Locke, John: Bacon, Sir Francis:

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A TREATISE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING. [with:] ESSAYS, MORAL, ECONOMICAL, AND POLITICAL. An important pair of Enlightenment texts on the nature of human thought, printed in Boston in 1828 and owned by noted American librarians and bibliographers. Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, presented here as A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding, was formulated based on the foundation presented by Bacon in his Essays, Moral, Economical and Political. Interestingly, these basic texts of Enlightenment thought were issued at the inception of the Jacksonian era, when rapidly rising levels of voter interest and high degrees of personal loyalty to parties came to the fore.This copy was owned by a father-son pair of noted librarians and bibliographers, Randolph G. Adams (long-tenured head of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan), and his son, Thomas R. Adams (of the John Carter Brown Library), with their bookplates on the front pastedown. A manuscript note between the bookplates records that this volume was previously owned by their ancestor, Greenfield Adams of Lexington, Kentucky, a politician, jurist, and member of the United States House of Representatives for two non-consecutive terms.

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