LOCKE John Essai philosophique concernant l’entendement humain, ou l’on montre quelle est l’étendue de nos connaissances certaines, et la manière dont nous y parvenons.

See PMM, 164; DSB, VIII, 436-440.

First edition of the French translation by Coste, revised by Locke. A key work by the famous English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), one of the greatest theoreticians of empiricism.

“Locke was the first to take up the challenge of Bacon and to attempt to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge when confronted with God and the universe…Locke’s design was less penetrating and subtle [than that designed by Hume or Kant] but it covers a remarkably wide field of investigation into human knowledge: it is the first modern attempt to analyse it” (P.M.M.)

Fine copy.