1818rif. 1710Philadephia: For the author 1818. Octavo-sized pamphlet x cm. 63 pages. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION overall the Sixth Improved Edition. With an engraved frontispiece possibly by William Charles depicting a drunken rider felled by a low hanging branch. Thirteen woodcuts in the text by William Mason. The rare wrapper here with the front panel present only contains yet another woodcut likely also by Mason. A temperance tract by the famous Parson Weems inventor of the George Washington cherry tree incident. A series of well written cautionary tales often quite humorous. "As the wan countenance of the lust-worn harlot becomes still more dark and dismal at the sight of a young female fresh and blushing in all the charms of virgin innocence so does the soul of a filthy drunkard experience a quickened hell at the site of a gentleman well drest and breathing the cheerful air of cleanliness and sobriety." The pamphlet is worn with a small one-eighth inch hole in the engraved frontispiece and one page torn through the text due to a careless page separation. The illustrated wrapper panel is worn but the text and illustrations are unscathed. In all a decent survival. Shaw & Shoemaker 46749 MWA PPL; Hamilton 1019; Sabin 102467; American Imprints 46751. For the author unknown books
1732rif. 218191732 John LOCKE Essay Concerning Education English Philosophy Pedagogy Sydenham"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." – John LockeAfter studying medicine under the teaching of Thomas Sydenham John Locke began his journey of philosophical thinking that would develop into some of his most famous works. In 1693 Locke published a treatise on education entitled 'Thoughts Concerning Education'. Throughout the 18th-century it was the most important work on the philosophy of education in England. This work was an extension from 'Concerning Human Understanding' in which he describes how to educate the 'blank slate' mind described in 'Human Understanding'.A rare 1732 edition of Locke's famous education treatise.Item number: #21819Price: $599LOCKE JohnSome thoughts concerning educationLondon: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch . 1732Details: • Collation: Complete with all pageso 6 331 i.e. 325 3• Provenance: Armorial bookplate/Handwritten – Wm. Strong o William Strong 1808–1895 was an American lawyer jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1880. Strong previously served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1851 and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1857 to 1868. He also served on the Commission that adjudicated the disputed presidential election of 1876.• Language: English• Binding: Leather; tight and secure• Size: ~6.75in X 4in 17cm x 10.5cmOur Guarantee:Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 21819Photos available upon request. for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch hardcover
1984rif. 87299London: Murqi Press 1984. First Limited Edition. Square Octavo. #8 of a Limitation of 10 copies only. 22cm. Publisher's black rexine titled in gilt to spine. 95pp. Some very light wear to the corners a small cosmetic not structural crack to the laminate at the base of the front spine hinge strong and tight; internally clean and fresh with original 4pp Murqi Press prospectus laid in at the front; signed and numbered to limitation page. A near fine copy. Well this is a weird one no pun intended; William Hope Hodgson basically the human background along with Algernon Blackwood and Robert W. Chambers to a foreground that has H.P. Lovecraft standing in a spotlight surrounded by mildly disfunctional fanboys simultaneously wrote a lot and not enough. He had a relatively brief career as a published and popular writer before being disintegrated by a shell on forward observations during Fourth Ypres in April 1918. He gave us The House on The Borderland The Night Land The Ghost Pirates and others and created the supernatural techie detective Thomas Carnacki out of whole cloth for our queasy and uncomfortable enjoyment. Hodgson ran away to sea in search of adventure as a teenager and although he eventually found his feet there are more than a few suggestions that he suffered assault and other indiginities as a raw 14 year old apprentice at sea. He became an advocate for apprentice's rights and worked actively to increase the safeguards and comforts of young men in unfamiliar and vulnerable positions. He took up body building advocated for self sufficiency taught unarmed combat to the Blackburn Police annoyed the hell out of Harry Houdini by embarrassing him during a music hall performance and most importantly wrote a number of short stories poems and novels mostly in an attempt to keep his head above water but also because William Hope Hodgson was clearly one of those men for whom 'giving up' is an abstract concept only entertained by other people who clearly just need the support of someone like him. He gave us some of the most important weird and supernatural tales in the canon that's certainly true but he also wrote a number of truly great sea tales. This book published in a vanishingly small limitation by the God Emperor of supernatural bookdealers the mighty George Locke of Ferret Fantasy contains a number of Hodgson's seagoing tales salvaged from the pages of the Red Magazine between 1912-1916. Signed and numbered by Mr. Locke to the limitation page using his Murqi Press imprint which I'm pretty sure he ran out of the shed in his back garden which was the bookdealing equivalent of Tutankhamun's Tomb only more suburban South London with the intent of preserving tales which otherwise would just be footnotes in a variety of forgotten Edwardian boy's magazines many of which lasted for only a short run or were so ephemeral you might as well have printed them on cobwebs. Before he died in the trenches Hodgson wrote to a friend looking forward hopefully to the stories that might be written after experiencing the horrors of war; he never got to write them himself but there is no doubt that the work he left behind encouraged many of the writers we now consider great to step in and try to carry on where he could not. Murqi Press unknown
