$2,500
Estimate: $2,500 - $4,000
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
London: for A. and J. Churchill, 1693. First edition, first edition. 8vo. [8], 1-262, [2]pp. With the "Patronage" reading on leaf A3v, line 19. Bound in modern purple-brown calf, stamped in blind with morocco spine label lettered in gilt; lightly rubbed; title page lightly soiled and laid down on a modern paper sheet, with modern ink supplying a portion of the page border; dedication page foxed and with soiling to edges, text block with some light scattered foxing and minor dampstaining. Housed in custom burgundy cloth clamshell box. Wing L2762; ESTC R213714.
During the 18th-century this seminal treatise was translated into nearly every European language; almost every European writer on education, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, acknowledged its influence.