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Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue by HUTCHESON Francis

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Title
Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Author
HUTCHESON Francis
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1726. First Edition. (HUTCHESON, Francis). An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; In Two Treatises. London: J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, et al., 1726. Octavo, contemporary brown calf rebacked and recornered, raised bands, later black morocco spine label; (i-iii), iv-xxvii (2), 1-304. $2500.Second edition, expanded and enlarged, issued one year after the first edition, of Hutcheson's controversial work proposing an innate moral sense similar to an inborn aesthetic one—the ""first major work of the Scottish Enlightenment""—including printed equations for questions that were deleted from later editions—in contemporary calf boards.The Scottish Enlightenment is ""not just an episode in Scottish history. It marks a crucial turning point in America… [and] created the basic idea of modernity"" (Herman, Scottish Enlightenment, vii-viii). The term itself is in ""use today through William R. Scott, who in 1900 who spoke of Francis Hutcheson as 'the prototype of the Scottish Enlightenment'"" (Broadie & Smith, Cambridge Companion, 1-3). In addition to his status as ""father of the Scottish Enlightenment,"" Hutcheson was ""probably the most influential and respected moral philosopher in America in the 18th century"" (Mailer, ""Nehemias,"" 241). Born in 1694, he expanded his influence beyond seminal works such as Inquiry, his first work, with his tenure at the University of Glasgow and his crucial impact on students such as Adam Smith, who ""arrived to study at Glasgow in 1737 and quickly fell under Hutcheson's spell"" (Herman, 82).In this ""first major work of the Scottish Enlightenment,"" Hutcheson draws on Shaftsbury to argue in favor of an inborn moral sense, comparable to an inborn aesthetic sense (Broadie & Smith, 79). Inquiry proposes a ""natural capacity of humans to distinguish between moral and immoral qualities, similar to the ability of the eye to distinguish between different colors"" in appreciating beauty (Ahnert, Moral Culture, 51). ""Europe's first liberal in the classic sense… Hutcheson created a new political and social vision"" with his sense of an innate ""moral reasoning… one that went far beyond Locke or any comparable English thinker"" (Herman, 83). Inquiry proved most controversial for its attempt to provide a form of moral calculus—including printed equations for moral questions. This reduction of morality to equations sparked outrage; the first edition had advertised on the title page that it included ""an attempt to introduce a mathematical calculation in subjects of morality,"" which was dropped from the title page of the present second edition. By the fourth edition, the mathematical expressions were deleted altogether. Title page with: ""The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarg'd""; as issued with page 183 a cancel. First published in 1725. ESTC T83285. Armorial bookplate of Charles Vere Dashwood Esq. (1745-1821), of Stanford Hall, Nottinghamshire, England (Peerage). Small bookseller inkstamp.Text very fresh, mere trace of rubbing to contemporary calf boards. A handsome near-fine copy.
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Historical Law-Tracts by KAMES Henry Home, Lord

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Historical Law-Tracts
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KAMES Henry Home, Lord
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1758. First Edition. [KAMES, Lord, peerage title of HOME, Henry]. Historical Law-Tracts. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Millar, 1758. Octavo, contemporary mottled brown calf sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, original red morocco spine label. $2200.Rare first edition of Kames' work comparing the English and Scottish legal systems and also investigating Roman law, handsomely bound.""The Historical Law Tracts of Lord Kames are conducted upon a very judicious system of investigating the natural principles of some of the most important objects of judicial science, and tracing the application of them in the Laws of Rome, of Scotland, and of England; but a comparison between the Laws of Scotland and England, conducted, I think with great fairness, is apparently the leading object of the undertaking"" (William David Evans). ""Above all in the Historical Law-Tracts (1758), Kames made it clear that judicial systems and legal concepts were properly historical constructs, adhering to certain universal principles of development which in turn led them to reflect the different circumstances of communities at particular points in time: it followed, of course, that 'Law in particular becomes then only a rational study, when it is traced historically, from its first rudiments among savages through successive changes, to its highest improvements in a civilized society'"" (Woolf, et al., Oxford History of Historical Writing). With typed signed letter from the National Library of Scotland laid in stating that the library ""does not possess a copy of the first edition of this work"" and offering collation information from the copy at the Signet Library.Only light occasional foxing to interior, light rubbing to contemporary boards. A near-fine copy. Rare.
The peerage of Scotland, containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, from their origin to the present generation

The peerage of Scotland, containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, from their origin to the present generation by Douglas, Robert

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The peerage of Scotland, containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, from their origin to the present generation
Author
Douglas, Robert
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
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Edinburgh: R. Fleming, 1764. Folio, pp. xi, [3], 718; 10 engraved plates depicting 120 coats of arms; full contemporary calf (discoloration from damp), gilt-tooled spine in 7 compartments; edges and boards scuffed, joints exposed with crude glue repair; modern rubber stamp and ink manuscript notes on title page of the Broom Co. Historical Society, else textblock about fine.

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