1716rif. 42019London: J. Churchill Vol. 1; A. and J. Churchill Vol. 2 1716. Seventh Edition with large Additions. Hardcover. fair to vg. Octavo 8 x 5". 32 372 1; 16 340 25 index 1pp. Contemporary full calf with modern white lettering on spine. Raised bands. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper: "To the Edinburgh Academical Club This Book Is Presented By One of its Original Members John M. Balfour. 1829." Engraved frontispiece portrait of John Locke by J. Nutting after a painting by S. Brounower. Title page for each volume. Seventh and enlarged edition of John Locke's Essay "Concerning Human Understanding" a philosophical landmark originally published in 1689 although dated 1690.5 One of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy this essay presents a detailed systematic philosophy of mind and thought and wrestles with fundamental questions about how we think and perceive and it even touches on how we express ourselves through language logic and religious practices. In the introduction entitled 'The Epistle to the Reader' Locke describes how he became involved in his current mode of philosophical thinking. He relates an anecdote about a conversation with friends that made him realize that men often suffer in their pursuit of knowledge because they fail to determine the limits of their understanding. The Essay is divided into four books two per volume: First volume: - Book I is devoted to an attack on nativism or the doctrine of innate ideas. Locke allowed that some ideas are in the mind from an early age but argued that such ideas are furnished by the senses starting in the womb: for instance differences between colors or tastes. If we have a universal understanding of a concept like sweetness it is not because this is an innate idea but because we are all exposed to sweet tastes at an early age. One of Locke's fundamental arguments against innate ideas is the very fact that there is no truth to which all people attest. He took the time to argue against a number of propositions that rationalists offer as universally accepted truth for instance the principle of identity pointing out that at the very least children and idiots are often unaware of these propositions. - Book II: Whereas Book I is intended to reject the doctrine of innate ideas proposed by Descartes and the rationalists Book II explains that every idea is derived from experience either by sensation - direct sensory information - or reflection - "the perception of the operations of our own mind within us as it is employed about the ideas it has got". Furthermore Book II is also a systematic argument for the existence of an intelligent being: "Thus from the consideration of ourselves and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth that there is an eternal most powerful and most knowing being; which whether any one will please to call God it matters not!" Second volume: - Book III focuses on words. Locke connects words to the ideas they signify claiming that man is unique in being able to frame sounds into distinct words and to signify ideas by those words and then that these words are built into language. Chapter ten in this book focuses on "Abuse of Words." Here Locke calls out metaphysicians for making up new words that have no clear meaning. He also criticizes the use of words which are not linked to clear ideas and to those who change the criteria or meaning underlying a term. Thus he uses a discussion of language to demonstrate sloppy thinking. Locke followed the Port-Royal Logique 1662 in numbering among the abuses of language those that he calls "affected obscurity" in chapter 10. Locke complains that such obscurity is caused by for example philosophers who to confuse their readers invoke old terms and give them unexpected meanings or who construct new terms without clearly defining their intent. Writers may also invent such obfuscation to make themselves appear more learned or their ideas more complicated and nuanced or erudite than they actually are. - Book IV and last focuses on knowledge in general - that it can be thought of as the sum of ideas and perceptions. Locke discusses the limit of human knowledge and whether knowledge can be said to be accurate or truthful. Thus there is a distinction between what an individual might claim to "know" as part of a system of knowledge and whether or not that claimed knowledge is actual. For example Locke writes at the beginning of Chap. IV Of the Reality of Knowledge: "I doubt not my Reader by this Time may be apt to think that I have been all this while only building a Castle in the Air; and be ready to say to me To what purpose all of this stir Knowledge say you is only the Perception of the Agreement or Disagreement of our own Ideas: but who knows what those Ideas may be . But of what use is all this fine Knowledge of Man's own Imaginations to a Man that enquires after the reality of things It matters now that Mens Fancies are 'tis the Knowledge of Things that is only to be priz'd; 'tis this alone gives a Value to our Reasonings and Preference to one Man's Knowledge over another's that is of Things as they really are and of Dreams and Fancies." In the last chapter of the book Locke introduces the major classification of sciences into physics semiotics and ethics. Binding heavily rubbed along edges with closed tears along joints. