First Edition
Solid Philosophy Asserted, Against the Fancies of the Ideists:. or, the Method to Science Farther Illustrated. with Reflexions on Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding.
London: Printed for Roger Clavil, Abel Roper, and Thomas Metcalf. 1697.
SERGEANT, John. Solid Philosophy Asserted, Against the Fancies of the Ideists: . or, the Method to Science Farther Illustrated. with Reflexions on Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding London: Printed for Roger Clavil, Abel Roper, and Thomas Metcalf., 1697.
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[LOCKE, John]. SERGEANT, John. Solid Philosophy Asserted, Against the Fancies of the Ideists: or, the Method to Science Farther Illustrated. With Reflexions on Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding London: Printed for Roger Clavil, Abel Roper, and Thomas Metcalf, 1697.
First edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 112 mm). [52], 144, 161-460, [24 contents] pp. Title appears to be a cancel. Although pagination skips, complete, and collates same as British Library copy. With the final 12 contents leaves. We could find only one other copy at auction.
Full contemporary speckled calf. Rebacked with original spine. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Edges speckled red. Corners with some minor rubbing. A small portion of front endpaper torn and stuck with glue to title-page, not affecting text. Title-page roughly opened at fore-edge. with previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper (Fox Pointe Collection). Overall very good.
John Sergeant, English Roman Catholic priest, notable for his criticisms of several of the leading thinkers of his time, including John Locke... Theological and philosophical controversy occupied most of Sergeant's life. Among his adversaries were the English clergyman and writer Jeremy Taylor and Archbishop Peter Talbot of Dublin, who labelled certain of Sergeant's writings heretical. Sergeant attacked Locke in his Solid Philosophy Asserted, Against the Fancies of the Ideists (1697). He held that knowledge can be extended and explained by resorting to metaphysical and general principles of reason (or 'maxims') when empirical investigations yield no new knowledge. He therefore criticized Locke, who denied the importance of these principles in extending knowledge, though he did not rule them out entirely." (Britannica).
ESTC R10237.
HBS 68600.
$1,750
HBS 68600.
$1,750.
Price: $1,750.00
Item #68600