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1849020605London: George Bell 1849. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with minimal tanning. Full leather boards with fine embossing and some surface rubbing slightly darkened towards the fore edge. Intact gilt lettering to spine with raised bands and embossed repeating motif. All page edges gilt with spectacularly beautiful intricate design to the gilt. Attached silk bookmark ribbon. 152pp. These essays on morals and philosophy described as inherent and desirable in the English Gentleman were written by the author for his two younger brothers and subsequently published in early editions of the Theologian. The work is described as an 1849 re-print and is probably the closest in existence to the real first edition. Extremely scarce. Leather. Very Good /No Jacket. 6.5 x 4.25 inches. George Bell Hardcover
1965180425-MYB301Lyle Stuart Inc 1965. Printed on hand-made paper limited edition 1/3100 SIGNED by Bukowski Etchings by Noel Rockmore with original unbroken spine wrap . Signed. Limited Edition. Soft Boards. Very Good. Illus. by Rockmore Noel. Lyle Stuart, Inc Hardcover
1805614705London: R. Faulder/T. Payne 1805. Volume I to VII complete. Hardcovers with red boards no dust jackets gilt lettered spines and complementary marbled page blocks in very good condition. Page block heads are slightly tanned. Within age related tanning and foxing on some of the pages which are otherwise clear. Boards are clean and bindings are sound. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. R. Faulder/T. Payne Hardcover
1791025208London: J. Johnson 1791. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 11 15/16" Tall. Frontispiece Portrait By William Blake. Iii Viii Iv 756 Vii. One Volume Quarto Edition With The Blake Frontispiece Complete With Two Preliminary And Two Final Blanks. The Beginnings Of Western Scientific Philosophical Psychology Here Enlarged From The 1749 German Original With Additional Notes And A Biographical Sketch And Portrait. Original Spotted Calf Five Bands Morocco Label All Compartments Tooled With Gilt Designs And Rules. Edge Wear Front Hinge Cracked Externally But Binding Sound Original Endpapers Not Re-Backed No Names Or Marks Except A Few Pencil Notes On The Front Pastedown. Per Wikipedia David Hartley Frs 1705 - 1757 Was An English Philosopher And Founder Of The Associationist School Of Psychology. Like John Locke He Asserted That Prior To Sensation The Human Mind Is A Blank Slate. By A Growth From Simple Sensations Those States Of Consciousness Which Appear Most Remote From Sensation Come Into Being. And The One Law Of Growth Of Which Hartley Took Account Was The Law Of Contiguity Synchronous And Successive. By This Law He Sought To Explain Not Only The Phenomena Of Memory Which Others Had Similarly Explained Before Him But Also The Phenomena Of Emotion Of Reasoning And Of Voluntary And Involuntary Action. His Attempts At Explicit Albeit Somewhat Obvious Analysis Of The Mechanics Of Mental Activity Laid An Important Framework Of Discussion For Subsequent Academic Psychology. <br/> <br/> J. Johnson hardcover
193251732London Unwin Brothers Limited 1932 - 2005. 8vo. Volume 72 till 66 bound uniformly in black half cloth. Volume 67 till 80 in full black cloth. All with gilt lettering to spine. Small paper label pasted on to back board and small stamp to first leaf. A fine set of the British journal consisting of the following volumes: Vol.: 72- 16 20-31 48 51-80. 58 volumes in total. <br/><br/><em>"Philosophy is the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy which was founded in 1925 to build bridges between specialist philosophers and a wider educated public. The journal continues to fulfil a dual role: it is one of the leading academic journals of philosophy but it also serves the philosophical interests of specialists in other fields law language literature and the arts medicine politics religion science education psychology history and those of the general reader. Contributors are required to avoid needless technicality of language and presentation." Cambridge University Press. </em> hardcover
195051769Oxford Oxford University Press 1950 - 2004. 8vo. Volume 1-2 5-10 12-20 in green buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 21 in orange buckram. Volume 22-30 in full buckram in different colours. Volume 32-55 in uniform blue buckram. All volumes with small library stamps to titel page and library label to back board. <br/><br/><em>"For over fifty years The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science has published the best international work in the philosophy of science under a distinguished list of editors including Alexander Bird Peter Clark Mary Hesse James Ladyman Imre Lakatos and David Papineau. One of the leading international journals in the field it publishes outstanding new work on a variety of traditional and 'cutting edge' topics from issues of explanation and realism to the applicability of mathematics from the metaphysics of science to the nature of models and simulations as well as foundational issues in the physical life and social sciences. Recent topics covered in the journal include the epistemology of measurement mathematical non-causal explanations signalling games the nature of biochemical kinds and approaches to human cognitive development among many others. The journal seeks to advance the field by publishing innovative and thought-provoking papers discussion notes and book reviews that open up new directions or shed new light on well-known issues." Oxford University Press. </em> hardcover
