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Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1655. First Edition. vellum. Very good. [LA PEYRERE, Isaac] Praeadamitae sive Exercitatio super Versibus duodecimo, decimotertio & decimoquarto capitis quinti Epistolae D. Pauli ad Romanos. [And 2nd part] Systema Theologicum ex Prae-adamitarum Hypothesi. [And final section, called]: Synagogis Iudaeorum universis. [Elzevir] [Amsterdam], 1655. TP + 1 leaf = Elenchus Capitum + 1 52 + TP + 2 leaves = Prooemium + 4 leaves = Argumenta Capitum Systematis & errata + 1 297 + 1 8 + [1] leave with engraved map of the Terra Sanctae. 4to. First Edition. An anonymous Dutch edition of Philosophia appeared in 1667, and new Latin editions in 1673 and 1674. Evidence for the staying power of the work and the controversies which surrounded it is found in the fact that it underwent a fourth edition long after Meyer's death in 1776. Rare Quarto edition which preceded the 12mo of the same year. La Peyrere is considered to be the father of Biblical criticism. He asserted in Praeadamitae that there… Read More

St Petersburg: I.I. Glazunova and Comp, 1860. First Edition. modern boards. Very good. Anthropologism & Narodism , . . (LAVROV, Pyotr). (Ocherki voprosov prakticheskoy filosofíi). (St Petersburg): . . (I.I. Glazunova and Comp?), 1860. Blank leaf + TP + half title + 1 - 94 + blank leaf. Octavo. First Edition INSCRIBED. Despite being influenced by the positivism of Comte and others, Lavrov rejected their rigid scientific materialism on the grounds that it denied the freedom of subjective value judgment. “Lavrov developed a position, which he termed “anthropologism,” that opposed metaphysical speculation, including the then-fashionable materialism of left-wing radicalism. Instead, he defended a simple epistemological phenomenalism that at many points bore a certain similarity to Kant’s position, though without the latter’s intricacies, nuances, and rigor” (IEP). Pyotr Lavrov was influential in Chernyshevsky’s… Read More

Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Sur Maurice Blanchot (For Maurice Blanchot); Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1975. Half-title + TP + 1 leaf + 9-79 + 1 leaf = Table + 1 leaf = Du Meme Auteur + 1 leaf = Imprimer, Octavo. First Edition. $100 Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas were lifelong friends and intellectual companions who shared an admiration for each other. Levinas dedicated many of his studies to Blanchot, and in this book, Levinas collects four such studies. CONDITION: Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, else near fine. A bright, clean, unopened copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Autrement qu’etre ou au-dela de L’Essence (Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence); Martinus Nijhoff, La Haye, 1974. Half-title + TP + [v] – viii = table matieres + [ix] – x = Note Preliminaire + 1 leaf + [3]-233, Octavo. First Edition. $250 Otherwise than being or beyond essence is a sequel to Levinas's Totality and Infinity. An immensely challenging and sophisticated work, it is generally considered Levinas's most important contribution to the contemporary debate surrounding the closure of metaphysical discourse, much commented upon by Jacques Derrida. The work contains a fundamentally original theory of the ethical relationship and describes the face-to- face relationship, sensibility, responsibility and speech. The process of the revelation of Being as laid out by modern phenomenological ontology is severely criticized, as the author claims that the ultimate account of these phenomena is not… Read More

Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1976. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Noms Propres (Proper Names); Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1976. Half-title + TP + 1 leaf + 9 - [192] + 193 – [194] = Table + 1 leaf = Du Meme Auteur + 1 leaf = Imprimer, Octavo. First Edition. $150 Combining elements from Heidegger’s philosophy of “being-in-the-world” and the tradition of Jewish theology, Levinas has evolved a new type of ethics based on a concept of “the Other” in two different but complementary aspects. He describes his encounters with those philosophers and literary authors (most of them his contemporaries) whose writings have most significantly contributed to the construction of his own philosophy of “Otherness”: Agnon, Buber, Celan, Delhomme, Derrida, Jabès, Kierkegaard, Lacroix, Laporte, Picard, Proust, Van Breda, Wahl, and, most notably, Blanchot. CONDITION: Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, else near fine. A bright, clean, partly unopened copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Le Temps et L’Autre (Time and the Other); Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1979. Half-title + TP + 7 - [92] + 1 leaf = Du Meme Auteur + 1 leaf, Octavo. First Edition. $100 Time and The Other was first presented as a series of lectures in 1946-47 at the College Philosophique and is probably the clearest statement of Levinas' thought. Here, in book form, is the first collection of these lectures. CONDITION: Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, else near fine. A bright, clean copy PHOTOS AVAIALBEL UPON REQUEST

