BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 42 English Liberties “Had More To Do With Preparing The Minds Of American Colonists For The American Revolution Than… Coke, Sidney And Locke” 63CARE, Henry. English Liberties, or The FreeBorn Subject’s Inheritance. Providence, Rhode-Island, 1774. Small octavo (5 by 7-1/4 inches), contemporary full brown sheep, custom clamshell box. $13,500 1774 American edition of Care’s influential English Liberties, preceded only by the 1721 Boston edition. Care saw English Liberties (1680) as giving Englishmen necessary “information about the law and their rights… describing the Magna Charta as ‘Declaratory of the principal grounds of the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of England” (Morrison & Zook, 46-7). Care’s “vocabulary and ideas appeared in the writings of the founding fathers… Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Dickinson and Alexander Hamilton,” and Jefferson owned two London editions of English Liberties (Schwoerer). Benjamin Franklin was apprenticed to James Franklin when he issued the 1721 edition. Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing, inner hinges expertly reinforced, slight rubbing to boards. A very desirable copy in contemporary sheep boards. “The Most Worthy Of The Great Philosophers” 64LOCKE, John. The Works of John Locke. London, 1714. Three volumes. Folio, early 19th-century full paneled calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down. $10,500 First edition of the collected works of Locke, “the most worthy… of the indisputably great philosophers,” with exquisite copper-engraved frontispiece portrait by George Vertue and full-page memorial plate. “Locke is the most worthy… of the indisputably great philosophers. His influence has been enormous.” Published ten years after Locke’s death, this is the first collected edition of his work and includes his immensely important Two Treatises of Government, “the basis of the principles of democracy,” as well as the letters on “Toleration” and The Reasonableness of Christianity. Also included is the groundbreaking Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, “the first modern attempt” to analyze human knowledge (PMM 193, 194). Interior fine, light expert restoration and mild wear to handsome contemporary calf.
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