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1950ref. 88371Paris: Gallimard 1950. Reprint. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's pale cream card wraps titled in black and blue. 567pp. Minor wear and scuffing to spine ends and extremities some soiling to the pale card strong and tight; internally clean with booksellers ephemera tipped in at the front Joseph Gibert Boulevard St. Michel paper stock uniformly toned corner clipped to two final leaves not affecting text. A very good copy with some cosmetic wear. Husserl is considered the founder of the philosophical school of phenomenology; the process by which phenomena are understood through first person lived experience rather than broader less subjective metrics. Gallimard unknown books
1965ref. 85620New York: Pantheon Books 1965. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's deep red cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 299pp. Strong and tight light bumping to spine ends small spot or stain to edge of rear board; internally clean and fresh yellow topstain fore-edge untrimmed spotting to page edges; in a strong example of the dustjacket with some soiling to the white portions a little shallow chipping to the spine ends and some light toning to the spine panel itself. A very good copy with a little shelfwear. Foucault's ambitious attempt to trace the human understanding of madness and insanity from the Middle Ages through to the 20th Century. He makes the point that confining the insane wasn't really widespread until the 17th century and later and explores the way that attitudes to insanity have changed from the mentally ill in one's community being reminders of misfortune and the importance of charity like the lepers allowed to congregate outside the city gates; to the insane being people who could safely be hidden away out of sight and mind to exist only as a distant threat. Pantheon Books unknown books
1982ref. 59642Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1982. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Beige cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 330pp. Fine and unmarked in the original dustwrapper crisp and unfaded. A new-appearing copy. First English-language translation of this key work from Derrida's "middle period" collecting ten interrelated essays originally published between 1967 and 1972; originally published in France as Marges de la Philosophie Editions Minuit 1972. 59642. University of Chicago Press unknown books
1982ref. 110021Nottingham: Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation 1982. First edition. Printed stapled wraps. Foreword by Ken Coats. Signed & dated "March 25 1997" by Vonnegut on the front wrap. 16pp pamphlet containing an address originally delivered at St. John the Devine Cathedral in NYC in '82 and donated by Vonnegut to the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation even though he didn't hold the copyright. Reproduces Vonnegut's letter to Coats explaining that the Cathedral owns the rights but "they wouldn't have the balls to sue." Fine copy. Vonnegut's signature slightly smeared. Vonnegut's fourth book of previously unpublished material. Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation paperback books
ref. 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
1860ref. 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
1843ref. 58469Tuscaloosa AL: Woodruff & Olcott 1843. First edition. 12mo. 245 pp. Publisher's ad leaf. The author published an earlier arithmetic textbook in Hartford Connecticut in 1830. American Imprints 43-406. Owen p. 811 without location. Ellison 471. Karpinski pp. 447. OCLC locates four copies Mississippi lacking title page Alabama Yale American. Several leaves remargined no loss of text thoroughly foxed old accession numbers on two leaves a good copy of a rare Alabama schoolbook. Original calf boards rubbed rebacked with new leather spine label and gilt imprint at base new endpapers. #5677. Woodruff & Olcott unknown books
1994ref. SS12743East Lansing MI:: Philosophy of Science Association 1994. 1994. 8vo. xxxi 464 pp. Illus. references. Original printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0917586352 Philosophy of Science Association, (1994). unknown books
1960ref. S10630Paris:: Hermann 1960. 1960. Series: Histoire de la Pensee II. 8vo. 344 pp. Printed wrappers; edges and corners rubbed. Ownership signature. Very good. Hermann, (1960). unknown books
