The Life of Erasmus
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London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLVIII-MDCCLX. First Edition. Volume 2 title page: The... Read More about The Life of Erasmus
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Adams, Mass: for the Author, by A. Oakey, 1829. First edition. Early work on behaviorism, by an American utopian. First and only edition of this utopian mediation on materialism which explores the physiological, social, psychological, and spiritual effects of environmental conditions and the laws of physics on individual behavior–– an..... Read More about Elements of Materialism: Inculcating the idea of a future state, in which all will be more happy,...
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[London]: R. Sare, Bibliopol, prope Hospitium Grayense, in vico vulgò dicto Holbourn, 1721. Second edition (First was 1714). The first part of this work is by Gerard Langbaine, the elder (1609-58), who was the Provost of Queen's College, fellow and tutor of University College and The Bodleian Librarian. Read More about Ethices compendium, a viro cl. G. Langbnio, (ut fertur) Adornatum: Et nunc demum Recognitum...
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London: printed by Samuel Roycroft, and sold by the undertaker Richard Blome, dwelling in New Weld-street, at the Green Pales, near Clare-Market: and at these booksellers following; Mr. Horn and Mr. Southby by the Royal Exchange; Mr. Chiswell, Mr. Clavell an, 1694. First edition (with imprint as above). The Cartesian..... Read More about An Entire Body of Philosophy, According to the Principles Of the Famous Renate Des Cartes In...
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Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, D. West, E. Larkin, J. West and the Proprietor of the Boston Bookstore, 1794. First American edition of the abridged version of Locke's "Essay" and the first appearance of the "Essay" in America in any form. This abridgment..... Read More about An Abridgement of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1907]. Signed on front free endpaper "Henry R. Luce/ Professor Bakewell's course 1917-18/ Room 250 Durfee/ Yale College." Read More about Source Book of Ancient Philosophy
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London: Printed for R. Clave, C. Harper, J. Amery, J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchil; and sold by Cha. Harper at the Flower-de-Luce, 1695. A reissue of the 1694 edition, with cancel general title page. Read More about The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written Originally...
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1858. Read More about History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke
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Amsterdam: Jioh, & Corneium Blaeu, 1642. Second edition of each title. Scarce second edition of Maimonides’ tract on idolatry with an important new foreword “to the Reader” by Isaac Vossius, brother of the recently deceased translator, Dionysius Vossius (1612-1642), as well as a new dedicatory poem by Caspar Barlaeus. Maimonides’..... Read More about De idololatria liber, cum interpretatione latina, & notis Dionysii Vossii. [Bound with:]...
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New York: Charles Scribners's Sons, 1887. First edition. Read More about Realistic Philosophy Defended in a Philosophic Series
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New York: The Colonial Press, [1900]. Renaissance Edition, #421 of 1000 copies. Read More about The Spirit of the Laws
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New York: J. H. Minuse, 1837. Third edition. Read More about Representation of the Heart of Man in its Depraved State by Nature, an the Changes which it...
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. First American edition. Read More about Bentham's Theory of Fictions
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Boston: John West and Co, 1810. Sixth American edition from the Twelth English edition. First published in 1785. The Existence of God. Paley's lectures was gathered and expanded for this work. It was very popular and went through some fifteen editions during the author's life. The pigeon illustration which appeared..... Read More about The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
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Paris: Lefevre, "de l'imprimerie de Crapelet" 1819. Nouvelle edition, augmentée. Read More about Lettres Provinciales et Pensées
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New York: Published by J. Leavitt, Boston: Crocker & Brewster [Vanderpool and Cole, Printers], 1828. First American edition and the first work by Pascal published in America. This translation first published in London in 1816. Attacking the Jesuits. Reponding to attacks of the Jesuits on the Jansenists and especially on..... Read More about Provincial Letters, containing an Exposure of the Reasoning and Morals of the...
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Berlin: im Verlage des Herausgebers. Gedruckt bei A. W. Schade, 1824. Only edition. Selection of philosophical works from Berlin bookseller, bibliographer, and publisher Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin (1787-1851), including substantial listings of titles by Fichte, Hegel, and Kant; broadly representative, but specifically excluding dissertations. Read More about Bibliotheca Philosophica oder Verzeichniss der in älterer und neuerer Zeit, besonders aber vom...
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Paris: Chez Charles-Pierre Berton, 1782. Later edition of each title; first collected thus. Barbier remarks (loosely translated): “It would be interesting to find out if M. Feutry was able, with a clear conscience, to attribute thus to a so-called ‘professor of the Sorbonne’ two works whose authors were probably known..... Read More about Discours Philosophiques dur l'Homme, sur la Religion et ses Ennemis, Suivis des Loix...
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1875. Second edition, Revised and Corrected Throughout, with Additions and an Index of Subjects and Proper Names. Read More about The Dialogues of Plato. Translated into English with Analyses and Intoductions by B.(enjamin) Jowett
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Glasgow: Printed for Gray, Maver & Co … by W. Falconer, 1804. Sixth edition. Read More about An Inquiry Into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense
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New York: 1962. First American edition. Schuster's Own Copy. With note in hand of Schuster step-daughter as to the books authenticity. Read More about Fact and Fiction
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[Paris: Imprimerie de Carpentier-Mericourt], [1832]. Free-love. Religious cult. Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin and Bazard were the supreme leaders and co-founders of the moral-religious movement based upon the ideas of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, the socialist philosopher. Dissention and disagreement split the two and their followers, Bazard taking those..... Read More about Religion Saint-Simonienne. Procès en Police Correctionnelle sous Prévention d'Escroquerie le 19...
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London: Archibald Constable, 1905. First edition. Read More about The Life of Reason or the Phases of Human Progress
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition. Lengthy Inscription, with 7 Stanzas of Verse. Wonderful copy of the philosopher/poet's book on the function of reason in Art. on the recto and verso of the flyleaf and onto the half-title Santayana has written a lengthy inscription which he entitles, "Reply..... Read More about The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress. Reason in Art
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Paris: Hieronymum Drouart, 1610. First Edition. The book is a collection of lesser pieces by the great classical scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger. With a dedication to Scaliger's friend, the French historian and bibliophile Jacques Auguste de Thou and a preface by another great classical scholar, Isaac CasaubonWith contemporary annotations in..... Read More about Opuscula Varia antehac non edita. Omnium Catalogum post Praefationem Lector invenit
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