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David Hume, portrait by Allan Ramsay ("the Younger"), 1754 |
This collection includes both early editions of works by the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), and extensive holdings of scholarship about his life and thought. The collection was formed by the Hume scholar Prof. James Willard Oliver, Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina from 1964. Through Professor Oliver's generosity, it was transferred to the University in 1997. The important first and other early editions include, most notably:
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Treatise of Human Nature, first edition, vols. 1 and 2 (1739). (Also second edtion, London, 1817.)
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Essays, Moral and Political, first edition (1741).
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Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding, first edition (1748).
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An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, first edition (1751).
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, third edition (1754).
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Four Dissertations, first edition (1757).
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The History of England, 8 vols. (1767).
With this core collection are extensive holdings of Hume biography (from Hill Burton, 1846, onwards), bibliography, commentaries, and other monographs.
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