Paris: Chez la Veuve Maubry Cramoysi, 1693. leather_bound. 322 pp. 12mo, 15 cm, this edition "Reduite en abrege," the fuller and first edition of this work published 1691. Copper engraved frontispiece. The author, an erudite and assiduous compiler was born a year prior to Descartes death, and this work is... More
London: R, Norton, for Walter Kettilby, 1684. First English edition. leather_bound. 327 pages. folio, 31 x 20 cm. Engraved title, two double-page engraved plates, plus engravings in the text. This, his best known work originally published in Latin, "Telluris Theoria Sacra," in 1681, a treatise on speculative cosmogony proposing a.... More
Paris: L. Hachette, 1847. First edition thus. Hardcover. 118 pages with 32 page introduction. 8vo, 22 x 12 cm. A parallel, page by page translation from the Greek by the author. Signed presentation copy. More
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1668. 1st Latin edition. leather_bound. 381, 498 pp. 4to, [*1-*4, A1-Z4, Aa1-Zz4, Aaa1-Bbb4,*1-*2, A1-Z4, Aa1-Zz4, Aaa1-Eee1, Fff1-Fff2]. Fourteen engraved plates, mostly folding, and with a host of illustrations in the text. Descartes settled in Holland in 1629, and except for occasional visits abroad lived there till 1649. He... More
Dublin: William Watson, 1777. First edition. Hardcover. 445, 428 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The controversy of Voltaire's anti-Semitism has been long disputed. He was at war with both Judaism and Christianity. He wanted to purge all men, of whatever persuasion, from these superstitions in order to make them enlightened... More
London: John Nourse, 1775. First edition. leather_bound. 485 [30, Inded & Errata]. 21.5 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece, An English politician and grammarian, fond of the Greek and Roman classics. Samuel Johnson called him "a sound, solid scholar." Crisp, very clean copy, book label and armorial bookplate. More
NY: Braziller, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 230 pp. Black and white illustrations. A discussion of man-made objects as an important environmental factor in shaping our twentieth-century values. Biographical Notes on the Authors. More
Cambridge: Corn. Crownfield, 1726. First edition. leather_bound. 8vo, 23 x 14cm, (*4),A-Z8,Aa-Bb2,A1-K4, twenty copper-engraved plates, some are fold-outs. Appendix. Index. DIBDIN LIBRARY COMPANION p517. "Of the same class is Dr. Knight; whose`Lives of Colet and Erasmus' are in every well appointed library, and bring considerable prices; merely because they contain... More
Bisley, Gloustershire: Published by him & printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 135 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 8 of 300, Meek's eschatology is surmised in his "So long as man, as we know him, exists, religion will exist." Clean, crisp copy, backstrip a hint sunned. More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1865. Third edition. leather_bound. 474, 563, 379, 302 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. PALGRAVE Vol. II, 763. "Mill brought economic theory to bear upon practical politics. Like Adam Smith, he 'associates the principles with their applications'....He treats political economy 'not as a thing by... More
Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 130 pages. 16.5 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 114 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press on Arnold hand-made paper. Title page printed in red and black with insignia of the newly instituted Order of Thisle... More
London: S. Palmer, 1728. First edition. leather_bound. 407 pages. 27 x 20 cm. [A4-a4-c4,d1, *A4-*B4,B4-Fff4]. Twelve copper engraved fold-out plates. Engraved title, head and tail designs after John Pine and J. Grison. Pemberton, a physician studied medicine under Boerhaave. He was a member of the Royal Society to which he... More
![Letters Concerning Mind. To which is added, A Sketch of Universal Arithmetic; Comprehending the Differential Calculus, And the Doctrine of Fluxions [WITH] A Summary View Of The Soul's Perceptive Faculties; And Also Of Dialectic or Logic: Introduction To The Theory of Mind. John Petvin.](/pictures/thumb/19249.jpg?v=1530393086)
London: John & James Rivington, 1790 & 1792. First edition. leather_bound. 90 & 79 pages. 21 x 23.5 cm. Errata leaf, published posthumously. LOWNDES 1846. "An excellent work, full of profound and abstruse learning." This copy with the leather Johnsonian bookplate of R. B. Adam. Binding attributed to Roger Payne... More
London: Robert Daniel, 1651. First edition. leather_bound. 393 pages, plus (5 leaves: Index Rerum & Verborum & Index Scripturarum). 32 x 21 cm. Translated and edited by Richard Montague. Parallel text in Latin and Greek. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as St. Photios the Great, viewed as... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Hardcover. Royal 8vo, illustrated by T.L. Poulton. "Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North." With the fifteen supplementary lives of 1603. Limited edition, copy 635 of 1050 on Arches paper. Decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. Internally clean, very crisp. More
London: Cadell and Davies, et al, 1799. Second edition. leather_bound. 531, 563 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Errata. The author, Bishop of Lincoln and later, Bishop of Winchester served as Prime Minister of Great Britain in December 1783 when the Fox-North coalition fell. Pitt later named him his private secretary... More
London: Golden Cockerel, 1930. Sainsbury, Hester. Hardcover. 41 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Limited edition. copy 114 of 500 on English handmade paper. Three engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury. Printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings. Printed from the edition of 1750. CHANTICLEER 70. "Uniform with the "Ladies' Handbook of Etiquette." More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Hardcover. 157 pages. 19 x 12 cm. Limited edition, copy 1000 of 1500. A rarely published philosophical tale enticing the reader with basic Enlightenment values. Printed in England and America by the Westminster press upon Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. The translation is that of the Glasgow... More
London: T. and T. Longman et al, 1755. Tenth Edition. leather_bound. 365 [6] pages. Advert verso last leaf. First published 1724, Watts an eminent theologian, logician and hymn-writer was a noted nonconformist. This work suggest the influence of British empiricism, and in particular the influence of Locke, his contemporary. Bright... More