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1800réf. 24713Oxonii: Typographeo Clarendoniano 1800. 8vo pp. vii 1 437 2; late 19th century half calf over marbled boards; rubbed but good and sound. Typographeo Clarendoniano unknown books
1982réf. 14715Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1982. Near Fine/Very Good . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1982. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in white and yellow; 339pp. Minimal shelf wear contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper else Very Good or better. Quite uncommon especially in dust jacket. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unknown books
réf. 12692Melbourne / Middlesex UK: Penguin Books Classics. Paperback reprints. Original Wraps. Very Good. Paperback reprints. Original Wraps. Titles include: The Laws 1970. Light underlining. Protagoras and Meno 1972. The Last Days of Socrates 1954. Signed by Oliver Sacks on ffep. The Symposium 1952. Signed by Oliver Sacks on ffep. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. "Due to volume and weight of these collections a shipp.ing surcharge may be calculated upon packing. Any shipp.ing cost increase will be submitted for app.roval before the order is processed.". Light shelfwear/scuffing to extremities even toning else tight bright and unmarred. Original wrappers various paging. Paperbacks. Penguin Books (Classics) unknown books
1924réf. 265918London: The Nonesuch Press 1924. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Tan cloth-backed boards. Spine ends slightly rubbed. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed on front pastedown: "Arthur Houghton. Given in 1962 to Philip Hofer to start on a new journey through the world. I have been given my father's copy by Richard Smart who bought it after his death." Dreyfus 19 The Nonesuch Press unknown books
1926réf. 37372Paris: The Pleiad 1926. No. 97 of 475 copies. Large 8vo pp. xxxvi. Patterned paper over boards with small paper label on spine. A nice copy. The Pleiad unknown books
1927réf. 60165NY: Scribner's Sons 1927. Small 8vo pp. 448. A very good copy. The was poet Barbara Howes' copy with her signature on the end paper and her extensive pencil holograph commentary on the end papers and here and there in the text. Scribner's Sons unknown books
1920réf. R5163Peterburg: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo State Publishers 1920. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fine. Later black cloth preserving the original illustrated wraps; pp. 156 with illustrations by Vidberg. "Within the discursive world created by the Soviet mass spectacles the event announces itself as new by virtue of its shift from the individual to the mass and the instigation of a collective subject as both the subject and object of the drama. In this way it distinguishes itself from the old 'pre-modern' society. More specifically it took the pre-revolutionary Symbolist utopias of 'ritual theatre' whose formulation was largely a response to the abortive 1905 revolution and recast their 'people' as the proletariat" Kleberg 1980 44-64. Platon Kerzhentsev's THE CREATIVE THEATRE was the most influential formulation in this direction -- his book was in its fourth edition by 1920. The October revolution had he claimed provided the social base for the realization of the ritual community valorized by the Symbolists; by the time of the fourth edition he was able to claim that "much of what seemed a utopia two years ago now appears to be on the way to becoming reality" Kleberg 1980 62. "This claim was based on the explosion of mass spectacles that had occurred in the intervening years" Smith "Meyerhold Mass Theatre and Fascism". The theory for Soviet mass spectacles. Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo [State Publishers] hardcover books
1765réf. 003451Paris: Chez Humblot Libraire 1765. Very good. Mid-18th-century edition; 6 3/4 x 4; vol. I pp. 3 iv-ciij 2 2-259 1 vol. II pp. 5 2-406; full speckled roan; five raised bands and gilt title and ruling to spine; illustrated with woodcuts and historiated initials at the beginning of each volume; rubbed spots to corners and chips to tips of spine; vol. II with small loss of leather to lower margin of front board; in good to very good condition. A handsom edition of Plato's Socratic dialogue on justice and order which was originally authored around 375 BCE. Chez Humblot, Libraire hardcover books
1901réf. 1386617Ridgewood: Alwill Shop 1901. Limited edition 117/475. Hardcover. Octavo 68 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is tan without print. Boards quarter bound with green cloth to spine and grey paper to boards. Tattering to spine caps and corners bumps to fore edge toning to spine smudging/shelf wear. Text block has deckle edges. News clipping affixed to front pastedown inscription in ink on half-title page intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: decorative color title page and decorative color capitals. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #3. 1386617. FP New Rockville Stock. Alwill Shop hardcover books
