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Paris: Chez Debure, 1776. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. [Buzonniere, Nouel de]. Observations sur un ouvrage intitulé le Système de la Nature. Chez Debure, Paris, 1776. Half-title + TP + [5] – 18 = Avertissement + [19] – 126 + 1 leaf = Approbation + 1 leaf = errata. 12mo. First Edition. Rare copy of a critique of Holbach. While Buzonierre found much in Holbach’s Systeme de la Nature, he sought to expose what he saw as false reasoning in it. CONDITION: Very Good+ in original floral wrappers. Handwritten title to front wrapper. Lightly chipped with some loss to upper corner of front wrap and top of spine. Pages clean and bright. Important commentary on Holbach’s “Bible of Materialism.” PHOTOS AVAILABLEUPON REQUEST

Kjøbenhavn: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1841. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. The Rare First Edition, First Issue of Kierkegaard’s Second BookKIERKEGAARD, Soren. Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates (On the Concept of Irony, with Constant References to Socrates), P.G. Philipsens Forlag, Kjøbenhavn, 1841. TP (with note regarding Kierkegaard's candidacy for Master of the Arts and the date above Sibbern's name on the verso of TP) + second TP in Latin (with hand written date in Roman numerals) + [i]-[ii] = Theses (in Latin) + [iii] = Indhold + half-title + [3]-350, small Octavo. First Edition, First Issue (Himmelstrup 8).The rare early issue with the second title page in Latin. "Kierkegaard's second book, his dissertation in theology, presented at the University of Copenhagen. In this work, Kierkegaard invidiously contrasts the irony of Socrates with the comparatively palliated and world-weary irony of the romantics. Irony constitutes… Read More

Moscow: Novyi Mir, 1962. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr, [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich] in Novyi Mir, XXXVIII, No. 11, Moscow, November 1962. TP/Contents + [3] - 288. Octavo. FIRST EDITION. This is the first appearance of Solzhenitsyn’s famous tale of Soviet labor camp prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Set in the 1950s, the story of this single day was first published on pages 8 - 74, with a preface by Aleksandr Tvardovsky, in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novyi Mir (New World). One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich engages with questions both theological and philosophical as well as historical and political. It stands as one of the most important literary texts of the 20th century revealing the horrors of the labor camps as well as the resilient and enduring nature of the human spirit. Because of this work Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1970), but he was also exiled from the Soviet Union in… Read More

St. Petersburg: V tipografii Karla Vul fa, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Chernyshevsky’s Translation of Mill’s Political Economy , , H. . (Mill, J.S.CHERNYSHEVSKY, N.G.). (Onovanya Politicheskoy Zkonomi). St. Petersburg: V tipografii Karla Vul fa, 1860. Blank leaf + TP + [5] - 426. Octavo. First Edition. An incomplete translation of book 1 of the 4th edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy, 1857 (cf. p. [6]), published as a separately-paged supplement to Sovremennik (cf. verso of t.p.); no more published in this first edition. Chernyshevsky only translated the first volume of Mill’s work, but provided extensive commentary in his translation (“A complete translation, but without his notes [the censors prohibited them], was published in 1865”). It was remarked by a contemporary that “by the notes and commentaries he appends to the translation [Chernyshevsky] seeks to transform Mill into Proudhon!” It was because of the… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel,, 1847. First edition. Very Good +. KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Opbyggelige Taler i forskjellig Aand (Edifying Discourses in a Different Spirit). C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1847. TP + 1 leaf = Indhold + half-title + TP (En Leiligheds=Tale) + [5] = Forord + [7]-155 + half-title + TP (Hvad vi loere af Lilierne paa Marken og af Himmelens Fugle) + [5] = Forord + [7]-64 + half-title + TP (Lidelsernes Evangelium) + [5] = Indhold + [7] = Forord + [9]- 140, Octavo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 101).Three collected discourses, Purity of the Heart, The Lilies of the Field and The Blessedness that is Promised in Being a Man – all in first editions and each with its own title page.CONDITION: Very good or better in contemporary ½ cloth with black marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Top ½ inch of front free end paper excised. Pages bright and clean, much less foxing than is usual in Kierkegaard’s books. A very good+ copy of these three… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel,, 1847. First edition. original boards. Very Good +. KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Opbyggelige Taler i forskjellig Aand (Edifying Discourses in a Different Spirit). C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1847. TP + 1 leaf = Indhold + half-title + TP (En Leiligheds=Tale) + [5] = Forord + [7]-155 + half-title + TP (Hvad vi loere af Lilierne paa Marken og af Himmelens Fugle) + [5] = Forord + [7]-64 + half-title + TP (Lidelsernes Evangelium) + [5] = Indhold + [7] = Forord + [9]- 140, Octavo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 101).Three collected discourses, Purity of the Heart, The Lilies of the Field and The Blessedness that is Promised in Being a Man – all in first editions and each with its own title page.CONDITION: Very good or better in original publisher's blue card boards. spine chipped and much of the original spine label worn. Uncut and partly unopened frontboard loose, spineworn. Pages bright and clean, much less foxing than is usual in… Read More

Francofurti ad Moenum: Joannis Baptistae Schonwetteri, 1665. First Thus. vellum. Very good. BACON, Francis. Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis S. Albani, Summi Angliae Cancellarii, Opera Omnia, Quae extant: Philosophica, Moralia, Politica, Historica (etc.). Impensis Joannis Baptistae Schonwetteri, Typis Matthaei Kempfferi, Francofurti ad Moenum (Frankfurt am Main), 1665. Half-title with frontis on verso + TP + 1 leaf = Sacrae Caesareae Majestatis + 3 leaves = Vita Francisci Baconi + TP + 2 leaves = Singularum Argumenta and Partitiones Scientiarum… + 1 - 1324 columns + [1] - [29] = index + 1 leaf. Folio. First Complete Edition in Latin. First Latin Edition of Bacon's Complete Works, containing Tractatus nempe de Dignitate & Augmentis Scientiarum; Novum Organum Scientiarum; Historia Ventorum; Historia Vitae & Mortis; Scripta de Naturali & Universali Philosophia; Sylva Sylvarum, or Natural History; New Atlantis; History of the Reign of King Henry VII; Sermones Fideles; Tractatus… Read More

[Amsterdam]: [Jan Rieuwertsz],, 1677. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/none. First Edition of Spinoza’s Masterwork – Ethica, Ordine Geometrico demonstrataSPINOZA, Baruch. Opera Postuma, Quorum series post Præfationem exhibetur. [Jan Rieuwertsz], [Amsterdam], 1677. TP + 18 leaves = Præfatio + half title + [1]-614 + 16 leaves = Index Rerum + half title + 1-112 + 4 leaves = Indiculus & Errata. First Edition.Published in the year of Spinoza's death, this posthumous collection was edited by his close friend, Jarig Jelles, whose preface, originally written in Dutch, was translated into Latin by L. Meyer. Spinoza had contemplated publishing his Ethica two years earlier but the furor over his supposed atheism forced him to postpone the book’s release. The day before his death, Spinoza arranged for these works to be published by sending them to Jan Rieuwertsz who had previously published his Principia on Descartes and the… Read More