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48 [A 1706 1st Edition from a Leading Philosopher for the American Revolution] Locke, JohnBiblio.com

POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF MR. JOHN LOCKE: VIZ. I. OF THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING. II. AN EXAMINATION OF P. MALEBRANCHE'S OPINION OF SEEING ALL THINGS IN GOD. III.A DISCOURSE OF MIRACLES. IV.PART OF A FOURTH LETTER FOR TOLERATION. V.MEMOIRS RELATING TO THE ; LIFE OF ANTHONY FIRST EARL OF SHAFTESBURY. TO WHICH IS ADDED VI.HIS NEW METHOD OF A COMMON-PLACE-BOOK WRITTEN ORIGINALLY IN FRENCH AND NOW TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

1706réf. 42126London: Printed by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill 1706. Hardcover. 1st edition. All Original Period tooled calf with raised bands and spine label. 8vo iv 336 pages. Yolton 299; NCBEL II 1835; Pforzheimer 609. Attig 724. Often credited as a founder of modern "liberal" thought Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law social contract religious toleration and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed. Six substantial pieces compiled by Locke's literary executors Peter King and Anthony Collins with Locke's instructions. Contents are: 1 The Conduct of Understanding 2 An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion. 3 A Discourse on Miracles 4 Part of a Fourth Letter on Toleration 5 Memoirs Relating to the Life of Anthony First Earl of Shaftesbury and 6 Locke's ingenious New Method of a Common-Place-Book. The latter first appeared in French in 1686 in the Bibliothèque Universelle and Shaftesbury's memoirs also first appeared in French 1705 in Bibliothèque Choisie. Those two make their first English appearance here and it is the first appearances in print for the other four. Locke's "Of the Conduct of the Understanding" was especially popular and was reprinted numerous times. It was intended as a later addition to his Essay Concerning Human Understanding but Locke was unable to incorporate this in a later edition before his death. OCLC: 367557024. OCLC locates only 2 copies in North America Yale & BYU. Hinges cracked but hinges very solid and strong. Owner's label and name on blank front endpapers. Paper bright white Very attractive copy in what appears to be the original 300 year old binding. B KH-10-11. London: Printed by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill hardcover

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[California Gold Rush - Sacramento - Cholera Epidemic - Illness - Mining - Sandwich Islands - Maine] [Locke?], SamuelBiblio.com

1850 Letter from Sacramento Describing the Cholera Epidemic Failed Mining Ventures Violent Crime and Emigrants Too Sick and Impoverished to Return Home: "O How I long to get out of this place

1850réf. BK0017Sacramento City California 1850. Autograph letter signed "Sam'l Locke" to his wife in Belfast Maine. 6 pp. Stampless folded letter with clear circular "SACRAMENTO CITY / CAL." postmark and "40" rate handstamp; manuscript notation recording receipt in Maine on December 19 1850. Light soiling; very good. A bleak California Gold Rush letter written during the 1850 Sacramento cholera epidemic by Samuel Locke a Maine emigrant suffering from prolonged fever and unable to regain his strength. Surrounded by sickness failed mining ventures violent crime and men too poor or ill to return home Locke plans to seek recovery in the Sandwich Islands while relying upon his religious faith for consolation. Locke had been ill since August and was now so weak that ordinary work exhausted him: "My limbs or legs are very weak short breath and no appetite at all. I have no desire to eat anything not one thing I can think of. I have no strength to go into any business or to do any. I do a few little chores round or about the store occasionally but to sweep the store it beats me all out . O how I long to get out of this place. Can't get any strength don't know as I can anywhere but I long to try." Friends advised him to spend the winter in the Sandwich Islands. He expected to travel first to San Francisco and then make the fifteen- to twenty-day passage to Hawaii though he feared that continued illness might leave him unable either to support himself there or return to Maine. He states that he will "trust in providence yes trust in God who I feel is my only refuge". Locke gives a grim account of California's climate and the spread of cholera through Sacramento claiming that the climate in California prevented the sick from recovering their strength as the "air is very light & bad middle of the day very hot and nights very cool." The previous week's report had stated forty dead but "nothing near all the cases were reported" with Locke himself knowing of several unreported cases personally. A local blacksmith died overnight after his companions borrowed Locke's syringe and "We can hardly see a healthy looking individual in the streets." The letter also records the uncertain fortunes of men from Locke's home region scattered through the mines. William Beckett and his partners had spent the summer constructing a mining dam had struck gold on the first day and then immediately "the dam was washed away so they lost all their summer's labor." Other acquaintances had moved to Kelsey's Bar the southern mines or Oregon or were preparing to return east by way of Panama. Some remained convinced that California would reward perseverance while others had "seen enough" after accomplishing nothing. Locke regarded success as largely accidental: "Thousands are here and in the mines who want to get home and cannot-not able to do seamen's duty and no money to pay but they have got to stay in the mines and do the best they can. Some it is true have been lucky. It is all luck. If they happen to hit a good place they do well." News that cholera had entered the mining districts increased his alarm. Locke feared especially for men living in tents as the rainy season approached with poor food and little protection from exposure. Sacramento itself was marked by nightly violence: "There are murders or robberies about every night. One man killed in front of our house a few nights ago. We heard him holler and heard the blows. Next morning he died. His head was dreadfully mangled." Locke closes with an emotional message to his wife and children. His health finances and prospects all appeared uncertain and he repeatedly asked his family and church to pray for him: "Tell the dear Children to be good and if they never see me again when I am gone they will have the satisfaction . of knowing they acted as thy Father requested . Pray for me ask the Church to pray for me indeed I know I have your prayers and you have mine often." A particularly bleak account of the human cost of the California Gold Rush documenting epidemic disease physical collapse failed mining schemes violent crime religious faith and the predicament of emigrants unable to escape California after their health and resources were exhausted. . unknown

