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1816019269Oxford: Printed for Grant and Matthewson 1816. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii 157 pages of text. Newly rebound quarter cloth with leather gilt-lettered spine label and marbled paper-covered boards. The first and final several pages have minor foxing and toning/staining to the edges and the title page has a tiny chip at the bottom edge. Engraved armorial bookplate preserved and reattached to the new inside front cover: W.B.A. Hales. The text is clean and unmarked. Mainly a reprinting of the 1686 First Edition Wing A3695 comprised of three books rather than four. First thus edition. Printed for Grant and Matthewson Hardcover books
1807019227London: Printed for the Translator.by Robert Wilks 1807. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. iv 844 pages of text. Newly rebound in quarter leather with raised bands on spine and marbled paper-covered boards. The title page and several pages have minor creasing/wrinkling. The final page of text is signed by the translator Thomas Taylor. According to Lowndes this is the 2nd work in a 10 volume publication from 1806-1812 of Aristotle's Works. Only 50 copies of each was printed at the expense of William Meredith Esq. There is foxing scattered lightly throughout the text. Previous owner's engraved armorial bookplate was lifted and affixed to the inside front cover: William Page Thomas Phillips. Logic. Ammonius Saccas of Alexandria; Porphyry ca.234 - ca.305; Simplicius of Cilicia. First edition. Printed for the Translator...by Robert Wilks Hardcover books
1810000014035Oxonii = Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano = At the Clarendon Press 1810. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. 9 ii-cxi 2 2-373 3; 5 378-757 3 pp. Contemporary full calf with gold borders on each board spines in five compartments with a maroon and a black morocco label lettered in gold on each spine gold decorations and flourishes on each spine. Text in Greek and Latin with the notes and commentary in Latin. Edited and compiled by Friedrich Sylburg with the Latin translation by Dionysius Lambinius and with notes by Guillaume Du Val. Graesse 215. Moss 129. Sylburg received praise from both Moss and Dibdin for his scholarship on Aristotle's writings. Aristotle's Politics are sometimes regarded as the natural sequel to his Nicomachean Ethics: once one knows what it is for a human being to flourish one can consider how the laws of human society can best guide and promote said flourishing. Aristotle undertook a massive effort to examine dozens of Greek city-state constitutions and aimed to discern the best and the worst political principles within them. His Politics then stands as a sort of history of Greece and its political structures. The Politics also contains an examination of the theory behind various forms of government: monarchy aristocracy democracy etc. Aristotle's Economics contains a thorough examination of both macro and microeconomics in ancient Greece. The economics of a city-state a kingdom and of an individual's home are all dissected here and the philosophy behind good home and wealth management is discussed at length. Both his Politics and Economics were highly influential on medieval society and pre-1850 publications of these works have become difficult to find in commerce. A touch of rubbing to the extremities. An armorial bookplate on each volume's front pastedown very light occasional pencil marginalia. E Typographeo Clarendoniano [= At the Clarendon Press] hardcover
1801Bv2422<p>First Edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics in English London 1801 translated by Thomas Taylor a leading English classicist of his day. Translated by Thomas Taylor a leading English classicist of the day. "In his knowledge of Plato and Aristotle he has never been equaled by any Englishman and he is still the most important disseminator of ancient philosophy in the history of English and American literature. Taylor went on to complete all the works of Aristotle but his introduction and important Dissertation which appear here were not included in the Works Axon 11. "If there is a philosophical Atlas who carries the whole of Western civilization on his shoulders it is Aristotle. He has been opposed misinterpreted misrepresented and -- like an axiom -- used by his enemies in the very act of denying him. Whatever intellectual progress men have achieved rests on his achievements" Rand The Objectivist Newsletter 1963. This "philosophical Atlas" was born in 384 B.C. in Stagira an ancient Greek city in the northeastern region of modern Greece. At seventeen Aristotle traveled to Athens to study at Plato's Academy. He remained at the Academy until Plato's death in 348 B.C. In 343 B.C. Aristotle was recruited to tutor King Alexander the III revered as "Alexander the Great" for his formidable conquests throughout Europe and Asia. Later he established his own school The Lyceum which instructed students in a breadth of branches from rhetoric and logic to philosophy and