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Price: US$1332.11 + shipping
Description: 4to, pp. viii, [540 Errata], recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco label; text a little browned, some staining of end-papers. Later issues of this first quarto printing of Hume's essays had two additional essays, "Of the Jealousy of Trade" and "Of the Coalition of Parties" inserted between the existing essays, with curious results to the pagination.
Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1654.65 + shipping
Description: A New Edition 4to, full light tan leather, red name label and raised bands to spine, marbled eps.540pp.incl.Index plus Two Additional Essays bound in after the Index The 1758 first quarto edition, rebound in full calf,with new eps, corners of a few early and late pp. worn, minor stain to edges of bottom outer corner pp., o/w VG, and covers near fine.
Seller: Books On Dean, Albury, NSW, Australia
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Second Collected Edition. 4to, 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 539pp. + 1 page errata. Contemporary sprinkled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red. THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME QUARTO EDITION, including Hume's most important philosophical works, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748), An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), and The Natural History of Religion (1757). The second collected edition, with the four additional leaves including the "Two additional essays," but the first to include the "Four Dissertations." Joints starting, some rubbing and wear, moderate foxing to upper/lower prelim leaves, minor spotting or browning, but really the whole of the book is very clean and bright, with the text block in near perfect order.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.