1954007867Kiev: State Technical Press of Ukrainian SSR 1954. Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. 14 cm x 21 cm. A solid copy. Square and tight. Minor bumps/rubbing to corners. Inner hinges are sound. Pages are clean crisp and unmarked. This is the original 1954 Russian language edition. Since our book listing service does not offer the capability to enter titles using the Cyrillic alphabet the bibliographical data given above are based on an automated translation from the Russian using Babel Fish Altavista. Bound in the original blue boards with a blue cloth spine lettered in shiny gold. The author A. G. Ivakhnenko was born in the Ukraine in 1913. This book is one of his earliest publications probably the 3rd. With more than 30 monographs and over 400 published scientific articles to his credit Professor Ivakhnenko has made numerous major contributions to the fields of cybernetics automatic control adaptive learning systems and infomatics. His most influential invention is probably the Group Method of Data Handling GMDH also known as Polynomial Neural Networks. GMDH is widely used to identify unknown relationships of complex systems to solve a multitude of problems in medicine business sociology and other fields. Ivakhnenko also developed the algorithms on which the artificial intelligence tool KnowledgeMiner is based and was chief editor of the journal Avtomatika. This copy is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. However there is a paper laid-in with bibliographic data concerning the book that appears to be written in Dr. Church's hand. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust acket. 8vo. 291pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. State Technical Press of Ukrainian SSR Hardcover
1939007755Tokyo: Privately Printed 1939. The title page is INSCRIBED to: "Professor Alonzo Church Editor of The Journal of Symbolic Logic signed Katsumi Nakamura author of this book." SEE PHOTOS. Very Good condition. Clean and tight. Spine ends are mildly frayed. Pages are fresh crisp and unmarked. This book contains two papers. The first VALUE AND THINKING A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY pp. 1-155 is in Japanese except for an English title page. The second ZUM LOGISCHEN FUNKTIONSBEGRIFFE DES WIENER KREISES pp. 157-183 is in German. The binding is original brown cloth stamped in Japanese characters on the spine and front cover. This is almost certainly the very copy that Church used for his review of ZUM LOGISCHEN that was published in the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC Vol. 6 No. 1 Mar. 1941 p. 36. It is one of several dozen books from Alonzo Church's personal library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature. Unfortunately this copy does not. But please check our inventory for others that do. However Professor Church's handwriting does appears on the front cover where he penned the author's name and a title Zum logischen Funktionsbegriffe des Wiener Kreises and again on the spine author's name only. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. Signed/Inscribed by the Author to Alonzo Church. First hardbound edition assumed. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No Jacket. 8vo. x 185pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Privately Printed? Hardcover
1907009455London: Longmans Green and Co. 1907. First British Edition . Tan Quarter Cloth Over Boards. Very Good/Good. 8 5/8" Tall. Xiii 309 Pp.Tan Cloth With Printed Spine Label Over Brown Cloth Covers Top Edge Gilt. First English Edition In Format Identical To American Edition. Book Is Lightly Worn Spine With A Little Browning. Dust Jacket With Edge Wear Completely Split Along Front Spine Edge But Holding Nicely In Dust Jacket Protector Chipping At Corners Some Light Soiling And Browning With Pronounced Browning To Spine No Loss Of Lettering. Sidney Hook In His Preface To Boorstin's Reprinting Of Selections From This Text In His American Primer 1966 States "William James's Pragmatism Is Indisputably The Most Important Book In American Philosophy. It Is Important Not So Much Because Of Its Profundity As Because Of Its