Essais philosophiques sur l'entendement humain, /
Hume, David,1711-1776.
A Amsterdam, : chez J. H. Schneider,,
1758..
A selection of Hume's philosophical essays, translated by J.-B. Mérian and with a preface by Jean Henri Samuel Formey, a correspondent of Voltaire and contributor to the Encyclopédie. The 'Four philosophers' are essays 6-9 of Essays moral and political, vol. II, 1742' (Jessop).
Schneider followed up this publication with three more volumes, in 1759 and 1760, issued under the general title of "Oeuvres philosophiques de Mr. D. Hume", thereby creating a five-volume collected works.
Advertisements on final four leaves of vol. 2, separately signed.
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