London: printed for H. Herringman at the Blew Anchor, 1670. Second edition. Second edition of Walter Charleton's translation... Read More about Epicurus’s morals, collected partly out of his own Greek text, in Diogenes Laertius, and...
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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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Leiden: De'Imp. d'Elie Luzac, 1748. Presumed second edition. One of the most provocative texts of 18th-century materialism. Julien Offray de La Mettrie's (1709-1751) controversial major work. In it, he denies the existence of a soul, and extends Descartes' argument of animals as automatons, akin to complex machines, to include human..... Read More about L'Homme Machine Bound With: L'Homme plus que Machine A londres [Holland?]: [n.p.] 1748
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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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New York: W.W. Norton, [1932]. First American edition, Review copy. Read More about The Revolt of the Masses
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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 Introductions by B.(enjamin)...
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London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. INSCRIBED BY ARTHUR HOUGHTON TO PHILIP HOFER. Inscribed on front pastedown: "Arthur Houghton. Given in 1962 to Philip Hofer to start on a new journey through the world. I have been given my father's copy by Richard Smart who bought it after his death." Read More about Plato’s Symposium or Supper. Newly translated by Francis Birrell & Shane Leslie
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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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