[Hume, David- First Single-Volume Quarto Edition] Essays and Treatises on Various Subjects

London: A. Millar and A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, 1758.

Second Collected Edition. 4to, 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 539pp. + 1 page errata. Contemporary sprinkled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red. THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME QUARTO EDITION, including Hume's most important philosophical works, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748), An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), and The Natural History of Religion (1757). The second collected edition, with the four additional leaves including the "Two additional essays," but the first to include the "Four Dissertations." Joints starting, some rubbing and wear, moderate foxing to upper/lower prelim leaves, minor spotting or browning, but really the whole of the book is very clean and bright, with the text block in near perfect order.

Price: $2,250.00   Item #5094