A new theory of human nature
Subtitle: with a correspondent system of education
By: together with a preface by Counsellor Baumgarten. Translated from the German ...
Contributors: Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Baumgarten, Counsellor (Nathaniel); Boston Public Library) John Adams Library
Publisher: Printed for A. Linde ..., and S. Crowder and H. Woodgate
Published: 1755
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Early works to 1850; Early works to 1800; Psychology; Philosophy of mind
Work titles: Versuch einer theorie von dem Menschen und dessen erziehung
Notes: Anonymous. By Friedrich Engel. -- cf. ESTC.

Head-pieces; tail-pieces; initials.

Translated from 'Versuch einer theorie von dem Menschen und dessen erziehung.'

The preface, not the text, is by Counsellor Nath[aniel] Baumgarten; the punctuation of the t.p. (a period after 'preface,' which has been removed here for clarity, and the capitalization of 'by') incorrectly implies the text was written by Baumgarten.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams."

ESTC, T78649

Also available on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 5507, no. 6).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.