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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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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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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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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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ARROW, Kenneth J. Social Choice and Individual Values.New York : 1951
First edition, first printing, of Arrow's brilliant doctoral thesis, published as number 12 in the series of Cowles Commission Monographs.
"Employing the notational system of symbolic logic, at the time unfamiliar to economists, Arrow proposed to solve a question in politics which no economist and few political scientists had ever posed: suppose... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 142548
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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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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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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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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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MUIR, Edwin, as Edward Moore. We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses.London : 1918
First edition, first impression, of the first book of the Scottish poet, novelist and translator Edwin Muir. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to a Glaswegian friend on the front free endpaper using his pseudonym, "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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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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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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BRADBURY, Malcolm. My Strange Quest for Mensonge.London : 1987
First edition, first impression. Learn More£25.00Stock Code: 147288
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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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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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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
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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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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Our Moral Heritage.Washington, D.C. : 1983
First edition, first printing, of Hayek's lecture given to the Heritage Foundation in 1983, developing a theory he had first outlined in his Constitution of Liberty two decades earlier - "the principles of private property, the free market, and the sanctity of the family have their roots in practices which enabled primitive societies to survive... those... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 144684
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MILL, John Stuart. A System of Logic:London : 1843
First edition of the author's philosophical work, outlining the five principles of inductive reasoning, now known as Mill's methods. Often considered as Mill's best work, A System of Logic was twelve years in the making.
"Mill began his book with the assertion that he was not concerned with the contested territory of epistemology, but only with... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 146532
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SOLOVIEV, Vladimir. Tri sily. Publichnoe chtenie. (Three Forces; A Public Reading.)Moscow : 1877
Scarce first edition of the Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic Vladimir Soloviev's rousing lecture read to the Society of Amateurs of Russian Literature in April 1877. Mankind, he argues, is subject to three forces: the urge towards social unity, the urge towards individualism, and the urge to recognise God in other... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 86058
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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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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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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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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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ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR. Richesse de l'état, à laquelle on a ajouté les Pièces qui ont paru pour & contre.Amsterdam : 1764
First collected edition, with the titular essay first published in an 8 page pamphlet the previous year. This "rare compilation" (Higgs) contains 16 of the author's tracts, run together continuously and not separated on the pages. Of these, the title essay is most important; "this tract, proposing a single tax, graduated in twenty groups of 100,000... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123214
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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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JAMES, William. The Moral Equivalent of War.New York : 1910
First separate edition (originally published in McClure's Magazine and Popular Science Monthly). James argues that if war is to be eliminated, there must be another means of securing discipline and promoting other martial virtues, and he suggests conscripting youth for manual labour. The Association published pamphlets with a pacifist theme; this is... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 145846
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SUN TZU; GILES, Lionel (trans.) Sun Tzu on the Art of War.London : 1910
First edition of the first full translation of Sun Tzu directly from the Chinese original. At the time of his translation, Giles was assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts at the British Museum, widely considered one of the leading sinologues of his day, and this one of his finest works. Inevitably well represented institutionally,... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 141037
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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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LAVATER, John Caspar. Essays on Physiognomy.London : 1840
A reprint of the defence by Lavater, "the last of the descriptive physiognomists", of the pseudo-science of physiognomy, more correctly pathognomy, "the age old quest for the art how to know men" (Garrison & Morton; Hunter & MacAlpine). Lavater's work was first published in German in 1772 and enjoyed widespread success thereafter. This copy has the... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 100644
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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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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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MACDIARMID, John, of Weem. An Enquiry into the Principles of Civil and Military Subordination.London : 1806
Rare first and only edition of this investigation into "natural" and "artificial" subordination, and in particular into the specifically military institutions of the latter and their possible improvement. From the library of the marquess of Londonderry, an attractive copy with an excellent military provenance.
Macdiarmid's (17791808) father... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139663
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MARX, Karl; RIFAT, Haydar (trans.) Sermaye.Istanbul : 1933
First appearance in book form of Marx's Das Kapital in Turkish, being the first edition of Haydar Rifat's translation, and the first book-length translation (preceded only by Bohor Israel's summary translation in a 1912 journal).
