[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: Geo. Combe's "Moral Philosophy"

[Norman Kane]

We can offer:

COMBE, GEORGE.  LECTURES ON MORAL PHILOSOPHY, DELIVERED BEFORE THE 
PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION, AT EDINBURGH . . .    Boston: Marsh, &c, 1840. 
First U. S. edition.   American Imprints 40-1589 misstates the pagination, 
which is 3 preliminary leaves (half-title lacking?) + 464 pp. plus advts 
dated Aug., 1839.  Old half leather, rubbed, front joint re-glued, some 
moderate foxing, armorial bookplate of S. G. Morton, M.D. (the famous 
Phila. physician, naturalist and paleontologist ?), old book label at rear 
of Chas. M. Morton. (Combe, a disciple of Spurzheim, founded the 
Phrenological Society and the "Phrenological Journal", &c.  Topics include 
polygamy, the duty of parents to educate their children, pauperism, crime, 
prisons, &c. )     $225.00


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