£750
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
to which is added a Dissertation on the Origin of Language. 1768 Third edition, 8vo (20.6 x 13cm), contemporary sheep, [8] 478 pp., retaining final blank, loss to foot of spine, short split to foot of rear joint, early ownership and gift inscriptions to front free endpaper, initial blank and title-page, moderate spotting and browning, damp-staining towards front (intermittent thereafter), worming to lower margins (text unaffected), quires S-T with worming in fore margins touching a few letters in T5-6, closed marginal tear to 2A1 [ESTC T122844: ten copies in UK libraries]
Daniel Rose, Kenneth Munro - inscriptions on title page, probably 18th century