the natural sciences. The Metaphysics is one of the principal works of Aristotle and history's first major work on this fundamental branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy which studies existence as such of "being qua being" according to Aristotle. It "identifies the nature of the universe as a whole. It tells men what kind of world they live in and whether there is a supernatural dimension beyond it. It tells men whether they live in a world of solid entities natural laws absolute facts or in a world of illusory fragments unpredictable miracles and ceaseless flux. It tells men whether the things they perceive by their senses and mind form a comprehensible reality with which they can deal or some kind of unreal appearance which leaves them staring and helpless" Peikoff 23. "This edition contains some valuable matter by the translator not reprinted in the ninth volume of his complete translation of Aristotle s Works" Lowndes 69. Complete with blank leaves and half-title. In near fine condition no writings markings or bookplates of any kind; wide margins some scattered light foxing. Large quarto period-style full marbled calf gilt red morocco spine label marbled endpapers. A splendid example handsomely bound. Book #Bv2422. $5200. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand and other Legends and Landmarks.</p> Davis, Wilks, and Taylor hardcover
18128308London: Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks 1812. Mixed. 1/2 morocco. Very good. Lg. 4to. 8 vols. Uniformly bound by "J. MacKenzie Binder to the King" in contemporary half maroon morocco ornately gilt over marbled boards. A.e.g. Extremities a bit rubbed but all are in very good condition. Boldly signed by Taylor in ink at the end of the first volume. All of the volumes with the bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer 1785-1861 called the "head of all female book collectors in Europe" by T. F. Dibdin. Eight of the ten volumes of the complete translation of Aristotle's works from the original Greek into English. Only 50 sets were printed and today they seldom appear for sale. There are some sets which have 11 volumes. These contain both the first edition of THE METAPHYSICS which Taylor translated in 1801 and printed in the same large quarto format and the second edition of the METAPHYSICS with significant added material revised for "The Works" in 1812. Our set offered contains the 1801 first edition as listed below. Lacking from our set are the volumes titled "The Physics" and "The Treatises on the Heavens etc." The eight volumes present in this set are the following: 1. The Organon. 1807 2. The Treatises on the Soul. 1808 3. The History of Animals. 1809 4. The Treatises on the Parts and Progressive Motion of Animals etc. 1810 5. The Rhetoric. 1811 6. The Great and Eudemian Ethics. 1811 7. A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle. 1812 8. The Metaphysics first edition of 1801. Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks unknown books
1812140947913London: Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks 1812. First Edition in English. Very Good. First edition in English of the works of Aristotle one of 50 sets printed and boldly signed by the translator Thomas Taylor in ink at the end of the first volume. All volumes bear the armorial bookplates of noted bibliophile and Bronte family benefactor Frances Mary Richardson Currer 1785-1861. <p>Incomplete set with eight of ten volumes present of the complete translation. Uniformly bound by "J. Mackenzie Binder to the King" in contemporary half morocco over French Curl marbled boards with spines lettered and tooled in gilt; all edges gilt 4to. Very Good with wear extremities rubbed sporadic foxing hinges slightly tender. <p>Volumes include: 1. The Organon 1807. 2. The Treatises on the Soul 1808. 3.The History of Animals 1809. 4.The Treatises on the Parts and Progressive Motion on Animals etc. 1810. 5. The Rhetoric 1811. 6. The Great Edemian Ethics 1811. 7. A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle 1812.8. The Metaphysics first edition of 1801. <p>The first collected English translations of Aristotle's works from Orphic fragments by Neoplatonist scholar Thomas Tyler 1758-1835. Provenance of famed bibliophile and collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer whose well-curated and respected library expanded to nearly 20000 volumes. Bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin remarked that she was "the head of all female book collectors in Europe." Known for her philanthropic endeavors she donated a sum of 50 pounds to Patrick Bronte father of Charlotte Bronte when he was widowed in 1821. Currer also contributed an unknown amount to the Clergy Daughter's School that the Bronte sisters attended. Scholars postulate that Charlotte chose the non de plume of "Currer Bell" for her first published 1847 novel Jane Eyre in honor of Currer's philanthropy. A desirable set even without Currer's bookplate that seldom comes up for sale. Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks unknown
