James Lowde (3 results)

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1699 Printed by J. White for Fra Hildyard (York, England), 4 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches tall full leather bound, gilt ruling and decoration to boards, with four raised bands, gilt ruling and gilt-lettered leather label to spine, [12], 179, [1] pp. Recently rebacked with new leather spine over original boards. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. On the front pastedown, armorial bookplate of The Bridgewater Library, one of the great English aristocratic libraries. Contemporary shelf marks to front pastedown and free-endpaper. A handful of pages with slight marginal soiling, foxing or very minor age toning. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce work, especially rare with the provenance of The Bridgewater Library, formed by the Earls of Bridgewater beginning in the 16th century, the oldest large family collection in England to survive intact into modern times. Many volumes from this collection were dispersed in the early 20th century to Henry Huntington, forming the core of the Elizabethan and early Stuart collection at the Huntington Library of San Marino, California, and making surviving examples of volumes with the original bookplate exceptionally uncommon. The English Short Title Catalog (ESTC No. R31564) indicates only a small number of copies of this edition are known to exist, with only two holdings noted in North America - at Northwestern University, and Harvard's Houghton Library. Printed in York, a provincial printing center far less prolific than London, this edition represents a scarce regional imprint. Surviving York imprints from this era, particularly on philosophy and theology, are rare in the market and highly sought after by collectors, with the Bridgewater Library provenance only enhancing this. Note that the book is dedicated to John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater (1646-1701), who was actively involved as an inheritor and continuer of the grand Egerton family library, adding to the collection built by his ancestors which later became famous as the Bridgewater Library. ~V~ [1.5P] Moral Essays is a 1699 philosophical work that engages with prominent contemporary thinkers, specifically John Locke (1632-1704) and Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), and addresses debates surrounding deism. Locke was a pivotal English philosopher and physician, known as the 'Father of Liberalism,' who profoundly shaped Enlightenment thought and modern democracy with his theories on empiricism (knowledge from experience, the mind as a 'blank slate') and natural rights (life, liberty, property), arguing for government by consent to protect these rights, heavily influencing the U.S. Founding Fathers, and advocating religious toleration and separation of church and state. Malebranche was a French Oratorian priest and rationalist philosopher who synthesized Cartesianism with Augustinian thought, proposing that God is the sole cause of all events (occasionalism) and that all knowledge comes from ideas present in God's mind. Malebranche was a major figure in 17th-century philosophy, influencing mathematics and sparking debates with philosophers like Arnauld, Locke, and Hume. Author James Lowde, in addition to examining the ideas of Locke and Malebranche, devotes a substantial part of his essay to an 'answer' or refutation of arguments concerning deism, specifically addressing chapters in a 1693 book by English deist and freethinker Charles Blount, Oracles of Reason. In addition to this 1699 work, author Lowde in 1694 published A Discourse Concerning the Nature of Man, also with a York publisher for sale in London.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 100. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1699 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 100.

First edition. Although it is Hobbes who is named in the title, the first object of Lowde's attack is Locke and his perceived moral relativism; Locke took pains to answer Lowde in the second edition of the Essay. ESTC R36487; Yolton 1694-1. Octavo (177 x 110 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, raised bands to spine, double fillet border with scrollwork corner pieces to boards in blind. Complete with initial imprimatur leaf. Expert restoration to spine and joints, front free endpaper re-inserted. Endpapers soiled and tanned from turn-ins, fore edge of C2 torn and a small puncture to L3 not affecting the sense of the text, overall a very good copy, the contents bright and clean.