ADAM SMITH Essays on Philosophical Subjects. To which is prefixed An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; by Dugald Stewart, F.R.S.E. London, T.Cadell Jun and W.Davies 1795 Quarto, 19th century green cloth boards, spine lettered gilt, xcvpp + 244pp, a very large copy First edition. Adam Smith was supported in his declining years by two old friends in particular: the distinguished scientists Joseph Black and James Hutton. It was they who superintended, at Smith’s request, the destruction of all his papers except the few he judged to be in a sufficiently finished state to deserve publication. Black and Hutton were his literary executors, and published the literary fragments which had been spared the flames under their editorship as Essays on Philosophical Subjects in 1795. The essays include “The History of Astronomy”, “The External Senses” and “On the affinity between Music, Dancing and Poetry” and prefixed at the beginning Dugald Stewart’s An Account of the life and Writing of the Author which is the first biography of Adam Smith. Kress B3038. Goldsmith 16218. Rothschild Library, 1902. Vanderblue, p.43. £2,500	Please select : JOHN BATE Gerard Blaes Bullion Report Ephraim Chambers Captain James Cook Charles Davenant Alexis de Tocqueville Nicholas Dubois de Chemant Francesco Feliciano William Hamilton Ebenezer Howard DAVID HUME Six 17th Century editions of the Koran Koran Koran Koran John Locke JOHN LOCKE JOHN LOCKE Thomas Masterson HENRI MATISSE JAMES AND JOHN STUART MILL Thomas Obicini LUCA PACIOLI John Parkinson JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI François PÉTIS DE LA CROIX William Petty Giovanni Sfortunati William Shaw Robert Simson Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith Adam Smith SIR JAMES STEUART Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich Stromer William Thom CUTHBERT TUNSTALL JOHN WHEELER Robert Wooffendale
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