The translation is of Gabriel Deville's abridgement of the first volume of Das Kapital, originally published in Paris... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 143060
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HUME, David. Dissertations sur les passions sur la tragedie sur la règle du gout.Amsterdam : 1759
First separate edition in French of three of Hume's Four Dissertations, first published in English in 1757: The Natural History of Religion, Of the Passions, Of Tragedy, and Of the Standard of Taste, translated into French by Johann Bernhard Merian. The volume was originally issued as volume four of Schneider's Oeuvres philosophiques de Mr. D. Hume,... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 93433
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[SERVAN, Joseph.] Le Soldat citoyen,Dans le pays de la liberté [Neuchâtel] : 1780
First edition of the author's advocacy of universal and compulsory conscription as the only certain way to unite citizens and the army. "A career officer since the 1760s, Joseph Servan (1741-1808) won notoriety in 1780 with the publication of Le Soldat citoyen, a long and detailed plan for reforming the army. Its central theme foreshadowed the Revolution... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 113091
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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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MARX, Karl; RIFAT, Haydar (trans.) Sermaye.Istanbul : 1933
First appearance in book form of Marx's Das Kapital in Turkish, being the first edition of Haydar Rifat's translation, and the first book-length translation (preceded only by Bohor Israel's summary translation in a 1912 journal).
The translation is of Gabriel Deville's abridgement of the first volume of Das Kapital, originally published in Paris... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 143061
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![Lectures. Cambridge, 1930-1932. [Together with:] Lectures. Cambridge 1932-35.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/127015.jpg)
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Lectures. Cambridge, 1930-1932. [Together with:] Lectures. Cambridge 1932-35.Totowa, NJ : 1980 & 1979
First US editions, first printings, originally published in the UK in the same respective years. The lecture notes were made by students of Wittgenstein during their studentship, and his professorship, at the University of Cambridge. Of the students, John King would go on to be a friend of the philosopher, while Desmond Lee, Alice Ambrose and Margaret... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 127015
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MOORE, George Edward. Principia Ethica.Cambridge : 1903
First edition, first impression. G. E. Moore (1873-1958) was critical of the dominant idealist metaphysics of the time; in this, his most famous work, he presents a new approach to ethical theory wherein "analytical concern with the structure of ethical concepts is sharply separated from debates about the substance of morality" (ODNB).
Connected... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 119604
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der Urtheilskraft.Berlin and Libau : 1790
First edition of the Critique of Judgement, Kant's third most important work after the critiques of Pure and Practical Reason, and the scarcest of the three.
"The work consists of two main parts, the first dealing with the aesthetic judgment, the second with the teleological judgment or judgment of the purposiveness in Nature; and it is of considerable... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 138455
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MONTAIGNE, Michel de; William Hazlitt (ed.) The Complete Works.London : 1842
First Hazlitt edition of the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne's collected works, gathering his influential essays and letters. The present essays were originally published between around 1570 to 1592, and cover a wide variety of topics, from religion, philosophy, and classics, to solitude, age, drunkenness, anger, books, imagination, and many... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 140342
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BOTERO, Giovanni. Della Ragion di Stato, Libri Dieci. Con tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza e Magnificenza Delle Città.Venice : 1589
First edition. Botero's work is in two parts. The first part is his most famous contribution to political philosophy. Entitled "The Reason of State", Botero provides an extended discussion of the moral question of acting in the state's best interests, and offers a direct rebuttal to the ideas espoused by Machiavelli. A champion of the counter-reformation,... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 124167
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BELL, Clive. Civilization.London : 1928
First edition, first impression, this copy with nice provenance, with the ownership inscription to the front pastedown of the author's elder brother, the Lieutenant-Colonel and Conservative MP William Cory Heward Bell,
Clive Bell was part of the Bloomsbury Group and married Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, who designed many of Woolf's dust... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 145802
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THOMPSON, Herbert M. The Purse and the Conscience.London : 1891
First edition. The author argues for the necessity of considering the social consequences of expenditure on luxuries, and the avoidance of investing in immoral or useless trades. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 136457
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PRIESTLEY, Joseph. Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever.Birmingham : 1787
First edition of the second part, second edition of the first part (first published in 1780). The Letters form part of a series of publications by Priestley in the last two decades of the 18th century rejecting the atheistic and sceptical philosophy then ascendant. Priestley conceived the project on his visit to Paris in 1774, where he recorded that... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 136695
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[MANDEVILLE, Bernard.] The Fable of the Bees:London : 1714
