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Signatures: A⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴. ; PRIORITY 4. ; (from t.p.) 1. Of knowledge and its general division -- 2. Of history -- 3. Of philosophy -- 4. Of the institution of society and nature of government -- 5. Of the heathen idolatry or false philosophy, and its analogy to revelation or true philosophy -- 6. Of the different systems of philosophy, with a short account of the most eminent philosophers of different ages -- 7. Of mathematics. ; NUC pre-1956, ; Mode of access: Internet.

Contains, besides the Essays, moral, political, and literary, An enquiry concerning human understanding, A dissertation on the passions, An enquiry concerning the principles of morals, and The natural history of religion. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Errata in v. 1-6. ; Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some signed S.P. Fournier. Additional etched head-pieces. Full-page etchings of putti appear in v. 3-5 on verso of last letterpress leaf of some articles, in place of woodcut ornaments that appear in such positions in v. 1-2. In v. 3 the putti are full-page, in v. 4 they are separately printed inserts within larger borders that repeat, in v. 5 they are printed without borders on separately mounted sheets. ; Etched allegories substituted for ports. when none were available to copy; see p. xvij, v. 6. Such an allegory of Shaftesbury appears in v. 2, but his port. nevertheless appears at end of v. 4. ; Etchings include frontispieces and t.p.'s in each vol. as well as ports. Ports. are full page in first two vols. (save the last in v. 2), but separately printed insets (12.8 x 9 cm.) within larger borders that repeat in v. 3-6. ; Illustrations are soft-ground etchings (some etching and engraving) by Jean Charles François, mostly printed in sepia (some sanguine and black). They are after drawings by Jean-Jacques Bachelier, François Boucher, Deshay (i.e. Jean Baptiste Deshays?), Charles Eisen, Marie Catherine François, Jorat (i.e. Etienne Jeaurat?), Hans Holbein, Phillippe de La Hire, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, Carle Vanloo. ; "Lettre de M. François, graveur, a M. Saverien, sur l'utilité du dessein & sur la gravure dans le goût du crayon," p. 107-111, v. 1. ; Also published in 12mo. See Brunet, and "Catalogue des estampes nouvelles qui se trouvet chez François," p. 111, v. 1. ; T.p.'s of v. 3-6 have printed cancel slips over volume title. ; Vol. 2-3 have t.p. date 1761. In v. 4 date altered from 1761 to 1764, in v. 5 from 1761 to 1766. Vol. 6 has date 1768. ; Getty copy comprises v. 1-6 only. Publication date of v. 7-8 unknown. ; Brunet appears as printer on v. 1 only. ; Includes bibliographical footnotes. ; t. 1. Histoire des metaphysiciens: Erasme, Hobbes, Nicole, Locke, Spinosa, Mallebranche, Bayle, Abbadie, Clarke, Collins -- t. 2. Histoire des moralistes et des legislateurs: Montagne, Charron, Grotius, La Rochefoucault, Pufendorff, Cumberland, La Bruyere, Duguet, Wollaston, Shaftesbury -- t. 3. Histoire des restaurateurs des sc̜iences, 1. pte.: Ramus, Bacon, Gassendi, Descartes, Pascal -- t. 4. Histoire des restaurateurs des sciences, 2. pte.: Newton, Leibnitz, Halley, Bernoulli, Wolf -- t. 5. Histoire des mathematiciens: Copernic, Viete, Tycho-Brahe, Galilée, Kepler, Fermat, Cassini, Hughens, La Hire, Varignon -- t. 6. Histoire des phisiciens: Rohault, Boyle, Hartsoeker, Poliniere, Molieres, Desaguliers, s'Gravesande, Muschenbroek -- t. 7. Histoire des chimistes et des cosmologistes: Paracelse, Lefevre, Kunckel, Burnet, Lémery, Homberg, Maillet, Woodward, Boerhaave -- t. 8. Histoire des naturalistes: Agricola, Gesner, Aldrovande, Belon, Jonston, Lister, Plumier, Tournefort, Hales, Réaumur. ; Brunet ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding, v. 1: mottled calfskin, spine gilt tooled with title on label, double gilt fillets on edges of boards, page edges red, ribbon place marker. Vols. 2-6 similar, but boards have triple gilt fillets along margins, spines have vol. nos. on second label, and bookplate of Earl of Normanton appears on front pastedowns. ; Second copy of port. of Wollaston bound at end of v. 3. ; Second front free endpaper verso of v. 5 has 22 lines of reader's notes in French.

Signatures: pi² a⁶ A-R¹² S⁶. ; Actual place of printing from E.O. Weller, Falsche Druckorte, II, 177. ; Translated by J.A.J. Desboulmiers, cf. T.E. Jessop, Bib. of David Hume and Scottish philosophy, p. 10. ; Mode of access: Internet.

One of the most influential books ever written, Descartes' Discourse on the Method delves into some of the most basic and profound philosophical problems facing humanity. Follow this great mind through the logical processes that ultimately led him to conclude, "I think, therefore I am" -- and to change Western philosophy forever in the process

Includes index. ; Illustrated with 4 engraved plates, one engraved illustration in the text, and one letterpress table. The frontispiece portrait of Confucius is by William Henry Toms. ; Signatures: A⁴ B-2L⁸ 2M⁴. ; ESTC ; Mode of access: Internet.