Paris: Nouveau Millenaire Editions, 2002. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Littaye, Alain and Didier Ghez, Disneyland Paris From Sketch to Reality, Nouveau Millenaire Editions, Paris, France, 2002. 317 pages. First Edition. Signed Association copy.A wonderful book, filled with hundreds of illustrations of Disneyland Paris. Includes photos of the park, the imagineers working at the park, as well as artist renderings. A must have for any Disney fan. Rare association copy, signed and warmly inscribed from Tony Baxter (Disney imagineer) to Mark Risley (Emmy Award winning writer, animator, producer, and director): For Mark // From one Imagineer to // another! // A Great Friend Too! // Tony Baxter CONDITION: Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Jacket with light shelf wear. Small bookstore(?) sticker to bottom of jacket back. Internally tight and bright and clean. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871. First edition. Long, Samuel P.Art: Its Laws, and the Reasons for Them, Collected, Considered, and Arranged for General and Educational Purposes.Lee and Shepard, Boston 1871. 1 leaf + [i] - ii = advertisements + frontis + TP + 1 leaf = dedication + [vii] - xxxii + 1 - 248, 9 plates, four of which are from engravings by Joseph Andrews. 8vo, An important work on aesthetics, with a section on Terms in Architecture and a Catalogue of Works of Art to Which Reference is Made in This Volume. CONDITION: Very good in original green cloth with gilt spine. Spine ends and corners with bumping and small fray at top of spine. Light edge wear. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Paris: Guliemi Rouillij et Philippi G. Rouillij, 1563. First Edition. vellum. Very good. The Nature of Things (PMM 87) LUCRETIUS, Carus Titus. De Rerum Natura. Libri Sex. A Dionysio Lambino. Monstroliensi litterarum Graecarum in vrbe Lutetia, doctore Regio, locis innumerabilibus ex auctoritate quinque codicum manuscriptorum emendati, atque in antiquum acnatiium statum fere restituti, & pretarea breuibus, & perquam vtilibus commentariis illustrati. Guliemi Rouillij et Philippi G. Rouillij, Paris, 1563. 1 blank leaf + TP + [iii] - [xiv] = Karolo Valesio Nono + [xv] - [xvi] = Dionysius Lambinus + [xvii] - [xix] = Idem erudito Lectori + [xx] = Avratus in Lucretium + [xxi] - [xxii] = Philippus Galterus + [xxii] - [xxiv] = errata + 1 - 559 + 1 blank leaf, Small Quarto. First Lambin Edition. PMM 87 Denis Lambin [1520-1572] was a French classical scholar and professor of Latin & Greek. One of the grandest and most moving poems in the Latin language, Lucretius' work has delighted inquiring minds in every… Read More

Berolini: Georgii Reimeri, 1850. First Edition. full leather. Very good. “A Landmark in Cultural Criticism” (PMM 329) LUCRETIUS, Cari T. [LACHMANN, Karl], De Rerum Natura Libri Sex, Georgii Reimeri, Berolini, 1850. 2 blank leaves + TP + [3] - 248 + [249] - 252 = Capitula + TP + [3] - 428 + [429] - 439 = index + 2 blank leaves, Octavo, First Edition. The “Lachmann method” applied a scientific approach to evaluating , translating, and imparting the wisdom of ancient texts. Lachmann’s “lasting reputation rests on the edition of Lucretius which occupied the last six years of his life. His brilliant assessment of the relative values of the surviving manuscripts set a new standard in the analysis of corrupt and difficult texts, by concentrating conjecture on the actual readings. Lachmann was no mechanical editor, content to record and select according to a preconceived formula. He had as deep an understanding of his author as Lambin, four centuries before [PMM 87], and it is this combination… Read More

Paris: Union generale d'editions 10/18, 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. LYOTARD, Jean-Francois. Des Dispositifs Pulsionnels (The Drives and their Apparatuses) Union generale d'editions 10/18, Paris, 1973. TP + 7 - [319], Small Octavo. First Edition. $40 A collection of essays on matters libidinal, political, postmodern, and aesthetic. This work is characteristic of his early attempts at a synthesis of Freud and Marx. CONDITION: Original illustrated wrappers. Light creasing to spine. Edgewear. A very good copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Paris: Union generale d'editions 10/18, 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. LYOTARD, Jean-Francois. Derive a Partir de Marx et Freud (Adrift from Marx and Freud) Union generale d'editions 10/18, Paris, 1973. TP + [5] - 316, Small Octavo. First Edition. $40 Derive a Partir de Marx et Freud signaled Lyotard’s break with Marxism as well as his distrust of any unifying system of truth or analysis, which he defined as totalitarian because in its exclusionary practice it obliterates any other perspective. Lyotard continued to pursue this deconstruction of what he termed “master narratives” in his writing and teaching and, along with a number of rebel French academic intellectuals like Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, promoted a philosophy called Postmodernism, a term for which Lyotard gained international recognition with his book La Condition postmoderne in 1979. CONDITION: Original illustrated wrappers. Light creasing to spine. Edgewear. A very good copy. PHOTOS… Read More