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CATALOG 6 Including Literature, Music, Science, History,

Medicine, Psychology, Language, Women & Philosophy

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CATALOG 6

TABLE of CONTENTS

Literature: pg. 1 Science: pg. 3 Medicine: pg. 6 Language: pg. 8 Music: pg. 3 History: pg. 5 Psychology: pg. 7 Women: pg. 9 Philosophy: pg. 12

LITERATURE

“She Walks in Beauty Like the Night” – First Edition, Second Issue

BYRON, Lord [George Gordon]. Hebrew Melodies, John Murray, London, 1815. 1 blank leaf + half-title + TP + 1 leaf = Prefacatory Note + [i]-[ii] = Contents + half title + [3]-53 + [55]-[56] = Advertisements + half-title for binding with other pamphlets, Octavo. First Edition, Second Issue. (Wise, Vol. 1., p. 104)

$450

The second issue – without the announcement for Jacqueline in the ads and with the extended form of the ad for Campbell’s Selected Beauties. Containing the first edition of one of Byron’s most famous poems, She Walks in Beauty:

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies…

Along with one of his most stirring poems , The Destruction of Semnacherib:

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold…

Modern maroon cloth with no lettering whatsoever on the outside. First blank leaf has been lightly creased but otherwise this is a lovely, uncut copy of one of Byron’s most desirable titles.

“Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Woods” – First Edition, First Printing

FROST , Robert. Mountain Interval, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1916. 1 blank leaf + half-title + TP + 1 leaf = Dedication page + [7]-99 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition, First Issue.

$750 With the first edition printing of Frost’s classic:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth...

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First issue with the repeated lines on page 88 and “Come” for “Gone” on page 93. Also includes Birches. One of 4000 copies in the edition. Mountain Interval was Frost's first book to be published originally in the United States, his two earlier titles having first appeared in England.

Original dark green cloth with bright gilt lettering to front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Very small tear at bottom of spine. Minimal pencil markings to Index page. Otherwise, a very pretty copy of this Frost classic.

Magnificent Copy of Longfellow’s Courtship of Miles Standish – with Publisher’s Handwritten Note

LONGFELLOW , Henry Wadsworth. The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems , Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1858. 1 blank leaf + TP + [iii]-iv = Contents + half title + [7]-215 + [1]-[12] = Publisher’ advertisements + 1 blank leaf, small Octavo. First Edition, First Issue.

$900

With the inserted ads for the Waverly Novels in the front and the first issue ads in the back dated October. With a signed autograph note from J. R. Osgood, the publisher, laid in: “Boston / 15th Oct 1858 / Rev C. W. Thoman (?) / Dear Sir: / Herewith we / send prepaid, Mr. Long / fellow’s “Courtship of / Miles Standish”. / Very Truly / Ticknor & Fields / J. R. Osgood”. The third of Longfellow’s long narrative poems on American themes (the other two being Evangeline in 1847 and The Song of Hiawatha in 1855). Original brown, embossed covers with gilt lettering on the spine. This copy could almost be described “as new” – rarely does one find as well-preserved a copy as this from the mid-nineteenth century. The covers are bright and shiny, the spine lettering is as fresh as the day it was applied and the text is immaculate. In a quarter-leather slipcase box. A fine copy.

INSCRIBED First Edition by Edna St. Vincent Millay

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. Conversation at Midnight, Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1937. 1 blank leaves + half-title + INSCRIBED numbering page + edition page + TP + dedication page + ix-xx + half-title + 1-177 + 3 blank leaves, tall Octavo. First Edition

$200

INSCRIBED by the Author. Number 335 of 579 signed copies on Worthy Charta paper (36 copies also printed on Japan Vellum). An extended poetic conversation between seven men. The original manuscript for this work was lost in a Sanibel, FL hotel fire the year before and the author was forced to recreate the entire work from scratch. Original blue boards with linen spine and paper label with title, author’s and publisher’s name. The front board has be “nicked” in one spot (1" long). With the original slip case with hand-numbered label. Text is completely uncut. Overall, a lovely copy of this engaging work by Millay.

