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 about Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction: including Correspondence with the Russian...

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 about The Adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca :Being the substance of his examination before the...

Andover, [Mass.]: Published & for sale by Mark Newman, 1822. First American edition. Read More about An Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect

Boston: Dana Estes and Charles Lauriat, 1884. Edition de luxe, number 276 of 315 sets. Read More about The Works of Thomas Carlyle

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 about Abrégé Historique des Principaux Traits de la Vie de Confucius, Célèbre Philosophe Chinois....

Lipsiae: Impensis Laurentii Sigismundi Corneri, 1684. Read More about Colloquia, nunc emendatiora cum annotationibus Arnoldi Montani

Brussels: Chez R. Fancois Foppens, 1740. Rare edition, same year as LeHaye edition. Read More about Anti-Machiavel ou essai de critique sur le Prince de Machiavel, publie par Mr. de Voltaire

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. Read More about La Théorie du Bonheur; ou, L'art de se rendre heureux, mis ê la portée de tous les hommes, ê...

Stuttgart und Tübingen: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1854. A Distinguished American Provenance, Benjamin Pierce. Inscribed on the flyleaf, “Charles Henry Davis with the love of his Friend and Brother Benjamin Pierce Junction Grove 19 Nov '58.” Benjamin Pierce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years..... Read More about Goethe's Sammtliche Werke

Cambridge, [Massachusetts]: Printed at the University Press, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1816. First Edition. See Spawn and Kinsella, American Signed Bindings 48 for ticketed bindings by Lillie. Lillie's address at No. 14 Merchant's Hall dates the binding to between 1825 and 1834. Read More about Elements of Logick; or a Summary of the General Principles and Different Modes of Reasoning

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 about ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt, "To Alfred Eisenstaedt a great artist and warm human being from...