1875réf. 24509Oxford: Clarendon Press 1875. 5 volumes 8vo original terracotta cloth; a bit rubbed and with an occasional crack in the cloth vol. 1 rebacked. Clarendon Press unknown books
1873réf. 26528Lipsiae: Otto Holtze and Londini: Dulac & Soc. and David Nutt 1873. Small folio pp. xxv 1 725 2; Greek text with Latin preface; the copy with occasional extensive and informed notes in the margins likely by one W. H. Cross University College Oxford whose ownership signature is on the flyleaf; full vellum soiled red morocco label on spine; a note on the flyleaf states that the book was "bound Dec. 1899." With the bookplate of the Eccle Rigg Library. Otto Holtze [and] Londini: Dulac & Soc. [and] David Nutt unknown books
1983réf. 9030689Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1983. Limited. Hardcover. Fine. Translations by Benjamin Jowett and J. Harward. Published exclusively for subscribers to the 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. Bound in publisher's original full maroon leather with spine and covers stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Each volume 6 x 9 inches. 1464 total pages. Franklin Library hardcover books
1926réf. 527401926. PLATO. Crito. xxxvi 2 pp. 8vo. bound in full marbled paper title printed on a black letterpress label on spine. Uncut unopened. Paris: The Pleiad 1926. One of 475 copies printed for the Pleiad under the supervision of Frederic Warde. According to the colophon this book marks the first use of Arrighi Vicenza type but the British Library exhibition catalogue notes that this type was first used in the imprint and colophon of The Calligraphic Models published two months earlier. A fine copy with the bookplates of Edward Laurence and Carrie Estelle Doheny on front flyleaf and pastedown. Mardersteig 16. unknown books
1770réf. 2305606Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1770. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rebound: cloth spine and corners marbled boards new end sheets. Ink name and stamp on title page of each volume. 1770 Hard Cover. viii 424; vi 442 pp. 12mo. French translations of eight of Plato's Dialogues: Theaetetus; Protagoras; Hippias I; Hippias II; Gorgias; Ion; Philebus; and Meno. Translated from the Greek by Abbe Jean Nicolas Grou 1731-1803 who already had translated Plato's Laws and the Republic. Grou a Jesuit fled to Holland when his order was suppressed in France and it was there that these Dialogues were published. Later he returned to Paris and adopted the alias Leclaire remaining there until the Revolution drove him into a second exile in England. As well as Platonic translations Grou published theological works of a popular nature including The Spiritual Life: A Comprehensive Manual for Catholics Seeking Salvation. Marc-Michel Rey hardcover books
1769réf. 2305607Amsterdam / A Philadelphie. Se vend a Paris: Marc-Michel Rey / Chez Ruault Libraire 1769. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 1769 first French edition of Plato's The Laws bound together with a 1778 third edition of Benjamin Franklin's La Science du Bonhomme Richard The Way to Wealth. Some pencil marginalia in 'Richard' edges a bit rubbed with minor loss from corners tiny piece of volume II spine label missing. viii 8 398 2 151 5; 502 pp. 12mo. Contemporary full leather morocco spine labels gilt titles and triple rules marbled edges and endpapers. French translation of The Laws a series of twelve Platonic dialogues written towards the end of his life. Grou a Jesuit fled to Holland when his order was suppressed in France and it was there that these Dialogues were published. Later he returned to Paris and adopted the alias Leclaire remaining there until the Revolution drove him into a second exile in England. As well as Platonic translations Grou published theological works of a popular nature including The Spiritual Life: A Comprehensive Manual for Catholics Seeking Salvation. The publisher includes a dedication to the then-living philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This set also includes a 1778 edition of La Science de Bonhomme Richard Sabin 78111 which is a French version of Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth. This work includes the sayings of Poor Richard as well as the interrogation of Benjamin Franklin relating to the Stamp Act Pennsylvania's new constitution and the interrogation of William Penn by parliament. Franklin spent a good deal of time in France and was well-liked there. The Way to Wealth was his most popular work and though it first appeared in England in 1757 it was the French translation originally published in 1777 that first included his commentary on British taxation of the American colonies. Herein he presages the colonists' discontent with being taxed and ordered about by a foreign power. Marc-Michel Rey / Chez Ruault, Libraire hardcover books
