Book Details
| Author: | Adams, Rev. John: |
| Title: | Curious Thought on the History of Man; Chiefly Abridged or Selected from The celebrated Works of Lord Kaimes, Lord Monboddo, Dr Dunbar, and the Immortal Montesquieu. |
| Published: | Dublin: P.Wogan, P. Byrne, B. Dornin & W. Jones, 1790. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 01 - Literature |
| Description: | Replete with Useful and Entertaining Instruction, on a variety of Important and Popular subjects; viz population, Language, Manners, Property, Love, Matrimony, Polygamy, Marriage-Ceremonies, Commerce, Government, Patriotism, Agriculture, Peace and war, Taxes, Music, Gaming, Luxury &c. Designed to Promote a Spirit of Enquiry in the Youth of Both Sexes. and to make the Philosophy, as well as history of the Human Species, familiar to ordinary Capacities. xi, 299 pp. Text mostly clean. Internal binding tight. No half-title. Full contemporary leather with maroon spine label. Gilt rule on spine. Small piece of leather missing from top of spine at front board. Bottom of spine cracked for about 1 inch at both sides and for about 1 inch at front edge of spine. Nick in leather at top of rear board. Corners bumped and rubbed. Overall condition VG-. |
| Book Number: | #8394 |
| Price: | € 350.00 |
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