Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. The Second Edition, with Large Additions. Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship, London, 1694.

Price: US$1850.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

LOCKE, John [1632-1704]. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books.The Second Edition, with Large Additions.. 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, London, 1694.

Price: US$5871.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Folio. Second Edition. Pp. [40], 407, [13]. Engraved frontis portrait. Old calf binding, recently rebacked, raised bands, blind rules, gilt label, recornered with edges restored, endpapers renewed. Covers somewhat worn and scuffed with evidence of tape removal near joints, frontis and title a little dusty with scratched out ink signature on title, printing defect at pp. 199-200 (corner turned with some loss of type, supplied in ink script); overall, a nice clean copy, in a skilfully restored binding. The second edition of the Essay is particularly valued by scholars since it contains important changes and additions to the text, as well as adding a portrait. "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." (Jack Matthews, Collecting Rare Books, p. 97).

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada