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Herbert, Edward, Baron of Cherbury
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- De la vérité entant qu'elle est distincte de la Révélation, du Vray-semblable, du Possible & du Faux... Reveu et augmenté par le mesme Auteur. Troisième édition. [London or Paris?], 1639
- Ink, paper and cow
4to (8 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.; 223 x 156 mm.). Text in a printed framed. Contemporary manuscript annotations (in Greek?) and underlining. Contemporary dark red morocco, broad gilt border of grapes and vine leaves and birds, panel with cherub heads in corners, laurel leaves in center of panel, with the device of Lord Herbert of Cherbury: a sheaf of seven arrows in a band lettered: ΕΥΣΤΟΧΩΣ ["Aiming-well"], spine flat and tooled to a vertical pattern; head and bottom of spine damaged, bottom repaired.
Provenance
Edward Herbert of Cherbury (presentation copy) — Edward Herbert, Viscount Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis (signature "Clive" on upper right corner of first blank; Sotheby's London, 16 January 1956, lot 217). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Maggs
Literature
STC 13180a; G. D. Hobson, English Bindings of R. Abbey, p. 40
Catalogue Note
Third edition, the first in French.
Edward Herbert of Cherbury's presentation copy.
One of several known presentation copies bound with the author's device (but with slight alteration on the ornaments) of this celebrated book , "the earliest purely metaphysical treatise written by an Englishman," either of the French edition or of the second Latin edition of 1633 (the first edition, in Latin, is dated 1624). Two of these presentations copies are in the University Library, Cambridge, another in the British Museum.
The book is on the index of the Catholic Church.