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"AT CERTAIN DISTANCES, DANGER AND PAIN ARE DELIGHTFUL"

(BURKE, Edmund). A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime. London, 1757.

First edition of Edmund Burke's influential work on "themes that dominated Burke's thinking," a touchstone in the development of British Romanticism and the theoretical foundation for his celebrated 1790 work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, scarce in contemporary calf. $5200.

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"PRIESTLEY AND JEFFERSON SHARED… AN ENTIRE WORLD VIEW"

PRIESTLEY, Joseph, L.L.D. F.R.S. Letters to… Edmund Burke. Birmingham, 1791.

First edition of a seminal work by the defining radical voice and scientific leader of his age, countering Burke's strike at the French Revolution by using reason and the scientific method to argue the American and French Revolutions as "decisive real-world experiments," publication of this work soon force Priestley to flee to America, strengthening his profound influence on Jefferson, who had a copy of the 1791 New York edition in his library. $1800.

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"THEY ARE NOW MR. LOCKE'S DISCIPLES"

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (BURKE, Edmund) TUCKER, Josiah. A Letter to Edmund Burke… in Answer to His Printed Speech. Gloucester, 1775.

Second edition, issued the same year as the first, of Josiah Tucker's impassioned and insightful response to Edmund Burke's famous speech of March 22, 1775, in which Burke urged reconciliation with the colonies—a course the prescient economist Tucker believed both foolish and fruitless, as he foresaw that the Americans' "rapid economic growth and dislike of regulation would… eventually lead them to separate from Britain through self-interest." $1600.

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"PRIESTLEY AND JEFFERSON SHARED… AN ENTIRE WORLD VIEW"

PRIESTLEY, Joseph, L.L.D. F.R.S. Letters to… Edmund Burke. Birmingham, 1791.

First revised and "corrected" edition, issued same year as the first edition, of a seminal work by Priestley, the defining radical voice and scientific leader of his age, countering Burke's strike at the French Revolution by using reason and the scientific method to argue the American and French Revolutions as "decisive real-world experiments," publication of this work would soon force Priestley to flee to America, strengthening his profound influence on Jefferson, who had a copy of the 1791 New York edition in his library. $1500.

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