Ethices Compendium in Usum Academicae Juventutis.
London: Impensis Gulielmi & Johannis Innys, 1724. Fourth edition. 8vo, [8], 299pp plus [5] publisher's ads. Contemporary paneled calf, finely rebacked with red morocco spine label. Boards with some soiling and scuffing, Berkeley Divinity School plate to front pastedown. Text clean and very good.
Sharp copy of one of the most widely used ethics textbooks in the 17th and 18th centuries, by the Oxford clergyman and Scholar, Daniel Whitby. Whitby died 2 years after this fourth and final edition was published. An excellent example of early enlightenment curriculum in moral philosophy. Item #9741
Price: $200.00
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