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1759Best.-Nr. 100405London: Various Publishers 1759-1771. Finely bound 18th century printing of Plato's works. Quartos 2 volumes bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. Signed by the translator and editor Floyer Sydenham on the dedication page. Containing: The Dialogues of Plato A Synopsis or General View of the Works of Plato Meno A Dialogue Concerning Virtue The Greater Hippias: Concerning the Beautifull The Lesser Hippias: Concerning Voluntary and Involuntary Error The Rivals Concerning Philosophy The Banquet Concerning Love and Proposals for a New Subscription. From the library of British Army officer Leonard Smelt who served as sub-governor to Frederick Duke of York and the future George IV and became a close friend of Samuel Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith later in life with his bookplates to the pastedowns. Subsequently from the library of English churchman and academic Charles Henry Hall who served as the Dean of Christ Church from 1809 to 1812 with his bookplates to the front free endpapers. In very good condition with noted provenance. That Plato should be the first of all the ancient philosophers to be translated and broadcast by the printing press was inevitable. Plato's central conception of a universe of ideas Perfect Types of which material objects are imperfect forms and his ethical code based on action according to human nature developed by education which represents the authority of the State fitted in as well with the philosophical religious and political thought of western Europe in the 15th century striving to free itself from the shackles of scholasticism as it did with those of the Byzantine Greeks by whom Plato was repopularized in the western world The dialogues are pervaded by two dominant impulses: a love of truth and a passion for human improvement" PMM 27. Various Publishers unknown books
2007Best.-Nr. UPLASIX01fpDover Publications 2007. Good. Plato. Six Great Dialogues: Apology Crito Phaedo Phaedrus Symposium the Republic . Mineola NY: Dover Publications 2007. v 460pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Underlining and notes in ink throughout. Dover Publications paperback books
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1965Best.-Nr. UPLAEUT00HMRGateway 1965. Fair. Plato. Euthyphro Crito Apology and Symposium. Chicago: Gateway 1965. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Fair. Dirt stains and pen notations in front cover. Remnants of old library pouch on inside of front cover and first page. Gateway paperback books
2006Best.-Nr. UPLACRA00HMREcho 2006. Very Good. Plato. Cratylus. Middlesex England: Echo 2006. 100pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges. Echo paperback books
1971Best.-Nr. UPLAZAK00DGCharles Scribner's Sons 1971. Fine. Platon Nicholas. Zakros: The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons 1971. 345pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Glossary. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing to extremities. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1993Best.-Nr. 2312665New York: Penguin Books 1993. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. Reprint. Faint crease to rear wrapper edges lightly toned. 1993 Trade Paperback. xxxi 237 pages. Translated by Hugh Tredennick & Harold Tarrant with introduction & notes by Harold Tarrant. "The trial and condemnation of Socrates 469-399 B.C. on charges of heresy and corrupting the minds of the young forms one of the most tragic episodes in the history of Athens in decline. Plato chose to set the four works of this volume despite their different subjects in the context of the events leading up to Socrates' execution. Euthyphro and Crito are typical Socratic dialogues showing the pungency of his mind in addressing the question of man's relationship with the gods and with society. The Apology is Plato's version of Socrates' speeches at his trial -- a brilliant and humorous manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility though deliberately doomed to failure as a legal defence. In Phaedo Plato develops his own philosophy out of Socrates' calm confidence in the face of death." CONTENTS: Preface; General Introduction; Holiness -- Socrates in Confrontation: Euthyphro; Justice and Duty i -- Socrates Speaks at His Trial: The Apology; Justice and Duty ii -- Socrates in Prison: Crito; Wisdom and the Soul -- Socrates about to Die: Phaedo; Postscript: The Theory of Ideas in the Phaedo; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index. Penguin Books paperback books
Best.-Nr. 17035PLATO. The Greater Hippias: A Dialogue of Plato Concerning The Beautifull. London: H. Woodfall 1759. First Edition. Quarto 127 pages. Modern calf-backed marbled boards fresh endpapers. In the Greater Hippias Socrates and Hippias set out to find a definition for "beauty" but are destined to fail due to their inability to formulate an answer which encompasses the entire concept. The text has an anatreptic purpose-- that is the result of the dialogue is to defeat commonly held opinions without necessarily offering a resolution. The Platonic concept of something "good in and of itself" makes its first appearance in this early dialogue which can be read as much as a serious philosophical work as a light satirical comedy with two actors. Translated by Floyer Sydenham whose Platonic scholarship was credited with "'just criticism and extensive learning an elegant taste and a genius naturally philosophic' by Thomas Taylor. Leaves rippled somewhat with light foxing. In very good condition. unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 46314NY:: Pantheon Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0691097186 . Bollingen Series LXXI. Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns with introduction and prefatory notes. Seventeenth printing. Near fine in a near fine abrasion over barcode on rear panel dust jacket.; 1743 pages . Pantheon Books, hardcover books
1980Best.-Nr. 194213Easton Press 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Full brown leather binding with gilt stamped design and page edges. 4 raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Easton Press hardcover books
1926Best.-Nr. 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
1926Best.-Nr. 9023708Paris: Pleiad 1926. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by Henry Cary. One of 475 numbered copies designed by Frederic Warde and being the first to use a new type by the Officina Bodini of Switzerland. Marbled paper boards with a paper label on the spine. Fine. Private Press Pleiad hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. 9018583Princeton: Princeton University 1989. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth covered boards spine stamped in gilt. Princeton University hardcover books
