Essai sur l’origine des connoissances humaines. Ouvrage où l’on réduit à un seul principe tout ce qui concerne l’entendement humain

by Condillac, abbé de Etienne Bonnot

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First edition

Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1746. Two volumes. 12mo. xxx, 265; iv , 292 pp. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut initials, head- and t ailpieces. An excellent copy bound in contemporary tree calf, spine labels, edges sprinkled red. Item #19760 First edition of Condillac’s first work in which he details his “sensualist doctrine,” the basis of the origins of human knowledge and the

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