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1790008075London: Printed for G.G.J. & J. Robinson & J. Bew 1790. RARE. The Second English Edition five volumes in 2 series: 2 & 3 published 1790. Bound uniformly in contemporary calf red leather title labels and small round black volume labels in gilt with gilt rules The armorial bookplates of Charles MacKenzie Esq. of Kilcoy front paste downs. Very Good Plus calf a bit darkened joints starting at top edge Vol. III but holding nicely a bit of period writing in ink front end pages the interiors clean and lovely. Of this 2nd English Edition Tobias Smollett said; "We found the first translation so faulty that it is with pleasure we see the work again undertaken by some more competent author. Our present translator has executed his task with accuracy and fidelity; but to translate Rousseau is a labour of difficulty it is bending the bow of Ulysses which few weaker hands can perform." The Critical Review or Annals of Literature 1756-1763 p. 360 Lowndes IV 1585. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . Second English Edition . Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, & J. Bew, Hardcover books
1737008315London: Printed by James Purser 1737. Three volumes in sumptuous contemporary binding of dark brown calf with broad intiricate gilt dentelle bordered covers with large diamond centerpieces enhanced by delicate floral tools the backs with six raised bands with five of the compartments with floral gilt tooling marbled end papers with narrow gilt dentelle all edges gilt. Vol. I with tipped note card "to Robt. Smart donor the Rev. W. Chafin. Mr. Rolling & Miss Floyd present their compliments to Mr Smart & by his acceptance of Lord Shaftesburys Works Mr. Chafin & Miss Floyd consign to Mr. Smart". Each title page with inked inscription "Robt.Smart Donor Rev W. Chafin 1802". Vol. I with engraved frontis portrait and two title pages with vignettes and headpiece Vols. II and III with title page vignette and headpiece all by Gribelin. Very Good gilt at spines dulled joints showing wear but holding nicely small edge tears to end pages of Vol. I light wear at corners and spine ends. Internally clean and bright free of any toning or foxing. A lovely set in 18th century fine presentation binding. . Sixth Edition. Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed by James Purser Hardcover books
164724501London: Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corne-hill 1647. 1st Edition variant issue Wing B-3408A. Another issue of the same year has the printer's name "Matth. Simmons. in the yeare 1647". Period full leather with modern rebacking to style. Red morocco title label in second spine compartment. Modern eps. An overall VG copy text paper beginning to brown at edges with some associated chipping/repaired hole to lower right quarter of E2 affects last few words of two lines on p 25 and first few words of four lines on page 26/occasional po marginal pencil annotation a/o check mark. 18 155 7 28 4 pp. Separate t.p. for "Clavis". Last 4 pp: 2 pp 'Catalogue of Bookes' viz. bibliographical list by Behmen 1 pp of "Faults Escaped in Printing" & a blank. Inserted table & plate imperfect lacking 'folded' left side approx. 1 - 1.5". 4to: ¢4 -¢1 a half-title a2 a3 B1 A4 -A1 C - 2B4 2C2. <br/><br/>Bohme a German philosophical mystic who had a profound influence on such later intellectual movements as idealism and Romanticism. Born of poor parents in Goerlitz Germany as a boy he tended cattle later becoming a shoemaker marrying & fathering 4 children. Boehme at the robust age of 37 in 1612 wrote his first treatise Aurora oder Die Morgenroete in Aufgang. In 1613 an unauthorized copy of the manuscript was copied and circulated by Karl von Ender. Its reception "raised him out of his homely sphere and made him the centre of a local circle of liberal thinkers considerably above him in station and culture." However the local pastor primarius of Gorlitz Gregorius Richter leveled a charge of heresy. The local muncipal council administered an admonishment to no further "meddle in such matters." This charge Boehme publicly followed for 5 years. In 1618 Boehme again started writing expository & polemical treatises. The majority of his works were written though not formally published from 1619 - 1624. A second major work Der Weg zu Christo was published in 1624 and signaled a renewal of clerical hostility. Boehem however was destined to suffer but a short period of this second persecution; he died of an illness on 17 November 1624. Boehme has been said to have a "fertility of ideas" and a "trasncendent greatness of religious insight." Boehme was studied by Sir Isaac Newton and influenced the work Henry More as well as and especially William Law 1686 - 1761. Xl Questions concerning the Soule was translated by the English mystic John Sparrow in collaboration with John Ellstone & financed by Humphrey Blunden. This the first of several works by Boehme that Sparrow & Ellstone were to translate into English between 1644 - 1662. Boehme proved to be highly popular in England where there were regular societies of Behmenists at the time. This work XL Questions went into a second edition in 1648 and a third edition in 1665. 11th EB. A scarce title in the Boehme canon. We find no copies currently offered via the major on-line databases OCLC records but 4 institional cc and the work has only appeared at auction 3 times in the last 25 years the last in 1989. Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corne-hill hardcover books