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Hinges reinforced with binder's tape. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front cover James A. Young. Stamp of the Edinburgh Academical Club at lower margin of front free endpaper and on both title pages. Moderate and sporadic age-toning throughout and minor and sporadic creasing along paper margin not affecting lettering. Binding in overall fair interior in good to very good condition. "John Balfour 1750-1842 was a Scottish politician and a civil servant in the East India Company with connections to the Orcadian island of Shapinsay." From Wikipedia. J. Churchill (Vol. 1); A. and J. Churchill (Vol. 2) hardcover
1798rif. 18190Edinburgh: Mundell & Son; and J. Mundell. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1798. Reprint. First Printing. Leather. Contemporary calf rebacked gilt lettering on burgundy and gilt labels on spines. First appearing in 1689 although dated 1690 "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" by John Locke concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy and influenced many enlightenment philosophers such as David Hume and George Berkeley. Expertly rebacked unmarked tight square and clean. A very attractive set. NEAR FINE. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. liii 271; xvi 264; xiv 308 pp . Mundell & Son; and J. Mundell hardcover
1987rif. 45498New York: n.p. 1987. Very good. Original book sculpture created from the pedagogical reader TOWARD LIBERAL EDUCATION by Louis Glenn Locke featuring a vignette of a male and female figure dancing - or engaged in a more sexual activity. Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes defies classification. THE NEW YORK TIMES calls him "part tinkerer and part storyteller a cross between Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely;" filmmaker James Ivory compares him to Picasso noting his ability to "pick up any old thing lying around see its possibilities for transformation and then turn it into a new and enchanting thing" RURAL INTELLIGENCE. Pasquier-Desvignes's book sculptures highlight his ingenuity creativity and humor as he toys with the idea of a codex as a container - in this case the instinctual side of human nature in contrast to LIBERAL EDUCATION's goals of civility. 9'' x 6''. Original blue cloth binding. Bookblock fused with glue with rectangular recess cut into center. Two figures made of toothpicks cork and noodles mounted to recess mirror mounted behind. Binding with some edgewear scuffing to boards. A couple tiny spots of foxing to paper surrounding recess. Shows nicely. n.p. unknown
1818rif. 1710Philadephia: For the author 1818. Octavo-sized pamphlet x cm. 63 pages. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION overall the Sixth Improved Edition. With an engraved frontispiece possibly by William Charles depicting a drunken rider felled by a low hanging branch. Thirteen woodcuts in the text by William Mason. The rare wrapper here with the front panel present only contains yet another woodcut likely also by Mason. A temperance tract by the famous Parson Weems inventor of the George Washington cherry tree incident. A series of well written cautionary tales often quite humorous. "As the wan countenance of the lust-worn harlot becomes still more dark and dismal at the sight of a young female fresh and blushing in all the charms of virgin innocence so does the soul of a filthy drunkard experience a quickened hell at the site of a gentleman well drest and breathing the cheerful air of cleanliness and sobriety." The pamphlet is worn with a small one-eighth inch hole in the engraved frontispiece and one page torn through the text due to a careless page separation. The illustrated wrapper panel is worn but the text and illustrations are unscathed. In all a decent survival. Shaw & Shoemaker 46749 MWA PPL; Hamilton 1019; Sabin 102467; American Imprints 46751. For the author unknown
2004rif. x-0415344743Routledge 2004. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 229 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
1998rif. SKU0467740SAGE Publications Inc 1998-02-03. Hardcover. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking SAGE Publications, Inc hardcover
rif. 14091Amsterdam, Henri Schelte, 1700 ; in-4. 27 ff. 936 pp.-10 ff. Veau brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Manque à la coiffe sup. Charnière fendue sur 5 cm au second plat. Bel exemplaire
1999rif. x-0415192943Routledge 1999. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 372 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.25 inches. Routledge hardcover
1999rif. x-041519296XRoutledge 1999. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 213 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
