LOCKE, John.

Oförgripelige Tankar om Werldslig Regerings Rätta Ursprung, Gräntsor och Ändamål; öfwersatte ifrån Engelskan af Hans Harmens ...

Stockholm, Royal Press, 1726. Small 8vo, pp. [viii], 382, [2] contents; title printed in red and black; light browning throughout, the occasional blemish; a good copy in contemporary half sheep and speckled boards, a little rubbed, lettering-piece to spine; early ink ownership inscription of Asmund Salmodin and note that he bought the book in 1769 to the front free endpaper. First edition in Swedish of one of the most famous and influential works in the history of liberalism, the second of Locke’s Two Treatises on Government (1690). It is the first appearance of Locke in a Scandinavian language. Although the title states that it is translated from the English, it is in fact a rendering, produced by order of the Swedish Riksdag, of Mazel’s French translation.Attig 216; Christophersen, p. 101; Yolton 60; OCLC locates copies at UCLA and Harvard only.

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