1882008693Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagschandlung 1882. RARE in current commerce no auction records found. xviii 330 pages.Text in German Latin and Arabic. At first attributed to Aristotle De Causis later came to be recognized as being derived from "Elements of Theology" by Proclus. Bound in contemporary half black morocco over decorative embossed metallic paper boards gilt title back Art Deco end papers the small ticket of William Salloch of New York noted bookseller at front paste down. Very Good institutional stamps of "Arca Seminarii Philos. Lib. Prov. Mo. S.J." remnants of bookplates front end papers call letters stamped at base of spine scattered light pencil markings in text dampstain at gutters of first few front pages. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Herdersche Verlagschandlung Hardcover books
1777007710Groningae: Apud Jacobum Bolt 1777. RARE. 9 institutinal holdings worldwide according to Worldcat. Bound in quarter leather over marbled boards red leather label back with gilt decorations and rules. 14 300 p. Text in Latin. Very Good back repaired in keeping rubs to corners small letter in ink front paste down inscription concering Grotius dated 1839 page facing title page text clean and fresh. " 'The Universal Law of Nature or of Mankind' as it is represented by Grotius examined by Henry Lewis Wichers". . First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Apud Jacobum Bolt Hardcover books
17922291994Published for D. Jordan Piccadilly 1792. Ninth Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Ninth edition printed in the same year as part two's original release and just a year after the first appearance of part one. ESTC T5876 and N13105. Howes P31 and P32. Rebound in grey paper-covered boards with paper spine label and new end sheets. Brief pencil marginalia on just a couple pages a few pages very faintly foxed otherwise an exceptional copy. 1792 Hard Cover. viii 110 2 xiii 14-142 2 pp. 4to. Both parts of Paine's famous work in defense of political revolution. The first part was originally printed in 1791 and the second part followed the next year. "Rights of Man 1791 a book by Thomas Paine including 31 articles posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790." "Thomas Paine February 9 1737 O.S. January 29 1736 â June 8 1809 was an author pamphleteer radical inventor intellectual revolutionary and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in Thetford Norfolk Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful widely-read pamphlet Common Sense 1776 advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and The American Crisis 1776â1783 a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. The historian Saul K. Padover in the biography Jefferson: A Great American's Life and Ideas refers to Paine as "a corsetmaker by trade a journalist by profession and a propagandist by inclination." Paine greatly influenced the French Revolution. He wrote the Rights of Man 1791 a guide to Enlightenment ideas. Despite not speaking French he was elected to the French National Convention in 1792. The Girondists regarded him as an ally so the Montagnards especially Robespierre regarded him as an enemy. In December of 1793 he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris then released in 1794. He became notorious because of The Age of Reason 1793â94 his book advocating deism promoting reason and freethinking and arguing against institutionalized religion and Christian doctrines. He also wrote the pamphlet Agrarian Justice 1795 discussing the origins of property and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income. Paine remained in France during the early Napoleonic era but condemned Napoleon's dictatorship calling him "the completest charlatan that ever existed". In 1802 at President Jefferson's invitation he returned to America where he died on June 8 1809. Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his criticisms and ridicule of Christianity. Published for D. Jordan, Piccadilly hardcover books
184358469Tuscaloosa AL: Woodruff & Olcott 1843. First edition. 12mo. 245 pp. Publisher's ad leaf. The author published an earlier arithmetic textbook in Hartford Connecticut in 1830. American Imprints 43-406. Owen p. 811 without location. Ellison 471. OCLC locates four copies Mississippi lacking title page Alabama Yale American. Several leaves remargined no loss of text thoroughly foxed old accession numbers on two leaves a good copy of a rare Alabama schoolbook. Original calf boards rubbed rebacked with new leather spine label and gilt imprint at base new endpapers. #5677. <br/><br/> Woodruff & Olcott hardcover books
1927008909New York: Simon & Schuster 1927. RARE First Edition in dust jacket and SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front end page. Very Good spine lean prior owner name in ink bookplate and pencil gift inscription. fore edge soiled small L.S. Ayres ticket front paste down. In Very Good dust jacket spine darkened and a bit rubbed small chips at edges and folds. Durant's "remembrance of things past" of which he said ".it was done 'con amore' and there are some pages in it which I am afraid will remain to the end the best that I have written." . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
