Bacon's Novum Organum
Oxford/Clarendon Press, January 1898. Hardcover. Original brick red cloth covers with gold spine titles. A Near Fine copy. Book has bumped corners. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in. More
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients
Little, Brown, 1917. Reprint. Leather. Beautifully bound in period 3/4 brown morocco over cloth, spine with raised bands and gilt-bordered comartments, cover panels ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (very slight wear); bookplate. More
The World, the Flesh & the Devil;: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul
Indiana University Press, January 1969. First Thus. Hardcover. First Indiana UP Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in. More
Counter Statement
Harcourt Brace & Company, January 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of poet/academic William Matchett, with his name and date on the ffep; additionally laid in loose is an offprint of Burke’s Dramatic Form--And: Tracking Down Implications, which is inscribed by Burke to Matchett: For William H. Matchett, As..... More
The gentleman instructed, in the conduct of a virtuous and happy life : In three parts. Written for the instruction of a young nobleman. To which is added, a word to the ladies, by way of supplement to the first part
Printed by W.B. for E. Smith, and are to be sold by Rich. Wilkin at the King's-head in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1727. Leather Binding. The Tenth edition, printed in 1727. A good copy in full period brown calf, panelled Cambridge-style, spine with raised bands and red morocco label, covers tooled..... More
Isocratis Panegyricus
G.C. Sansoni Editore, 1887. First Thus. Leather Binding. A good copy in quarter vellum over decorative boards (text browned; ink name; bookplate). Has a fine and elaborate pencil drawing of an architectural stone detail on front free endpaper). More
Psychological Reflections : An Anthology of the Writing of C.G. Jung (Bollingen Series, XXXI)
Pantheon, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. A very good hardcover in original jacket (jacket has some nicks and closed tears to edges; neat ink name on front free endpaper). More
The infallibility of human judgment : Its Dignity and Excellency. Being A New Art of Reasoning, and discovering Truth, by reducing all disputable Cases to general and self-evident Propositions. Illustrated, by bringing several well known Disputes to such Self-Evident and Universal Conclusions. With The Supplement, answering all Objections which have been made to it, and the Design hereby perfected, in proving this Method of Reasoning to be as forcibly conclusive and universal as Arithmetick, and as easie. Also a Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity. The Fourth Edition. To which is now added, A Postscript, obviating the Complaints made to it, and to account for some Things which occurr'd to it and the Author. By Mr. Lyons [alternate title: Infallibility, dignity, and excellency of humane judgment]
Printed, and are to be sold by J. Brotherton at the Bible in Cornhill, 1724. Fourth Edition. Leather Binding. The Fourth edition, 1724. Bound in full brown period calf, spine eith raised bands, covers bordered with twin gilt fillets (quite rubbed, front cover detached; some toning to text). PROVENANCE: With..... More
The Moral History of Frugality with its opposite Vices, Covetousness, Niggardliness, and Prodigality, Luxury
Printed for J. Hindmarsh, at the Golden Bail over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1691. First Edition. Leather. A very good copy in period full brown speckled calf, edges speckled red. The binding has some unusual features, being without pastedowns, also with text being sewn into the boards, and..... More
The Origins and History of Consciousness; with foreword by: C. G. Jung
Pantheon Books, 1954. First Thus. Hardcover. A Very Good copy (with one small dent in the spin, three small discolored marks on the covers, and a few pencil marks through out the text) in a Very Good dust jacket (with sunning to the spine, rubbing/nicks to extermities, and gentle wear..... More
Doisneau-Renault
Ed. Hazan, January 1988. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. One of the scarcest and most interesting works in the Doisneau canon, this work was issued to accompany the exhibit (1988-89) in Paris of his superb work for the French automobile maker Renault. House in a...... More
Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters Collected and published by J.J. Rousseau. TRanslated from the FRench [4 volumes]
printed for R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad, and T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, at Tully's Head, in the Strand, 1761. First Edition. Leather Binding. 4 volumes, complete as issued in period full brown speckled calf, spines rebacked in brown calf with raised bands, and contrasting red and brown morocco..... More
L. Annaei Senecae philosophi et M. Annaei Senecae rhetoris opera quae extant omnia
Apud Samuelem Crispinum, 1614. First Thus. Leather. A very good copy in dark brown 17th-century calf (tooling on the binding appears to be English, expertly rebacked in dark brown calf with new endpapers. The boards were rubbed (pre-rebacking), the title leaf has been trimmed and re-inserted on a stub, several..... More
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