Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

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Hume, David | A single volume of "Essays and Treatises" signed by Hume

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Hume, David

Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects … containing Political Discourses. The Third Edition. London: Printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, in Edinburgh, 1754


Volume 4 only of a collected edition of Hume's Essays, 12mo (165 x 98 mm). Some mrginal browning at beginning and end. some early underscoring and other reader's marks. Contemporary calf, red-sprinkled edges, contemporary manuscript notes on endpapers; very worn, covers detached. Brown morocco folding-case gilt.


Signed by Hume ("David Hume") on the verso of the front free endpaper facing the title and with another, clipped signature pasted to the title-page.


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Armorial bookplate with motto "Ex his fontibus omnia"

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