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ÉPRÉMESNIL, Jaques Duval d'. Correspondance sur une question politique d'agriculture.Amsterdam & Paris : 1763
First edition of this printed correspondence between Épremesnil and Dupuy d'Emportes of the Academy of Florence, concerning agricultural issues, in which Éprémesnil stresses the importance of free trade. Épremesnil (1745-1794) later had an important role in pushing for the summoning of the Estates General, before defending the monarchy in the French... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 123202
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(HUME, David.) NAIGEON, Jacques André, editor. Recueil philosophiqueLondon (but Amsterdam) : 1770
First edition of this collection of philosophical essays by a number of authors, edited by Jacques André Naigeon. Of particular interest are essays nine and ten (the second and third in volume two), namely Hume's essays Of Suicide, and Of the Immortality of the Soul, here translated by Holbach.
Although originally written... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 142182
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BURLAMAQUI, Jean Jacques. Principes du droit naturel.Geneva : 1747
First edition of the Swiss legal and political theorist's principal work, an important influence on the American Founding Fathers. A natural law professor at the University of Geneva, Burlamaqui (1694-1748) conceived of his treatise as a general introduction to his subject intended for students, but its success and influence far exceeded his expectations.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 113546
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[QUESNAY, François.] Physiocratie, ou constitution naturelle du gouvernement le plus avantageux au genre humain. Publié par Du Pont, des Sociétés Royales d'Agriculture de Soissons & d'Orléans, & Correspondant de la Société d'Émulation de Londres.Pékin, and sold in Paris : 1767
First edition, the extremely rare first issue with the fictitious Pékin imprint on the title pages of both parts, in the corrected state. Issued thus to avoid French censorship, but in fact printed in Paris, the Pékin issue was printed in very small numbers and swiftly withdrawn because of a reference made by the editor, Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours,... Learn More£110,000.00Stock Code: 124093
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DERRIDA, Jacques. The Work of Mourning.Chicago & London : 2001
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by Derrida to the poet and photographer Ira Cohen on the title page, "Pour Ira, de tout coeur, J.D." The book is a collection of eulogies, essays and condolences on the deaths of 14 writers and thinkers who were Derrida's friends or colleagues: Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111353
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(VOLTAIRE.) ZABUESNIG, Johann Christoph von. Historische und kritische Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Schriften des Herrn von VoltaireAugsburg : 1777
First edition. Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 116580
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DERRIDA, Jacques. Signéponge.Paris : 1988
First French edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Pour Serge et Michele ? fidèlement, J. Derrida". Derrida's tribute to the poetry of Francis Ponge was originally published in the US in 1984, in a bilingual edition entitled Signésponge-Signsponge. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 115229
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HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'; Abraham Gaultier. Pieces Philosophiques.[Amsterdam? : 1771
First collected edition of these three materialist texts. The first, Parite de la Vie & de la Mort by Abraham Gaultier, was first published in 1714, this being the second edition. Gaultier, like Bernard Mandeville and La Mettrie, was a physician turned philosopher; in the present treatise he offers an entirely materialist vision of the body and soul,... Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 128984
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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Critique de la raison dialectique (précédé de Question de méthode). Tome I. Théorie des ensembles pratiques.Paris : 1960
First edition, first impression of Sartre's second major philosophical work, with the title misprinted Question rather than Questions de méthode, one of 85 copies printed on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, this copy numbered 55.