An Anti-Fascist Collection from Edna St. Vincent Millay – Published Just Before WWII

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. Huntsman, What Quarry? , Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1939. 2 blank leaves + half-title + TP + dedication page + vii-ix + [1]-94 + 2 blank leaves, Octavo. First Trade Edition.

$110

In Huntsman, What Quarry? Millay includes stirring poems against the brutalities of Fascist Spain, Nazi Germany, and imperialistic Japan. Later events, such as Italy's attacks on Ethiopia and the German-Russian nonaggression treaty, caused the once-pacifist poet to call for preparedness and then to dash off pro-British and pro-French propaganda verse. First edition (so stated; "D-O"). Title page printed in red and black. Quarter bound in blue paper boards over a black cloth spine and corners. A small paper label with title, author's and publisher’s name to the spine. A previous owner's name is neatly inked on the front flyleaf in tiny letters (“Mary Welles (sp?) Todd”). The dust jacket is in very good condition, with the front flap retaining the original publisher's price of $2.00. A very pretty copy.

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MUSIC

Wagner on the Role of Actors and Singers in His New Art Form – Musikdrama – in Original Wraps

WAGNER, Richard. Über Schauspieler und Sanger (On Actors and Singers), E. W. Fritzsch, Leipzig, 1872. TP + [1]-86. First Edition.

$450

Published in the same year that he laid the foundation stone at Bayreuth, this long essay was part of Wagner’s ongoing promotional campaign for the support of that project. The book was brought out in the same year and by the same publisher who produced Nietzsche’s "The Birth of Tragedy" – during the period when their friendship was at its peak.

Wagner's thoughts on the role of music drama underwent transformation. His expression of this change came in 1871, by which time he had completed three-fourths of his Nibelung work and had enjoyed the success of Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master Singers of Nuremberg). In "Über die Bestimmung der Oper" ("The Destiny of Opera"), a paper delivered before the Berlin Royal Academy of Arts -- to which he had been elected as a corresponding member -- Wagner admitted that the music of his music drama had ceased to portray in detail the subtleties and nuances of the dramatic argument. He agreed that music drama was essentially opera but added that it was opera on a more extensive, more elaborate and highly colored level. Now, the singer and his presentation had gained a prominence that was not so readily discernible in earlier conceptions. Wagner echoed these sentiments the following year in an essay entitled "Über Schauspieler und Sänger" ("Actors and Singers") . In these two tracts Wagner stated in essence that his earlier concepts had matured and now reflected something of a compromise between music and drama in and of itself and traditional opera as the world knew it. The artistic result of this alteration of musical character was to be heard and seen within a short time in the still-to-be-completed Götterdämmerung, the last segment of Der Ring des Nibelungen, a section of the total work that is often looked upon today more as opera than as music drama.

An uncut copy in original paper covers. The spine is quite worn and chipped, but the edges of the cover are only slightly worn and torn. A good copy.

SCIENCE (including Mathematics)

Third Book of Francis Bacon’s Seminal Instauration Magna

BACON, Francis. Historia Vitae & Mortis. Sive, Titulus Secundus in Historia Naturali & Experimentali ad condendam Philosophiam: Quae est Instaurationis Magnae pars tertia. (The History of Life and Death. With Observations Natural and Experimental for the Prolonging of Life: Being the Third Part of the Great Instauration), Io. Haviland, Londini, 1623. TP + [1]-[3] = preface + 1-410 + 407-454 (repeating 407-410 as called for in Gibson), small Octavo. First Edition. Gibson 147.

