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Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Hume, David. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. Containing Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. A New Edition. To which are added Dialogues concerning Natural Religion. Edinburgh: for T. Cadell, London; and Bell & Bradfute, and T. Duncan, Edinburgh, 1793. 2 volumes, 8vo, iv [2] 526, vii [2] 642 pp., contemporary tree calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, errata leaf to volume 1, ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers including Robert Burdon Cay (dated 1818), sometime mayor of Sunderland;
Ferguson, Adam. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. The Third Edition, Corrected. London: A, Millar and T. Cadell, 1768. 8vo, vii [1] 464 pp., contemporary calf, spine sometime refurbished, red pencil underlining;
Stewart, Dugald. Philosophical Essays. Edinburgh: for William Creech [and others], 1810. First edition, 4to, modern half calf, bottom edges untrimmed, xii lxxvi 590 [2], half-title (bound after title-page), advertisement leaf to rear, variable browning, occasional spotting and soiling (chiefly to margins), a few closed marginal tears;
and 8 others (these not collated), including: William Smellie, The Philosophy of Natural History, Dublin, 1790 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplates of Alexander Stewart, his crest gilt to head of each spine), David Hume, The History of England under the House of Tudor, London: A. Millar, 1759 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, half-titles, slightly worn, volume 1 joints cracking); Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics, 1877 (sixth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary University of Glasgow tan calf prize binding); Thomas Reid, an Inquiry into the Human Mind, 1769 (third edition, 8vo, contemporary speckled tan calf, bookplate of W. Radcliffe); Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin, 1783 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf); and similar (12+)