$1,700
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
London: for A. Miller, 1751. First edition, first issue. 12mo. (viii), 1-253, [3]pp.; with half-title, preliminary errata leaf, three final pages of ads, leaf L3 uncanceled with the catch word "than" to recto. Modern mottled calf with gilt spine compartments and burgundy morocco spine label, minor wear to extremities; light scattered foxing and minor soiling to text block, small dampstain to bottom margins, scattered old ink annotations, blind stamp to foot of p. 61. ESTS 4010; Rothschild 1174.
Hume regarded this refinement of his thinking on morality (first expounded as the third volume of his Treatise of Human Nature, published in 1739-40) as "incomparably the best" of all his writings.
"[Hume] may be regarded as the acutest thinker in Great Britain of the eighteenth century ..." DNB X:218.