$3,500

Title framed in double rule, text framed in single rule. With blanks at Aa4 (pp. [369-370]) and Cc6 (pp. [405-406]). A fascinating and influential work that was to constitute the third book of Bacon’s projected “Instauratio Magna,” a multi-part work which, though never completed, had the overall aim of creating a new system of philosophy and extending man’s dominion over nature. This third part of the work was to be devoted to the study of the prolongation of life – a topic that was close to Bacon’s heart as he saw this objective as one of the highest goals of his new, operative science. If achieved, it would make a partial recovery of what mankind had lost with the Fall. Historia Vitae & Mortis contains a collection of materials that are subjected to the scientific

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method of induction. It is made up of a series of essays devoted to all aspects of the maintenance and prolongation of life, including medicines and herbs, food and drink, sleep and exercise, temperature and climate, occupations, baths and hygiene. In this book, Bacon recommends life in caves and on mountains and suggests that frequent blood-letting may help to renew the body fluids. Contemporary vellum with smooth spine. Lovely contemporary hand-lettered title on spine (“F. Baron / historia / vitæ et / mortis / 8”). Some light soiling to exterior and slight wear to three of the four corners but overall quite lovely. Small piece missing from the top of the front free endpaper (½” to 0” deep by 3” wide). Some signatures water stained (before printing?), approximately 3” x 3½” triangle in lower right corner: affecting signatures B [very lightly], R, S, Z [very lightly], Cc, Dd, Ee [very lightly]. Despite the occasional waterstains, a really lovely copy.

First Public Announcement of “Brownian Motion” - [the private printing is PMM 290]

BROWN , Robert. A brief Account of Microscopical Observations made in the Months of June, July, and August, 1827, on the Particles contained in the Pollen of Plants ; and on the general Existence of active Molecules in Organic and Inorganic Bodies. in The Philosophical Magazine and Annals of Philosophy, New Series, Volume 4, No. 21 – September 1828, pp. [161]-73. Printed by and for Richard Taylor, London, 1828. [161]-[240], Octavo. First Public Edition.

$5,000

First public printing of the paper on what was to be known as “Brownian Motion” – the continual movement of molecules in both animate and inanimate substances. “In 1827, Brown, while making microscopic observations, saw that pollen grains of the herb Clarkia pulchella, while suspended in liquid, engaged in a continuous, haphazard, zig-zag movement. Surprised at what he saw, he continued similar experiments with other substances – including inanimate bodies such as minerals and smoke – and found that when the particles were very small, they all possessed this same motion. This movement was explained by Ramsay in 1879 as being due to bombardment by molecules, and this was experimentally proven in 1908 by Perrin, who was also able to calculate the weight of the molecule of water… The idea that gases and liquids consist of molecules in rapid motion was not new, but it had remained largely speculative until it was scientifically proved and investigated in detail by Robert Brown and his followers” (PMM, 290).

The results of Brown’s experiments were first printed a couple of months earlier in a pamphlet for private circulation, of which there were perhaps only one hundred copies printed. This pamphlet is extremely rare with probably less than twenty surviving copies – only two copies have been on the market in the past thirty years and only five copies are shown to be held in institutional collections in the United States. ‘Brownian motion’ was the subject of one of Einstein’s earliest and most important papers, published in 1905.

Original gray printed wrappers. Uncut and partially unopened copy. The Haskell F. Norman copy, preserved in a clamshell box. Absolutely beautiful.

“Incontestably a Very Remarkable” Work on Analytic Geometry

COMTE , Auguste. Traité Éleméntaire de Géométrie Analytique a deux et a trios dimensions (Elementary Treatise on Analytical Geometry in two and three dimensions), Carilian-Goeury et Vor Dalmont, Paris, 1843. Half title + TP + [V]-VIII + [1]-598 + 3 folding tables, Octavo. First Edition.

$1,200

A very rare work by Comte, written during the period between the publication of the Philosophie positive and the Politique positive. Larousse calls this an “incontestablement tres-remarquable” work. Original publisher’s printed wraps, frayed with some light chipping to front cover and spine. Spine and front wrap darkened and soiled. First four leaves foxed with water stain to half title and TP (1” x 6” on fore edge of sheet). Completely uncut. Aside from the unfortunately spotted and stained TP, this is a remarkably well preserved copy of this work in its original condition.

