Traité des sensations.
CONDILLAC, Etienne Bonnot de.
Londres & Paris: Chez De Bure, 1754. 12mo. 2 volumes: (2), vi, 345; (4), 335, (1) pp. Half-titles, errata leaf. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine richly gilt with ornamentation, leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Fine choice copy. (Item ID: 46828)
$2,500.00
First edition. With a simple printed ownership label on the front pastedown: "Au citoyen J.J. Esmieu, propriétaire aux Mées." Garrison-Morton 4968: "Condillac considered that we perceive only what our senses supply in the form of sensations: the 'real being' of things is beyond us."