Lot 366
PHILOSOPHY
A SMALL COLLECTION, INCLUDING SMITH, ADAM
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 January 2019 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The Theory of Moral Sentiments... London: Cadell & Davies, 1812. Eleventh edition, 8vo, gift inscription to half-title, contemporary calf, rebacked, with embossed Islamic decoration; Ferguson, Adam An Essay on the History of Civil Society. London: T. Cadell, 1793. Sixth edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplate; Woodhouselee, Alex. Fraser Tytler Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames. Edinburgh: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814. Second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, modern half calf, some foxing; Outlines of Moral Philosophy. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1818. Fourth edition, 8vo, later calf, bookplate of Somerhill Library; Burke, Edmund The Works... London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1808. 10 (of 12) volumes only, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt, some rubbing, bookplates of James Hewitt (16)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the late Dr. Nicholas Phillipson, Emeritus Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Phillipson is best known as a leading historian on the Scottish Enlightenment and its wider European context. His best known work is Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life [2010], a detailed biography of the economist which covered new ground and won acclaim.