![De idololatria liber, cum interpretatione latina, & notis Dionysii Vossii. [Bound with:] VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. De theologia gentili, et physiologia Christiana, sive, De origine ac progressu idololatriae, ad veterum gesta, ac rerum naturam, reductae: de que naturae mirandis, quibus homo adducitur ad Deum. Liber I, et II](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/254936.jpg?v=1534806305)
De idololatria liber, cum interpretatione latina, & notis...
Amsterdam: Jioh, & Corneium Blaeu, 1642. Second edition of each title. Scarce second edition of Maimonides’ tract on... Read More
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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste.
New York: Carvill, 1830. First edition was 1790. First American was 1812 This is Alison's most important work.
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Bentley - Devonshire copy
[Title in Greek] Aristotelis Opera Quæ Exstant.
Frankfurt: Apud Andræ Wecheli hercedes [heirs of Andreas Wechel], 1584-1587. The Wechel Aristotle, edited by Friedrich Sylburg. Bentley - Devonshire copy. All the volumes in Wechel’s Frankfurt editions of Aristotle’s works did not appear at the same time and they are not numbered. A main proponent for this work, Freidrich.....
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Institutiones Metaphysica Ontologiam Cosmologiam, Psychologiam, Theologiam denique Naturalem Complexae methodo Wolfii Adornatae.
Wittenberg & Servest: Zimmermanni, 1738. First edition. OCLC locates no copy in the United States of this important philosophical text, by a follower of Christian Wolf, and one which was used by Immanuel Kant in his lectures [Bound with:] Fata et Scripta Christiani Wolfi Philosophi. Lipsiae et Vratislaiae: Richert, 1739. 126...
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Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses, ouvrage extrait des manuscrits de M. Jérémie Bentham…par Et. Dumont...
Paris: Chez Bossange et Masson, et a Londres, 1818. Second edition. First published in 1811. This book was Translated from Bentham's mss. by Dumont and was not published in English until 1830, then under the title The Rationale of Punishment. This is the second edition.
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The Adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca :Being the substance of his examination before the fathers of the Inquisition at...
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.
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A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.
London: Tonson, 1734. First collected edition (second edition of Treatise).
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An Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect.
Andover, [Mass.]: Published & for sale by Mark Newman, 1822. First American edition.
Price: $300
Essays on Some of the First Principles of Metaphysics, Ethics and Philosophy.
Portland, [Maine]: Arthur Shirley, 1824. First edition.
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The Critical Philosphy of Immanuel Kant.
Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1889. First edition.
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[The Spring Bouquet].
[London: Printed by William Macintosh], ca. 1850. A children's story of how work, faith, kindness and patience brings reward.
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Colloquia, nunc emendatiora cum annotationibus Arnoldi Montani.
Lipsiae: Impensis Laurentii Sigismundi Corneri, 1684.
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![The Tragedies. . . Translated [by Robert Potter]. Euripides.](/pictures/thumb/36750.jpg?v=1534804264)
First collected edition of Euripides in English
The Tragedies. . . Translated [by Robert Potter].
London: J. Dodsley, 1781-1783. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION IN ENGLISH, containing all but one (Cyclops) of the extant plays. First collected edition of Euripides in English.
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An essay on taste...to which is added A Dissertation on the same subject by M. de Montesquieu.
Philadelphia: Engles & Stiles, 1804. First American edition.
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La Théorie du Bonheur; ou, L'art de se rendre heureux, mis ê la portée de tous les hommes, ê laquelle...
Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1801. First edition. According to Barbier, this is the sixth and final volume of the author's COMTE DE VALMONT, issued here separately by the publisher without the frontispiece which accompanies each in the collected edition.
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Inscribed
The Prophet.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Later printing. Inscribed. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "And with the kindest thoughts of Kahlil Gibran. 1930." A work seldom found signed or inscribed.
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Philosophorum sententiae de fato, et de eo quod in nostra est potestate, collectae partim, & de Graeco versae, per Hugonem...
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1648. Published in same year as the Paris firs editiont, three year's after Griotius's death.
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Banned and Burned: the Rare First edition
De l'esprit.
Paris: Chez Durand, 1758. First edition, second issue. Banned and Burned: the Rare First edition. 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.....
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ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt, "To Alfred Eisenstaedt a great artist and warm human being from whom I learned that good...
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...
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An Essay on Virtue and Harmony, wherein A Reconciliation of the various Accounts of moral Obligation is attempted.
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and W. Ruddiman for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1749. First edition. Shoulder notes in contemporary hand on first 21 pages.
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PRESENTATION COPY
A Treatise on Language or the Relation which words bear to Things in four parts.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. The original dedition was published in 1828 and revised in 1836. PRESENTATION COPY. 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.....
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Sketches of the History of Man considerably enlarged by the last additions and corrections.
Basil: Printed and sold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1796.
Price: $900
Twelve Lectures on the Natural History of Man, and the Rise and Progress of Philosophy.
Cincinnati: U.P. James, 1839.
Price: $75
Early work on behaviorism, by an American utopian
Elements of Materialism: Inculcating the idea of a future state, in which all will be more happy, under whatever circumstances...
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.....
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