1966ref. S14097Oxford:: Pergamon Press 1966. 1966. Series: Journal of atmospheric and terrestrial physics special supplement no. 3. 8vo. vii 1 208 pp. Figs. 1 folding tables. Original navy gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 7. Introduction by A. BEER – Megalithic Astronomy: Indications in Standing Stones by Alexander THOM 1894-1985 Formerly University of Oxford; The Hill Dunlop. Ayrshire – Astrophysical Investigations utilizing Objective Prisms by Charles Bruce STEPHENSON 1929-2001 Warner and Swasey Observatory Case Institute of Technology Cleveland Ohio – Spectroscopic Studies of Late-Type Stars by Yoshio FUJITA 1908-2013 Department of Astronomy Faculty of Science University of Tokyo Japan – Magnetic Stars and Metallic-Line Stars by MARGHERITA HACK 1922-2013 University Observatory Trieste Italy – Statistical Population Indices by Wilhemina IWANOWSKA 1905-1999 Astronomical Observatory N. Copernicus University Torun Poland – The Stellar Luminosity-Function by S. W. McCUSKEY Warner and Swasey Observatory Case Institute of Technology Cleveland Ohio – Some Problems of Star Formation by Vincent Cartledge REDDISH 1926-2015 Royal Observatory Edinburgh – INDEX. / Arthur Beer was a German astronomer who worked at Cambridge University. / "In the early 1950s Arthur committed himself to a voluminous and thorough survey of current astronomy. Ultimately 215 scientists mathematicians and historians contributed to what was to become the multi-volume Vistas of Astronomy covering both historical and current topics for which he was a writer and editor-in-chief 1955–1956 for the first two volumes. The series outlived Beer Volume 42 appearing in 1998 before its functions were taken over by the New Astronomy Reviews and the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage." Pergamon Press, 1966. hardcover books
1934ref. 68318Peiping: Yenching University 1934. Folio pp. 10 79 1; recent red cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; newspaper shadow on p. 1 a number of old informed pencil annotations throughout else near fine in a handsome new binding. Laid in is a 13½" x 8½" mimeograph sheet headed "Seminar / College of Chinese Studies / 1940" containing dates of 10 lectures Neo-Confucianism of the Sung Dynasty et al. and a reading list of 15 titles. "These Aids were prepared in connection with a course of lectures entitled An abbreviated survey of Chinese philosophy given in Peiping at the Auditorium of the Peking Union Medical College in the Spring of 1934 ." Foreword. Yenching University unknown books
1857ref. 13084Madras: Fort St. George Gazette Press 1857 - 1862. First Edition. Contemporary three quarter leather & marbled boards. Good set; bindings are scuffed but strong; title pages are dusty; small inst. ink stamp on verso of title and last leaf of each volume; gum label on spine; circulation record on rear pastedowns; 2 inserted leaves in vol. 3 are somewhat smaller. Royal 8vo I - xxviii 2 v - viii v 1 xxii 2 1 - 678 pp. folding plate; II - 2 xxiii - xciii 3 v 1 vii - xiv 1 - 902 pp.; III - 6 liv 4 1 - 802 pp. An immense work that comprises some 2500 pages published over a five year period. Taylor annotated most entries. Some contain comments on the physical condition of the manuscript. The Library owed its collection to three sources. The first was the collection of Col. Colin Mackenzie the Surveyor General of India. His collections the work of a life time have a confused history that is covered in detail in the introduction to the first volume. The second source was the accumulated manuscripts library of the distinguished scholar and linguist Charles P Brown of the Madras Civil Service. Finally the third source was the East India House Library. The subjects encompassed by the collection include drama philosophy erotica grammar mathematics lexicography law logic devotion and religion and science. The introductory essays to each volume repay the attention by providing little known facts based on private memoirs and pertinent testimony buried in the mass of un-indexed published official testimony before government committees in India and the UK. The third and final volume of 1862 carries a slight variant of the imprint: Madras Printed at the United Scottish Press. The College of Fort St. George was founded in 1812 and its press enjoyed active patronage from the Madras government. It . represented a new institutional patron of Indian literature and played an important role in the publication of Tamil and Telugu classics. Described as a marshalling yard the College brought together