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Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voss, 1766. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Classic of Art History—PMM 213 LESSING (Gotthold Ephraim ), LAOKOON : oder uber die grenzen der mahleren und poesie. mit beylaufigen erlauterungen verschiedener punkte der alten kunstgeschichte, Christian Friedrich Voss, Berlin 1766, 298pp. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Lessing’s most famous work outside Germany, and a classic of art history. In Laokoon, Lessing claims that certain arts have certain limits. The rules of poetry are not the same as those of sculpture or painting, each has its unique sphere. "Laokoon is perhaps Lessing's best-known work outside Germany, and it has had a world-wide influence ... It contains the first clear statement of the truth, which is now considered axiomatic, that every art is subject to limitations, and can achieve greatness only by a clear understanding of and self-restriction to its proper function. The most telling passages, and those which have borne most fruit, are those on poetry ...… Read More

La Haye: Chez Pierre Moetjens. First Dutch Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. [HELVÉTIUS, Claude-Adrien] L’Esprit (On the Mind), Chez Pierre Moetjens, A La Haye (The Hague; Provins, Michelin) 1759. Vol I = half title-page + TP + [i] - viii = Preface + (1) - (34) = Lettre au R.P. Berthier + blank leaf + [1] - 244; Vol II = half title-page + TP + [1] - 209 + half title-page + TP + [1] - 166 + i - x = Table Sommaire Discours I & II + i - xi = Table Sommaire Discours III + i - iv = Table Sommaire Discours IV, 12mo, FIRST DUTCH PIRATED EDITION.This magnum opus of modern thought is considered the founding work of modern Utilitarianism, as it is here that Helvétius articulates the greatest happiness principle ("the greatest happiness for the greatest number") for the first time and becomes the first to define social welfare upon this utilitarian maxim, directly influencing Bentham and Mill.The materialistic philosophy of Helvétius' "De… Read More

Paris: Collection “Tel Quel” Aux Editions de Seuil,, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. DERRIDA, Jacques. La Dissemination. Collection “Tel Quel” Aux Editions de Seuil, Paris, 1972. Half-title + TP + Half-title + 9 – [407] + 4 leafs, Octavo. First Edition. $100 Dissemination includes a collection of essays on Plato, Mallarme, and Sollers. It represents one of Derrida’s most complex analyses of the ‘trace’ as writing while serving as a critique of absolute knowledge in written texts. Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the… Read More

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. La Structure du Comportement (The Structure of Behavior); Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1942. Half-title + TP + [v]-viii = Introduction + [1]-314 + [315] = Printing information, Octavo. First Edition. First edition of Merleau-Ponty s first book with the verso of the title page noting: Dépot Légal / 1re édition .. .. .. 30 novembre 1942 Merleau-Ponty s first book which served as the underlying basis for his doctorate. Heavily influenced by Hegel, The Structure of Behavior rejects the popular objectivism, most evident in psychological behaviorism of the time. However, Merleau-Ponty similarly rejects the popular neo-Kantian intellectualism that would have embraced a subjectivism as the context for objectivity. Here Merleau-Ponty asserts that mind and body are not two separate substances idea and matter but rather, asserts the inseparability of the two as essential for any… Read More

Paris: Grasset, 1927. First Edition. wrappers. Very good. “The Betrayal of the Intellect” (PMM 419) BENDA, Julien, La Trahison des Clercs (The Treason of the Intelligentsia), Grasset, Paris, 1927. 1 leaf + half-title + TP 1 leaf + [9] - 306 + 1 leaf = printer’s information + 1 blank leaf, Small Octavo, First Edition. PMM 419 “The publication of [La Trahison des Clercs] was one of the major events in political thought between the two wars. The ‘Clerc’ is what Benda conceived the intellectual to be, someone disengaged from the mere contingencies of existence and fighting for ideals which went beyond the demands of a given moment in space and time. In violent and brilliant invective, he attacked the intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for having fallen short of this ideal by becoming the devoted advocates not of ideals, but of groups or existences, material and transient, such as a nation or a social class” (PMM). PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 419 CONDITION: Very good or… Read More

Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur, 1847. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Important French Translation of the Qur’an; Same Edition Owned by Dostoevsky KASIMIRSKI, M [Tr.]. Le Koran (Qur’an). Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur, 1847. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 - 539 + 1 blank leaf. Small octavo. Nouvelle Edition. Albin de Biberstein Kasimirski was French translator and author who studied Eastern and Arabic traditions. Jean-Pierre Pauthier commissioned Kasimirski to translate the Qur’an as part of a larger initiative to gather the sacred books of Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam. Kasimirski’s translation, first published in 1840, built on the earlier translations done by the Italian cleric Louis Maracci and the English scholar George Sale. CONDITION: Very good to near fine in half-leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Very light wear to edges. Marbled endpapers. Internally, pages are exceptionally clean and bright. MORE PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Paris: La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1937. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. SARTRE, Jean Paul. “Le Mur” in La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, Juillet 1937 – Front wrapper + 56 pages of advertisements + half-title + title-page + [5] – 184 + 16 pages of advertisements + rear wrapper. Small Octavo. First Appearance. The first appearance of the famous short story, “Le Mur” (“The Wall”), which explores the Sartrean existential human conditions of anguish, abandonment, and despair. Pablo, a political prisoner facing execution, is confronted with the inauthenticity of most human choices as he is confronted by the question of meaning for himself. A classic short story of existentialism, commonly read by most undergraduate students. Story appears on pages 38 - 62. CONDITION: Very good or better in the original paper covers. One leaf (pp 33/34) with some loss at bottom, not affecting the text. Mostly unopened. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Paris: Bossange père, P. Mongie, 1830. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Rare Supplement to Le Nouveau Monde FOURIER, Charles. Le Nouveau Monde Industriel, ou Invention du Procédé d'Industrie attrayante et combinée, distribuée en séries passionnées, LIVRET D’ANNONCE. Paris: Bossange père, P. Mongie, 1830. 1 blank leaf + [577] - 664 + 8 leaves = advertisements. Octavo. First Edition in original wrappers. Original edition of the scarce 88-page “Livret D’Annonce” (The New Industrial World: announcement booklet) which continues the pagination from the 1829 text, from 578 to 664. This supplement was done at the request of many friends of Fourier who wanted him to complete what they perceived to be unfinished thoughts from the original book. Scarce in original wrappers. CONDITION: Very good in original green wrappers, lightly chipped edges and some minor loss to spine. Light foxing. Pages clean. Mostly unopened. MORE 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: Librairie Plon, 1888. First French Edition. contemporary boards. Very good +. DOSTOIEVSKY [Dostoevsky], Fedor. Les Pauvres Gens (Poor Folk). Librairie Plon, Paris, 1888. 1 leaf + front wrapper + Half-title + TP + [i] – xi + 1 – 275 + rear wrapper + wrapper spine + 1 leaf. 12mo. First French Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Translator. First edition in French, by Victor Derély (1840–1904), who also translated Crime and Punishment (1884), The Possessed (1886), and The Idiot (1887). The first English translation was not published until 1894. Boutchik 334 (misdating it ‘1883’). CONDITION: Very good or better. Some pencil side-ruling and underlining; uncut in quarter morocco, spine lightly sunned, with the original printed wrappers (darkened) bound in; TEG; inscribed by the translator on the half-title to the journalist and poet, Edmond Lepelletier (1846–1913). PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST