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“A FORMATIVE INFLUENCE ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND OF THE EARLY STATE CONSTITUTIONS”: RARE FIRST EDITION OF LOCKE’S TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
LOCKE, John.
Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown
London: Printed for Awnsham Churchill, 1690.
Exceptionally rare first edition published at the end of 1689 in an edition of likely only 1,000 copies (with quire Q in second, of two, settings. Octavo, bound in full calf, morocco spine label, gilt tooling to the spine, blind stamped to the front and rear panels. Title-page within double rule. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $450,000.00 Item Number: 151350
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"The basis for the principles of democracy": Rare First Edition of John Locke's A Second Letter Concerning Toleration
LOCKE, John.
A Second Letter Concerning Toleration.
London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Ave-Mary Lane, 1690.
First edition of John Locke's landmark second Letter of Toleration, a profound influence on Jefferson, Madison and the architecture of the American Constitution on freedom of religion. Octavo, bound in three quarter calf with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very good condition, paper repair to lower corner D1, faint early ink ownership inscription to title page. Rare.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 151201
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Rare First Edition of John Locke's Second and Third Letter Concerning Toleration
LOCKE, John.
Second Letter Concerning Toleration and A Third Letter for Toleration.
London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1690, 1692.
First editions of both volumes of Locke's Second and Third Letter Concerning Toleration. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo, contemporary calf, rebacked. In excellent condition with the text clean contents clean, except for light browning, rebacked. From the library of James Stonhouse with his signatures and armorial bookplate. Exceptionally rare.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 19072
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"THE MOST INFLUENTIAL THINKER OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT": IMPORTANT FOURTH EDITION OF JOHN LOCKE'S AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING
LOCKE, John.
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books.
London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row, and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near the Royal-Exchange, 1700.
Rare fourth edition of this fundamental work in the history of Western thought, the first to name Locke as the author and include the frontispiece portrait of him. Folio, bound in in full speckled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins, engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke. An exceptional example.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 150333
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"THE MOST INFLUENTIAL THINKER OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT": IMPORTANT SECOND EDITION OF JOHN LOCKE'S AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING
LOCKE, John.
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books.
London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row, and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near the Royal-Exchange, 1694.
Rare second edition of this fundamental work in the history of Western thought, the first to name Locke as the author and to include the frontispiece portrait of him. Folio, bound full paneled calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborated diced stamping to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke by P. Vanderbanck after Sylvester Brounower. In very good condition. From the library of the Isle of Wight Institution, with stamps to the title page, page 175, and verso of final leaf; ownership signature of British missionary Daniel Tyerman (1773-1828) of Newport, Isle of Wight, dated 1804 to the title page.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 149739
