Hume, David.. Private Correspondence of David Hume with Several Distinguished Persons Between the Years 1761 and 1776. Now first published from the originals. London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1820., 1820.

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Description: Quarto. xix, [1, blank], 285, [1, blank], [2, ads] pp. Original reddish-brown blindstamped cloth, rebacked, with old spine laid down. Some stains to covers, cellophane tape on endpapers, lightly foxed throughout. A decent copy of a book that has become uncommon. First edition. Includes Hume's correspondence with the Countess de Boufflers, the Marchioness de Barbantane, and General Conway as well as Rousseau's correspondence with David Hume, the Countess de Boufflers and the Marchioness de Barbantane. Chuo, I, 92. Jessop, p.46.

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