Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind

Exlibrary, usual marks and pocket; rebound in contemporary blue cloth library bindings with gilt titles on spine; covers darkened at spine and rubbed at extremities; internal condition very good; light to moderate foxing; a handful of small marks in margins of text; center hinge cracked in one place; several pages with bent or missing upper corners; title page has library stamp and a handwritten previous owner's name and date (1848); First English edition of Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain, posthumously published in Paris in 1795.