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“Survival of the Fittest” Enters the English Language

SPENCER, Herbert. The Principles of Biology, Williams and Norgate, London & Edinburgh, 1864 & 1867. Volume 1: Half title + TP + [v] = Preface + [vii]-viii = Contents + half title + [3]-492 + [i]-vi = Prospectus for a System of Philosophy + [vii]-[viii] = publisher’s advertisements; Volume 2: Half title + TP + [vii]-viii = Contents + half title + [3]-569 (with a single page comprising pp. 37-43) + [i]-vi = Prospectus for a System of Philosophy + [vii]-[viii] = publisher’s advertisements, Octavo. First Edition.

$750

Survival of the fittest, the phrase that is shorthand for a concept relating to competition for survival or predominance, was originally introduced by Herbert Spencer in his Principles of Biology of 1864. Spencer drew parallels to his ideas of economics with Charles Darwin's theories of evolution by what Darwin termed natural selection. The phrase is a metaphor, not a scientific description; and it is not generally used by biologists, who almost exclusively prefer to use the phrase "natural selection". However, the popularity of Spencer’s coinage was immense and it quickly entered the English language as clichéd way of saying “Darwinism.”

Bound in original plum-colored cloth. Board embossed with pebbled surface and several inscribed rectangles. Front cover with ornate gilt design of caterpillar, flower and butterfly superimposed on the rounded logo for “A System of Philosophy”. Spine, just a bit faded by the sun, with gilt lettering. Top of spine on volume 1 a little frayed at front joint. First and last several leaves of both volumes are lightly foxed. Overall, a lovely set of these two books.

HISTORY

The First Comprehensive History of Western Philosophy

BRUCKER, Jacob. Historia Critica Philosophiae a mundi incunabulis ad nostram usque aetatem deducta. (A Critical History of Philosophy from the beginning of the world all the way up to our own lesser age), Literis et impensis Bern. Christoph. Breitkopf, Lipsiae [Leipzig], 1742-1744. Four parts in five volumes: Volume 1: 1 blank leaf + engraved portrait frontispiece + TP + [i] = dedication half-title + [iii]-[viii] = dedication + [ix]-[xii] = Praefatio + half-title + [3]-1357 + [1358]-[1392] = Index; Volume 2: 1 blank leaf + TP + [i]-[vi] = Praefatio + half-title + [3]-1092 + [1093]-[1121] = Index; Volume 3: 1 blank leaf + TP + [i]-[iv] = Praefatio + half-title + [3]-916 + [917]-[944] = Index + 1 blank leaf; Volume 4, Part I : 1 blank leaf + TP + [i]-[iv] = Praefatio + half-title + [3]-789 + [790]-[816] = Index + 1 blank leaf; Volume 4, Part II : 1 blank leaf + TP + [i]-[vi] = Praefatio + half-title + [3]-939 + [940]-[968] = Index + 1 blank leaf; Quarto. First Edition.

$3,500

This, the first comprehensive history of philosophy, was written by Jacob Brucker – who spent most of his life as a pastor in Augsburg. Its value lies primarily in the depth of the scholarship, the breadth of the materials covered (the history summarizes the work of virtually every Western philosopher of any distinction) and the fact that for the first time, the sources (primarily Diogenes Laertius) are critically evaluated. According to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy “for Kant and the French Encyclopedists, Brucker’s immensely learned and

detailed history was the principle authority… He was much more responsible philosophically than Diogenes or Stanley and is skeptical about the traditional sources. However, although the title promises a critical history, Brucker’s ‘criticism’ consists of praise or blame; he does not try to examine in detail the arguments philosophers have put forward.” (EP, Vol. 6, p. 227) A later observation, made while reviewing Hegel’s approach to the history of philosophy, notes that Hegel “is particularly severe on Brucker, although in fact he borrows a great deal from him.” (EP, Vol. 6, p. 228)

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The present edition is complete in five volumes (the last volume being titled Volume IV, Part II). The second edition of this massive work appeared 23 years later in 1767 with the addition of a sixth volume which is sometimes appended to this first edition. However, it is not required because the last volume here notes that it is “Finis tomi quinti et ultimi” making it clear that at the time of publication Brucker considered his task complete in these five volumes.

