Marginalia in Revd Bayes' copy of Dr Wittgenstein's On Certainty
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It is rare enough to find an important manuscript from the eighteenth century of which we have had no inkling before. It is rarer still to find one that provides a commentary on a work from two hundred years later. Yet this indeed is what Sotheby’s listed as Lot 6 in this week’s auction of rare books from ‘a distinguished private library’.
Marginalia in Revd Bayes' copy of Dr Wittgenstein's On Certainty
Marginalia in Revd Bayes' copy of Dr…
Marginalia in Revd Bayes' copy of Dr Wittgenstein's On Certainty
It is rare enough to find an important manuscript from the eighteenth century of which we have had no inkling before. It is rarer still to find one that provides a commentary on a work from two hundred years later. Yet this indeed is what Sotheby’s listed as Lot 6 in this week’s auction of rare books from ‘a distinguished private library’.