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1948Best.-Nr. 008639Princeton N.J.: Published for the American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press 1948. SCARCE in dust jacket. Near Fine small bumps top corners bookplate half covered by front flap. In Very Good Plus dust jacket small tears top edges spine a touch darkened. The first complete and unexpurgated edition of this autobiography. "Now first printed in full from the original manuscripts in possession of The American Philosophical Society and The Library Company of Philadelphia". Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and America's most distinguished 18th century physician. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Published for the American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press Hardcover books
1737Best.-Nr. 008315London: Printed by James Purser 1737. Three volumes in sumptuous contemporary binding of dark brown calf with broad intiricate gilt dentelle bordered covers with large diamond centerpieces enhanced by delicate floral tools the backs with six raised bands with five of the compartments with floral gilt tooling marbled end papers with narrow gilt dentelle all edges gilt. Vol. I with tipped note card "to Robt. Smart donor the Rev. W. Chafin. Mr. Rolling & Miss Floyd present their compliments to Mr Smart & by his acceptance of Lord Shaftesburys Works Mr. Chafin & Miss Floyd consign to Mr. Smart". Each title page with inked inscription "Robt.Smart Donor Rev W. Chafin 1802". Vol. I with engraved frontis portrait and two title pages with vignettes and headpiece Vols. II and III with title page vignette and headpiece all by Gribelin. Very Good gilt at spines dulled joints showing wear but holding nicely small edge tears to end pages of Vol. I light wear at corners and spine ends. Internally clean and bright free of any toning or foxing. A lovely set in 18th century fine presentation binding. . Sixth Edition. Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed by James Purser Hardcover books
1878Best.-Nr. 007947Paris: Garnier Freres 1878. SCARCE as the complete set. Vols. I -II published 1878 III & IV in 1879. In contemporary half calf over marbled boards gilt lettering and decorations in four compartments marbled end papers and edges ribbon markers. Very Good Vols. III and IV missing rear facing marbled end paper boards rubbed at edges. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Garnier Freres Hardcover books
1927Best.-Nr. 008909New York: Simon & Schuster 1927. RARE First Edition in dust jacket and SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front end page. Very Good spine lean prior owner name in ink bookplate and pencil gift inscription. fore edge soiled small L.S. Ayres ticket front paste down. In Very Good dust jacket spine darkened and a bit rubbed small chips at edges and folds. Durant's "remembrance of things past" of which he said ".it was done 'con amore' and there are some pages in it which I am afraid will remain to the end the best that I have written." . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
1796Best.-Nr. 008950New York: Printed for T. & J. Swords 1796. 178 pages booksellers' advertisement p. 179 half-title. Small contemporary bookplate of David Goodwin with his name in ink at title page. additional prior owner name in pencil front end page. Bound in contemporary calf red label with gilt lettering back Very Good Minus joints starting to open at top edges final blank end page with 1" x 3" chip bottom corner light to moderate toning throughout. Uncommon in contemporary binding. Evans 31569. Early American Imprint. Calf. Very Good Minus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Printed for T. & J. Swords Hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 989New York: Pantheon 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good. A very good plus first edition as stated. Embossed buckram boards with black titile-stamping on spine. Dust staining to bottom edge of boards only. Previous owner's information stamped and written front pastedown otherwise free of markings. Text is clean and bright. Textblock is sturdy and square. In a good plus original unclipped dust jacket with dust staining and toning. Loss at the foot of spine area of the jacket 1" x 1 3/4" a tear halfway up the spine area of the jacket chipping and fraying at top and bottom of jacket Dust jacket now protected in a clear archival cover. xxvi 134 pp. : illustrated with beautiful calligraphy throughout. Octavo 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches tall. Tao: The Watercourse Way is a 1975 non-fiction book on Taoism and philosophy and is Alan Watts' last book. It was published posthumously in 1975 with the collaboration of Al Chung-liang Huang who also contributed a preface and afterword and with additional calligraphy by Lee Chih-chang. Drawing on ancient and modern sources Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts.--Publisher description A gaily highhanded epicurean book as Watts was increasingly inclined to produce in his later years and boxed in as it is between collaborator Al Chung-liang Huang's worshipful and pained fore- and afterwords it is a gem to remember Watts by. As Huang explains the text was allowed to write itself in the spirit of the Tao which means in practice that a footnote can be omitted and the interpretive tendency is latitudinarian; and Watts takes care to beg off as a scholar ". . . meticulous explorations of cultural anthropology have their virtue but I am more interested in how these ancient writings reverberate on the harp of my own brain which has of course been tuned to the scales of Western culture"--la!. Yet there is a flamboyant and fascinating display of learning more interesting than the fine Western tuning which pulls its strongest signals from the 1960's and complex indications of a personality that seems to have resisted inner pacification. Lively sweeping momentum with ideograms by Huang bibliography and streamlined notes. Good introduction to the Tao. ---Kirkus 1975 Pantheon hardcover books
