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Zustand: New. Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action. Editor(s): Heath, Eugene; Merolle, Vincenzo. Series: The Enlightenment World. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 480. . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 8.7" x 5.5" x 1.0". pp.viii/pp.480 + one folding map. Navy blue calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Corners bumped and edges rubbed. Spine with 5 raised bands and original gilt title (rubbed): "Ferguson's Roman Republic". Owner's name to verso of the front board: "Leigh Spencer, Chr; Coll. 1835". Engraved portrait frontis, facing an engraved title-page, followed by the printed title-page. All engravings foxed. Clear text in double columns. VG. ** Family history records show: "Leigh Spencer was born in 1817 in Banstead, Surrey, to Ann Akers and Richard Leigh Spencer. He studied to be a priest at Christ's College, Cambridge. He married Philadelphia Rose Williams in Marylebone, Middlesex, on 5 August 1851 when he was 34 years old. Leigh Spencer died on 10 December 1885 in Renhold, Bedfordshire, when he was 68 years old.…

The first edition of this important counterpart to Gibbon's history of the Roman Empire. The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic is Adam Ferguson's (1723-1816) best-known work, securing praise from Edward Gibbon, and solidifying Ferguson's status as an authority on pre-imperial Rome. This the first edition was published in three quarto volumes in 1783, and illustrated with 6 engraved maps, 4 of which are folding, going through two more English-language editions in 1799 and 1813, as well as translations into French (Paris, 1784 to 1791) and German (Leipzig, 1784-1786). A friend of Adam Smith and David Hume, Ferguson was Professor of Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1764 until 1785, when he was succeeded by his erstwhile student Dugald Stewart. His other major work, an Essay on the History of Civil Society, was an early investigation into the historical development of morality and the modern nation state. This work 'did more than any of Ferguson's books to determine its author's image as latter-day Roman, a worthy, if somewhat quaint, lover of virtue and liberty in their classical republican sense. Contemporaries and posterity came to view him as a moralist of stout but old-fashioned Stoic convictions. This image did little to keep his scholarship and political philosophy alive, but it lent the final three decades of his long life a glow of spirited integrity, not just as "a man of the world and a high-bred gentleman", in the words of his friend Alexander Carlyle but as the fiery "Scottish Cato" that friends and biographers fondly recalled' (ODNB). First edition; 3 vols; 4to (28.5 x 23 cm); illustrated with 6 engraved maps (4 folding, the other 2 full-page), errata f. to rear of vol. 3, armorial bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., initials 'W.F.' in pen to title-page of vol. 1, occasional spotting; contemporary tree-calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces to spine, joints slightly rubbed with small splits at spine ends, spine caps slightly chipped with minor loss, very good; [12], 461, [1]; [8], 548; [8], 574, [2]pp. Provenance: Ferguson of Raith (bookplate).…