Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth. Second Edition
by ABERCOMBIE (John):
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- first
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes..., 1831. 8vo, 208 x 132 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 464, attractively bound in full contemporary panelled calf, with ornately gilt borders, spine gilt in compartments, black morocco labels, curious ownership stamp on rector of front free end-paper, but a very good to fine copy of an admittedly common book. The Edinburgh physician John Abercrombie (1780 - 1844) published this work in 1830, and in this this second edition he has "made various verbal corrections, and has added a considerable number of new facts and observations, which, he trust, may increase the interest of the work." The Quarterly Review took notice of the first edition and in a long review remarked, "Dr. Abercrombie brings to his subject a mind thoroughly versed in its details, and habituated to this species of abstract inquiry. His descriptions of the mental phenomena are clear and precise, and his reasonings perpsicuous and sound."
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books
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- 8845
- Title
- Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth. Second Edition
- Author
- ABERCOMBIE (John):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes..., 1831
- Keywords
- epistemology philosophy Scpttish Enlightenment prose
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