About this title: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION II. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF PRESERVATION. If in human nature there are qualities by which it is distinguished from every other part of the animal creation, this nature itself is in different climates and in different ages greatly diversified. The vari- eties merit our attention, and the course of every stream into which this mighty current divides, deserves to be followed to its source. It appears ...
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Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. No Jacket. Clean pages with moderately worn covers. Little fraying to corners. Spine is a little wiggly but holding securely. read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780878556960ISBN:0878556966
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 290 pages plus index. Square solid copy with light wear on covers and interior is unmarked. "This volume, first published in 1767, is a classic of the Scottish Enlightenment and has become a classic of sociological literature. " read more
Edition: \N
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BiblioLife
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554321202ISBN:0554321203
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 9.21 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00336 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: General Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781458810816ISBN:145881081X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 5.98 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00232 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press, Edinburgh
Date Published: 1966
Description: 8vo Cloth Rpt. Port. xli, 290 [Index] pp. Owner's blind stamp f.e. p; pencil marking o/w V.g. [Reprint of first (1767) edition with collation of variants] read more
Edition: \N
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BiblioLife
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554228174ISBN:0554228173
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 10 by 7 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00336 pages) large print edition lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Edinburgh U. P
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780852243565ISBN:0852243561
Description: Good. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh U. P., Edinburgh
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. No dust jacket. text free of marks; cover rubbed light wear; small stain on front edge of pages, does not affect text. Unknown printing. xli, 290 p. ports. 21 cm. read more
Edition: Second Edition?
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: T Cadel On the Strand, London
Date Published: 1793
Description: Very Good. Octovo in full polished calf; tight textblock; pages very bright and unfoxed, none are torn or marked; the front cover recently re-attached, else a solid copy with light shelfwear, black spine label. A minor social science classic.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 468 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A. Finley, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1819
Description: Very Good. No Dj. VG, hc, no dj, c.1819, book has been nicely rebound (rebinding info written on endpaper), wear and stain on spine, owner's signature/address on p104 of text, slight foxing throughout book; text is bright and readable, 506pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Creech,, London:
Date Published: 1793.
Description: 8vo. A4, B-2G8, 2H2. vii, [1], 468p. Contemp. calf, f; lat spine decorated in gilt with green lettering piece, spine a little rubbed. Bookplate of John Wilson. Ferguson, Adam (1723&endash; 1816), philosopher and historian. “ In 1767 Ferguson published his masterpiece, An Essay on the History of Civil Society...The Essay touched a chord in its British readers because it offered a detailed, colourful, non-deterministic historical account of the way nations advance morally and materially ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh, for A. Millar & T. Cadell, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell,...
Date Published: 1767
Description: 4to. Contemporary Scottish pale tan sprinkled calf, red morocco label, double gilt rules, red sprinkled edges. Engraved bookplate of Sir Henry Hay Makdougall Bart of Makerstoun (d. 1825). Spine and corners a little rubbed, spine just worn at headcap, rear joint split in lower compartment but holding firm, a sprinkling of foxing to endpapers and outer leaves, still an excellent copy, clean and well-margined in an unrestored contemporary binding. First Edition of Ferguson's masterpiece, a key ... read more
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