xiv, 485, [33] pp. Full leather, red morocco spine label, gilt titles and decorations, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece by Isaac Taylor. A work examining traditional philosophical teachings on formal logic, first principles, physics, metaphysics, etc. The author was a politician and grammarian greatly influenced by the works of Aristotle, and best known for his 1751 work Hermes, a philosophical examination of universal grammar.
