“THE FIRST MODERN ATTEMPT TO ANALYSE HUMAN KNOWLEDGE”
LOCKE, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London, 1690.
Rare first edition, first issue, of Locke's remarkable study of the nature of knowledge, a fundamental work in the history of Western thought. Locke's investigation was continued by David Hume and Immanuel Kant; John Stuart Mill considered Locke to be the founder of the analytic philosophy of mind. An excellent, wide-margined copy of Locke's most famous work, a touchstone of the Age of Enlightenment, with extensive marginalia in a neat early hand indicating that this copy was well-read. $65,000.
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