1937réf. 186735unknown: Freinds of Socrates 1937. Softcover. VG/VG- Book is in very clean condition. Clamshell box has overall soiling and shelfwear. Tan wraps with black lettering inside a clamshell box bw illustrated frontispiece; 90 pp 8 bw plates. Of this edition 150 numerated copies have been printed in 14 point Garamond type on Holland paper by Belser at Stuttgart in Germany in the month of January 1937 under the typographic dir. of T. Stahly. The engravings were printed by Franz von Foullon at Frankfurt-Main. This copy is number 18. With 8 original engravings by Ferdinand Springer. Freinds of Socrates paperback books
1937réf. 173642unknown: Freinds of Socrates 1937. Softcover. VG clamshell box is in 3 pieces the actual book is in VG condition. Tan wraps with black lettering inside a clamshell box 90 pp 8 bw plates. Of this edition 150 numerated copies have been printed in 14 point Garamond type on Holland paper by Belser at Stuttgart in Germany in the month of January 1937 under the typographic dir. of T. Stahly. The engravings were printed by Franz von Foullon at Frankfurt-Main. This copy is number 15. With 8 original engravings by Ferdinand Springer.This dialogue is reprinted from the works of Plato translanted by Floyer Sydenham and Thomas Taylor ed. by the latter and published for the first time in London 1804. Freinds of Socrates paperback books
1833réf. 6321New York: W. Gowan 1833. Very good. 2092pp. 12mo. Original boards cloth spine; printed paper label. Corners worn and bumped head and foot of spine chipped and worn label rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Light foxing. Untrimmed. First American edition of Plato's Phaedon originally from a run of 2500 copies and the first edition of any of Plato's works to be published in the United States. It was translated from the Greek by Andre Dacier though attributed on the title page to Madam Anne Lefevre Dacier. Stoddard notes that in some copies the dedication to Washington Irving appears on p.3 with the Advertisement printed on its verso. In this copy the dedication is omitted and p.3 contains the Advertisement with a blank verso. The evidence thus points to two distinct states with no priority given. According to the Dictionary of American Biography this is the publisher's first output. The ownership signature J.W. French is likely that of John W. French an Episcopal clergyman and educator and later West Point chaplain. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford in 1832 and subsequently from General Theological Seminary in New York City. Renowned for his scholarship in Greek Latin and moral philosophy this work would naturally have been of interest. A handsome copy in original unsophisticated condition. W. Gowan unknown books
1759réf. 170351759. Plato. The Greater Hippias 1759 English translation presenting a key Socratic dialogue on the nature of beauty within the context of Enlightenment era engagement with classical philosophy. The work stages an exchange between Socrates and Hippias in which attempts to define beauty are systematically examined and rejected illustrating the Socratic method of testing and dismantling accepted ideas. This edition contributes to the study of eighteenth century philosophical translation the transmission of Greek thought into English intellectual culture and early modern interpretations of aesthetics and moral philosophy. Plato. The Greater Hippias: A Dialogue of Plato Concerning the Beautifull. London: H. Woodfall 1759. First edition in English translated by Floyer Sydenham. Quarto volume presenting the dialogue in which Socrates and Hippias attempt to establish a definition of beauty but arrive instead at the limits of such inquiry. The text employs an anatreptic structure advancing philosophical critique through the refutation of inadequate definitions rather than through a final resolution. Sydenham's translation reflects eighteenth century efforts to render Platonic philosophy accessible to English readers and his work was later praised for its "just criticism and extensive learning an elegant taste and a genius naturally philosophic." Published during a period of renewed classical scholarship in Britain this edition aligns with broader Enlightenment interest in Greek philosophy as a foundation for discussions of ethics aesthetics and knowledge. The dialogue's exploration of beauty as a concept "good in and of itself" situates it within early philosophical treatments of intrinsic value while its conversational form influenced later literary and philosophical writing. Light rippling to leaves with minor foxing; overall very good. A well preserved example of eighteenth century Platonic translation and philosophical inquiry. unknown books
1557réf. 3087Venice: Comin da Trino 1557. Graesse V.325 giving 1558 imprint; a second issue; the Italian Union Catalogue Catalogo Unico lists only 5 copies in Italian libraries. Rare first Italian-language edition of this Platonic dialogue somewhat anomalous in the Platonic corpus because of its extended treatment of the nature of physical matter and cosmology and a favorite among Renaissance readers for its myth of Atlantis which influenced other Renaissance utopias. The 1550s or thereabouts saw the first Italian translation of the most popular Platonic dialogues whether directly from Greek as here or via Ficinos Latin translation; the prestige of Ficinos Latin translation and wider readership for the original Greek probably explains why this Italian edition came so relatively late. The edition was translated by the littérateur Sebastiano Erizzo 1525-1585 a prolific writer of poetry fiction and belles lettres who provides some commentary in the way of printed marginal annotations; he would later translate a further selection of dialogues into Italian in which the Timaeus was reprinted 1574. NUC lists UNC and OCLC adds Duke. Comin da Trino books