the British Orientalists native scholars and civil servants in the study of the languages and literatures of south India. It appointed head masters to teach the indigenous languages to the junior civil servants. Apart from the instruction of languages of south India the College also taught Hindu and Muhammadan law. The College is said to have spearheaded the revival of letters by actively promoting the learning and teaching of languages of south India and printing the grammatical and literary works. Four pages in volume two have a portion of the blank fore-edge margin cut away no loss. OCLC cites six locations. See V Rajesh "Patrons and Networks of Patronage ." in Social Scientist vol. 39 #3/4 2011 p.67. Fort St. George Gazette Press hardcover books
1798ref. 6673Hamburg: F Perthes 1798. First Edition. Original blue paper wrappers. Very good. 8vo xiv 328 pp. An early work by Schelling who was 22 yrs. old at the time. Schneeberger #52. F Perthes unknown books
1784ref. 5512London: T Cadell 1784. First Edition. recent half leather. A very good copy; some dustiness to the half title. 8vo. Paul was a philanthropist DNB who took a particular interest in prison reform. A fearsome epidemic of jail fever within his local jurisdiction - he had been appointed high sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1780 - drew his attention to the conditions prevailing in local jails. The book offered here is the result of his work as the head of a committee that had been appointed to seek the construction of a modern prison building. The DNB reports that he designed the new buildings for the penitentiary and work house according to theories set forth in the this book. Mindful of medical problems he saw to it that the new structure contained infirmaries and other improvements. It appears that Howard had the benefit of Paul's work for his masterpiece on prison reform that appeared some years later DNB. DNB XV 515 - 516. T Cadell hardcover books
1799ref. 6513Leipzig: J F Hartknoch 1799. First Edition. Original paste paper boards. Good; inst. blind stamp on each title; small accession label on verso of title to vol. 2 and modest number and name stamp on the endpapers; some abrasion to the spines. 8vo; I - xxxii 3 - 479 1 - blank pp.; II - xii 3 - 402 pp. An important critique of Kant. It is anecdotal that Goethe is supposed to have requested that the book be suppressed. Apart from Goethe the book provoked a good deal of response. Adickes #2269; Goedeke IV/1 733. J F Hartknoch hardcover books
1929ref. 5866London: Humphrey Milford 1929. First Edition. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. 8vo. Taylor's paper from the Proceedings of the British Academy. Humphrey Milford unknown books
1718ref. 6100London / Bath: T Cadell / S Hazard 1817/ 1802. First Edition / Second Edition. Contemporary three-quarter leather. Good with some spotting and wear to the binding. 8vo I - vi 4 3 - 439 1 pp.; II - xix 1 1 - 369 3 pp. Two of Cogan's philosophical works. He retired from medicine - after practicing in both London and Amsterdam - to write. The principal work in the volume is his book on ethical questions and moral philosphy in general. DNB IV 377 - 378; see Wellcome. T Cadell / S Hazard hardcover books
1805ref. 4505Erfurt: Henning 1805. Second Enlarged Edition. contemp. paste paper bds. . A very good copy with some spotting. 8vo. An impassioned and very interesting tract on the systems of medicine and diagnosis that had evolved from Hippocrates' era to the modern age. The author undertakes a systematic examination of the work of Galen Sydenham Hoffmann Stahl Haller Cullen and others. He also takes into account the then new knowledge of chemistry and galvanism and their application as healing therapies or explanations of disease. The text of this edition is substanially enlarged over the first. The author states in the preface that he had selected a smaller typeface in order to contain the size of the volume yet allow for the expanded text. Wellcome III 231. Henning unknown books
1837ref. 5879London: E Lumley 1837. First Edition. Original paper boards. . Good; backstrip abraded; front cover loose. 8vo iv iv 1 - 141 142 - blank 2 1 - 42 4 47 - 210 pp. Parr edited this book for the press. It contains two tracts by Arthur Collier one by David Hartley one by Abraham Tucker and others. DNB XV 356 - 363. E Lumley hardcover books
