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[Title in Greek] Aristotelis Opera Quæ Exstant. Aristotle.

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..... Read More

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Institutiones Metaphysica Ontologiam Cosmologiam, Psychologiam, Theologiam denique Naturalem Complexae methodo Wolfii Adornatae. Friedrich Christian Baumeister.

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... Read More

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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. Simon Berington.

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. Read More

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The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran.

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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. Read More

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De l'esprit. Claude-Adrien Helvetius.

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..... Read More

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A Treatise on Language or the Relation which words bear to Things in four parts. Johnson, A B., lexander, ryan.

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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..... Read More

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Elements of Materialism: Inculcating the idea of a future state, in which all will be more happy, under whatever circumstances they may be placed than if they experienced no misery in this life. Charles Knowlton.

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..... Read More

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