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[Locke, John]
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Two Treatises of Government; In the former, The false Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And his Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government. London: Printed for Awnsham Churchill, and the Black Swan in Ave-Mary-Lane, by Amen-Corner, 1690
- ink,paper
8vo (172 x 104 mm). Title within double-ruled border, divisional title for An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government, with continuous pagination and register; lacks preliminary license to print and final errata leaf, repairs to title and final leaf, light browning throughout, D4 with open tear at fore-edge with minor loss to 2 letters. Modern calf with new end-papers.
Provenance
Author's name supplied to title in a contemporary hand; marginalia and occasional underlining in pencil
Literature
ESTC R2930; PMM 163; Wing L2766
Catalogue Note
First edition, with quire Q in two different settings, the last line of Q1v being "10. Besides the Crime", and with Q4 unsigned. The first part consists of animadversions on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha while the second part delineates the principles of modern democracy.