Best.-Nr. P6416Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo 1919. Octavo 18 × 13.5 cm. Original decorative wrappers; 141 1 pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; original spine strip lacking and sections of the text beginning to detach; text evenly toned; still good or better. First edition. This curious mix of the history and ethnography of London was written by Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev 1881-1940 the leading historian of Ireland in the Soviet Union. Focused on London as the seat of British imperialism this work discusses the customs and mores of the English visiting all corners of London rich and poor. Two sections 'Worker's London' and 'London Organizations' paint a picture of the difficulties faced by the working classes in the metropolis. In 1899-1904 Kerzhentsev studied history at the Moscow State University and in 1904 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party RSDLP. After numerous arrests in Russia Kerzhentsev lived in exile in the UK France and the United States and was active in the Bolshevik groups abroad. In this period he also studied the history of the Irish struggles for independence and published two books on the subject "The fight for land and freedom in Ireland" 1917 and "Revolutionary Ireland" 1918. Upon his return to Russia Kerzhentsev went on to write for Izvestia and Pravda eventually becoming the head of Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA and initiating its ideological bent. Kerzhentsev was also one of the founders of the system of Soviet censorship and went on to write one of the first histories of Lenin "The Life of Lenin" 1934. Despite being removed from his post in 1938 Kerzhentsev survived the Stalinist purges and died of natural causes in 1940. KVK and OCLC show copies at Oxford National Library of Sweden and the British Library. unknown books
1790Best.-Nr. 30160No place Germany 1790. 4to 23.5 cm 9.25". 8 73 pp.; 4 71 pp.; 4 108 pp.; 4 60 pp.; 4 36 pp.; 2 54 pp.; 2 20 pp.; 2 14 pp.; 2 18 pp. Nine of Plato's Dialogues with biographical notes footnotes and occasional citations in Greek all transcribed in the same small neat hand in black ink; e.g. Protagoras Gorgias Phaedras the Apology of Socrates. Each dialogue is introduced by a sectional title-page some having brief notes on that leaf verso. Provenance: ExJohann August Wilhelm Neander Collection Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School properly deaccessioned. Modern black moiré cloth gilt leather spine label. Very good condition save for smoke-darkening on page edges in some cases working inward to affect a margin though not heavily; strong and readable. hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 6771Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company 1982. 8vo. xvi 2 211 1 pp. First edition. Inscribed by the translator/commentator. Publisher's cloth in very good condition dustwrapper with spine sunned and edges chipped. Pages very clean save for last few with offsetting from laid-in newspaper clipping. Hackett Publishing Company, hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. 194064Oxford University Press 2008-06-15. Paperback. Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Oxford University Press paperback books
1947Best.-Nr. 82279Ithaca:: Cornell University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. B0011PQFPW . Translated from the Greek with an introduction and prefatory notes by Lane Cooper. A later printing. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else very good in a very good several chips along the top edges age toned dust jacket. . Cornell University Press, hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 61219Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1972. First edition. 143 pp. Hole punched through the last blank leaf else near fine in very good plus double-clipped dust jacket. Translated by Hackforth with his introduction and commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, unknown books
1804Best.-Nr. 8066London: Printed for Thomas Taylor 1804. First edition thus. Cloth. very Good -. Lg. 4to. 5 vols. This set in two different bindings. Volumes I II IV and V are in later dark green cloth gilt labels on spine. These volumes are entirely uncut. The back covers of volumes IV and V are water stained text not affected. Volume IV is later calf circa 1875 over boards spine a bit rubbed and chipped. This volume has been trimmed in rebinding and is 1" shorter than the other 4 volumes. Additionally the following defects are found: Volume I lacks the half-title; Volume II has the half-title but lacks the printed title; Volume III is all present; Volume IV lacks the half-title and the printed title the first leaf being the sectional title; and Volume V lacks the half-title. The "great" work of Thomas Taylor which was published at 10 pounds 10 shillings. Unfortunately a compromised set. Printed for Thomas Taylor hardcover books
1946Best.-Nr. 71846Oxford: Clarendon. Very Good. 1946. Hardcover. This is Volume 2 ONLY. Navy boards gilt printing to the spine. Former owner signature and date on front paste down otherwise Very Good condition. ; Vol. 2 . Clarendon hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 2312543New York: Pocket Books 1950. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Collector's Edition with publisher's pamphlet laid in. Light general wear. 1950 Hard Cover. xi 387 pp. The Dialogues of Plato consisting of Apology Crito Phaedo Symposium and Republic. Pocket Books hardcover books
1983Best.-Nr. 2312614Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rear board rubbed. 1983 Hard Cover. 379 pp. Brown cloth binding with gilt decoration and gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. CONTENTS: Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Protagoras; Meno; Phaedrus; From The Republic; Book VI; Books VII; Symposium; Lysis. The Franklin Library hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 2312252Cleveland and New York: Meridian Books 1966. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Spine and wrappers rubbed. 1966 Trade Paperback. x 562 pp. "This book provides an introduction to Plato's work that gives a clear statement of what Plato has to say about the problems of thought and life. In particular it tells the reader just what Plato says and makes no attempt to force a system on the Platonic text or to trim Plato's works to suit contemporary philosophical tastes. The author also gives an account that has historical fidelity - we cannot really understand the Republic or the Gorgias if we forget that the Athens of the conversations is meant to be the Athens of Nicias or Cleon not the very different Athens of Plato's own manhood. To understand Plato's thought we must see it in the right historical perspective. Meridian Books paperback books
1924Best.-Nr. 265918London: The Nonesuch Press 1924. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Tan cloth-backed boards. Spine ends slightly rubbed. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. INSCRIBED BY ARTHUR HOUGHTON TO PHILIP HOFER. 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
