‎LOCKE, (J.)‎
‎Oeuvres diverses de Monsieur Jean Locke.‎

‎A Rotterdam, Chez Fritsch et Böhm, 1710. Title printed in red and black and with charming title vignette depicting a seating Minerva with books and press. (8), xcix, (1), 468 pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, paper label on spine, some staining on label, some spots on cover but a bright and very fine copy. Yolton 372; Attig 868. First French edition. This first French edition contains the first appearance in French of Locke's Epistola de tolerantia. This edition contains furthermore: Le Clerc's Eloge, Locke's Latin epitaph, the Conduct of the Understanding, Discours sur les Miracles, Méthode nouvelle de dresser des recueils, Mémoires pour servir à la vie d'Antoine Ashley, Comte de Shaftesbury.The work is modelled after the Posthumus Works of 1706 but printing the first French translation of the 'toleration' letter from the Latin edition instead of the incomplete fourth letter, and omitting the 'Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion'.Locke defends religious toleration in general, marking it as separate from the concerns of civil magistrates as a private and personal matter. Locke however advocates that toleration is to be withheld from religious groups who deny it to others. His view was of course supported by his experiences in France, where the persecution of the Huguenots had reached extremes between 1679 and 1685. - Very good copy, uncut. ‎

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