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New York: W. Gowan, 1833. First American edition. Very Good. The First American Printing of a Work by PlatoPLATO. Phædon: or, A Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul. New York: W. Gowan, 1833. TP + 1 leaf = Dedication page with advertisement on verso + [5]-209 + [1]-2 = publisher's advertisements, 12mo. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of any work by Plato.The first American printing of any work by Plato, noted on the TP: "Translated from the Original Greek by Madam Dacier with Notes and Emendations to which is prefixed the Life of the Author by Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, First American, from the Rare London Edition".André Dacier (1651-1722) and his wife Anne Lefevre (1654-1720) were learned Hellenist and Latinist scholars who took the side of the Ancients in the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns which was raging at the time. They did much of their work together. Dacier also translated Horace, Aristotle, Sophocles, Epictetus, Hippocrates and Plutarch. He was an editor of the Delphin series of… Read More

Paris: YMCA Press, 1927. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. BERDYAEV, Nikolai, . [Philosophy of the Free Spirit. Problems and Apology in Christianity], YMCA Press, Paris [1927/28]. Vol I: TP + 1 leaf = contents + 5 - 271; Vol II: TP + 1 leaf = contents + 5 - [236]. 2 volume octavo. FIRST EDITION in original printed wrappers. Berdyaev is considered by many to be one of the most important thinkers of late 19th, early 20th century Russia. His writing engages with themes both philosophical and theological––the spirituality of human freedom in contrast to the historical determinism of Marx and Lenin—-and places him under the anachronistic umbrella of Christian Existentialism along with previous thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard. “In this book, Berdyaev tells us that the creative development of the spirit and the free exercise of man's powers can be conceived only as the free cooperation of man with the work of God. Creative spiritual… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel, 1844. First printing. Wraps. Very Good. KIERKEGAARD, Soren. Philosophiske Smuler eller En Smule Philosophi. auf Johannes Climacus. (Philosophical Fragments or Fragments of Philosophy), C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1844. TP + [3]-164, 12mo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 62)."An 'objective' treatment of Christianity and of man's relation to spiritual truth... Kierkegaard offer a philosophy of scraps or of what is scrapped in opposition to idealism and systematics. As against the idealistic tradition from Plato through Fichte and Hegel, which holds that man possesses an inward truth or an immediate awareness of the divine, Kierkegaard sees humanity in a state of sin and untruth...The most didactic of the aesthetic works, though still treating the thorniest problems of Western Philosophy with unrivaled elegance. Kierkegaard anticipates one of the key themes of 20th Century thought, that of 'the other' or the remainder, residue or… Read More

Boston: Luce and Company, 1908. First printing. Near Fine. Mencken, Henry L., The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Luce and Company, Boston, 1908. Frontispiece with tissue guard + TP + vii – xiii + half-title + 3 – 325, Octavo. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING.Mencken’s classic biography of the oft-misunderstood (especially in the early 20th century) philosopher. CONDITION: Very Good to near fine condition. Corners lightly bumped, NOT affecting any pages. Gilt bright. Former owner's name (Chauncey Hackett) in pencil along with a line of text: “Except for the picture of N. + a few facts this book is worthless because the author is an ass-“. Perhaps this editorial is why the book is largely unopened! First binding state with "The Philosophy of Nietzsche" on the spine. Original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Mencken's third book, not issued with a dust wrapper until the Fifth Edition. Adler 5. Schrader A3.1a. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

[Geneva]: Henr. Stephani, 1578. First Edition. vellum. Very good. The STEPHANUS Plato The Book That Established the UNIVERSAL REFERENCE System for Platos Writings PLATO. Platonis opera quae extant omnia. (The Complete Works of Plato) [Title also in Greek], Henr. Stephani, [Geneva], 1578. First Greek/Latin Edition. Volume 1: TP + 16 unnumbered leaves [handwritten replacement preliminaries circa 18th c = Dedication to Queen Elizabeth + Studioso Lectori + Platone Epigrammata] + Catalogus Dialogorum + half title (with first page of text - unnumbered - on the verso) + 1 469 + 471 + 471 542. Volume 2: Half-title + blank leaf lettered AA.i. + 3 unnumbered leaves [printed replacement preliminaries circa 18th c. = Dedication to King James the Sixth of Scotland (later James the First of England) + Two Poems] + 3-701 + 672 673 + 704 992. Volume 3: Half-title + 3 unnumbered leaves [handwritten replacement preliminaries circa 18th c. = Dedication to the Republic of Bern + Poem] + AAAA.i. = Contents Page… Read More

Paris: Gallimard, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. very goodVery good +. BAUDRILLARD, Jean. Pour une critique de l'economie politique du signe. (For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign) Gallimard, Paris, 1972. Half-title + TP + [7] – 268 + [269] – [270] = Table + [271] – [274] = Advertisements + 1 leaf = Imprime, Octavo. First Edition. $50 For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign was Baudrillard’s third book. It echoed many of the ideas of The System of Objects, furthering his social analysis of consumerism, continuing his neo-Marxist analysis, though differing on one point. For Marx, production represented the main force in modern society; for Baudrillard, consumption. Needs are socially constructed, rather than essentially located within a ‘human nature.’ The fetishization of commodities reveals more about the user of those objects within a system of signs than the object itself. Objects are consumed for their “sign-value” more than their “use-value.” CONDITION:… Read More

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

London: Macmillan and Co, 1883. First Edition. Original cloth. very good+. SIDGWICK, Henry. The Principles of Political Economy. Macmillan and Co., London, 1883. 1 leaf + half-tile + TP + [v] - vi = preface + [vii] - xx = contents + 1 leaf = “corrigenda” + 1 - 591 + 1 leaf. Octavo. First Edition. First edition of Sidgwick’s philosophical attempt to merge the neoclassical and classical economic theories of the time. ”Sidgwick's attempt to bring professorial rigour and detachment to bear upon the major questions of policy and legislation. The Principles of Political Economy (1883) was an intellectually conservative work in two ways: first, its analytical or deductive method signalled its adherence to the style of classical political economy, rather than adopting the more historical or more mathematical approaches then in vogue; and second, it included within the scope of the subject not just the 'science' of economic analysis, but also the 'art' of political economy, that is, an examination of… Read More

St. Petersburg: V tipografii Karla Vul fa, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Chernyshevsky’s COMPLETE 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 + 1 - 66 = + [313] - 376 = + 1 - 48 = + TP + half title + [i] - xii = contents + half title + [3] - 507. Octavo. First Complete Edition. A rare COMPLETE translation 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 translated the first volume of Mill’s work, but provided extensive commentary in his translation. Then 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… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894. Second Edition. publisher's cloth. Very good. Wallace, William, Prolegomena to the Study of Hegel's Philosophy and Especially of his Logic, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1894. 1 blank leaf + Half title + TP + 1 leaf = dedication + [vii] - xiv = preface + [xv] - xvi = "From the Preface to the First Edition" + [xvii] - xix = contents + tipped in errata slip + half title + [3] - 477 + 1 leaf + 4 leaves = ads + 1 blank leaf. Octavo, Second edition. William Wallace (1844 – 1897) was a Scottish philosopher and academic who became fellow of Merton College and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University. He was best known for his studies of German philosophers, most notably Hegel, some of whose works he translated into highly regarded English editions. While reputedly forbidding in manner, he was known as an able and effective teacher and writer who succeeded in greatly improving the understanding of German philosophy in the English-speaking world. He died at the… Read More