Lectures Metaphysics Logic Edited Rev by Hamilton Sir William (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 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].

Hardcover. 4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xix, [1]blank, 444; x, 568; xiv, 468; x, [1 leaf]errata, 510. with half-titles & errata slip in Vol. II. later half calf (rubbed, gilt institutional stamp on lower spines). First Edition. The lectures form the biennial course on metaphysics and logic which was begun by Hamilton on his election to the professorial chair in the University of Edinburgh in 1836, and repeated, with slight alterations, until his death in 1856. Jessop p. 137. NCBEL III 1535. Rand I p. 232.