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	[FORBES (ROBERT)]: An Essay on the Nature of the Human Body, and the Singular Respect and Veneration shewn to it, After Death, among all People and Nations Whatsoever. In Consequence of which, on the Growing Evil Of profaning and defiling Kirks, and Kirkyards, And other Bu Edinburgh: Printed by David Paterson, For John Wilson..., 1767. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 56, contemporary boards (rubbed and faded), recently re-spined, morocco label on front cover; text brown, name scribbled on title-page almost obliterating upper portion of text. Forbes (1708 - 1775) was Bishop of Ross and Caithness. His curious little pamphlet, full of quotations from the Bible as well as classical authors to prove the necessity of maintaining in so far as possible the integrity of the corpse. The author also cannot resist complimenting himself on the daring principles he has enunciated: "Awed not by the great, nor dazzled by the rich, I desired to live unnoticed, to enjoy my beloved retirement, and lie snug in obscurity." This social solipsism is somewhat undermined a few sentences later: "For aught I know, at present, I walk single and alone in this untrodden path; but I hope, upon this representation to the public to have numbers to join issue with me in so laudable and opposition to this growing evil." ESTC T56736 locates several copies in UK libraries, and the Huntington, University of Miami, Coral Gables; University of Minnesota; University of Pennsylvania Libraries; and Brigham Young University Lee Library in United States libraries. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 \| JP¥ 32283] Book number: 3090 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	KAMES (HENRY HOME), LORD: Sketches of the History of Man. Considerably Improved in a Second Edition. Edinburgh: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell...and for W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1778. 4 volumes. 8vo, pp. xii, 498 [499 adverts, 500 blank]; [iv], 461 [462 blank, 463 adverts, 464 blank]; [iv], 428; iv, 480, no half-titles, contemporary tree calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments; some browning of text, tops and bases of spines chipped, front joints cracked with volumes 1 and 3 tender, lacks labels. Kames's Sketches was first published in 1774, prompting James Boswell, in a letter to Bennet Langton, to comment that he thought the volumes "very dear [two guineas], from what I have read of them. He has a prodigious quantity of Quotation, and there seems to be little of what he gives as his own that is just, or that has not been better said by others." Boswell's jejune assessment can be contrasted with that of the reviewer in the Edinburgh Magazine and Review: "There is not perhaps in the English Language a book which furnishes so great a variety of materials, and so much ingenious remark and conjecture, as the work before us. The philosopher, the statesman, the man of taste, the naturalist, will here find views and observations of the highest importance to their several departments." A Dublin edition appeared in 1775, and there was one further edition (1779) in Kames's lifetime. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 427 US$ 639.49 \| JP¥ 56496] Book number: 2571 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	KAMES (HENRY HOME), LORD: Sketches of the History of Man. Considerably Enlarged by the last Additions and Corrections of the Author. A New Edition...to which is now added A General Index. Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech...and T. Cadell & W. Davies, London, 1807. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], 525 [526 blank]; iv, 482; vii [viii blank], 514 [515 - 516 adverts], contemporary half roan, marbled boards (slightly rubbed), rebacked, gilt rules across spines, red and black morocco labels. Kames's Sketches was first published in 1774, partly in response to the first volume of Lord Monboddo's Of the Origin and Progress of Language. It proved to be a popular work and was republished several time sin the 18th century and again in the 19th century. ESTC on-line locates 5 British copies and 7 copies in North American libraries. GBP 330.00 [Appr.: EURO 366 US$ 548.13 \| JP¥ 48425] Book number: 3023 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MACKENZIE (HENRY): Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the Nature and Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian. With a Copious Appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press; for Archibald Constable..., 1805. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. iv, 155 [156 blank], [v]-x [xi-xii adverts], 343 [344 Errata], three engraved plates (one in colour and one folding), uncut, contemporary half calf, falling to bits, with book in two parts between pp. 179 and 180. A working copy. The labours of Mackenzie's committee almost put an end to the question of the authenticity of the Ossianic poems: they concluded that such poetry as Macpherson claimed to have found did exist, but that Macpherson's publications contained more Macpherson than Ossian. The work is still very useful to scholars interested in the intellectual life of 18th century Scotland. Among the documents printed are letters from David Hume to Hugh Blair about the authenticity of Macpherson's claims; other letters are by Hugh Blair, Adam Ferguson, Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk, John Home, etc. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 5010 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SMITH (SAMUEL STANHOPE): An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kaims's Discourse on the Original Diversity of Mankind. Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed: For John Stockdale..., 1789. 8vo, 211 x 131 mms., pp. 147 [148 blank], contemporary calf; worn, covers detached, with the Hanson Library Association bookplate and the bookplate of Richard G. Durnin on the front paste-down end-paper; and a few pencil annotations. Smith (1750 - 1819) presented this as a lecture - rather a long one - to the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia on 28 February 1787, when it was published. An edition in Edinburgh followed in 1788. Smith's argued that we had all descended from a common ancestor, in accordance with the Biblical description of the origin of man, and that only climate and situation produced changes in skin colour, physical appearance, and cultural sensitivity. The work was revised and reprinted in 1810. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 6323 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SMITH (JOHN): Galic Antiquities: Galic Antiquities: Consisting of A History of the Druids, particularly those of Caledonia: A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian; and A Collection of Ancient Poems, Translated from the Galic of Ullin, Ossian, Orran, Edinburgh: Printed for T. Cadell, London; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1780. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. viii, 532. BOUND WITH SMITH (John): Sean Dana; Le Oisian, Orran, Ulann, &c. Ancient Poems of Ossian, Orran, Ullin, &c. Collected in the Western Highlands and Isles; Being the Originals of the Translations some time ago Published in the Gælic Antiquities. Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot; and For C. Elliot, T. Kay..., London, 1787. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [iv], 174. 2 volumes in 1, contemporary speckled sheepskin, gilt border on covers, gilt rules across spine, red morocco label; title-page of second item spotted, some water-staining of text towards end of volume, corners slightly worn, rear cover slightly scored and wormed. With the armorial bookplate of Westport House, ancestral home of the Second Earl of Altamont and John Denis, Third Earl and Marquess of Sligo, County Mayo, on the front paste-down end-paper. Like many Scots who trained for the ministry in the 18th century, Smith (1747-1807) had interests and abilities beyond his clerical duties. An accomplished Gaelic scholar, he translated part of the Bible into Gaelic, but Galic Antiquities was his first substantial work. It and Sean Dana later provided the copy-text for French and Italian versions of ancient Scottish poetry. Smith seems to have borrowed much of his argument about the authenticity of Ossianic poems from Kames's Sketches of the History of Man (1774). For example, Smith writes, "The language too, and the structure of these poems, like every other thing about them, bear the most striking characters of antiquity. The language is bold, animated, and metaphorical; such as it is found to be in all infant states; where the words, as well as the ideas and objects, must be few; and where the language, like the imagination, is strong and undisciplined." In Sketches of the History of Man, Kames had written: "Every scene in Ossian relates to hunting, to fighting, or to love, the sole occupations of men in the original state of society: there is not a single image, simile, or allusion, but what is borrowed from that state, without a jarring circumstance." GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 610 US$ 913.55 \| JP¥ 80709] Book number: 2602 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.

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	[FORBES (ROBERT)]: An Essay on the Nature of the Human Body, and the Singular Respect and Veneration shewn to it, After Death, among all People and Nations Whatsoever. In Consequence of which, on the Growing Evil Of profaning and defiling Kirks, and Kirkyards, And other Bu Edinburgh: Printed by David Paterson, For John Wilson..., 1767. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 56, contemporary boards (rubbed and faded), recently re-spined, morocco label on front cover; text brown, name scribbled on title-page almost obliterating upper portion of text. Forbes (1708 - 1775) was Bishop of Ross and Caithness. His curious little pamphlet, full of quotations from the Bible as well as classical authors to prove the necessity of maintaining in so far as possible the integrity of the corpse. The author also cannot resist complimenting himself on the daring principles he has enunciated: "Awed not by the great, nor dazzled by the rich, I desired to live unnoticed, to enjoy my beloved retirement, and lie snug in obscurity." This social solipsism is somewhat undermined a few sentences later: "For aught I know, at present, I walk single and alone in this untrodden path; but I hope, upon this representation to the public to have numbers to join issue with me in so laudable and opposition to this growing evil." ESTC T56736 locates several copies in UK libraries, and the Huntington, University of Miami, Coral Gables; University of Minnesota; University of Pennsylvania Libraries; and Brigham Young University Lee Library in United States libraries. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 \| JP¥ 32283] Book number: 3090 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	KAMES (HENRY HOME), LORD: Sketches of the History of Man. Considerably Improved in a Second Edition. Edinburgh: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell...and for W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1778. 4 volumes. 8vo, pp. xii, 498 [499 adverts, 500 blank]; [iv], 461 [462 blank, 463 adverts, 464 blank]; [iv], 428; iv, 480, no half-titles, contemporary tree calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments; some browning of text, tops and bases of spines chipped, front joints cracked with volumes 1 and 3 tender, lacks labels. Kames's Sketches was first published in 1774, prompting James Boswell, in a letter to Bennet Langton, to comment that he thought the volumes "very dear [two guineas], from what I have read of them. He has a prodigious quantity of Quotation, and there seems to be little of what he gives as his own that is just, or that has not been better said by others." Boswell's jejune assessment can be contrasted with that of the reviewer in the Edinburgh Magazine and Review: "There is not perhaps in the English Language a book which furnishes so great a variety of materials, and so much ingenious remark and conjecture, as the work before us. The philosopher, the statesman, the man of taste, the naturalist, will here find views and observations of the highest importance to their several departments." A Dublin edition appeared in 1775, and there was one further edition (1779) in Kames's lifetime. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 427 US$ 639.49 \| JP¥ 56496] Book number: 2571 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	KAMES (HENRY HOME), LORD: Sketches of the History of Man. Considerably Enlarged by the last Additions and Corrections of the Author. A New Edition...to which is now added A General Index. Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech...and T. Cadell & W. Davies, London, 1807. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], 525 [526 blank]; iv, 482; vii [viii blank], 514 [515 - 516 adverts], contemporary half roan, marbled boards (slightly rubbed), rebacked, gilt rules across spines, red and black morocco labels. Kames's Sketches was first published in 1774, partly in response to the first volume of Lord Monboddo's Of the Origin and Progress of Language. It proved to be a popular work and was republished several time sin the 18th century and again in the 19th century. ESTC on-line locates 5 British copies and 7 copies in North American libraries. GBP 330.00 [Appr.: EURO 366 US$ 548.13 \| JP¥ 48425] Book number: 3023 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MACKENZIE (HENRY): Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the Nature and Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian. With a Copious Appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press; for Archibald Constable..., 1805. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. iv, 155 [156 blank], [v]-x [xi-xii adverts], 343 [344 Errata], three engraved plates (one in colour and one folding), uncut, contemporary half calf, falling to bits, with book in two parts between pp. 179 and 180. A working copy. The labours of Mackenzie's committee almost put an end to the question of the authenticity of the Ossianic poems: they concluded that such poetry as Macpherson claimed to have found did exist, but that Macpherson's publications contained more Macpherson than Ossian. The work is still very useful to scholars interested in the intellectual life of 18th century Scotland. Among the documents printed are letters from David Hume to Hugh Blair about the authenticity of Macpherson's claims; other letters are by Hugh Blair, Adam Ferguson, Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk, John Home, etc. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: 5010 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SMITH (SAMUEL STANHOPE): An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kaims's Discourse on the Original Diversity of Mankind. Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed: For John Stockdale..., 1789. 8vo, 211 x 131 mms., pp. 147 [148 blank], contemporary calf; worn, covers detached, with the Hanson Library Association bookplate and the bookplate of Richard G. Durnin on the front paste-down end-paper; and a few pencil annotations. Smith (1750 - 1819) presented this as a lecture - rather a long one - to the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia on 28 February 1787, when it was published. An edition in Edinburgh followed in 1788. Smith's argued that we had all descended from a common ancestor, in accordance with the Biblical description of the origin of man, and that only climate and situation produced changes in skin colour, physical appearance, and cultural sensitivity. The work was revised and reprinted in 1810. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 \| JP¥ 40354] Book number: 6323 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SMITH (JOHN): Galic Antiquities: Galic Antiquities: Consisting of A History of the Druids, particularly those of Caledonia: A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian; and A Collection of Ancient Poems, Translated from the Galic of Ullin, Ossian, Orran, Edinburgh: Printed for T. Cadell, London; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1780. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. viii, 532. BOUND WITH SMITH (John): Sean Dana; Le Oisian, Orran, Ulann, &c. Ancient Poems of Ossian, Orran, Ullin, &c. Collected in the Western Highlands and Isles; Being the Originals of the Translations some time ago Published in the Gælic Antiquities. Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot; and For C. Elliot, T. Kay..., London, 1787. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [iv], 174. 2 volumes in 1, contemporary speckled sheepskin, gilt border on covers, gilt rules across spine, red morocco label; title-page of second item spotted, some water-staining of text towards end of volume, corners slightly worn, rear cover slightly scored and wormed. With the armorial bookplate of Westport House, ancestral home of the Second Earl of Altamont and John Denis, Third Earl and Marquess of Sligo, County Mayo, on the front paste-down end-paper. Like many Scots who trained for the ministry in the 18th century, Smith (1747-1807) had interests and abilities beyond his clerical duties. An accomplished Gaelic scholar, he translated part of the Bible into Gaelic, but Galic Antiquities was his first substantial work. It and Sean Dana later provided the copy-text for French and Italian versions of ancient Scottish poetry. Smith seems to have borrowed much of his argument about the authenticity of Ossianic poems from Kames's Sketches of the History of Man (1774). For example, Smith writes, "The language too, and the structure of these poems, like every other thing about them, bear the most striking characters of antiquity. The language is bold, animated, and metaphorical; such as it is found to be in all infant states; where the words, as well as the ideas and objects, must be few; and where the language, like the imagination, is strong and undisciplined." In Sketches of the History of Man, Kames had written: "Every scene in Ossian relates to hunting, to fighting, or to love, the sole occupations of men in the original state of society: there is not a single image, simile, or allusion, but what is borrowed from that state, without a jarring circumstance." GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 610 US$ 913.55 \| JP¥ 80709] Book number: 2602 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.