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Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Henry Van de Velde. Nietzsche’s Self-Congratulatory Masterpiece Explaining: “Why I Am So Wise” NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Ecce homo (Behold the Man). Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1908. 1 leaf + TPs + 7-154 + [155] = Inhalt + [157] = “Exemplar” page, Square Quarto. First Edition. Schaberg 61b Released in an edition of 1,250 copies: 150 on Japanese velin and 1,100 on parchment. Double-spread art nouveau title page illustrated by Henry Van de Velde. “Van de Velde developed all his decorative elements from the logic of the curve and reverse curve and by covered surfaces and plain surfaces. This brings the text and the decorations into an ideally close connection with each other” (Hofstatter, Art Nouveau, p. 100). Copies were so expensive that it was dubbed the "bank director's edition" (Schaberg, The Nietzsche Canon, p. 185). First edition of Nietzsche's apologia, written as a pre-emptive defense against his interpreters, though… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzels,, 1859. First edition. Wraps. Very Good +. KIERKEGAARD, Søren. En Bladartikel (A Newspaper Article), C. A. Reitzels, Kjøbenhavn, 1859. Original front wrap + TP + [3]-[16] + original rear wrap, small Octavo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 287). Original Wrappers."A brief work reprinting Kierkegaard's article "A Passing Comment on a Detail in Don Juan", which originally appeared in Fatherland... and had been omitted from Bladartikel in 1857. An afterthought on Mozart's great opera, sublimely treated at length by Kierkegaard in Either/Or." (Wronoski, p. 30)CONDITION: Very good in original wrappers.. Minor edgewear. CONDITION: Very good in original wrappers.. Minor edgewear.PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Norrköping: E. Biornström, 1863. Wraps. Near fine. Herzen’s Letters to Turgenev; Dostoevsky’s Inspiration for Raskolnikov? , (HERZEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich [under pseud. Iskander]). (Kontsy i nachala). Norrköping: E. Biornström, 1863. Front wrapper + TP + [I] - iv + blank leaf + [1] - 96 + rear wrapper. Small octavo. First edition unopened in original wrappers. Letters by Alexander Herzen (the "father of Russian socialism") to Ivan Turgenev. In Russia Ends and Beginnings was banned until the Revolution of 1917. CONDITION: Near fine in original publisher’s yellow wrappers. Completely unopened. Light edge wear to wrappers. Seemingly also found with light blue wrappers, this rare work is scarce in any condition. MORE PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Paris: Chez Agasse, 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. “Can Man Become Perfect?” (PMM 246) CONDORCET, Marquis de. Esquisse d’un Tableau Historique des Progrès de L’esprit Humain. (Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind), Chez Agasse, Paris, L’An III de la République [1795]. 1 blank leaf + half-title + TP + v-viii + [1]-389 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition, First Issue. PMM 246 The Esquiss, published after his death in prison, is considered Condorcet’s greatest work and is often cited as the culmination of characteristically eighteenth-century philosophy. With its emphasis on the idea of progress, the book also established a dominant theme of nineteenth-century thought. Condorcet traces the history of man through ten epochs, moving from savagery through the development of civilization and knowledge up to Descartes in the eighth epoch. The ninth epoch spans the Enlightenment from Descartes to the Revolution. For the tenth epoch, Condorcet predicted that equality… Read More