Rare first edition, first issue, of this "celebrated work, which through Adam Smith, had an immense influence on political economy" (Foxwell). The work originated in 1705 as a poem titled The Grumbling Hive (essentially unobtainable on the market); this is the first edition to contain the twenty "Remarks" which annotate and explain various lines in... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138116
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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£975.00Stock Code: 138459
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LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Fables choisies, mises en vers.Paris : 1755-9
First edition, large-paper issue, and one of a small number printed on thick holland paper, of "one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books" (Ray). Jean-Baptiste Oudry's sketches for La Fontaine's Fables were executed for his own enjoyment between 1729 and 1735. They were purchased by the publisher Montenault, who asked the finest... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 135957
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig - ENGELMANN, Paul. Briefe von Ludwig Wittgenstein und Errinnerungen an ihn.Tel Aviv : 1965
An original German typescript copy of Engelmann's correspondence from, and memories of, Ludwig Wittgenstein, posthumously prepared for publication and with an introduction by his friend Dr. Josef Schächter. With occasional manuscript corrections and occasional notes for the translator, L. Furtmüller, in blue ballpoint and in pencil. Unpublished before... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133740
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HUME, David - RITCHIE, Thomas Edward. An Account of the Life and Writings of David Hume, Esq.London : 1807
First edition of the first book-length biography of Hume. Ritchie was critical of Hume's achievements as a metaphysician and as a moralist, with his works suggesting that Ritchie himself was a disciple of Thomas Reid, whose philosophy was antithetical to Hume's. Ritchie is also dismissive of Hume's essays, criticising their conciseness. However, Hume's... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 124769
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DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel. Sur l'éducation nationale dans les États-Unis d'Amérique. Seconde édition.Paris : 1812.
Stated second edition but apparently the first printed. Schelle cites a "Philadelphia 1800" edition (no. 74) but we have been unable to locate a copy and it is apparently unrecorded. Dupont had published in 1793 a work of 47 pages entitled Vues sur l'éducation nationale par un cultivateur ou moyen de simplifier l'instruction, de la rendre à la fois... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 113624
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MOORE, George Edward. Principia Ethica.Cambridge : 1903
First edition, first impression. G. E. Moore (1873-1958) was critical of the dominant idealist metaphysics of the time. In this, his most famous book, he presents a new approach to ethical theory wherein "analytical concern with the structure of ethical concepts is sharply separated from debates about the substance of morality" (ODNB). Connected to... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 119606
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. The Book of Fallacies: from Unfinished Papers.London : 1824
First edition. "The substance of this treatise, drawn up from the most unfinished of all Mr. Bentham's Manuscripts, has already been published in French by M. Dumont" (Preface). A host of fallacies are detected and analysed, for instance the Argument from the Wisdom of Our Ancestors; the Hobgoblin Argument or 'No Innovation'; the Official Malefactors... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 101331
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Sensory Order.Chicago : 1952
First US edition, first printing, issued from the UK sheets of the same year. The Sensory Order, Hayek's second book after his move to Chicago, is the final form of a thesis Hayek had developed in Vienna in the 1920s on philosophical psychology. Hayek argues that there are inherent limits to the human mind's capacity to understand itself, and that human... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 144688
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MARX, Karl; RIFAT, Haydar (trans.) Sermaye.Istanbul : 1933
First appearance in book form of Marx's Das Kapital in Turkish, being the first edition of Haydar Rifat's translation, and the first book-length translation (preceded only by Bohor Israel's summary translation in a 1912 journal).
The translation is from Gabriel Deville's French abridgement of the first volume of Das Kapital, originally published... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 142650
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KANT, Immanuel. Critik der Urtheilskraft.Frankfurt and Leipzig : 1792
Early edition, first published in 1790, in a contemporary German binding, fresh and unrestored.
The Critique of Judgement is Kant's third most important work after the critiques of Pure and Practical Reason. "The work consists of two main parts, the first dealing with the aesthetic judgment, the second with the teleological judgement or judgement... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143996
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JEVONS, W. Stanley. The Principles of Science.London and New York : 1887
The Erwin Tomash copy of this pioneering work on logic and induction, with his label to front pastedown; this is a later printing, first published in 1874. Erwin Tomash (1921-2012) worked to develop military computers to crack code, and built a celebrated computing library, particularly appropriate for the present volume, which depicts as the frontispiece... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 147754
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PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man:London [White Edinburgh] : 1791 & 1792
Sixth London edition of Paine's Rights of Man (the year of first publication), bound with the first and only edition of White's Rational Freedom, a scarce and impassioned condemnation of Paine, in a sammelband of five political works.
Paine's great defense of the inalienable rights of the people, and their right to revolution when governments... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 148283