1701Best.-Nr. 1015Paris: Imbert de Bats 1701. Second Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A rare second edition. Volume I only. Held by only four national libraries worldwide according to Worldcat. No auction listings in RBH. No others on the market. Text in French. Full French leather binding with five raised bands. Ornate gilt spine titling and decorations. Laid paper. Hand marbled end papers. Defunct parochial library stamp on first free endpaper. Previous owner's name on title page. Swells when laid flat but no water damage. 551 pp.18mo. 4 x 6 1/2 tall. Very good. Leather bound Hand bound Grancolas Jean Doctor of the Sorbonne theologian liturgist; b. near Chateaudun about 1660; d. at Paris August 1 1732. Having received the degree of Doctor of Theology of the faculty of Paris in 1685 he became chaplain to the brother of Louis XIV. He pronounced the funeral oration of this prince but his panegyric displeased the son of the deceased the Duke of Orleans future Regent of France who dismissed him from his house. His unfortunate essay caused Grancolas to abandon official eloquence and having devoted much time to studying liturgical ceremonies and comparing the various usages with the text of the ancient writers who have given an account of them he undertook to communicate to the public his observations on this head. His first work dealt with the antiquity of the ceremonies of the sacraments. The favorable reception accorded this endeavor led Grancolas to publish the next year a study of the custom of dipping the consecrated bread in the wine. However the author was desirous of participating in less severe questions and wished to engage in theological polemics. At that time the matter of Quietism was creating a great stir in the world and Grancolas conceived the idea of plunging into the quarrel by a refutation of the heresy which he entitled Le Quietisme contraire au doctrine des sacraments Quietism contrary to the doctrine of the Sacraments and which appeared in 1693. - Catholic Encyclopedia Imbert de Bats hardcover books
1959Best.-Nr. 006944New York: Basic Books 1959. First American Edition First Printing of Popper's "Logik der Forschung" first published in Vienna in 1932 and the book that gave the philosophy of science a firm foundation in 20th century thought. The book is Fine in a Very Good Plus dust jacket spinea bit browned and with some toning 1/4" and 1/2" tears at top edge front panel. A quite handsome copy of this highly regarded classic SCARCE in collectible dust jacket . First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Basic Books Hardcover books
1927Best.-Nr. 335New York: Wm. H. Wise 1927. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. A gorgeous letter press first edition by the Roycrofters. Green and tan stiff paper wraps tied with green ribbon and titling in red on cover. Ornate orange drop caps with black type printed on hand-molded paper. Mottoes printed on grey inserts centered and decorated. Moderate even wear to all edges of cover. A beautiful example of the Arts and Crafts Movement and a return to traditional book making. Laid in is an original certificate to purchase mottoes "suitable for framing" and two examples of the same handmade paper showing ads for the Notebook of Elbert Hubbard and for Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. 220 4 pp. with index. Quarto 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches tall Best known as the the initiator of the Arts and Crafts community Roycroft Hubbard was an anarchist socialist and followed a philosophy of mental and spiritual freedom. Some of his works which include Jesus Was an Anarchist and a A Message to Garcia were listed as offensive by the US government. He and his wife died aboard the Lusitania. Wm. H. Wise paperback books
1953Best.-Nr. 61021La Habana: Comision Nacional Cubana de la UNESCO 1953. Paperback. Very Good. 248p. Original wrapper. 21cm. Edge-wear. Spanish text. Comision Nacional Cubana de la UNESCO paperback books
1940Best.-Nr. 006301New Haven: Yale Univ Press 1940. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front paste down. Near Fine end pages toning in a Very Good Minus dust jacket 2" x 2" chip bottom corner front cover.light edge wear and soiling. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Yale Univ Press Hardcover books
1749Best.-Nr. 007717Glasguae Glasgow: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1749. xi 1 209 3 pp. with a final leaf of advertisements. Bound in contemporary full calf five raised bands bordered in gilt rules leather label tooled edges. Very Good Plus end pages toned at edges covers lightly rubbed text quite clean and fresh. A quite handsome and well-bound copy of this uncommon edition of Lucretius's classic work. . Later Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, Hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 007020New York: Pantheon Books 1949. Near Fine prior owner name Milton Fisk noted philosophy professor front end page in a Very Good Plus dust jacket small hole at lower spine. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. English version translated by Lewis Galantiere and Gerald B. Phelan. Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pantheon Books Hardcover books