Contemporary German half calf over marbled boards. Leather spines with five bands and gilt lettering and designs. Minor chipping to the tops of a couple of spines. Covers scratched. An uncut copy. Overall, a really splendid copy of this important work of early historical scholarship.

The First Published History of Women Philosophers

MÉNAGE, Gilles (Ægidio Menagio). Historia mulierum philosopharum. (A History of Women Philosophers). Anissonios, Joan. Posuel & Claudium Rigaud, Lugduni (Lyon), 1690. 1 blank leaf + TP + 3-130 + [131]-[136] = Index Nominum + [137]-[156] = IndexRerum + half title + [3]-80 + [[81]-[94] = Tavola, 12mo. First Edition of Historia.

$1.000

A groundbreaking work by Gilles Ménage, a French writer, thinker, Latinist, grammarian and lexicographer who was tutor to Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette – later a famous writer. Ménage was admitted to the Accademia della Crusca of Florence, but his caustic sarcasm led to his exclusion from the Académie française. During his career, he made many enemies and suffered under the satire of Boileau and, most especially, Molière who immortalized him as the pedant Vadius in Les Femmes savantes – a portrait that Ménage pretended to ignore. In the first (and major part) part of this book, Ménage provides an account in Latin of 65 different women philosophers that he has found mentioned in the writings of the ancients. This first-ever history of women philosophers is not presented as straight narrative, but rather as a sort of dictionary of woman philosophers noting who they were, what they said and the places where mention of them can be found in ancient texts. In the 1980’s, the Historia mulierum was translated into English (The History of Women Philosophers; translated by Beatrice Zedler; University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1984) and served as the foundation for an even more recent study entitled Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book (Greenwood Press, 1989) edited by Ethel M. Kersey. Written in Italian, the second part of the volume (with separate pagination) carries the title Lezzione d' Egidio Menagio sopr' L Sonetto VII di messer Francesco Petrarca (Lesson of Gilles Ménage on the Seventh Sonnet of Francesco Petrarch) and is a reprinting of the text originally separately published in 1678 by L. Billaine of Paris. The short book is devoted to an in-depth exposition of Petrarch’s Seventh Sonnet, allowing Ménage to demonstrate his considerable skills as a philologist and grammarian.

Contemporary ¾ leather with marbled boards. The spine with four raised bands and a dark green label with gild lettering. Joints lightly cracked but firm. Title page with neat tape and paper repairs where former owner’s name has been excised and with small triangular piece missing on lower right edge. Same type of repairs to page 7 of Historia and to the final page of the book. Light triangular waterstain to first 10 pages of Historia and to many pages of the Petrarch section – growing darker near the end. Despite the repairs and stains, still an attractive copy of this landmark work.

Renan's "Scandalous" Life of Jesus – PMM 352

RENAN, Ernest. Vie de Jésus (Life of Jesus), Michel Levy Freres, Paris, 1863. Half-title + TP + [I]-LIX + [1]-462 + 1 leaf = Printer's Information, Octavo. First Edition.

$950

This work was an immediate and resounding success both at home and abroad. It was intended as part of a series on the "Origins of Christianity" but none of the volumes published for that purpose had the success of this work. Immediate success was partly a "succès de scandale" but mostly it was a success because of Renan's approach and his beautiful prose.

Renan's theory of history was based on personalities, and in reconstructing it, he endeavored always to penetrate and to expound the psychology of the leading characters. The "Life of Jesus" was his masterpiece in which he tried to picture the historical Jesus, the son of man, but not the son of God. Original printed wraps. An untrimmed copy with minor soiling and very slight use. A very few small chips and nicks at extremities. Bookplates to inside front cover and half title. Housed in a clamshell box. Overall, a lovely, well-preserved copy in original wraps.

