Nicole's Essais de morale : autograph translation of three, with original autograph preface signed : [France], made for and dedicated to Margaret, Countess of Shaftesbury, [1678-1679].

BIB_ID

121219

Accession number

MA 232

Creator

Locke, John, 1632-1704.

Display Date

[1678-1679].

Credit line

Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.

Description

1 item (viii, ca. 477 p.), bound ; 13.4 cm

Notes

Locke translated Nicole's Essais in the autumn of 1676 while he was in France. This fair copy was probably made in 1678 and presented to the Countess of Shaftesbury upon his return to England in 1679.
Paginated by Locke with some errors.

Provenance

Margaret, Countess of Shaftesbury; in the possession of Thomas Hancock, M.D., in 1828.

Housed in

Blue cloth drop-spine box (15.4 cm)

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Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts