LOCKE, John (1632-1704). An essay concerning humane understanding. In four books . London: printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, 1690. First edition, second issue, of Locke’s great dissertation on ‘the adequacy of human knowledge when confronted with God and the universe’ ( PMM ). An unusually crisp copy. Attig 228; ESTC R9934; Pforzheimer 600; PMM 164. Folio (324 x 197mm). Cancel title leaf with inverted SS’s within double-ruled border (tiny hole to 2U1 affecting a couple of letters). Contemporary panelled calf, board edges gilt (lightly rubbed and scuffed, joints sometime expertly repaired, short split to lower joint at foot). Modern quarter calf clamshell box. Provenance : ‘Peter Laslett, Trinity College Cambridge, Deighton Bell 1973’ (label to front pastedown).
LOCKE, John (1632-1704). An essay concerning humane understanding. In four books . London: printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, 1690. First edition, second issue, of Locke’s great dissertation on ‘the adequacy of human knowledge when confronted with God and the universe’ ( PMM ). An unusually crisp copy. Attig 228; ESTC R9934; Pforzheimer 600; PMM 164. Folio (324 x 197mm). Cancel title leaf with inverted SS’s within double-ruled border (tiny hole to 2U1 affecting a couple of letters). Contemporary panelled calf, board edges gilt (lightly rubbed and scuffed, joints sometime expertly repaired, short split to lower joint at foot). Modern quarter calf clamshell box. Provenance : ‘Peter Laslett, Trinity College Cambridge, Deighton Bell 1973’ (label to front pastedown).
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