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MEDICINE

First French Edition of Descartes’ Classic Textbook on Physiology

DESCARTES, René. L’Homme de Rene Descartes et un Traitte de la Formation du Foetus. (Man by Rene Descartes with a treatise on the formation of the foetus), Charles Angot, Paris, 1664. TP + [i]-[v] = Epistre + [vii]-[lxviii] = Preface + 1-448 + [449]-[455] = Table + [456] = Fautes, Quarto. First French Edition. Guibert IV, p. 309.

$7,500

Both of these posthumously published works were written in 1634. At least two biographers have suggested (while admitting the impossibility of verification) that Descartes concern with the mechanics of man and generation was, at that time, an ‘experimental’ outgrowth of the affair with his mistress, Helen, who conceived and delivered to him a daughter, Francine, in that same year. (Vrooman, p. 148) Interestingly, we can not only blame Queen Christina of Sweden for Descartes untimely death on February 11, 1650 but also for the survival of these manuscripts. “Desirous of seeing his work set forth in a complete and systematic way, she made him promise to put his unpublished writings in order. He had arrived in Stockholm with a box of manuscripts, mostly unfinished fragments, all in great confusion. Amid this mass of material were two important treatises on Man and The Formation of the Foetus, which were later published together, mostly through the efforts of Clerselier.” (Vrooman, p. 239) The first section of the book (pp. 1-107) is the first French edition of Descartes L’Homme. Originally written in French, the work was intended as a physiological appendix to his Discours, that was published in 1637. But, in 1633, the condemnation of Galileo led Descartes to have second thoughts about publishing this work – with its mechanistic view of Man, it would surely be considered heretical – and he suppressed it along with another work, Le monde (finally published in 1664). L’Homme was not published until twelve years after his death in 1662 – in a Latin translation by Florentius Schuyl (1619-1669). The long ‘Preface’ was supplied by Descartes’ admirer and friend, the printer, Claude Clerselier. The second section of the book (pp. 108-170) is the first edition of Descartes work on

the formation of the foetus – which was not included in the 1662 printing of De homine figures, the first Latin edition of L’Homme. This section attempted to describe reproduction in mechanistic terms.

The long, final section of the book (pp. 171-448) is the first edition of the extensive commentary – going page by page and even paragraph by paragraph – on L’Homme by Louis de la Forge (1632-1666), a doctor of medicine and philosopher who was a friend and a disciple of Descartes. La Forge, the editor of this edition, also redrew the many illustrations that had appeared in the 1662 and 1664 Latin editions which had been ‘donated’ by Florentius Schuyl based on Descartes original sketches.

Bound in contemporary French sprinkled calf. Spine with five raised bands and gilt decorations and title. Expert repairs to joints and head and toe of spine. Rear cover a bit gouged in a 2” square area but overall a lovely binding. Small bookplate to inside front cover. Final blank leaf torn and missing bottom outside corner. Overall, a lovely copy of this important work of philosophy, science and medicine.

PSYCHOLOGY

An Attractively Priced Reading Copy of Adler’s Sinn des Lebens

ADLER, Alfred. Der Sinn des Lebens (The Sense of Life), Dr. Rolf Passer, Wien und Leipzig, 1933. Half-title + TP + Inhalt + 7-205 + [207]-[208] = publisher’s advertisements, Octavo. First Edition.

$25

Original orange boards with black lettering on front cover and on spine. Spine a bit darkened and front cover is discolored (one section darker than the rest). Front free endpaper clipped in upper right corner. Text extensively marked up with red ink and pencil underlinings. A good reading copy.

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First Edition of the Most Important Work Published in Brentano’s Lifetime

BRENTANO , Franz. Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint), Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1874. TP + [v]-xiv + 2 half-titles + [3]-350, Octavo. First Edition.

$750

Despite the title page claim that this book is in two volumes (“in zwei baenden”) – this is the only volume published. The second edition of this work, published in 1911 comprised two volumes. Shortly after publication of the third edition in 1925, another book by Brentano, the posthumously published Vom sinnlichen und noetischen Bewusstsein of 1928, was referred to as Volume Three of this series.

