CAPITAL OF THE MIND: How Edinburgh Changed the World.
Pp. xii+436, 16 plates (8 coloured), black & white title and headpiece decorations, notes, index; med. 8vo; grey papered boards, spine lettered in silver/blue; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves faintly foxed; John Murray, London, 2003. First edition. *'David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, William Cullen and James Hutton transform the way we treat our perceptions and feelings as well as mechanical processes, sickness and health, trade, money, relations between the sexes, the purposes of existence and government. In just fifty years, Edinburgh makes more mental history than any town of its size since the Athens of Socrates' [wrapper blurb]. Item #171685
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