1825007687London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1825. In full contemporary polished calf with each cover decorated with a border of 4 blind rules two gilt fillets and blind dot roll tool inner corners with fine gilt floral tool spine with 4 padded compartments with gilt rules and 4 with blind rules gilt lettering and tail date marbled edges and endpapers. With the small label of Hessey Bookseller Fleet Street rear end page. Thomas Carlyle's first published book. Near fine boards lightly rubbed spine a bit darkened light toning primarily to end pages.SCARCE in contemporary fine binding. . First Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for Taylor and Hessey Hardcover books
1812005215Paris: Mme Ve Courcier / Bachelier 1812. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Vol.1 offsetting onto title 3 folded engraved plates Vol. 1 6 in Vol.2. Half-titles ribbon markers errata leaves. Two volumes 8vo. contemporaray tree calf attractively gilt with morocco lettering pieces. Small prior owner book plates both volumes. Very Good Plus some toning or foxing of text small scuff front board Vol. 1 gilt titles a bit dulled. A quite handsome set. . New Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mme Ve Courcier / Bachelier Hardcover books
1749007717Glasguae Glasgow: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1749. xi 1 209 3 pp. with a final leaf of advertisements. Bound in contemporary full calf five raised bands bordered in gilt rules leather label tooled edges. Very Good Plus end pages toned at edges covers lightly rubbed text quite clean and fresh. A quite handsome and well-bound copy of this uncommon edition of Lucretius's classic work. . Later Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, Hardcover books
1776007982London: Printed for J. Pote E. Ballard C. Bathurst T. Davies T. Payne et al 1776. "The eighth edition with very considerable amendments and improvements from the most accurate and elegant French Edition of Peter Coste." John Congreve 1801-1863 armorial bookplate in Vols. I and III. Very Good Plus in full contemporary calf with late 19th- early 20th c. reback in keeping with morocco labels lettered in gilt and gilt tooled decorations. Edge wear to boards shadows from bookplates front end pages the contents clean and bright. A handsome set. Eighth Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst, T. Davies, T. Payne et al Hardcover books
1814008004London: Printed for Lackington Allen & Co.; F.C & J. Rivington; et al 1814. advertisement 477 2 468 3 435 pp. Title page Vol.1 with an engraved sculpture portrait by W. Bromley. Three volumes in contemporary half vellum over marbled boards the backs intricately gilt and with red morocco labels lettered in gilt marbled end papers and edges. A lovely set Very Good Plus scant toning boards lightly rubbed spines darkened. Uncommon in this edition and such lovely condition. . Eighth Edition. Half Vellum. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for Lackington, Allen & Co.; F.C & J. Rivington; et al Hardcover books
1784008015Paris: The Author 1784. RARE WorldCat shows only eight institutional holdings. Portrait of René Descartes engraved on copper frontispiece Vol. I. Very Good quarter calf over paper covered boards expertly rebacked early 19th c. with gilt lettering and rules decorative end papers. Boards bumped and rubbed at edges. Vol. II with six fold-out plates engraved on copper at the end of the volume representing geometric figures diagrams of astronomy a terrestrial globe instruments of physics and the 12 astrological signs. Introduction and author's notes in French text in Latin and in French. Internally quite clean and lovely with no toning. . . First Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Author Hardcover books
1819008145Milano: Per Giovanni Silvestri 1819. SCARCE First Milanese edition of his masterpiece "Esprit des Lois" finely bound in contempoorary dark green straight-grained morocco the backs intricately tooled in gilt and with red and black morocco labels marbled end papers all edges dyed red frontispiece portrait engraving text in Italian. Very Good small Rome bookseller's labels front paste downs light wear at edges the interiors quite white and clean. Uncommon in such a handsome binding. . First Milanese Edition . Straight - Grain Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Per Giovanni Silvestri, Hardcover books
1866008308London: Chapman & Hall 1866. Four volumes finely bound in contemporary full vellum with beveled edges red morocco labels with gilt lettering and black morocco tail labels marbled end papers with red edges Near Fine moderate toning mainly at end papers light soiling to vellum. The bookplates of noted New Testament scholar William Sanday Christ Church to front paste downs. A quite handsome and well-bound set with distinguished provenance. Extra postage charges will be requested for international orders. . Later Edition. Full Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Small 8vo. Chapman & Hall Hardcover books
