Paris: Chez Didot; Delalain; Lacombe, 1771. Premiere Introduction a la Philosophie économique ou Analyse des États policés. Paris: Chez Didot; Delalain; Lacombe, 1771. First edition. Octavo. 8, ix-xii, 497, [3, priviledge] pp. Contemporary marbled sheep, smooth spine decorated and ruled in gilt, brown morocco gilt spine label, marbled endpapers and.....
London: Collins, 1946. First edition. Octavo (). [1]-414 pp. With a full color fontispiece of the Dalai Lama at age thirty-four and numerous full-page black and white photographs throughout. With maps printed on the endpapers. Publisher's original orange cloth. Front board stamped in gilt. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Waldegraue, 1591. First English edition. Small quarto (6 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 175 x 139 mm). [12], 268 [i.e.274], [2, table] pp. Page 274 misnumbered 268. With an early discussion of each of the "Ten Commandments." Contemporary calf, rebacked. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine 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......
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.....
Cambridge: Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel], 1634. Full Description: DONNE, John. Six Sermons Upon Severall Occasions. Preached Before the King, and Elsewhere. Cambridge: Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel] the printers to the Vniversitie of Cambridge: and are to be sold by Nicholas Fussell and Humphrey Mosley.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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London: Printed for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, 1690. The First Modern Attempt to Analyze Human Knowledge [LOCKE, John]. An Essay Concerning Humane [Human] Understanding. In Four Books. London: Printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, 1690. First edition title-page containing the inverted.....
London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1696. First collected edition of Locke's important writings on the fundamentals of economics. Small octavo (6 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches; 159 x 95 mm). [4], 4, 192; 24; [16], 111, [1, advertisement], [1, eratta], [1, blank] pp. With general title-page, and separate.....
London: Printed for Roger Clavil, Abel Roper, and Thomas Metcalf. 1697. First Edition [LOCKE, John]. SERGEANT, John. Solid Philosophy Asserted, Against the Fancies of the Ideists: or, the Method to Science Farther Illustrated. With Reflexions on Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding London: Printed for Roger Clavil, Abel Roper, and.....
London: Printed by L. Lichfield, for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon, 1694. . Father Malebranche's Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth. The Whole Work Compleat. To which is added the author's treatise of Nature and Grace. Being a consequence of the principles contain'd in the search. London: Printed by L......
London: Printed for James Knapton, 1699. Nicolas. A Treatise of Morality. In Two Parts. Written in French by F. Malbranch, author of The Search after Truth. And Translated into English, by James Shipton, M.A. London: Printed for James Knapton, 1699. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches;.....