Lot 346

Ferguson, Adam

Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£2,988
Description
An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Edinburgh: printed for A. Millar & T. Caddel, London and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1767, first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, raised bands, red morocco label, title page very lightly spotted, very small nick to head of spine
Footnote
Note: A fine copy of the first edition of a sociological classic and the principal work of Adam Ferguson, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Provenance: Sir Henry Hay Makdougall Bart. of Makerstoun, armorial bookplate.
