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 about La Vie de Mr. Des-Cartes Contenant L'histoire de la Philosophie & de les autres Oevrages: Et...

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 about Letters Of Certain Jews To Monsieur De Voltaire, Containing An Apology For Their Own People, And...

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 about The Man-Made Object

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 about The Will To Function A Philosophical Study

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 about Historie Of The Life And Death Of Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange, Knight

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 about Letters Concerning Mind. To which is added, A Sketch of Universal Arithmetic; Comprehending the...

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 about The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes By That Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer...

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 about Lucina sine Cuncubitu A Letter Humbly address'd to the Royal Society In Which Is proved by most...

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 about Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason In The Enquiry after Truth. With A Variety of Rules to guard...