A TREATISE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING. [with:] ESSAYS, MORAL, ECONOMICAL, AND POLITICAL

Locke, John: Bacon, Sir Francis

Verlag: T. Bedlington, Boston, 1828

Two works bound together. 132; 218pp. 12mo. Early 20th-century half morocco and brown cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to joints and corners. Bookplates on front pastedown (see below); contemporary ownership of Mary Ballinger(?) in margin of final page of Bacon work. Titlepage of lower half of Locke work torn and lacking, author and imprint information supplied in pencil; printed table of contents for Locke lacking, supplied in manuscript. Moderate foxing and tanning. About good. An important pair of Enlightenment texts on the nature of human thought, printed in Boston in 1828 and owned by noted American librarians and bibliographers. Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, presented here as A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding, was formulated based on the foundation presented by Bacon in his Essays, Moral, Economical and Political. Interestingly, these basic texts of Enlightenment thought were issued at the inception of the Jacksonian era, when rapidly rising levels of voter interest and high degrees of personal loyalty to parties came to the fore. This copy was owned by a father-son pair of noted librarians and bibliographers, Randolph G. Adams (long-tenured head of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan), and his son, Thomas R. Adams (of the John Carter Brown Library), with their bookplates on the front pastedown. A manuscript note between the bookplates records that this volume was previously owned by their ancestor, Greenfield Adams of Lexington, Kentucky, a politician, jurist, and member of the United States House of Representatives for two non-consecutive terms. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33893, 32059. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM62433

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Titel: A TREATISE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE ...
Verlag: T. Bedlington, Boston
Erscheinungsdatum: 1828