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Price: US$641.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stained and scuffed original leather boards with impressed decoration; four front corners, heavily rubbed, professionally restored and reinforced; the leather spine, a later rebind, with six raised bands and scarlet label lettered in gilt. Internally original grubby endpapers with reinforcing tape down the gutters; free endpapers have tatty edges and name and date on the front one; lightly soiled title page with 5 mm tear on lower edge and two small brown spots near base; water damage to lower corner hard to discern on page 496 but by page 575 slight wrinkling and staining evident; significantly so thereafter, up to, and including, the index. Pp (1 title page), (4 dedication), (7 Epistle) (21 Contents) + 604 (7 Index) (1 Errata). Note: no frontis.should one be called for (?). Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fifth edition. four books in one. Modern tidy rebind, new endpapers which are lightly browned. Title page a little rubbed with some browning to verso. Contents slightly wrinkled but very clean and tidy, the odd spot, some pages have a bottom corner crease, p.445 has loss to bottom corner, not affecting text, p.589 has small ink correction. Otherwise clean, bright and sturdy. Size: Folio
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, [40], 284,345-422,425-464,467-604 pages. In Good condition. Bound in contemporary calf boards, later rebacking with plain plain leather spine. Moderate rubbing and wear to boards. Water-staining along lower half of entire volume causing discoloration and waviness. Later pencil ownership to the front pastedown, ink ownership to the front free endpaper, both with later stamped manicule facing the writing. i1 lacking lower half of leaf, First Leaf of index (unsigned [i]2) lacking lower third. Lacking the unsigned second and third leaves of the index. Shelved above Case 3. The fifth edition and the first posthumous edition. Locke continued to revise this work, publishing four editions during his life and leaving notes for a fifth. ESTC: T33271. 1371344. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
LOCKE John.. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. .. , 1706.
Price: US$1670.74 + shipping
Description: London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill 1706. Folio bound in later full panelled calf with blind-stamping to front and rear boards. Spine with raised bands and morocco title-label. xxxiv 604 10pp. Title-page laid down; and some old worm-holing mostly confined to the inner margins and not affecting the text; otherwise a fine copy clean and complete. British empiricist John Locke's 1632-1704 most important work in which he seeks to define the limits of human knowledge. Locke argues against the rationalists' theory of innate ideas i.e. that we are born with certain innate ideas about the world quite independent of our experience e.g. God. Locke contends that the human mind is a blank slate at birth and that all our knowledge of the world is acquired through sensory experience and reflection upon that experience. Locke's Essay first appeared in December 1689 though he continued to revise it until his death. A further three editions appeared in his lifetime and the fifth edition here offered was published posthumously in 1706 prepared from Locke's notes.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio, contemporary mottled calf, spine and cover corners expertly rebacked, with morocco spine label lettered in gilt; raised bands; covers ruled and decorated in blind; contents immaculate. Fifth edition and first posthumous edition, with new material, including extensive quotations from Locke's writings and footnotes regarding Bishop Stillingfleet. Yolton 65. One of approximately 900 copies printed. Nidditch p. xxxii. Notwithstanding the fact that the fifth edition was not issued with a frontispiece portrait of Locke, laid into this copy is a frontispiece portrait ----- First published in 1689. Locke continued to work on the "Essay" after 1690. Four editions were published during his lifetime, and he left material for a revised fifth edition. All subsequent editions follow the text of the fifth, although some omit the footnotes. A superior copy of Locke's most popular and enduring work.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Full dark brown speckled calf with with onlay panel of light calf decoratively edged with blind rolls. Pages 259-262 mis-paginated 260, 261, 255, 263 but with catchwords correct and no text lacking. Pagination 285-344 lacking but once again catchwords indicate not text lacking. Inked name to front pastedown and with handsome engraved portrait of John Locke adhered to front pastedown, inked notations to lower margin of title page, overall a clean, wide-margined and handsomely restored copy. Restoration by Glenn Fukunaga.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Index bound after Contents and before text. Contemporary full-paneled calf, panels blind-stamped on front and rear boards, edges partially rubbed with corners reinforced, rebacked; interior excellent.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.