> Small octavo. A1 tipped-in leaf with title supplied in ink on recto A3-A8 B-H8 I1 I3-I8 K-T8. 2 blank 2 title in ink verso blank 6 Dedication 4 To the Reader 2 Contents 12-114 117-188 pp. Lacking A2 title-page and I2 pp. 115-116. Text within double-ruled border with headline page numbers and marginal glosses inside outer border. Sixteen head-pieces fourteen ornamental initials and two tail-pieces.<br> <br> Contemporary marbled boards rebacked possibly in 1915 according to pencil note on front pastedown with speckled calf modern red and white paper spine label lettered in ink. Plain endpapers all edges speckled red some trimmed close to headlines and in a few cases to marginal inscriptions. Boards worn hinges cracked. Tiny rust or ink hole to top of front free endpaper tiny wormhole to outer margin of beginning leaves affecting a letter or two of marginal glosses. Over-opened at a few places. Still a very good copy.<br> <br> A popular much-reprinted work Tymme's little religious book was first published in 1605. This copy contains ink inscriptions signatures and marginal notations in at least five different hands: John Locke dated 1669 on p. v Ri. Yolland undated Emmanual Bayhind undated William Yoo dated December 21 1782 on p. 244 and Rietteel dated N. York 1819 on front free endpaper and title-page. We have been unable to locate any information on the later owners of the book.<br> <br> While many of the annotations in the volume are by its later owners pp. iv and v contain Locke's signatures and inscriptions including a quotation in Greek. Numerous other pages pp. 4 6 9 66 78 80 101 118 134 139 144 146 165 228 229 232 234 and 238 contain marginal notes often in Greek in what appears to be the same handwriting. Locke may have noted in the margin of p. 96 the date he purchased the book its cost and a selected list of page numbers; though partially obliterated by a later owner the note seems to read "166.his book of Mr. florins." On p. 176 there appears in the margin a figure which may perhaps be an early crude version of Locke's paraph-the distinctive mark he used to authenticate his signature on legal documents and occasionally to mark his books for an unknown purpose see Harrison and Laslett pp. 41-2. Locke may have marked the spine with a label or press-mark but if so this has been lost when the volume was rebacked.<br> <br> During the period that Locke 1632-1704 acquired and annotated this volume he was a tutor at Christ Church Oxford. A book collector as well as physician writer and scholar Locke amassed his library primarily for his own research purposes. In 1669 however he did not have the bulk of the volumes which would comprise his library at Otes in the 1680s and '90s. In those later years Locke was faced with a rapidly expanding library which confounded attempts to find any particular volume in it. Locke therefore developed a complicated cataloguing procedure to allow him easily to locate the volumes he needed. Though he generally made notations for his own reference on the title-page spine and last page of a work-and often also made a list of page numbers for future reference on a fly-leaf-he typically did not underline words or phrases in his books. "On the whole he left his margins well alone and made his notes in his notebooks" always showing "much admirable respect for the whiteness of his pages and the general appearance of the volumes standing in his boxes" Harrison and Laslett p. 39.<br> <br> It is important to remember though that Locke's cataloguing procedures were developed and perfected in the 1680s and 1690s-this was the first period in his life when his books were physically all in the same place: "Books which went out of Locke's possession in earlier years would have far less and less regular markings-some of them perhaps not marked in any way. But the over-lining and underlining would probably be present with sometimes the author's name. A spine label giving author and a digit indicating size might also be present.These signs are not unusually found in Otes books which had been with Locke before 1683 and occasionally the two figure press-marks there can be seen to have been converted from the one-figure marks which we believe characterized the books in Christ Church in 1681" Harrison and Laslett p. 43. Tymme's volume then is probably one which Locke sold or gave away possibly to a current or former pupil before he perfected his cataloguing method.<br> <br> See Harrison and Laslett The Library of John Locke1965.<br> <br> HBS 66431.<br> <br> $25000. Printed by John Haviland, for Thomas Alchorn unknown