Brentano, the German philosopher and psychologist, was an influential teacher whose students included Husserl and Meinong. Psychologie “was the most important of [his] works published in his lifetime” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol 1, p. 365). His theories on what he called “descriptive psychology” prefigured the work of his student Husserl who later wrote that without Brentano’s doctrine of intentionality, “phenomenology could not have come into being at all” (EP, 1, p. 366). Brentano believed that his descriptive psychology was “an exact science, capable of arriving at laws that hold true universally and not merely ‘for the most part’. It is the basis of all philosophy and is even capable of providing a characteristica universalis of the sort that Leibniz had conceived” (EP, 1, p. 366). Contemporary boards with a stamped title on the spine – actually quite a nice binding. The pages are a bit browned throughout and there is a fair amount of light pencil markings throughout. Still, all in all, quite a good copy.

A Beautiful, Early English Set of James’ Psychology – in Original Dust Jackets!

JAMES, William. The Principles of Psychology , MacMillan and Co., London, [1890]. Volume 1: 1 blank leaf + TP + Dedication page + v-xii + [1]-689; Volume 2: 1 blank leaf + TP + iii-vi + [1]-704, Octavo. Early English Edition.

$650

Without any advertisements facing the title page (which provides one of the key issue points of the first edition, first issue) and without a date on the title page. The Harvard University Press definitive edition of James’ works notes that the first English edition – from American sheets – was most likely printed in December of 1890 (three months after the first American issue), but notes that both the British Library and Bodleian copies have the publication year, 1890, printed on their title pages. These two volumes do not have dates printed on the title page, but they do come with two corrected misprints – “not the sole seat of intellect” rather than “the seat of intellectual power” (Vol. 1, p. 10, l. 9-10) and “sensation” rather than “object of sensation” (Vol. 2, p. 101, l. 20). These alternate, corrected readings belong to the American First Edition, Second Printing (which was also dated 1890 on the title page). James's famous, brilliant and long-awaited major work on psychology which emphasized his experimental method and the treatment of psychology as a natural science. This book summarized all of the work that he had been doing at Harvard for the several years preceding it's publication. Here James puts forth his belief that mental processes should be viewed as "activities [useful] to living creatures as they attempt to maintain and adapt themselves in the world of nature." (D Schultz, A History of Modern Psychology, 3rd Ed, p. 143). While more widely known as the proponent of "Radical

Empiricism" and "Pragmatism", James's psychology is regarded by many as a far more original and substantive achievement. His nuanced rejection of the subject/object split in favor of a more fluid intersection between self and world, famously figured as a stream of consciousness, reoriented subsequent inquiry into the nature of consciousness and perception, notably influencing thinkers and schools as diverse as Husserl, Piaget, European phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, humanist psychology and cognitive sciences. A seminal work in the history of modern thought.

With the original dust jackets (volume 1 chipped at top of spine) which are a bit browned. Otherwise absolutely fine.

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First Edition of Jaspers Early Work on Psychology

JASPERS, Karl. Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (Psychology of World Views), Julius Springer, Berlin, 1919. TP + [v]-xii + [1]-428 + 2 leaves (4 pp.) = Publisher’s advertisements, Octavo. First Edition.

$200

In 1921, Jaspers became a full professor of philosophy at Heidelberg, but, before this, he published two major works on psychology: Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology, 1913) and Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (Psychology of World Views, 1919). The second of these was clearly a transitional work, in which his psychological method was shaped by the philosophical influences and objectives that he was then evolving into a consistent philosophical doctrine. This book consequently contains many elements (not yet fully formed), of his later philosophy of existential authenticity.

In contemporary boards with a plain black spine. Former owner’s signature and date (1920) to upper right edge of TP. Minor pencil underlining. Overall, a very nice copy.

Upham’s Seminal Work on Psychology

UPHAM , Thomas. Elements of Mental Philosophy , S. Coleman, Hilliard, Gray & Co, and Willis & Lilly. Portland & Boston, 1831. Volume 1: 1 blank leaf + TP + [3]-5 = Preface + [6]-14 = Contents + Half title + [17]-501 + 2 blank leaves; Volume II : 2 blank leaves + TP + [5] = Second Volume Notice + [7]-14 = Contents + Half title +[17] = Part Second / Class Second + [19]-512 + I blank leaf. Tall Octavo. First Edition.

