Essai sur l'origine des connoissances humaines

First edition.
Contemporary blonde sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Tail rolls. Red morocco title-label. Small lack at head. 3 corners bumped with loss of leather. Light bookworm damage to right margin of first leaves becoming simple wormholes throughout the work. A fairly good copy.
This first work in which Condillac's thought takes shape draws considerably on the author's intellectual master: Locke. Already, abbé Condillac rejects all spiritual causes and attacks all idealist philosophies (Leibniz, Descartes...), but he is not yet the leader of Sensualism, which he would only affirm much later. His style is already clear, precise and logical, going directly to the essential through inductions. In this first work, Condillac lays the foundations and principles on which his future thought would be built. Ex-libris Maurice Privat. Label from Librairie Raymond Clavreuil.