Essays upon several subjects concerning British antiquities

by Henry Home, Lord Kames

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Edinburgh: printed for A. Kinkaid, 1747. 8vo, pp. 4 , 217, 3 ; contemporary calf, red morocco label, gilt-decorated spine; joints cracked, else very good. Lord Kames 1696-1782 was a Scottish judge and a country gentleman of small fortune É He was an ingenious writer, with a considerable knowledge of law and a great taste for metaphysics É Dr. Johnson formed a poor opinion of him. When Boswell, boasting of the advancement of literature in

• Binding: Leather

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