Author: KAMES (Henry Home), Lord:
Title: 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.
Description: 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.

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