179530462New - York: Printed by T. and J. Swords 1795. 1st edition Evans 28775; Sabin 28933. Modern brown full calf executed in a period style with gilt lettered black leather title label to spine. Binding - Fine. Text block - VG faint period pencil pos to half-title/usual bit of browning & aging to paper. xvi 496 pp. Tailpiece at conclusion of text. 8vo. <br/><br/>Per Sabin "The first treatise on Moral Philosophy written and published in America." Printed by T. and J. Swords hardcover books
1959003301Ann Arbor MI: Univ of Michigan Press 1959. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpage. Second Printing Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket with a couple of tiny rubs at the tips. Boulding was the founder of the evolutionary economics movement a cofounder of General Systems Theoryand in addition to being an economist he was an educator peace activist poet religious mystic devoted Quaker systems scientist and interdisciplinary philosopher. He published over three dozen books and in excess of 1200 articles. He was one of those rare authors of a "Citation Classic." Indeed even more rare he was the author of two Citation Classics: The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society 1956 and Conflict and Defense: A General Theory 1962. SIGNED copies of any of his works are exceedingly SCARCE. . Signed by Author. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Univ of Michigan Press Hardcover books
1758007960London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White in Fleet - Street 1758. Fold-out frontispiece engraved portrait of Erasmus vi 630 pp. corrigenda 1 pp.of adverts. illustrated with two plates of Erasmus' facsimile handwriting. Contemporary full mottled calf five raised bands red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Very Good light rubbing at edges of boards light toning mainly associated with facsimile illustrations. Joints and hinges sound. Small mid-19th c. London bookseller's label bottom front paste down. Volume I only complete in itself. A second volume containing scholar's opinions on Erasmus and abstracts was published in 1760. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam 1466 - 1536 was one of Europe's most famous and influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and the first editor of the New Testament. . First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet - Street Hardcover books
1808007715London: W. Suttaby; B. Crosby & Co; Scatcherd and Letterman 1808. Two volumes 5 1/4" h x 2 7/8" w bound in contemporary full calf later rebacking in keeping back with two black leather labels lettered in gilt with ornate gilt decorations and tail date covers bordered in gilt arabesque with chased edge the armorial bookplate of Vaux of Harrowden both paste downs engraved title-pages. Very Good Plus leather lightly soiled the backs quite bright and fresh internally clean and bright free of toning or foxing. . Later Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. W. Suttaby; B. Crosby & Co,; Scatcherd and Letterman Hardcover books
1959006944New York: Basic Books 1959. First American Edition First Printing of Popper's "Logik der Forschung" first published in Vienna in 1932 and the book that gave the philosophy of science a firm foundation in 20th century thought. The book is Fine in a Very Good Plus dust jacket spinea bit browned and with some toning 1/4" and 1/2" tears at top edge front panel. A quite handsome copy of this highly regarded classic SCARCE in collectible dust jacket . First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Basic Books Hardcover books
1894006071Rome: Forzani et Sodalis 1894. Six volumes. Bound in Quarter Leather & Marbled Boards marbled end pages ribbon markers The set Very Good prior owner name front end page each volume else contents are clean tight and unmarked. Boards a bit rubbed else a quite handsome set. His most famous work written 1265-1274 A.D. a classic of Western philosophy. Heavy set media mail shipping only please. . First Edition Thus. Quarter Leather/Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Forzani et Sodalis Hardcover books
1768007697Paris: Chez Bleuet 1768. Contemporary full marbled calf backs ornately gilt brown leather labels marbled end pages all edges marbled. Engraved title page by Gravelot engraved by Binet. Text in both Latin and French. Very Good leather chipped front cover Vol. I along spine small rubs to leather Vol. II. Contemporary prior owner names to end pages. The text quite clean and with NO foxing or toning. A handsome set and an uncommon edition. . First Thus. Marbled Calf . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Chez Bleuet Hardcover books
1878007947Paris: Garnier Freres 1878. SCARCE as the complete set. Vols. I -II published 1878 III & IV in 1879. In contemporary half calf over marbled boards gilt lettering and decorations in four compartments marbled end papers and edges ribbon markers. Very Good Vols. III and IV missing rear facing marbled end paper boards rubbed at edges. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Garnier Freres Hardcover books
1877007716Paris: Alphonse Lemerre 1877. Three volumes 6 1/8" h x 3 3/4" h One of 100 unnumbered copies printed on Whatman paper in Fine signed Saulnier bindings of half crushed carmel morocco over marbled boards four raised bands gilt lettering rules and tail date bordered by tooled rules top edges gilt marbled end papers ribbon markers. A Fine set beautifully bound. . Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Alphonse Lemerre Hardcover books
