Thomas Reid – Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind, 1827
Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind; to which are added, An Essay on Quantity, and An Analysis of Aristotle’s Logic. London: Thomas Tegg, 1827.
Henry Home, Lord Kames – Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Edinburgh, 1761
12mo, [xii], 202, [2] pp., including the half-title and final blank, an uncut copy in the original blue boards, drab spine, wear to backstrip, still a particularly fine and fresh copy.
William Smellie – The Philosophy of Natural History. Edinburgh, 1790
First edition of the last work published during the lifetime of the Edinburgh printer, naturalist and antiquary William Smellie (1740-95). A second volume, edited by his son Alexander Smellie, was published posthumously in 1799. Chuo 194. Smellie was one of the initiators and authors of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. His Philosophy of Natural History ‘became a […]
Thomas Reid – Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, 1785
4to, xii, 766, [2] pp., contemporary tree calf, spine ruled gilt with black morocco label, rubbed with slight loss to foot of spine, Thomas Reid’s ink signature tipped onto front pastedown, ownership inscription ‘W. Ewing Maclae, 1798’ on front free endpaper, a few neat early annotations in two margins, isolated spots, a very nice copy in an unrestored binding, with an appealing Scottish provenance.