1714rif. 281400London : Printed for John Churchill 1714. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy wear and tear as with age. Boards damaged. Crudely repaired with adhesive tape. Some pages loose but present. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 12 xxviii 575 17 p. ; 33 cm. Subjects; Locke John 1632-1704. Knowledge Theory of ; Early works to 1800. Philosophy ; Early works to 1800. Economics ; Early works to 1800. Religion ; Early works to 1800. London : Printed for John Churchill hardcover
1735rif. 90957Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1735. Fine. Chez Pierre Mortier Amsterdam 1735 20.5 x 26.5 cm Relié Third edition revised corrected and enlarged with several important Additions by the author published posthumously and with Remarks by the Translator our own translation with the portrait of John Locke by Godfrey Kneller engraved by François Morellon de La Cave. Contemporary full brown calf spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments brown morocco lettering-piece triple fillet border to covers in blind red edges marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Headcaps missing surface losses to covers and one larger loss to upper left corner of back cover corners bumped and worn rubbing to edges with a small loss at foot of front cover ink gift inscription to first blank leaf. In this copy: light marginal dampstaining to early leaves and to pp. 53-58 and pp. 463-472 not affecting text. This volume is enriched with ink annotations: ""n°23 ="" to verso of front free endpaper another inscription to recto of second endpaper and several ink corrections to margins and text at pp. 3 125 127 148 and 269. Chez Pierre Mortier hardcover
1928rif. 588537Philadelphia: The American Academy of Political and Social Science 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall octavo. 359pp. Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering with neat ink owner name and initials. Very good or better with wear to the edges some light bumping and a bit of fraying at the spine ends. A full issue of The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science devoted to The American Negro. Contributors include W.E.B. Du Bois "Race Relations in the United States" E. Franklin Frazier "The Negro Family" James Weldon Johnson "Legal Aspects of the Negro Problem" Horace Mann Bond Kelly Miller Walter White Alain Locke Monroe Work Charles S. Johnson and others. Reprinted on a couple of occasions the first edition is scarce. The American Academy of Political and Social Science hardcover books
1700rif. 11172Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelete 1700. French translated Edition Fourth. Full Calf. Very Good. French translated Edition Fourth. Full Calf. Translation to English: Philosophical Essay Concerning Human Understanding or We Show What is the Extent of our Certain Knowledge and the Way in which We Achieve it. Translated from the English of Mr. Locke by Pierre Coste. On the Fourth Edition revised corrected and enlarged by the Author. Original 18th Century Edition. First French translation by Pierre Coste 1668-1747 of Locke's 1632-1704 philosophical work first published in 1690. Pierre Coste was a French theologian translator and writer. Born in Uzès France to Protestant parents he moved to England via Switzerland and Holland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Acknowledgments from Simon von Beaumont statesman. Complete detachment on front board starting rear; minimal head and tail wear chipping rubbing to boards minor foxing evidence of dampstaining else very good. Full calf gilt titling/edging/decorations tall 8vo 936 pp. table ornaments marbled edge. In French. Chez Henri Schelete unknown books
1928rif. 588537Philadelphia: The American Academy of Political and Social Science 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall octavo. 359pp. Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering with neat ink owner name and initials. Very good or better with wear to the edges some light bumping and a bit of fraying at the spine ends. A full issue of The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science devoted to The American Negro. Contributors include W.E.B. Du Bois "Race Relations in the United States" E. Franklin Frazier "The Negro Family" James Weldon Johnson "Legal Aspects of the Negro Problem" Horace Mann Bond Kelly Miller Walter White Alain Locke Monroe Work Charles S. Johnson and others. Reprinted on a couple of occasions the first edition is scarce. The American Academy of Political and Social Science hardcover
1700rif. 11172Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelete 1700. French translated Edition Fourth. Full Calf. Very Good. French translated Edition Fourth. Full Calf. Translation to English: Philosophical Essay Concerning Human Understanding or We Show What is the Extent of our Certain Knowledge and the Way in which We Achieve it. Translated from the English of Mr. Locke by Pierre Coste. On the Fourth Edition revised corrected and enlarged by the Author. Original 18th Century Edition. First French translation by Pierre Coste 1668-1747 of Locke's 1632-1704 philosophical work first published in 1690. Pierre Coste was a French theologian translator and writer. Born in Uzès France to Protestant parents he moved to England via Switzerland and Holland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Acknowledgments from Simon von Beaumont statesman. Complete detachment on front board starting rear; minimal head and tail wear chipping rubbing to boards minor foxing evidence of dampstaining else very good. Full calf gilt titling/edging/decorations tall 8vo 936 pp. table ornaments marbled edge. In French. Chez Henri Schelete unknown
1822rif. 839001822. HORRY Peter. WEEMS Mason Locke. The Life of General Francis Marion a Celebrated Partizan Leader in the Revolutionary War against the British and Tories in South-Carolina and Georgia. Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons 1822. 251pp. Six handcolored plates. Modern calf with red morocco spine label. Contemporary ownership signature and bookplate on front flyleaf. Light foxing and toning. Very good. Howes H-650. Shoemaker 11389. Self-styled eighth edition. Marion c. 1732-1795 "the Swamp Fox" was one of the leading American commanders in the Revolution in the South. His brilliant operations in the Carolinas kept thousands of British troops tied down and contributed much to the Americans' ultimate victory. He was beloved by his contemporaries and after his death this book began the process of his ascent to legend. Horry 1743-1815 his second-in-command for part of the war supplied many of the facts although he allegedly disliked Weems' 1759-1825 more flowery passages and disclaimed any connection with the book. Nevertheless the book went through many editions this edition not in Howes. With the bookplate of collector Charles R. Sanders on rear pastedown. unknown
1984rif. 332691Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Library hardcover
1699rif. 020537London: Printed By H. C. For A. And F Churchill 1699. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 12.5 X 20cm. complete: pp. 4 452; in this copy the errata leaf is bound in after the title page. Textually a very good copy with full margins the leaf measuing 120 x 190mm. Full contemporary calf fair only with leather covering to the spine chipped with loss and now loosely tucked into the book. Both board firmly attached but by cords only. Contents very good early initials to title page some leaves a little softened to top edge with slight staining the last few leaves a little more so with a few very short nicks and slight chipping to corners none affecting text. Some gatherings loosening. A good copy ideally in need of rebinding. Printed By H. C. For A. And F Churchill Hardcover
1700rif. AQ17273London: Printed for A. and J. Churchil 1700. 8 308pp 4. Contemporary panelled calf recently rebacked to style recent contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Boards rubbed. Later armorial bookplate of Waldegrave Pelham Clay to FEP minute worm-trail to margins of first half of text-block lightly spotted. The second edition a significant abridgement of John Locke's 1632-1704 An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding; the foremost modern attempt at an analysis of human knowledge greeted with as much opposition as applause upon it's appearance in 1690. The abridgement by John Wynne of Jesus College Oxford was first printed in 1696; such was it's popularity among students seeking clarification of Locke's philosophy that a further 17 editions appeared the following century. ESTC R20235 Wing L2736. Second edition corrected and enlarged. 8vo. Printed for A. and J. Churchil hardcover
rif. 65660London: Thomas Tegg et al. 1823. 3 volumes bound as one. 8vo. 21.5 x 14.5cm. pp.lxviii3011 colophon; xvi3971 colophonxii380. Contemporary tan calf single gilt fillet border spine with gilt decorated compartments russet morocco label label gilt lettering blue endpapers. An attractive copy. The title continues: 'To which are now first added I. An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas on a Large Sheet. II. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning Personal Identity with an Appendix. III. A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. IV. Some Thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. VI. A New Method of a Common Place-Book. Extracted from the Author's Works'. London: Thomas Tegg [et al.], 1823. unknown
rif. ORD-6488Traduit de l'Anglois par M. COSTE. Quatrième édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée de quelques Additions importantes de l'Auteur qui n'ont paru qu'après sa mort, & de plusieurs Remarques du traducteur, dont quelques-unes paroissent pour la première fois dans cette Edition. Amsterdam. Pierre Mortier. 1742. In-4 (202 x 256mm) pleine basane racinée, dos à 5 nerfs, caissons ornés or, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, gardes peignées, tranches rouges, XLII, 603 pages et 18 pages non chiffrées (tables). Vignette sur le titre, joli bandeau sans signature en tête de l'épître, portrait hors texte de l'auteur par Kueller, gravé par Morellon. Achevé d'imprimer le 19 Août 1741. Petit manque aux deux coiffes, mors du 1er plat fendu Sur 3 cm dans sa partie supérieure, des rousseurs mais plutôt bon exemplaire.
rif. ORD-6489Traduit de l'Anglois par M. COSTE. Troisième édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée de quelques Additions importantes de l'Auteur qui n'ont paru qu'après sa mort, & de quelques Remarques du traducteur. Amsterdam. Pierre Mortier. 1735. In-4 (205 x 256mm) pleine basane, dos à 5 nerfs, caissons ornés or, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, gardes peignées, tranches rouges, XLII, 601 pages et 17 pages non chiffrées (tables). Vignette sur le titre (Picart), portrait hors texte de l'auteur par Kueller, gravé par Morellon. Achevé d'imprimer le 30 Novembre 1734. Notes manuscrites anciennes d'une fine écriture dans les marges de l'avant-propos et au bas de la dernière page. Petit manque aux deux coiffes, coins très émoussés, bel état intérieur, sans rousseurs.
