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LOCKE, JOHN. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding . . . Fourth Edition. 1700

LOCKE, JOHN. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding . . . Fourth Edition. [42], 438 [i. e., 432], [12] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait. Folio, 325x210 mm, contemporary panelled calf, badly worn, bottom spine compartment off, covers detached with portrait attached to front cover and index leaves to rear cover; contents toned with heavy marginal foxing throughout, front free endpaper lacking. sold as is./span London: Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship, 1700

  • Notes: "One of the great books in the history of ideas, this is the foundation text for empirical psychology and the beginning of British empiricism"--Rieber & Gach 267. Wing L2742; Yolton 64 (this edition); Garrison-Morton 4967; Printing and the Mind of Man 164 (all citing the 1690 original edition).

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