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Genève: H. Georg, 1887. Reprint. Read More Item Details for Fragments d'un Journal Intime. [Two Volume Set] Add to Wish List

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London: Printed by J. M'Creery and sold by Payne and Foss, and R. Hunter, 1817. First editions. The Papers mark the beginnings of Bentham's work on his Constitutional Code. The work consists principally of letters from Bentham, written from 1811 to 1815, many concerning America and Russia, including correspondence with.....  Read More Item Details for Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction: including Correspondence with the Russian Emperor, and divers constituted Authorities in the United States. [With:] Supplement to Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction:including Correspondence with the Russian Emperor, and divers constituted Authorities in the American United States Add to Wish List

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Philadelphia: Reprinted by William Conover, No. 72, Walnut Street, 1799. Second American edition. Simon Berington (1680-1755), was a Catholic controversialist , and the author of this frequently reprinted utopian voyage (first ed., London, 1737). This second American edition was preceded by the Norwich edition of 1796. Read More Item Details for The Adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca :Being the substance of his examination before the fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna, in Italy: giving an account of an unknown country, in the midst of the deserts of Africa, the origin and antiquity of the people, their religion, customs, and laws. Copied from the original manuscripts in St. Mark's Library at Venice; with critical notes of the learned Signor Rhedi. ; To which is prefixed, a letter of the secretary of the Inquisition, shewing the reasons of Signor Gaudentio's being apprehended, and the manner of it. ; Translated from the Italian Add to Wish List

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London: 1753-1777. [Vols. 1-5] The Philosophical Works. London: David Mallet, 1754-1754-1776-1776-1777. 5 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1. ESTC N20935 (vols. 1-2), N24597 (vols. 3-4) and N24598 (vol. 5). Mixed edition (as often). First published posthumously in 1754, Bolingbroke’s Philosophical Works was a favorite of Jefferson, who copied approximately.....  Read More Item Details for The Philosophical Works ... [Bound with:] Letters on the Study and Use of History .. A New Edition Corrected ... [Bound with:] A Letter to Sir William Windham ... [Bound with:] Letters on the Spririt of Patriotism ... [Bound with:] A Dissertation upon Parties Add to Wish List

Item #338229

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[26 March, 1836]. Carlyle writes to John Sterling (1806–1844) for an account of his – famously poor – health, offering the help of his wife, and quoting from Goethe. Sterling was a Scottish author. A follower of Coleridge, he was entrusted to edit his unpublished theological writings. Carlyle much admired.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph letter, signed ("T. Carlyle") to John Sterling Add to Wish List

Item #346703

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Paris: chez l'auteur ... et chez Ponce, 1788. First editions. First editions, beautifully and fully engraved. The first volume is on the life of Confucius, the second details notable events in the reigns of various Chinese emperors. The plates were made after a series of drawings by the Jesuit missionary.....  Read More Item Details for Abrégé Historique des Principaux Traits de la Vie de Confucius, Célèbre Philosophe Chinois. [BOUND WITH:] Faits Mémorables des Empereurs de la Chine, tirés des Annales Chinoises Add to Wish List

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Milano: Casa Ed. Valentino Bompiani, 1962. First edition. Eco's engagement with the concept of "the Open Work" – with nearly half of its pages devoted to the work of James Joyce – anticipates two of the central themes of Literary Theory: the multiplicity of interpretations of a work and the.....  Read More Item Details for Opera aperta. Forma e indeterminazione nelle poetiche contemporanee Add to Wish List

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London: J. Dodsley, 1781-1783. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION IN ENGLISH, containing all but one (Cyclops) of the extant plays. Read More Item Details for The Tragedies. . . Translated [by Robert Potter] Add to Wish List

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Philadelphia: Engles & Stiles, 1804. First American edition. Read More Item Details for An essay on taste...to which is added A Dissertation on the same subject by M. de Montesquieu Add to Wish List

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New York: T. and J. Swords, 1795. Sabin: "the first treatise on moral philosophy written and published in America." Gros was a professor at Columbia College and wrote this to be used as a textbook. Read More Item Details for Natural Principles of Rectitude for the Conduct of Man in States and Situations of Life; Demonstrated and Explained in a Systematic Treatise on Moral Philosophy Add to Wish List

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Paris: Chez Durand, 1758. First edition, second issue. First edition of the last major work of the French philosopher and encyclopédiste Helvetius, De l'esprit (On the Mind) was condemned by the Church and the Sorbonne for its uncompromising atheism, regarded as dangerously revolutionary by the Court of Louis XV, and.....  Read More Item Details for De l'esprit Add to Wish List

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May, 17, 1956. Sidney Hook is arguably the most controversial figure in the tradition of American philosophy. Coming to prominence in the late 1920s as both the star pupil of John Dewey and an eminent Marx scholar, Hook devoted his early career to political action which placed him firmly among.....  Read More Item Details for ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt, "To Alfred Eisenstaedt a great artist and warm human being from whom I learned that good judgement is good taste in photography as well as in other things..." Add to Wish List

Item #41518

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. The original dedition was published in 1828 and revised in 1836. With tipped in slip at front "From the Author/ A. B. Johnson esq./ of Utica/ N.Y."' Johnson was an Amewrican philosopher and banker. "Johnson asserted that language is “subordinate” to nature because there.....  Read More Item Details for A Treatise on Language or the Relation which words bear to Things in four parts Add to Wish List

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