Elements of Natural Philosophy.

LOCKE, John.

Item Number: 120130

London: Printed for J. Thomson and S. Dampier in the Strand, 1750.

First edition of this work by Locke. Small octavo, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, tooling to the front and rear panels, frontispiece. In very good condition. Rare.

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism" Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American Revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.