The Critique "is the result of sustained thinking which began in the fifties, that is, at the same time he was drawing... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 134749
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LAMBERT, Johann Heinrich. Neues OrganonLeipzig : 1764
First edition, scarce in commerce, of the Swiss polymath's principal philosophical treatise, "the most comprehensive theoretical elaboration of the idea of a 'mathesis universalis'" (Arndt) envisaged by Descartes and Leibniz, containing one of the first appearances of the term "phenomenology". We can trace no copies having appeared at auction outside... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 139740
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TYSSOT DE PATOT, Simon. Voyages et avantures de Jaques Masse.Bourdeaux [i.e. The Hague] : 1710 [i.e. around 1714]
First edition of this early utopian novel, "the best-known of all the radical philosophical novels of the Early Enlightenment" and which "surpassed practically every other work of philosophical fiction of the age for notoriety" (Israel, pp. liii and lvi). The novel details a Frenchman shipwrecked off South Africa - the co-ordinates are given as 60E/44S,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123204
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![Œuvres philosophiques de M. D. Hume. Traduites de l'anglois. Tome premier [- septième]. Nouvelle édition.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/113403.jpg)
HUME, David. Œuvres philosophiques de M. D. Hume. Traduites de l'anglois. Tome premier [- septième]. Nouvelle édition.London : 1788
Most complete edition, by virtue of the inclusion of Hume's writings on economics, being the third, enlarged edition of the second French collected works of Hume, first published in 1759-64. "The contents are differently ordered and vol. 7... is an addition, containing seven of the Political Discourses of 1752 translated by Mlle. de la Chaux" in 1767... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 113403
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BERKELEY, George. Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,Dublin : 1744
First edition, presentation copy with "From the Author" written in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, and from the library of the Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Strachey's library contained various works by 18th-century philosophers, reflecting his own interest in philosophy and the intense... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 135077
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(ROBBINS, Lionel.) DUPRIEZ, Léon H. Philosophie des Conjonctures Économiques.Louvain & Paris : 1959
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed on the half-title "A Lionel Robbins en tres cordial hommage Léon Dupriez". A nice association: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated the economics department... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 141531
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HOBBES, Thomas. Œuvres philosophiques et politiques.Neufchatel : 1787
First collected edition in French. It includes the young Huguenot intellectual Samuel Sorbière's popular translation of "De cive" (first 1649); a translation of "De corpore politico", long attributed to Sorbière but now thought to have been by prolific translator John Davies (Malcolm, pp. 464-5); and "Human Nature" translated by the prominent French... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 120538
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DIDEROT, Denis. Œuvres philosophiques et dramatiques.Amsterdam : 1772
First edition of Diderot's collected philosophical and theatrical works. It is rare to find a complete set as each volume has both a collective title page and its own, and could have been sold separately.
There were two editions of published in Amsterdam that year, the other being the octavo-format edition of Marc Michel Rey, though the present... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 128660
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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. Système des Contradictions Économiques, ou Philosophie de la Misère.Paris : 1846
First edition of Proudhon's magnum opus, his analysis of what he saw to be the economic contradictions of 19th-century capitalism, which he felt would lead in time to an anarchist society. Proudhon sent a copy of the book to Karl Marx, then his friend, for review. Marx read it in two days, and was infuriated. "He therefore determined to destroy it,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 129329
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(MUIR, Edwin.) MOORE, Edward. We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses.1918
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Moore on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Stobo from Edward Moore in memory of many charming hours. 31st May, 1918". Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 67586
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DIDEROT, Denis. Œuvres philosophiques et dramatiques.Amsterdam : 1772
First edition of Diderot's collected philosophical and theatrical works. It is rare to find a complete set as each volume has both a collective title page and its own, and could have been sold separately.
There were two editions of published in Amsterdam that year, the other being the octavo-format edition of Marc Michel Rey, though the present... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 141232
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Individualism: true and false.Dublin : 1946
First edition of Hayek's important lecture on freedom and the individual: "In a pamphlet on Individualism: True and False (1946) he contrasted a voluntaristic, spontaneous, undesigned order of freedom of the individual with a rationalistically designed and constructed system. 'True' was the undesigned individualism described and esteemed by Hume, Smith,... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 143821
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CORDEMOY, Louis Géraud de. A Philosophicall Discourse concerning Speech,London : 1668
First edition in English. Géraud de Cordemoy (1626-1684), philosopher, historian and lawyer, was one of the leading Cartesians of his day; his Discours de la parole was first published at Paris in the same year, 1668. "In his day, judging from the speed with which his writings were translated into Latin and English, Cordemoy was a highly respected,... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 110051
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ORWELL, George (contrib.) Polemic.London : 1946—47
First and only edition of this important post-war periodical, complete sets of which are decidedly uncommon: Copac locates sets at ten British and Irish institutional libraries; OCLC records no complete sets worldwide. Contributors include Bertrand Rusell, A. J. Ayer, Henry Miller, C. E. M. Joad, Ben Nicholson (who also designed the covers of issues... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 143721
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1814:London : 1814
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1814. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Charles Hutton; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White.
The... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116901
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1820:London : 1820
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1820. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Olinthus Gregory; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White.
The... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116906
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1824:London : 1824
First edition, containing eight different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1824. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Olinthus Gregory; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White;... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116907
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REINHOLD, Karl Leonhard. Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens.Prague & Jena, : 1789
First edition of the author's chief work, his attempt to simplify and unify Kantian theory. Reinhold (1757- 1823) was a key figure in popularizing Kantian ideas in the late 18th century, and was among the philosopher's earliest and most successful advocates. However he also sought to amend the flaws in Kant's philosophy, and in so doing, his reading... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 127808
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1815:London : 1815
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1815. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Charles Hutton; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White.
The... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116902
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1826:London : 1826
First edition, containing eight different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1826. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Olinthus Gregory; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White;... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116910
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1816:London : 1816
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1816. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Charles Hutton; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White.
The... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116905
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1828:London : 1828
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1828. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Olinthus Gregory; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; and The Celestial Atlas by Robert White.
The... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116909
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HUTCHESON, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue;London : 1726
Second edition, expanded and enlarged, first published the previous year. The philosopher Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), a major influence on the Scottish enlightenment, wrote the present treatises on aesthetics and ethics while running a private academy in Dublin. Borrowing heavily from Shaftesbury, Hutcheson argues in favour of an inborn moral sense,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 128586
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KIRWAN, Richard. Logick: Or, an Essay on the Elements, Principles, and Different Modes of Reasoning.London : 1807
First edition. Richard Kirwan (1733-1812) was an Irish chemist and mineralogist who turned to philosophical writing in the latter years of his life. His writings included a lengthy critique of Hume's philosophy in 1801 and a staunch defence of Berkeley's immaterialism in 1811. Partly written to counter the popularity of Locke's ideas, in the present... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 124216
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KANT, Immanuel. Kleine Schriften.Neuwied : 1793
First collected edition of any of Kant's writings, comprising seven articles first published in the periodicals Berlinische Monatsschrift and Teutscher Merkur from 1784 to 1791, here extracted and published without his permission. These include "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?" (first 1784, his famous definition of Enlightenment... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 141222
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HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. System der Wissenschaft. Erster Theil, die Phänomenologie des Geistes.Bamberg and Würzburg : 1807
First edition, first issue of Hegel's first major and best-known work, known in English as "The Phenomenology of Spirit", the only part published, in which he develops the idea of Geist realizing itself in the intellectual development of mankind. "It begins with a dialectical discussion of sense perception in which it is argued that knowledge of physical... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 132061
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MILL, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism.London : 1874
Second edition, published posthumously and the same year as the first, of Mill's three striking essays containing his philosophy of religion. "Mill wrote Nature and Utility of Religion between 1850-58, whereas Theism was written between 1868-70, near the end of Mill's life. Nature is an analysis, and critique, of the theory of natural moral law. Utility... Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 120901
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HELVÉTIUS, Claude-Adrien. De l'Esprit.Paris : 1758
Rare first edition, printing B, of the controversial French Enlightenment philosopher's most radical work, "On the Mind", with annotations transcribed from those made by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his own personal copy, thus foregrounding the importance of Helvétius and Rousseau's dialogue to contemporary and subsequent readings of De l'Esprit.
In... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 117797
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.London : 1922
First edition in English, first issue, without the publisher's catalogue found in later issues. This also marked the first edition in book form, following initial publication in German the previous year in the journal Annalen der Naturphilosophie. That publication - under the title Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung - was plagued with... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 138733
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HUME, David. An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals.London : 1751
First edition, first issue, a reworking of part three of his Treatise of Human Nature. "No work, it seems, gave Hume himself more pleasure: 'in my own opinion (who ought not to judge on that subject), it is of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best' ('My Own Life', in Essays, xxxvi). Instead... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 135995
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1813:London : 1813
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1813. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Charles Hutton; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White.
The... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116900
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1825:London : 1825
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1825. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Olinthus Gregory; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White;... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116908
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DRUMMOND, William H. The Rights of Animals,London : 1838
First edition of this early defence of animal rights, expanded from the author's speech "Humanity to Animals the Christian Duty" which he delivered to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1829. The author argues that man's right to eat, hunt and use animals is limited, and that man has reciprocal duties to animals for their docility... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 129879
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HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. System der Wissenschaft. Erster Theil, die Phänomenologie des Geistes.Bamberg and Würzburg : 1807
First edition, second issue of Hegel's first major and best-known work, known in English as "The Phenomenology of Spirit", the only part published, in which he develops the idea of Geist realizing itself in the intellectual development of mankind. "It begins with a dialectical discussion of sense perception in which it is argued that knowledge of physical... Learn More£11,000.00Stock Code: 132068
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PALUMBO, Margherita, & Eugenio Sidoli. Libri che hanno fatto l'Europa - Supplement.Rome : 2017
First edition of the supplement to Books that made Europe, published on the occasion of the Exhibition moving to the Italian Senate in Rome, where it continues until June 20 2017. Learn More£30.00Stock Code: 118595
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HUSSERL, Edmund. Erfahrung und Urteil.Prague : 1939
First edition, first impression, the editor Ludwig Landgrebe's file copy, of Husserl's posthumously published work on Experience and Judgement, one of the few copies that escaped being pulped as a result of the German annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. 200 copies were sent to London for distribution by Allen & Unwin, but the bulk of the... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 131942
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EHLERS, Martin. Ueber die Lehre von der mensclichen Freyheit und über die Mittel, zu einer hohen Stufe der menschlichen Freyheit zu gelangen.Dessau : [1782]
First edition, notably rare, of the Kiel professor of philosophy and educational reformer's treatise on liberty, this copy from the celebrated Franziska von Hohenheim collection. The work was printed by the Buchhandlung der Gelehrten at Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt, founded in 1781. The press allowed authors greater freedom than usual over size, type, and... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 132784
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(ECONOMICS AND POLITICS.) Extensive collection of pamphlets relating to economics and politics.1887-1998
A substantial collection of pamphlets on economic and political issues, generally in very good condition, and overwhelmingly first editions. Spanning over a century in total, the collection is particularly strong in the mid-20th century period and in socialist pamphleteering; it particularly illustrates the writings of Maurice Dobb and the debate over... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 140931
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1805:London : 1805
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1805. The Gentleman's Diary by Gregory Olinthus; The Ladies' Diary by Charles Hutton; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; An Almanack by Tycho Wing; and The Celestial Atlas by Robert... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116897
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COMPANY OF STATIONERS. The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1810:London : 1810
First edition, containing seven different almanacs published by the Company for the year 1810. This edition includes The Gentleman's Diary by Thomas Leybourne; The Ladies' Diary by Charles Hutton; Vox Stellarum by Francis Moore; Merlinus Liberatus by John Partridge; Old Poor Robin; Speculum Anni by Henry Season; The Celestial Atlas by Robert White.
The... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 116899
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LOCKE, John. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding.London : 1690
First edition, the Holt issue, traditionally considered the first. Locke worked for nearly two decades on his investigation of "the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge" (PMM), and the resulting landmark work influenced many Enlightenment philosophers. The marginal annotations in this copy are proof of early and intelligent commentary,... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 111580
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[MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot de.] Entretiens de Phocion,Amsterdam : 1763
First edition, further editions followed in 1766 and 1767; published in English in 1769 as Phocion's Conversations, or, the Relation between Morality and Politics. The major work of the French philosopher and writer Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-1785), a series of dialogues with the 4th century BC Athenian statesman Phocion. Mably's works exerted a... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 96593
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BAUER, Bruno. Russland und das Germanenthum.Charlottenburg : 1853
First edition of Bauer's Russia and the Germanic World, one of his major texts on Russia, in which he examines the growing influence of Russian power upon European policy issues and, ultimately, the European philosophical tradition. Written in the wake of the 1848 German revolutions, and inflected with Bauer's disappointment at the results, it originated... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 130780
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MORE, Hannah. Christian Morals.London : 1813
First edition. The leading bluestocking of her generation, Hannah More (1745-1833) and her four sisters were educated so as to earn a living for themselves, and ran a very successful and well-respected boarding-school for girls in Bristol. "More's role as moral guardian of the nation became increasingly politicized as a consequence of the French Revolution.... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 140267
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[KANT, Immanuel.] Träume eines Geistersehers, erläutert durch Träume der Metaphysik.Königsberg : 1766
First edition, first issue, of Kant's curious treatise examining the concept of a world of spirits, published anonymously, and written in response to the fantastic spiritualist claims of Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. It is commercially scarce, recorded as having appeared just three times at auction, none of which were copies of the first issue... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141950
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SELDEN, John. Mare Clausum seu De Dominio Maris Libri Duo.London : 1635
First edition of a "classic of maritime law" (JFB), originally drafted around 1619 at the request of James I for an Anglo-Dutch conference on fishing rights. Among the Dutch representatives was Hugo Grotius, whose Mare Liberum of 1609 had proposed that the seas were free to all. The English lawyer and antiquarian Selden's purpose was to establish the... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 129464
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LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Regarder écouter lire.Paris : 1993
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Raymond Firth warmest regards Levi-Strauss". Firth (1901-2002) was a prominent New Zealand anthropologist and student of Bronislaw Malinowski, whom he succeeded as Professor Anthropology at the London School of Economics in 1944, remaining there for twenty-four years. Lévi-Strauss... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 132941
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ERASMUS, Desiderius. The Praise of Folie.[London : 1569 [recte 1549]
Rare first edition in English of one of the most notable works of the Renaissance, a work written in England, when Erasmus was staying in the house of Thomas More in the winter of 1509-10.
"Its title is a delicate and complimentary play on the name of his host: its subject matter is a brilliant, biting satire on the folly to be found in all walks... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 108395
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HOME, Henry, Lord Kames. Elements of Criticism.Edinburgh : 1762
First edition of Kames's large and systematic philosophical and aesthetic treatise, rare on the market. This work is the most important result of the Scottish aesthetic movement, and "the most comprehensive work on aesthetics of the 18th century since Du Bos' Réflexions critiques of 1719" (translated from Dobai, Die Kunstliteratur des Klassizismus... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 94906
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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Autograph manuscript.c.1952
An unpublished fragment from Sartre's unfinished novel, La Dernière Chance, the final volume of his projected tetralogy, Les Chemins de la liberté (Roads of Freedom). Two chapters had appeared in Les Temps modernes in 1949 under the title Drôle d'amitié (Strange Friendship), but Sartre dropped the work in 1952.... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 129308
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BERGSON, Henri. Le Rire.Paris : 1924
Later edition in book form, presentation copy to the Swedish diplomat and Francophile Count Albert Ehrensvärd, inscribed by Bergson on the half-title, "à Monsieur le Comte Albert Ehrensvärd en dévoué hommage H. Bergson".
Having served as Sweden's envoy to the Netherlands, Belgium, the United States, and Switzerland between the years 1908-18,... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 129302
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Constitutional Code; for the Use of all Nations and all Governments professing Liberal Opinions.London : 1830
First edition, all published, of Bentham's Constitutional Code, the only edition published in his lifetime. "The massive, unfinished Constitutional Code, the major work of his final decade, established Bentham as a major theorist of constitutional democracy" (F. Rosen & J. H. Burns, preface to the 1983 Clarendon Press edition, p. xliv). He drafted the... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 114170
