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
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
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 p. 517. "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..... 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..... 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
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..... 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..... More
Hamburg: . 1672. Second edition. Hardcover. 20.5 x 16.8 cm. *4 **2; A-Z4 Aa-Ff4 Gg2. As in other copies of the second edition, p.42 reads 24, and p.207 reads 213. Woodcut printer's device, Roman, italic and Hebrew type. Spinoza was excommunicated in 1656, and thereafter adopted the the Latin form..... More