1808Best.-Nr. 007715London: W. Suttaby; B. Crosby & Co; Scatcherd and Letterman 1808. Two volumes 5 1/4" h x 2 7/8" w bound in contemporary full calf later rebacking in keeping back with two black leather labels lettered in gilt with ornate gilt decorations and tail date covers bordered in gilt arabesque with chased edge the armorial bookplate of Vaux of Harrowden both paste downs engraved title-pages. Very Good Plus leather lightly soiled the backs quite bright and fresh internally clean and bright free of toning or foxing. . Later Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. W. Suttaby; B. Crosby & Co,; Scatcherd and Letterman Hardcover books
1798Best.-Nr. 008999Paris: Charles Pougens 1798. No date 1798. 206 pp.with 6 pp. score of music of 2 airs: In G minor for fifes --In G major for wind ensemble. Bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt back Very Good somewhat newer pastedowns without the blank end papers period owner name at half-title and title pages small rubs at corners gilt a bit dulled and rubbed a clean and handsome copy of a book uncommon in current commerce. . First Edition. Mottled Calf. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Charles Pougens hardcover books
1967Best.-Nr. 006331New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1967. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - " For Fran and Bill Lea from Mortimer Adler October 1967". Additionally SIGNED by Adler on mailing label laid in. Near Fine toning to front end pages from period newspaper clipping a review of this book laid in. In a Very Good Plus dust jacket three 1" tears and small chip. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Hardcover books
1935Best.-Nr. 006673New York: E. P. Dutton 1935. Near Fine a bit of toning to end pages top edge dusty in a Very Good dust jacket small chips at spine ends and flap fold tips light rubbing. Translated from the French by Lilian A. Clare. One of his classic works on the "primitive" mind Levy-Bruhl influenced the psychological theory of C. G. Jung. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E. P. Dutton Hardcover books
1776Best.-Nr. 007982London: Printed for J. Pote E. Ballard C. Bathurst T. Davies T. Payne et al 1776. "The eighth edition with very considerable amendments and improvements from the most accurate and elegant French Edition of Peter Coste." John Congreve 1801-1863 armorial bookplate in Vols. I and III. Very Good Plus in full contemporary calf with late 19th- early 20th c. reback in keeping with morocco labels lettered in gilt and gilt tooled decorations. Edge wear to boards shadows from bookplates front end pages the contents clean and bright. A handsome set. Eighth Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst, T. Davies, T. Payne et al Hardcover books
1812Best.-Nr. 2395Stockbridge: Printed by H. Willard 1812 . First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 24p. removed. None in trade many in holdings. Printed by H. Willard unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 006977London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1927. Very Good board soiled and rubbed at the tips chips to cloth at spine ends prior owner name front end page small number stamped rear paste down. Binding solid and text clean and unmarked. Malinowski's classic critique of psychoanalysis. International Library of Psychology Philosophy and Scientific Method. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
1946Best.-Nr. 58967Zaragoza: Seccion de Geografia Institucion "Fernando el Catolico" C. S. I. C. de la Excma. Diputacion Provincial de Zaragoza 1946. Paperback. Very Good. photos folding maps 123p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Moderate cover soil & spotting. Spanish text. Seccion de Geografia, Institucion "Fernando el Catolico" (C. S. I. C.) de la Excma. Diputacion Provincial de Zaragoza paperback books
1768Best.-Nr. 007697Paris: Chez Bleuet 1768. Contemporary full marbled calf backs ornately gilt brown leather labels marbled end pages all edges marbled. Engraved title page by Gravelot engraved by Binet. Text in both Latin and French. Very Good leather chipped front cover Vol. I along spine small rubs to leather Vol. II. Contemporary prior owner names to end pages. The text quite clean and with NO foxing or toning. A handsome set and an uncommon edition. . First Thus. Marbled Calf . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Chez Bleuet Hardcover books
1824Best.-Nr. 235111Berlin: im Verlage des Herausgebers. Gedruckt bei A. W. Schade 1824. Only edition. ii 82 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary black paste-paper boards manuscript spine label worn. Only edition. ii 82 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Selection of philosophical works from Berlin bookseller bibliographer and publisher Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin 1787-1851 including substantial listings of titles by Fichte Hegel and Kant; broadly representative but specifically excluding dissertations. OCLC lists 4 copies only in U.S. NYPL Harvard Newberry Northwestern im Verlage des Herausgebers. Gedruckt bei A. W. Schade unknown books
Best.-Nr. 2806qsDublin: Printed for Messrs. Price Whitestone W. Watson Moncrieffe Colles Jenkin Walker Exshaw Beatty Burnet W. Wilson R. Cross Mills Porter Burton White Byrne Higly N. Cross Cash Doyle Sleater E. Lynch and S. Hallhead MDCCLXXXIII. Octavo leather and boards hardcover leather spine label gilt letters 525 pp. Professionally rebound; images gladly provided upon request. Printed for Messrs. Price, Whitestone, W. Watson, Moncrieffe, Colles, Jenkin, Walker, Exshaw, Beatty, Burnet, W. Wilson, R. Cro hardcover books
1860Best.-Nr. els2827New York: Redfield 1860. Set of five volumes. Octavo cloth hardcover gilt letters tissue-protected frontis. xxviii 486 pp; xxxvi 432 pp; xvi 469 pp; xxii 468 pp; xii 465 pp. Good with edgewear that includes fraying to spine tips sunning to spines light soiling. Redfield, 1860. hardcover books
