London: Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. Full description: BACON, [Sir] Francis. The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. First edition. Two parts in one small quarto volume (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 195 x......
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. Full Description: BERKELEY, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. With Prolegomena, and with Annotations, Select, Translated, and Original by Charles P. Krauth, D.D.. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. First American edition of the book which shook the intellectual world with.....
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag von Meidinger Sohn & Cie. 1855. First edition. Octavo (7 1/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 179 x 117 mm). xvi, 269, [3, imprint and ads] pp. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Edges speckled. Some browning to endpapers, small owner's stamp to front endpaper.....
Paris: Jehan Petit, 1513. Second edition (first edition [Paris, 1489] is unattainable, with only one institutional copy in the U.S.); first edition edited by Guillaume Baterel. Folio (280 x 206 mm.). [viii], 115 pp., (3 blank leaves). Text in double columns. Woodcut printer's device on title and criblé historiated initials.....
Paris: Hippolyte Souverain, 1839. First edition, Published in a Very Limited Number of Copies for Distribution Among Friends [CABET, Etienne]. Voyage et Aventures de Lord Villiam Carisdall en Icarie. Traduits de l'Anglais de Francis Adams par Th. Dufruit. Paris: Hippolyte Souverain, 1840 [1839]. First edition, published in 1839 in a......
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Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 1496. Opera]. De natura deorum, De divinatione, De legibus, Academica, De finibus bonorum et malorum, De fato, Timaeus, Somnium Scipionis, Quintus Tullius Cicero: Commentariolum petitionis. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 1496. Full Description: CICERO, Marcus Tullius. [Opera]. De natura deorum, De divinatione, De legibus, Academica, De finibus bonorum et.....
Paris: Chez Agasse, 1795. “Can Man Become Perfect?” CONDORCET, [Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de]. Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain. Ouvrage posthume de Condorcet. Paris: Chez Agasse, L’an III. de la République [1795]. First edition of Condorcet’s philosophical masterpiece. Octavo (7 7/8 x 4 13/16.....
London: Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall, 1691. Full Description: [CONFUCIUS]. The Morals of Confucius A Chinese Philosopher, Who Flourished above Five Hundred Years before the Coming of Christ. Being One of the Choicest Pieces of Learning Remaining of That Nation. London: Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall, 1691 [i.e......
London: Printed by Thomas Harper, for Humphrey Moseley, 1653. First English edition. Small quarto (7 5/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 187 x 135 mm). [16], 94, [1, errata], [1, blank] pp. Two parts in one volume. With three engraved plates, and with numerous woodcuts, including head-and-tail pieces and initials. Title-pages.....
London: Printed by A.M. for Thomas Jones, 1624. Full Description: DONNE, John. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and seuerall steps in my sicknes. Digested into 1. Meditations vpon our humane condition. 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God. 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to him. The second edition. London: Printed by.....
London: printed by T:N: for Humphrey Moseley, 1652. Full Description: DONNE, John. Paradoxes, Problemes, Essayes, Characters. written by Dr Donne Dean of Pauls: to which is added a book of epigrams: written in Latin by the same author; translated into English by J: Maine, D.D. As also Ignatius his Conclave.....
Chicago: Universal Publishing Co., 1924. Full Description: GANDHI, Mahatma. Sermon on the Sea. With an Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. Edited by Haridas T. Muzumdar. Chicago: Universal Publishing Co., 1924. First US edition. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 198 x 134 mm). [i]-128 pp. Publisher's full yellow cloth.....
London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition. Octavo. [v], vi-xii, 482, [1, errata] pp. including half-title. Recent half calf over marbled boards, spine bands ruled in gilt, black morocco gilt spine label. Some light foxing (especially to the first and final leaves). A very good copy. Goodwin's Enquirer is.....
London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1793. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793. First edition. Two quarto volumes (10 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 269 x 214 mm.). xiii, [1, blank], [19, contents], [1, blank], 378; [4], [23, contents], [1, blank], [379]-895, [1, blank], [2, errata and.....
London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1769. First Edition of this Children’s Pocket Book on Morality [GOLDSMITH, Oliver]. WINLOVE, Solomon. Moral Lectures, on the Following Subjects. Pride, Envy, Avarice, Anger, Hypocrisy, Charity, Generosity, Compassion, Ill- Humour, Good-Humour, Affectation, Truth, Falshood, Education, Industry, Wisdom, Indolence, Application, Beauty, Advice, Company, Splendor, Happiness, Friendship.....
Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1900. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1900. First edition. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/2 inches; 211 x 141 mm). [4], 189, [1, table of contents], [2, ads] pp. Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco over dark blue morocco-grain cloth boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in.....
London: Printed for the Translator, 1759. Full Description: HELVETIUS, Claude Adrian. De L'Espirit: or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties. Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection. London: Printed for the Translator, 1759. First edition in English (published one year after the first edition in France).....
Amsterdam: Joannem Blaeu, 1668. Full Description: HOBBES, Thomas. Opera Philosophica. quae Latinè scripsit, Omnia. Ante quidem per partes, nunc autem, post cognitas omniuna. Objectiones, conjunctim & accuratius Edita. Amsterdam: Joannem Blaeu, 1668. The first edition of Thomas Hobbes's collected works, in Latin, including the first edition in Latin of "Leviathan".....
Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1770. “The Bible of Materialism” [HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d’]. Systême de la nature. Ou Des loix du monde physique & du monde moral. Par M. Mirabaud. Londres [i.e., Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey], 1770. First edition. Two volumes, octavo. [12], 370; [4], 412 pp. Contemporary speckled calf.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Printed for A. Millar, London: 1751. First edition, first issue, with L3 in the uncancelled state with the catchword "than". Twelvemo (6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches; 166 x 100 mm). [viii], 253, [3 ads] pp. With.....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1748. First edition. Twelvemo.(166 x 95 mm). iv; 256; [4, ad] pp. Contemporary brown calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt-stamped with black and red morocco labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Some mild toning. Very good. Better known as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.....
New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845. First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 190 x 120 mm). 219, [1, blank] pp. With advertisements printed on inside of wrappers and back wrapper. We could find no copies of this first edition on OCLC and only one at auction in.....
Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1755. Full Description: HUTCHESON, Francis. A System of Moral Philosophy, In Three Books. Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1755. First edition. Three books in two quarto volumes (10 1/4 x 8 inches; 261 x 202 mm). [12], xlviii, 358, [2, blank]; [4], 380, [2, blank].....
Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783. First Edition, second issue with woodcut device to title, woodcut head-piece (angels) on p. 3, and woodcut tail-piece (rod with leaves) on page 222. Two titles in one octavo volume (7 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches; 199 x 117 mm). 222, [2, blank] pp. With.....
Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang, 1691. A Founding Document of Democracy The First of John Locke’s Works to be Translated from His Native English [LOCKE, John]. Du gouvernement civil, ou l'on traitte de l'origine, des fondemens, de la nature, du pouvoir et des fins des societe politiques. Traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam.....