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| Author: |
Beattie, James |
| Title: |
Dissertations Moral and Critical. On Memory and Imagination. On Dreaming. The Theory of Language. On Fable and Romance. On the Attachments of Kindred. Illustrations on Sublimity. |
| Place: |
London |
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W. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech |
| Date: |
1783 |
| Item # : |
199337 |
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402 |
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18 |
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| Fine Books & Manuscripts |
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04/30/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 390 |
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| Description: |
| [xvi], 655 pp. Half title present. (4to) 10½x8¼, later full calf, morocco spine label (detached). First Edition. |
| Beattie was professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at Marischal Callege and the University of Aberdeen. He is best known for his 'Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth' (1770), written as refutation of the writings of David Hume. |
| Condition: |
| Extremities worn, joints cracked; occasional light foxing; else very good. |
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