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Auction archive: Lot number 124

HUME, DAVID. 1711-1776.

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US$0
Price realised:
US$1,375
Auction archive: Lot number 124

HUME, DAVID. 1711-1776.

Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$1,375
Beschreibung:

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. London: A. Millar, 1751. 12mo (168 x 98 mm). [8], 253, [3 ad] pp. Half-title, errata. L3 cancel. Period calf. Small tears to top edge of a few leaves, covers detached, text block in 3 sections with spine partially perished. Provenance: Hume scholar Dr. A.W. Colver; by descent to present owner. FIRST EDITION. A recasting of Book 3 of the Treatise, in which "Hume's correction of some 'negligences' in reasoning, the addition of new arguments, and a restructuring of main themes give the later work a philosophical significance in its own right" (Cambridge Companion to Hume p 311). Hume judged it "of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best" (Fieser pp 19-20). Jessop p 22.

Auction archive: Lot number 124
Auction:
Datum:
10 Feb 2014
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90046 Tel: +1 323 850 7500 Fax : +1 323 850 6090 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. London: A. Millar, 1751. 12mo (168 x 98 mm). [8], 253, [3 ad] pp. Half-title, errata. L3 cancel. Period calf. Small tears to top edge of a few leaves, covers detached, text block in 3 sections with spine partially perished. Provenance: Hume scholar Dr. A.W. Colver; by descent to present owner. FIRST EDITION. A recasting of Book 3 of the Treatise, in which "Hume's correction of some 'negligences' in reasoning, the addition of new arguments, and a restructuring of main themes give the later work a philosophical significance in its own right" (Cambridge Companion to Hume p 311). Hume judged it "of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best" (Fieser pp 19-20). Jessop p 22.

Auction archive: Lot number 124
Auction:
Datum:
10 Feb 2014
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90046 Tel: +1 323 850 7500 Fax : +1 323 850 6090 info.us@bonhams.com
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