[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...

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

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...

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:]...

Boston: Marsh & Capen, 1828. First edition. Read More about The Mental Guide, Bdeing a Compend of the First Principles of Metaphysics...predicated on the...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

[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...

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