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Kjøbenhavn: C.A. Reitzel, 1838. First edition. Wraps. Very Good +. First Edition of Kierkegaard’s First BookKIERKEGAARD, Soren. Af en endnu Levendes Papirer (From the Papers of One Still Living), C.A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1838. 1 blank leaf + TP + Half-title ("On Andersen as a Novelist with Constant Reference to his Work: Only a Fiddler") + iii-x = Forord + [1]-79, 12mo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 6).Kierkegaard's first book published "against his will" (as noted on TP)."Kierkegaard's first book, a rather merciless ad hominem attack on the great children's storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's attempt at a serious novel, Kun en Spillemand (Only a Fiddler). The work's importance - an old joke has it that only Kierkegaard and Andersen read the book - lies less in the critique of Andersen's novel than in its presentation, in tentative but recognizable form, of Kierkegaard's theory of the individual, or rather,… Read More

London: S. Richardson, 1758. First Thus. Hardcover. very good. One of the Earliest Major Works of Greek Scholarship by a WomanElizabeth Carter’s Monumental Translation of the Complete Works of Epictetus EPICTETUS. All the Works of Epictetus, which are now extant; consisting of his Discourses, preserved by Arrian, in four books, the Enchiridion, and fragments. S. Richardson, London, 1758. 2 blank leaves + TP + 2 leaves = Irregular Ode + 6 leaves = List of Subscribers + [i] - [xxxiv] = Introduction + xxxv - xxxix = Contents + xli - [xlii] = Letter from Arian to Lucius Gellius + [1] - 431 = Discourses of Epictetus + half title + 435 - 464 = the Enchiridion + half title + 467 - 502 = Fragments + 503 - 505 = Fragments omitted by Mr. Upton + [506] - [512] = Index + [513] - [516] = Appendix. Large Quarto. First Edition of Carter’s Translation. Epictetus (circa 55-135 AD) taught in Rome until 94 AD when the Emperor Domitian banished philosophers from the… Read More

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1980. First edition. Very Good. IRIGARAY, Luce. Amante Marine de Frédéric Nietzsche (Marine Lover of Freidrich Nietzsche). Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1980. Half-title + TP + Half-title + 9-[204] + [205] = Contents + [207] = Publisher’s advertisements + [208] = Imprimé. Octavo. First Edition. First edition of a work by Irigaray in which she personifies water and pursues a dialogue with the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. Jacques Derrida is strategically engaged on the elision of femininity. This is the first of Irigaray’s incomplete tetrology. Some mild edge-wear to wrappers. A very good copy in publisher's printed wraps. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

London: James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. First Edition. full leather. Very good. “Religious Polemics” (PMM 193) BUTLER, Joseph. The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added two brief dissertations: I. Of personal identity. II. Of the nature of virtue. James, John and Paul Knapton, London, 1736. 1 leaf + TP + Dedication page + 1 leaf printed both sides = Advertisement + 2 leaves printed on three sides = Contents + i - x = Introduction + 11 - 320 + 2 full-sized leaves bound in with quotes and references handwritten on both sides + 1 leaf, Quarto. First Edition. PMM 193 “Butler was deeply preoccupied with the prevalence of Deism Â… and he saw that this was a not unexpected outcome of the overthrow of traditional conceptions of the universe by Copernicus and the Cartesian preparation for the Newtonian concept of the rule of law [in Nature]. Although not explicit, it was to combat this trend that Butler wrote the Analogy; Â… It is,… Read More

Konigsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. KantÂ’s Major Contribution to Psychology KANT, Immanuel, Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefakt (Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view), Friedrich Nicolovius, Konigsberg, 1798. 1 leaf + TP + [iii]-xiv = vorrede + half-title + [3]-334 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition [Warda 195]. KantÂ’s major contribution to psychiatry and psychology in which he classifies the mental diseases and analyzes sensation, imagination and feeling, concluding that the study of man can not be scientific since it was not mathematizable. This is the last of Kant's self-published works and his only published work dealing with medical psychology wherein he makes a major contribution to psychiatry. In the preface, he points out that this text represents his manual for a course of lectures which he gave over a period of thirty years at the University of Konigsberg. The Anthropologie is Kant's attempt to catalogue the powers of the… Read More

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

La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Autrement quÂ’etre ou au-dela de LÂ’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