Popular Influence. At Home And Especially Abroad It Is Accepted As Representative Of A Distinctly American Philosophy And Is Considered A Work That Articulates With Candor And Dash Those Elements And Attitudes In The American Experience Which Transformed The Pioneers Of A Trackless Waste Into The Masters Of A Supremely Powerful Technological Civilization. Of The Delivery And Reception Of The Lectures At Columbia University He Wrote That They Were 'Certainly The High Tide Of My Existence So Far As Energizing And Being Recognized' Were Concerned." A Near Fine Copy Of The First British Edition In The Very Scarce Brown Dustjacket With Price 4/6 On Spine. Ownership Signature Dated 1917 Of Prominent Civil Engineer John Woods Beckman Who With His Wife Gertrude Helped Nobel Prize Winner William Giaque To Further His Education And Academic Career; Later Inscribed By The Beckmans To Henry F. May Historian Of American Intellectual Life In The Early Twentieth Century In 1961. <br/> <br/> Longmans, Green, and Co. hardcover
176613977London: Printed for L. Allcock 1766. 1766. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First English Language Edition. First English edition. 8vo. Full calf covers ruled in gilt spine lettered and ruled in gilt. 316 pp. Some scuffing to edges and hinges ownership signature and stamp at the head of the title page; a clean very good copy in general. Translated from the French work published in 1765: "La Philosophie de L'Histoire. Par feu l'Abbe Bazin." The book was published in French under the Bazin pseudonym to protect Voltaire from persecution but this English edition appeared the following year under his own name. As in the Mcgill copy Patrick Lee Collection this copy has the page number '44' printed upside-down and page number '93' printed as '39'. There was at least one edition in French published in London in 1765 but this 1766 edition appears to be the first in English. Printed for L. Allcock, 1766. Hardcover
1882008693Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagschandlung 1882. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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. Herdersche Verlagschandlung Hardcover
1777007710Groningae: Apud Jacobum Bolt 1777. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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". Apud Jacobum Bolt Hardcover
186548316Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1865. first edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8 vo. Octavo. 252 pp. First edition. Original publisher's green BD cloth. BAL binding A. Publisher's 22 pp catalog dated December 1864. List of Thoreau's books with prices facing the title pg. Blindstamped wreaths on covers with borders. Gilt spine titles with "Author of Walden." Brown coated endpapers. Condition is NEAR FINE ; covers extremely clean and bright spine not sunned. Minimal wear to corners spine ends have some tiny worn spots spine head has a tiny clean tear. Binding tight. Text extremely bright clean and unmarked. Bookplate of an earlier collector on front pastedown printed with a scene of a woman on a porch a book on her lap and sailboats in the distance. BAL 20115. Phil. Rare. RGR. Ticknor and Fields. hardcover
2010SBS-9780754628385ASHGATE 2010. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
2010SBS-9780754628385ASHGATE 2010. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
183116432London: John Murray. Very Good. 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in three-quarter leather with marbled boards. An attractive set with gilt decorations & raised bands. All three volumes are starting to split at the bottom of the hinges. At some time the books were evidently sitting on a desk when someone tipped over the inkwell. All three are stained at the bottom with purple ink. Does not intrude into the pages but only shows up on the bottom of the bindings and the page edges. Owner's bookplate inside the front covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . John Murray hardcover
1945534265London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1945. Hardcover first edition in very good condition. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine 268pp. Includes red lettered name slip from author and a clipping of a newspaper review laid-in. Boards are lightly edge and shelfworn and there is light foxing to page block and to endpapers. Pages and text remain clean and unmarked. AD. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. George Routledge & Sons Ltd. Hardcover
