Locke’s Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

A 1690 first of Locke’s Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, bound in contemporary English mottled calf gilt and formerly in Sir Isaac Newton’s library, that reached $190,000 (£131,035) was acquired by Freilich at the Haskell F. Norman sales of 1998, when the price was $200,000.

It was sold at the Freilich sale at Sotheby’s New York on January 10 and 11.

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