1822ref. 6102Stuttgart .: J G Cotta 1822. Fourth Edition. Original paste paper boards. A very good copy. 8vo. The author was a law professor at Erlangen and member of the Wurtemberg government. An informed treatise on natural law free of moral precepts and claptrap regarding the natural state of man. J G Cotta hardcover books
1792ref. 2291994London: Published for D. Jordan Piccadilly 1792. Ninth Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Ninth edition printed in the same year as part two's original release and just a year after the first appearance of part one. ESTC T5876 and N13105. Howes P31 and P32. Rebound in grey paper-covered boards with paper spine label and new end sheets. Brief pencil marginalia on just a couple pages a few pages very faintly foxed otherwise an exceptional copy. 1792 Hard Cover. viii 110 2 xiii 14-142 2 pp. 4to. Both parts of Paine's famous work in defense of political revolution. The first part was originally printed in 1791 and the second part followed the next year. "Rights of Man 1791 a book by Thomas Paine including 31 articles posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790." "Thomas Paine February 9 1737 O.S. January 29 1736 - June 8 1809 was an author pamphleteer radical inventor intellectual revolutionary and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in Thetford Norfolk Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful widely-read pamphlet Common Sense 1776 advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and The American Crisis 1776 - 1783 a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. The historian Saul K. Padover in the biography Jefferson: A Great American's Life and Ideas refers to Paine as "a corsetmaker by trade a journalist by profession and a propagandist by inclination." Paine greatly influenced the French Revolution. He wrote the Rights of Man 1791 a guide to Enlightenment ideas. Despite not speaking French he was elected to the French National Convention in 1792. The Girondists regarded him as an ally so the Montagnards especially Robespierre regarded him as an enemy. In December of 1793 he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris then released in 1794. He became notorious because of The Age of Reason 1793 - 94 his book advocating deism promoting reason and freethinking and arguing against institutionalized religion and Christian doctrines. He also wrote the pamphlet Agrarian Justice 1795 discussing the origins of property and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income. Paine remained in France during the early Napoleonic era but condemned Napoleon's dictatorship calling him "the completest charlatan that ever existed". In 1802 at President Jefferson's invitation he returned to America where he died on June 8 1809. Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his criticisms and ridicule of Christianity. Published for D. Jordan, Piccadilly hardcover books
1972ref. 70589Kampala 1972. Paperback. Good. 64 5 4 5 6p. Softcover in original wrapper. 33 cm. Moderate soiling and wear. Edited by A. B. T. Byaruhanga-Akiiki. This volume contained Occasional Papers 31-35. The first and longest paper is "Traditional Religion: The Marakwet of Kenya" by B. E. Kipkorir; the other four papers relate to Uganda. paperback books
1983ref. 1000198NY: Viking 1983. First edition first prnt. Slight shelfwear; dustjacket with minimal edgewear and soiling. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The image is of the book described and not a stock photo. Viking hardcover books
1961ref. 35193Washington D.C.: Union Panamericana 1961. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Spine with a few chips wrappers soiled else very good copies . xxvii 218 pp.; vii 219-392 pp. Sm. 4to. Preparado por la División de Filosofía y Letras Departamento de Asuntos Culturales. The Diccionario de la literatura latinoamericana covered 1 Bolivia 2 Chile 3 Colombia. 4 Argentina 5 Ecuador and 6 América Central. This is the complete two volume section on Argentina. Union Panamericana unknown books
1963ref. 34037Santiago de Chile: Central de Publicaciones 1963. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Small tear to lower spine else a near fine copy minor creasing. 13 34 pp. 4to. Author's gift card laid in loose. Includes: Discurso del senor Ricardo Donoso; Discurso del senor Nestor Meza Villalobos; Bibliografia de Ricardo Donoso. Ricardo Donoso 1896-1985 was a liberal intellectual director of the National Archives and professor of History at the Univ. Chile. His major work was The Political Ideas in Chile. OCLC shows only three copies. Central de Publicaciones unknown books