1761SZEPEBKS007642ILondon: B. Low and Co. 1761. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo 19x12.5 cm. - xv1256 pp. - Contemporary full leather with 5 bands on spine; corners and edges slightly worn. - Title-page printed in red and black. - Many engraved illustrations tables including 5 multiply folding and mathematical formulae. - Front outer hinge slightly cracked else fine lacks front free end-paper title-page somewhat soiled. On last page: in old handwriting in ink with large letters "Thomas Kellet's Book" and some mathematical notations. - Richard Turner 1720-1791 Church of England clergyman and educational writer. - Quite rare: WorldCat locates only 4 copies. <br/> <br/> B. Low and Co. hardcover
169532286Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano Impensis Ab. Swall & Tim. Child. 1695. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Bound in full vellum. Faded red lettering to spine. Different owners' names in ink to ffep including John B. Stearns. Small bookplate to inner cover. Some minor browning to vellum. Endpapers slightly browned. Attractive book.; 20 367 94 pp; 252 pages . E Theatro Sheldoniano, Impensis Ab. Swall & Tim. Child hardcover
17922291994London: Published 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 - 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 1776 - 1783 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 1793 - 94 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
1971063670Adyar Madras India: Theosophical Publishing House 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 6th Edition. Six volume set in dust jackets and protective mylar sleeves. Some volumes have some small tears to jacket all have clean tight contents. Oversized domestic orders only please as international rate will incur substantial addtional fees. Shipping weight over 12 lbs. Theosophical Publishing House Hardcover
1981010672London : Penguin 1981. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at the title page -"To Dick with best wishes from Doug Hofstadter April 24 1995". With two pieces of ephemera laid in for the April 24 1995 lecture given by Hofstadter at Indiana University that night that was titled "Old Sexism in New Guise" where this copy was signed. Third printing 1981 of the 1980 first British trade paperback edition. Near Fine vertical crease at spine and tiny corner crease contents are clean tight and unmarked. Winner of both the National Book Award for Science Hardcover and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. . Penguin Paperback
1993180425-MYB29Black Sparrow Press 1993. Very Good with pictorial cover Limited numbered edition #557 of 600 SIGNED by Bukowski . Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Black Sparrow Press Hardcover
186648315Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1866. first edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8 vo. Octavo. 4 286 pp. Original publisher's brown cloth BAL binding A. Blindstamped wreaths on covers with borders. Gilt spine titles with "Author of Walden." Brown coated endpapers. Brown slightly plum C cloth. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean with minor wear to lower front corner wear to spine head with some chips/slight loss. Spine is moderately sunned. Binding tight. Text is clean and bright with no markings. Bookplate of an earlier collector on front pastedown printed with a scene of a woman on a porch a book on her lap and sailboats in the distance. BAL 20177. Phil. Rare. RGR. Ticknor and Fields. hardcover
1759000395Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano. Impensis Jacobi Fletcher Bibliopol. Oxon. Et J. Rivington & J. Fletcher London 1759. Hardcover. See Description. Third Oxford Edition. 8vo. pp. 16 401 31. With frontispiece of Socrates. Title page is printed in red and black. Greek text with the Latin version of J. Leunclavis. Pages are clean and crisp with occasional faint spots of marginal foxing. Inscription written in a miniscule old hand on verso of front free end paper. Period fine binding in full deep red morocco - smooth spine gilt in five compartments with a fer à l' oiseau center stamp and arabesque corner pieces. Front and rear covers framed with a simple triple line gilt fillet border. The interior contains inner dentelles and blue paste-paper end sheets. Tiffany bookplate of Michigan business man and avid book collector Albert May Todd known as "the Peppermint King" on the inside front cover. The binding is in an excellent state of preservation with some rubbing on the outer corner tips of the boards. All edges are gilt. An ownership note dated 1814 is written in a miniscule old hand on the verso of the front fly-leaf; a later penciled inscription bellow apparently notes that the book was in a Sotheby's auction Dec. 5-9 1927. Xenophon 428-354 b.c.e. Athenian aristocrat soldier and historian. His Memorabilia in four books records the reminiscences of Socrates with the intent of defending the sage against charges of impiety towards the gods. The discussions also focus on education and management of state. ESTC T145020; Schweiger I p.338. <br/> <br/> E Theatro Sheldoniano. Impensis Jacobi Fletcher, Bibliopol. Oxon. Et J. Rivington & J. Fletcher, London hardcover