1892réf. 53851Oxford: Clarendon Press 1892. Near fine. Handsome set of Jowett's Plato in beautifully preserved Rivière & Son half morocco bindings. Plato's dialogues form much of the philosophical foundation of Western civilization. In the APOLOGY EUTHYPHRO CRITO PHAEDO and more Socrates leads his interlocutors through a series of questions that concern morality and faith censorship and education political justice and injustice and the immortality of the soul. A stellar copy and a requirement for any library on the history of thought. Five volumes 9'' x 5.75'' each. Contemporary half maroon morocco by Rivière & Son marbled boards raised bands gilt-ornamented spines. Top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Third edition. Text in English. 594; 576; 544; 646; 542 pages. Evidence of bookplate removal to front endpapers a few small dings to vol. IV else exceptionally sharp. Clarendon Press unknown books
1520réf. 4422Cologne: Quentel heirs 1520. 4to 194 x 140 mm. Collation: A-B4. 15 pages. Woodcut initial on title the latter in two sizes of large gothic types text in small gothic types leaded epigram on title and text heading in roman. Small stain in top of gutter margins small inkstain on A1v f. B3 corner clipped. Bound in early 18th-century South German pasteboards completely overpainted in imitation of a Renaissance binding: both covers painted in watercolor and gouache on a brown ground with outer panel of scrolling tendrils with red flowers and leaves central panel with arabesque foliate decor two vases at top and bottom and central cartouche containing a winged lion holding a book painted in silver on a black ground; flat spine with portion of a different painted decor endleaves of gold on green Bronzefirnispapier bronze varnish paper probably from Augsburg with interlacing tendrils and birds foxes rabbits dogs an angel’s head and a putto emerging from a bud thick paper flyleaves small tear to backstrip edges slightly rubbed small marginal repair to lower flyleaf. Provenance: contemporary inscription on title: Plus que moins que me d’amour or quie en amour et or est qui la scait servir; Maurice Burrus 1882-1959 bookplate and acquisition label dated September 1937 identifying Arthur Lauria as the seller. First separate edition previously unknown of Cicero’s translation of part of Plato’s Timaeus. Cicero's fragmentary translation of sections 27d-47b was highly influential in late antiquity. In either Cicero’s version or Calcidius’s more extensive translation of sections 17a–53c the Timaeus was often the only text of Plato found in medieval monastic scriptoria and libraries. The first separate edition of Calcidius’s translation was also published in 1520 by Josse Bade. This edition was intended as a schoolbook with its moderately leaded lines. The title page includes an epigram by one Ioannis Sartae Leodiensis Jean de Sarthe of Liège. I locate one mention of another copy in a 1902 catalogue of the library of the Gymnasium of Emmerich bound with two other Cicero Quentel imprints from 1518 and 1517 J. Wattendorff Katalog der Lehrerbibliothek Part IV Emmerich 1904 p. 21 shelfmark O 35. That volume was evidently destroyed in 1944 when 90% of the town was bombed. The most remarkable feature of this unusual book is the binding carefully painted on inexpensive pasteboards by an unknown early 18th-century amateur to resemble a 16th-century gold-tooled and paneled binding. The artist indulged in a certain amalgamation of styles viz. the central silver medallion containing a representation of the lion of Venice holding the Gospel of Mark. The lovely “bronze varnish” or gold varnish endpapers with their swirling tendrils among which are hidden animals and birds are typical of papers produced in Augsburg in the first two decades of the 18th century cf. Haemmerle pp. 72-73. These especially resemble examples produced by Georg Christoph Stoy. I have not found an exact match in the printed and online literature. Not in VD16 KVK OCLC ISTC Hoffmann etc. My thanks to Irene Malfatto for her help with the inscription. Quentel heirs unknown books
