Lot 330
Smith, Adam
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
The theory of moral sentiments London: A. Strahan, 1790. Sixth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines a little faded and slightly cracked, previous owners' bookplate and signature to endpapers; Reid, Thomas Essays on the powers of the human mind... Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1819. 8vo, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf, previous owner's bookplate to endpapers, spines and bindings rubbed, joints split, slight spotting; [Idem] Works. Edinburgh: Maclaughlan and Stewart, 1872. Seventh edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, later calf gilt with embossed arms of Aberdeen University, spines a little rubbed, previous owner's bookplates and signatures to endpapers, endpapers a little spotted; binding of volume 1 very slightly marked; Burke, Edmund A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful... London: A. Robertson & Co., 1824. 8vo, later calf gilt with Greek and Latin embossed inscriptions, previous owner's bookplate to paste-down endpaper, slight spotting, spine a little rubbed and faded, some light markings to binding (8)