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Former scholar's name on inner cover (David Furley) with his pencil marginalia in text. Includes typed review by David Furley. Rubbing to wraps. Minor browning to spine. Light crease to front wrap. ; Aim is to identify traces of Democritus' physical theory in writers of the Hellenistic period other than the Epicureans, and especially in writers with a practical rather than speculative intent. Text is in German. ; Schweizerische Beiträge Zur Altertumswissenschaft Heft 17; 215 pages
Mm 170x240 Collana "Le Ellissi". Brossura editoriale di V-232 pagine con disegni in nero nel testo. Esemplare in ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
19033903Paris, Chacornac (Annonay, imp. J. Royer), 1903 ; in-12, broché ; 272 pp. (2) ff.
1849ABE-1680040946499Philadelphia: J.W. Moore; New York: Wiley & Putnam 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo quarter calf over blue marbled boards titles stamped in gilt over black leather 670pp. Calfskin shows some abrasions at spine fading and bumping to corners; marbled boards show a few spots of discoloration and rubbing. Pages are wholly age toned at edges and show scattered spotting and foxing with an ownership signature to front endpaper else text is unmarked. Binding square and tight. A one volume edition of Robert Burton's classic of medical literature psychology and satire structured in three partitions. Prints the complete text of the New Edition with a facsimile frontispiece of the Sixth Edition the first complete volume. A lovely nineteenth century fine binding example this being a very handsome copy. Philadelphia: J.W. Moore; New York: Wiley & Putnam hardcover
1628347Oxford England: Henry Cripps 1628. 3rd Edition. Contemporary sheep with rebacked modern calf. Very Good. Christof Le Blon. <p>One of the most popular books of the 17th century and one of the most celebrated books of all time. The book is ostensibly a medical treatise about depression but it is really a genre-defying tour-de-force. It branches into many diverse categories including self-help psychology philosophy history astronomy geography humor and various aspects of literature. Burton wrote it under the pseudonym Democritus Junior as a reference to the Ancient Greek "laughing philosopher" Democritus.</p> <br /> <p>Condition: Very Good. Textually complete including colophon leaf without errata leaf as is common. Contemporary sheep spine rebacked with modern calf.</p> <br /> <br /> <br /> <p>BOOK INFO</p> <br /> <p>The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton</p> <br /> <p>Published in 1626 in Oxford by Henry Cripps. Third edition corrected and augmented by the author originally published only a few years earlier in 1621. In contemporary sheep covered boards with single fillet in blind paneling. Modern rebacked calf spine with raised bands separating compartments ruled in blind a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label in compartment two. Endpapers refreshed circa early 1800s. Small folio 11" x 7 6/8". Collated: viii 77 7 208 but really 210 4 209-374 but really 373 2 375-646 10 Table of Contents and Colophon leaf. </p> <br /> <p>This is the first edition to feature the famous engraved title page with 11 separate vignette rectangular panels including the portrait of Robert Burton Democritus Jr. Numerous engraved woodcut initials and chapter head-and-tail pieces along with some vignette headers. Commentary in Latin along gutter and fore-edge margins.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> Very good for nearly a 400-year-old folio. Spine rebacked in modern calf recornered in matching calf. Refreshed endpapers.<br /> <br /> Exterior and binding: Very firm hinges and joints tight pages sharp corners. Worn boards but in quite lovely condition overall given its sheep and the age of the binding. Light rubbing to edges. Spine is colorful and supple. <br /> <br /> Interior: Most of the pages are gently toned with occasional sections of darker toning or browning/oxidization. First dozen leaves with ink spills mostly along the margins with some drips on title page. Infrequent spots of foxing. The occasional smudge a few bent corners. Large water dampening stains in pages 197-208 and 219-250. A few other areas with some smaller and lighter water dampening. Professional tear repairs at foot of title and dedication pages on blank versos. Tear at bottom of 73-74 k1 Tear within header-piece leaf following page 77 of preface slight loss to corner off 455-456 Mmm 4 bottom of 625-626 or Llll2 with some slight loss none affecting text. <br /> <br /> Provenance and numerous areas of antiquarian writing:<br /> <br /> 1. John Harper signs his name with a date of 1748 on the title page dedication page and colophon. <br /> 2. J.B. Pooley neatly signs his name with a date of 1835 on FFEP and includes a famous quote from Dr. Samuel Johnson: The only book that ever took one out of bed two hours sooner than I wished to rise<br /> 3. Vignette bookplate of James S. Burra noted 19th century bibliophile and collector who had an impressive library of important books and manuscripts on front pastedown and his signature in pencil on FFEP. Burra interacts with the text throughout in pencil but lightly - underlining or marking passages along the margin sometimes writing a word or two of commentary. He also has notes in pencil on rear blanks including listing the pages works of Shakespeare are referenced etc.<br /> <br /> Numerous pagination errors as called for: page 79 is listed as 77 and 80 as 78. Pagination is off 2 until. when page 362 is misnumbered as 363 and pagination is off by one henceforth. Most importantly catch words align page-to-page and register is continuous.</p> <br /> <br /> <br /> <p>CONTENT & INFLUENCE</p> <br /> <p>Much of Anatomy was inspired by Burton's own struggles with depression. Anatomy starts with a roughly 200-page-long satirical introduction "Democritus to the Reader" narrated by Burton's pseudonym Democritus Junior. The main body of the book is divided into three partitions. The first partition is The Causes of Melancholy the second partition is The Cure of Melancholy and the third partition is Love-Melancholy and Religious Melancholy. The book regularly quotes biblical ancient and medieval medical authorities and literary sources.</p> <br /> <p>The Anatomy of Melancholy inspired countless writers of the following centuries including Samuel Johnson John Milton and Laurence Sterne and modern authors like Philip Pullman. Romantic poet John Keats claimed Anatomy was his favorite book. Burton's numerous anecdotes which tackle melancholy with both sobriety and humor as well as the overarching influence of his personal sadness on the book are often cited as making Anatomy his one truly great work.</p> . Henry Cripps unknown
1883H126London: Chatto and Windus 1883. New Edition . Brown buckram Gilt. Vg. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii747 32pp pub. cat. dated October 1886. Facsimile of original frontispiece. Tissue guard of the frontis. foxed affecting the title page some under-lining in neat hand of the first 18 pages and the original binding torn a little wear on edges. A tight clean copy otherwise in original but worn cloth. What It Is with All the Kinds Causes Symptomes Prognostics and Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
Spines are discolored. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name on ffep of vol. 1. ; Isbns: 9004061347 & 9004069348. 2 volumes only (of 4). ; Philosophia Antiqua XXXVII & XLI; 463 pages
45918Paris, Les Belles Lettres / Leiden, E.J. Brill, Theories of Weight in the Ancient World. Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle. A Study in the Development of Ideas. Volume one, 1981, in-8 pleine reliure toile de l'éditeur, XXI + 419 pp. In english avec intr. & résumé en français. TRES BON ETAT
1993100127823Princeton University Press 1993 660 pages 15 44x3 38x23 24cm. 1993. Broché. 660 pages.
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Mm 130x210 Collana Saggi. Brossura editoriale con alette, copertina figurata, 439 pagine. Ottimo stato. Spedizione entro 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
cm. 17 x 24, lviii-452 pp. e CD-ROM. Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere ?La Colombaria? - Serie Studi La raccolta dei testi anticipa una edizione degli stessi, fornendo una documentazione pi? adeguata delle edizioni esistenti; questa, pur selettiva, ? pi? completa e tiene conto del contesto in cui compaiono i singoli passi, che sono aggiornati sulle edizioni critiche pi? recenti. Il CD offre una serie di strumenti (concordanze con le edizioni esistenti, un quadro sinottico dei principali termini usati, una presentazione orientativa, ecc.) che facilitino l?utilizzazione dei testi a scopo di studio. This collection of texts, in anticipation of future editions, provides a more adequate documentation compared to already existing ones. It is more complete yet selective and on the grounds of some recent critical editions takes into consideration the context in which each passage appears. The CD offers a number of instruments (concordances with existing editions, a synopsis of the main terms used, a preliminary description etc.) facilitating use of the texts for the purpose of study. 932 gr. lviii-452 p.
ria9780443291098_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Managing Airport Corporate Performance: Leveraging Business Intelligence and Sustainable Transition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that explores the integration of business intelligence BI techniques in management pr paperback
201299London Thomas Tegg 1845. xviii748pp. 8vo. Original half leather with marbled boards rubbed and edgeworn. Black and white frontispiece. A very good copy. London, Thomas Tegg 1845. hardcover
18671373483London: William Tegg 1867. New Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xviii 747 pages. In Very Good condition with plastic covering. Spine is brown with gilt lettering. Boards have some rubbing and dirt staining from dirt trapped beneath the plastic. Text block has minor damp staining to the top exterior edge a letter from the Folger Shakespeare library tucked into the plastic cover on the front paste down minor pencil writing on the front end papers and half title page and some foxing throughout. NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1373483. Special Collections. William Tegg hardcover
1925mon0004120689The Nonesuch Press 1925T. hardcover. Very Good. . 2-volume set. shows minimal wear. The Nonesuch Press hardcover
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1826269269Glasgow: R. Griffin & Co 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition. 8vo. Volume two only of two. Three quarter leather cover with cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Very good. Bookplate inside front cover. Front hinge slightly cracked. Corners lightly rubbed. Leather spine lightly rubbed. R. Griffin & Co hardcover
1836000455London: B. Blake 13 Bell Yard Tmple Bar. 1836. Original half brown calf with original period spine and end papers professionally relaid retaining 90% of original spine. Marbled boards and endsheets. Frontispiece with negligible dampstaining also to flyleaf. Previous owner's name on flyleaf and another owner's stamped name also on same. 744 pages. Overall FAIR PLUS condition. Digital photos upon request. The Anatomy of Melancholy Full title The Anatomy of Melancholy What it is: With all the Kinds Causes Symptomes Prognostickes and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections Members and Subsections. Philosophically Historically Opened and Cut up. is a book written by Robert Burton which was first published 1621. The book is on its surface a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the Scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia. Each section piles on ancient and mediæval medical authorities from Hippocrates Aristotle and Galen forward and adds to these ancient examples a great deal of Latin poetry. Burton defines his subject this way: Melancholy the subject of our present discourse is either in disposition or in habit. In disposition is that transitory Melancholy which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow need sickness trouble fear grief passion or perturbation of the mind any manner of care discontent or thought which causes anguish dulness heaviness and vexation of spirit any ways opposite to pleasure mirth joy delight causing frowardness in us or a dislike. In which equivocal and improper sense we call him melancholy that is dull sad sour lumpish ill-disposed solitary any way moved or displeased. And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free no Stoick none so wise none so happy none so patient so generous so godly so divine that can vindicate himself; so well-composed but more or less some time or other he feels the smart of it. Melancholy in this sense is the character of Mortality.This Melancholy of which we are to treat is a habit a serious ailment a settled humour as Aurelianus and others call it not errant but fixed: and as it was long increasing so now being pleasant or painful grown to a habit it will hardly be removed. Over the course of the book Burton draws from nearly every science of his day including psychology physiology astronomy astrology demonology meteorology and theology. In fact much of the book consists of quotations from various authorities and Burton fills the Anatomy with more or less pertinent references to the works of others. The Anatomy of Melancholy is a particularly lengthy book. The first edition printed as a single quarto volume was nearly 900 pages long and subsequent editions only added to that total. The text is partitioned into three major sections plus an introduction each arranged in Burton's sprawling style. characteristically the introduction includes not only an author's note titled "Democritus Junior to the Reader" but also a Latin poem "Democritus Junior to His Book" a warning to "The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill" an abstract of the following text and another poem explaining the frontispiece. The following three sections proceed in a similarly exhaustive fashion: the first section focuses on the causes and symptoms of "common" melancholies while the second section deals with cures for melancholy and the third section explores more complex and esoteric melancholies including the melancholy of lovers and all varieties of religious melancholies. The Anatomy concludes with an extensive index which many years later The New York Times Book Review called "a readerly pleasure in itself".; additionally most modern editions of the book are supplemented with many pages of explanatory notes for the reader. Throughout the book Burton's digressive and inclusive style often verging on a stream of consciousness consistently informs and animates the text. Though nominally a medical book the Anatomy is "vitalized by Burton's pervading humour" and is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text. The Anatomy of Melancholy has been admired by many subsequent writers from Samuel Johnson Charles Lamb and John Keats who professed it to be his favourite book to Stanley Fish Philip Pullman and Jorge Luis Borges who used a quote as an epigraph to his story "The Library of Babel". Despite its age The Anatomy of Melancholy is still considered an enduring if eccentric literary classic by many modern critics. UncleAndy. Seventh Edition. Half Calf Leather. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. B. Blake, 13, Bell Yard, Tmple Bar. Hardcover
1850284417Philadelphia: J. W. Moore 1850. Hardcover. Fair. New edition later printing. Three quarter leather with marbled boards. Poor with front board detached but present stamps and owner gift inscription on front fly foxing on tissue to frontispiece cover edges worn. J. W. Moore hardcover