1759réf. 1308111759. First Edition. Signed. SYDENHAM Floyer translator PLATO. Dialogues of Plato. London: W. Sandby and others 1759-1779. Three volumes. Large quarto contemporary half calf raised bands gilt morocco spine labels title labels refurbished. Each volume housed in a custom chemise and together in a clamshell box. $16500.First editions of these dialogues of Plato many marking their first appearances in English signed by the translator on the dedication page of the Synopsis.Floyer Sydenham ""was an excellent Greek scholar and devoted himself to the task of translating the works of Plato. In 1759 he published his proposals in a quarto tract and accomplished his purpose between 1759 and 1780 in four quarto parts"" DNB XIX 245. A contemporary review observed ""His notes which are very copious serve to illustrate many obscure passages in the text and explain many mythological allusionsÉ This learned Translator of Plato's Works pursues his undertaking with unremitted diligence; and acquits himself with his usual judgment and accuracy"" Brueggemann 152 quoting the Monthly Review. Unfortunately Sydenham's labors were not appreciated during his lifetime and he died in debtor's prison before completing the project. Thomas Taylor later made use of Sydenham's work in his own edition of PlatoÑand praised the earlier translator in verse: ""Genius sublime; who from barbaric night/ Led Wisdom forth far beaming heav'nly light;/ Whose skill great Plato's elegance commands/ His graces copies and his fire expands."" Illustrated with two folding plates diagramming Plato's arguments. The parts were published separately in very small runs and complete contemporary sets are now extremely scarce. This set contains 12 of 13 parts published with main title pages for the volumes dated 1767 1773 and 1779. Volume I: A Synopsis or General View of the Works of Plato 1759 Io 1759 The Greater Hippias 1759 The Lesser Hippias 1761 Meno no separate title page but 1759 The Rivals no separate title page but 1761; Volume II: The Banquet 1761 The First Alcibiades 1773 The Second Alcibiades 1776; Volume III: A Dissertation on the Doctrine of Heraclitus 1775 PhilebusÉ the First Part 1779. Only PhilebusÉ the Second Part is absent as often seen. With affixed errata slip on page 83 of Volume III. Schweiger 250 251 257. Rothschild 2384-85. Lowndes 1877. ESTC T132440. Volume I with early inked owner name and note: ""very scarce.""Contents overall very clean with a few instances of faint foxing; bindings moderately rubbed. A handsome wide-margined copy. hardcover books
1491réf. 68663Venice: Vernardinus de Choris de Cremona and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus 1491. Venice: Bernardinus de Choris and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus August 13 1491. And: FICINO Marsilio. Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum. Venice: 13 August 1491. Second edition of the works of Plato. Folio 11 7/8 x 8 inches; 301 x 206 mm. 4 444 leaves. Printed in Gothic type in double columns. With beautifully illuminated initials and border to the first text leaf. Numerous illuminated 7 8 9 and 10-line initials heightened in gilt with blue red and green backgrounds. The initial letter will extend beyond the letter with illumination 5-7 lines both up and down. Additional 3 4 5 and 7-line initials in red blue or gold. The first leaf of text a1 with two large illuminated initials and a full illuminated border with red green blue and gilt scrolls floral motifs and a shield surrounded by a wreath. This is the first edition to include Ficino's great work Platonica Theologia which was not included in the 1484 edition as Ficino first published his work in 1482. Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation. Second editions of Ficino's translation of Plato's work first published 1484 as well as his chief philosophical work the Platonica theologia in which he attempts to illustrate the harmony between Platonism and Christian theology first published 1482 and this edition is the first to collect both works together in one. With only one complete copy of the 1484 first edition at auction since the the copy that came up in the 1940s. This copy sold in 2021 for $1026000. This present edition is realistically the first obtainable edition of Plato's works. 18th-century acid treated calf. Spine with orange morocco spine label lettered in gilt. All edges dyed yellow and speckled red. Newer endpapers. A small amount of old ink neat marginalia. A small repaired hole to the title-page not affecting text just the top edge of some illumination on verso. A very clean and beautiful copy with lovely illumination. Overall a very good copy of the second edition and first obtainable edition of Plato's Opera. Plato was the first of the ancient philosophers to appear in print and for nearly thirty years Ficino's translation was the only published version available until the appearance of the Greek 'editio princeps' in 1513. Ficino's translation took twenty years to complete and during this time he was assisted by members of the Platonic Academy founded by his patron Cosimo de Medici whose ambition was to revive the study of Platonic philosophy. "Amidst a great diversity both of subject and treatment the dialogues are pervaded by two dominant impulses: a love of truth and a passion for human improvement. While nowhere is a definite system laid down it has been truly said that the germs of all ideas can be found in Plato." "Printing and the Mind of Man" # 27 for 1484 edition. BMC V 465 IB. 23432; IGI 7861; PolainB 3190; Goff P-772; PMM 27. HBS 68663. $75000. Vernardinus de Choris, de Cremona, and Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus unknown books
