Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic. Edited by the Rev. H.L. Mansel . [and] John Veitch . In Four Volumes

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Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1869 (fourth edition)/ 1860 (Volumes I and II) and 1866 (second, revised, edition)/ 1860 (Volumes III and IV). Octavo, four volumes, xx, 444, [40] (publisher's catalogue); x, 568; xiv, 468, [40] (publisher's catalogue); and x, 520 pages with several illustrations and tables. Early cloth (Volume I) and original blind-decorated cloth; all edges uncut; cloth a little rubbed, marked, and slightly bumped at the extremities; spines a little darkened; scattered foxing (confined mainly to the endpapers and adjacent leaves); half-title and cumulative title leaf in the first volume a little marked and indented; minimal conservation to the inner hinges of two volumes; minor signs of age and use; overall, a very good set. The first volume has been rebound in cloth of a similar colour, and lettered in gilt on the spine in a similar font, to the three original bindings. Sir William Stirling Hamilton (1788-1856), Scottish philosopher, 9th Baronet of Preston and Fingalton. Provenance: Edward C. Stirling, with his small name-plate in each volume. Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919) was an eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician. The ownership initials of his daughter Jane (J.W.R. 1932) are written in ink on the front free endpaper of each volume; she had married Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1884-1930), a South Australian biochemist of world renown. The later ownership signature of H.S. Jeffery is written in pencil in the last three volumes. [4 items].

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Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic. Edited by the Rev. H.L. Mansel . [and] John Veitch . In Four Volumes

Editor

William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh

Fecha de publicación

1869

Encuadernación

Hardcover

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Very Good

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