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Auction archive: Lot number 104

MISCELLANIES]. COLLECTION OF WORKS RELATING TO MORAL GUIDANCE, PHILOSOPHY, ESSAYS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES ETC. (11 VOL.)

Estimate
£250 - £350
ca. US$312 - US$437
Price realised:
£5,000
ca. US$6,243
Auction archive: Lot number 104

MISCELLANIES]. COLLECTION OF WORKS RELATING TO MORAL GUIDANCE, PHILOSOPHY, ESSAYS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES ETC. (11 VOL.)

Estimate
£250 - £350
ca. US$312 - US$437
Price realised:
£5,000
ca. US$6,243
Beschreibung:

Moral Guidance, Philosophy, Essays, Autobiographies etc. SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WORKS IN 11 VOLUMES: including works of moral instruction (e.g. Essays addressed to Young Married Women... 1782; Essays...for Young Ladies... 1777), works on Education (including commentaries on Rousseau), Rules for Horsemen, Advice to the officers of the British Army, trials, a History of Knaresborough, letters on reform, works of Aesthetics, works on the Scottish Peerage, autobiographies (e.g. The Life of David Hume, 1777), Poems, Letters (e.g. by David Hume to Adam Smith, second edition, Oxford, 1777, Moral Demonstrations (e.g. of the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1775), Village Memoirs; some Scottish imprints (e.g. Aberdeen), some engraved plates, some works in French (one on David Hume); contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 313, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 323, 325, 327, 331, 332); bindings worn and scuffed (11)

Auction archive: Lot number 104
Auction:
Datum:
13 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Moral Guidance, Philosophy, Essays, Autobiographies etc. SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WORKS IN 11 VOLUMES: including works of moral instruction (e.g. Essays addressed to Young Married Women... 1782; Essays...for Young Ladies... 1777), works on Education (including commentaries on Rousseau), Rules for Horsemen, Advice to the officers of the British Army, trials, a History of Knaresborough, letters on reform, works of Aesthetics, works on the Scottish Peerage, autobiographies (e.g. The Life of David Hume, 1777), Poems, Letters (e.g. by David Hume to Adam Smith, second edition, Oxford, 1777, Moral Demonstrations (e.g. of the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1775), Village Memoirs; some Scottish imprints (e.g. Aberdeen), some engraved plates, some works in French (one on David Hume); contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 313, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 323, 325, 327, 331, 332); bindings worn and scuffed (11)

Auction archive: Lot number 104
Auction:
Datum:
13 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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