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[California Gold Rush - Sacramento - Cholera Epidemic - Illness - Mining - Sandwich Islands - Maine] [Locke?], SamuelABAA

1850 Letter from Sacramento Describing the Cholera Epidemic Failed Mining Ventures Violent Crime and Emigrants Too Sick and Impoverished to Return Home: "O How I long to get out of this place

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John LockeBiblio.com

The Works of John Locke

1714réf. 956F15London: John Churchill and Sam. Manship 1714 . First edition. Leather. Fair. 13.5" by 9". None. The first edition of volumes I and III of the complete works of philosopher John Locke one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment period. The first edition of the collected works of John Locke.Present here are volumes I and III only of this scarce first edition. Lacking volume II.The collected works of English philosopher physician and Enlightenment thinker John Locke frequently referred to as the 'Father of Liberalism' and recognised as one of the first of the British empiricists.Essays and writings on numerous subjects - including a discussion of interest letters concerning toleration and the reasonableness of Christianity - are included in these volumes alongside his posthumous works and a number of personal letters. With a lengthy index to the rear of each volume. ESTC T128627Volume I with the collation: A2 a2 a-g2 B-4G4 4H2. Volume I lacks the engraved frontispiece and engraved funerary epitaph but the text leaves are complete.Volume I also lacks 'An account of the life and writings of John Locke Esq; The third edition enlarged' London: printed for J. Clarke and E. Curll 1714 and 'The remains of John Locke Esq; . Publish'd from his original manuscripts' London: printed for E. Curll 1714 as called for. These two works which should each retain an individual title page and have separate paginations and registers consist of twenty-nine leaves.Volume III with the collation: A2 1 B-R2 S-5A4 5B-5D2 5E. Volume III lacks the final index leaf being leaf 5E2.With the United College Bradford library label to each front pastedown.With an advertisement leaf to volume I following the title page as called for.Sam. Manship's name does not appear in the imprint of volume III as called for.Two volumes of the scarce first edition of the works of one of the most important and enduring figures of Western philosophy.Locke's philosophy of mind is viewed as the origin of modern conceptions of personal identity and the psychology of the self influencing the work of later philosophers such as Rousseau Hume and Kant. Volume I in a full calf binding volume III in panelled calf. Significant losses of calf to volume I back strip. All boards detached but present with both volumes lacking endpapers. Major losses of calf to rear board of volume I. Significant rubbing to back strip and board perimeters of volume III. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Volume I title page detached but present. Title page and following two leaves of volume II remaining attached to front board and separated from rest of text block. Otherwise internally firmly bound. Pages of volume I bright with light marks to gutters of first third of the work and to fore edge of index leaves to rear. Handling marks to fore edges of leaves throughout. Significant handling marks to first and last few leaves of volume III with pages otherwise generally bright and clean. The odd marginal pencil notation to first third of volume III. Significant closed tear to fore edge of leaf 4B major closed tears to perimeters of 5E2 of volume III. Lacking volume I frontispiece and engraved funerary epitaph and final leaf of volume III leaf 5E2. Volume I lacking twenty-nine further leaves 'An account of the life and writings of John Locke' and 'The remains of John Locke'. Fair John Churchill, and Sam. Manship hardcover

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