ESSAI PHILOSOPHIQUE CONCERNANT L'ENTENDEMENT HUMAIN
Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in French of this classic of human thought. Locke's monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics. Regarded as among the most important Enlightenment thinkers, Locke (1632-1704) greatly influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American Revolutionaries. Quarto: [56], 936, [22] p. with an engraved frontispiece portrait. Full period vellum binding, with a red morocco spine label, five raised bands, and decorative blind stamping. Light spotting to the endpapers, with a small bookplate to the front pastedown. The front joint is just starting. A bit of bowing to the boards, which are stained and soiled, more so along the spine and extremities, with some scuffing to the spine label. Item #76523
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