THE ETHICS OF AMBIGUITY by Simone de Beauvoir - 1948

London, United Kingdom: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824. The very scarce book of proverbs. John Wade was the British political reformer who published the notorious and influential Black Book (1819), a litany of British political and industrial abuses. CONDITION Contemporary professional rebound in Black cloth with Gilt spine title, with new antiqued eps, pp xxiv pp 215, tight with bright text block, with expected light dustspotting due to age, not inscribed.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Not Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: for T. Bickerton, 1719. ...... for collecting at the same time the alms of the congregation. At the Assizes held at Rochester, on Wednesday, July 15, 1719. Offer'd to the consideration of the clergy of the Church of England. Engraved frontispiece showing the charity collection in progress. 8vo, pp. (4):72, disbound. Very good. Anonymous.

Harper & brothers, 1858. Hardcover. Good. 1852 printing. Harper Brothers publisher. Very readable text. Cloth, rebacked with matching cotton paper spine. Bumped edges. Age spots on edges of pages. Name written on first page. Contact me if you would like a digital photo. Ships daily.

Frankfurt und Leipzig: hallischen Wasisenhaus-Buchladens, 1755. Hardcover. See Description. Second German Edition, enlarged. 8vo. 4 volumes bound in two. Volume I. pp. [40] 471, [1]. Volume II. p. 428. Volume III. pp. [46], 556. Volume IV. pp. 512. Anhang (Addenda) pp. 212, [192]. With frontispiece engraving of the author in volume I. Woodcut illustrated initials throughout; engraved headpiece at the beginning of each volume / section. Bound in full calf with spines gilt in five compartments; rubbing and wear, labels chipped; head and tail caps are carefully restored including some gilt lines which are renewed; corner tips of boards are repaired. Marbled fly-leaves are lacking in the first volume. Notes are written in an early hand on front blank leaf of volume I. Title page is printed in red and black. Interior is generally clean with occasional mild foxing, soiling and wear; one word of marginalia is written in an old hand on p.43 of volume I. Veit Ludwig von Seckendorf (1626-1692) German… Read More

First edition of Volume 1, 1737, London. Volume 1 of 2. Modern fine binding of quarter leather and marbled boards by Starr Bookworks. Interior is good. Library stamp on title page, some notations on preface, occasional pencil notes in text. Title page is backed with rice paper. Some edges chipped not affecting text. Last page is high quality facsimile. Paginates: [12], 420. Modern blanks. Extremely rare. OCLC locates 10 physical copies. Auction records do not find any sold at auction. Please see scans of the book you will receive. Feel free to inquire.

Exeter: William Robberts, Broadgate, 1861. "Despite the antiquity of this book it is still regarded as probably the most complete work on the subject." Blue blind embossed decoration to bds and Gilt spine title, original owners name to first blank Reginald Porter and dated March 1861 with purchase receipt for £1 laid in. pp xiii 503 with 15 Plates. CONDITION Mild rubbing to edges, cnrs canted, spine head and heel just starting, gutter crack to paper both ends, mull slightly loose though not worn, light foxed to plates due to paper type. Contemporary newpaper article pasted to inside rear listing contents of Churches and Cathedrals in Exeter. A few small tidy notations to margins mostly in pencil. Bright and crisp copy. Overweight. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bruxelles: Johannis Mommartius, 1656 A good copy of the second edition of this extremely rare work. First printed in Venice in 1652. Baldassare Bonifacio was a professor among many other talents and this work is a cabinet of curiosities - gathering a wide range of stories and recollections - including tales from classical antiquity of women who had serpent lovers. In full leather binding with raised bands and gilt decoration to the spine and tooling to the boards. It has had an old leather repair relaying the tooled front board onto plain leather. It is clean, showing wear to top and bottom of spine and edges and with a broken front hinge and weak rear hinge, although the board is still attached. The contents are in superb condition given the age of the book. There is a biographical note written in ink in english on a preliminary and 2-3 signs of previous ownershiip. Some of the ink has run a little. With black and white illustrated title page; page of names - D Carolo Hovyne, Equiti Aurato;… Read More

A Londres [i.e. Paris?]: Jacques Tonsson, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii, 180, 224 p.; 18 cm. Signatures: a6 A-O8+4 P6 2A-S8+4 T4 (12mo). Contemporary sprinkled calf with faint remains of gilt-tooled spine. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Running title: Essais de Politique, & de Morale. Front fixed endpaper bears armorial bookplate of P. Daubignard with motto "Tacio quid mihi placet." A few words written in an old hand on title page. Translated from English by Claude Pierre Goujet; imprint is false -- possibly printed in Paris. ESTC, 213884. The second part has separate title page and pagination. In Very Good- Condition: front joint weak; back joint starting at head of spine; loss of leather at ends of spine; corners rubbed; very occasional foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

London: J. Murray (successor to Mr. Sandby), 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. The Fifth Edition, Corrected." [2], xv, [1], 406 p.; 21 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Lyttelton's Dialogues." Gilt-rolled board edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Very small stamp at foot of title page verso reading "Printed in Great Britain." The anonymous author of the majority of these dialogues, inspired by Lucian's dialogues, is George Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773); the last three dialogues are by Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800). Among the speakers are "a North-American Savage"; Ulysses; William Penn; Louise de Coligni, Princess of Orange; Alexander the Great; Cardinal Wolsey; Lucian; Hercules; and a "modern Bookseller" who complains to Plutarch about being nearly ruined by being unable to sell many copies of Plutarch's Lives, and saved by selling fiction -- "secret History,… Read More

Madrid: Blas Roman, 1781. Hardcover. Very Good -. xxvii, [1], 243, [1] p.; [8], 182, [2] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a-c4 d2 A-Z4 2A-2G4 2H2; [pi]4 A-Z4. 19th-century tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules; boards have bevelled edges. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Feyjoo Ilustracion. Remains of handwritten paper label at tail of spine. Marbled fixed endpapers. The second title was also published by Blas Roman in 1781. Engraved headpieces and initials. Pink oval stamp on p. 1 of Ilustracion Apologetica of the Biblioteca del Colegio Civil Queretaro. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro (1676-1764) was an important Spanish philosopher whose 9-volume Teatro Crítico Universal (1727-39) and 5-volume Cartas Eruditas y Curiosas (1742-60) were collections of essays on wide-ranging topics. The two works in this volume were his responses to criticisms of his previous work. The back fixed endpaper is partially detached; the front fixed endpaper is completely… Read More