$500

Beginning in 1826, Upham published a series of works dedicated to “intellectual philosophy” in which he kept developing his concept of language. In 1831, he expanded his inquiries to include “the second great division …the sentient nature of man.” The constant development of his ideas and the subsequent printing of different editions has lead to some confusion about what constitutes his “first” editions, but this 1831 work is the first appearance under this title which served as the major presentation of American psychology – remaining the most influential study of the intellectual and emotional life of man until the publication of William James’ two volume Principles of Psychology in 1890.

Original cloth boards with original paper spine labels. Volume I is foxed through the first 17 pages and Volume II has significant water stains to the title page which diminish over the next 45 pages. Otherwise, the text is pristine. Both volumes are completely uncut. Despite the stains in Volume II, this a charming set.

LANGUAGE

Beattie’s Rare Book of Scoticisms – The “Improprieties” of Scottish Speech

BEATTIE, James. Scoticisms, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Designed to Correct Improprieties of Speech and Writing, Printed for William Creech and T. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1787. 1 blank leaf + half title + TP + [1]-121 + 1 blank leaf, small Octavo. First Public Edition.

$2,000

In 1779, Beattie had published, for the use of his class, a list of Scoticisms, which is known today in only one copy. The advertisement to the present edition states: “The former edition being all given away, (for none of the copies were exposed to sale), I have been desired to reprint the pamphlet, and to publish it, with additions and amendations.” Even this 1787 edition is scarce; no copy has appeared at auction in the last twenty-five years. In ink, on the first blank page, in a contemporary hand: “In the year 1779, for / the use of his class, a list of Scott- / icisms, to the amount of two / hundred,… It has often been / remarked, however, that a consid- / erable number of those words and / phrases, which he has named Scott- / icisms, might have been with as / much propriety denominated / vulgar Anglicisms. / Brown’s Life of Dr. Beattie” A significant collection by an important philosopher and literary critic. Beattie, who had collaborated with Robert Burns and George Thompson on a collection of Scottish songs and airs (On Poetry and Music as They Affect the Mind, 1776) published his Theory of Language in 1788. “A constant concern in Beattie’s philosophy is the fitness of language as the expression of human thought… most of his considerations of language are an attempt at reconciling contemporary concepts with a more traditional Christian outlook.” (Pierre Morère in Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers).

Contemporary calf boards, nicely rebacked. Gilt lettering on spine with burgundy morocco label. Some light foxing. Contemporary eleven-line notation (see above) to first blank sheet. Top corner of half title torn away (apparently to obliterate an ownership signature) and restored with matching paper. Author’s name added to title page in the same contemporary hand. A few pencil annotations in text. Overall, a very nice copy.

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WOMEN

Lou Salomé on Ibsen’s Female Characters – INSCRIBED by Lou to Frieda von Bulow

ANDREAS-SALOMÉ , Lou. Henrik Ibsen's Frauen-Gestalten (Women Characters in Ibsen), Hugo Bloch, Berlin, 1892. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 leaf = Dedication page + 1 leaf = Inhalt + [1]-238 + 1 leaf = Printers ID on verso + 1 blank leaf, small Octavo. First Edition. INSCRIBED Copy.

$1,000

INSCRIBED at the top of the title page to Frieda Freiin von Bulow (1857-1909) with a one line note, signed "Verfass" (Author). Frieda von Bulow was a colonialist woman author and activist who also engaged the bourgeois women's movement of pre-First World War Germany. She is of interest to scholars of German colonialism, racial thought, feminism, and women's literature.

Lou's second book, literary criticism on Ibsen – by one of Europe's leading feminists, inscribed to another leading feminist. At the time, it was rumored that Ibsen had modeled his famous Hedda Gabler, who desired to live like a man, after Lou, but Andreas-Salomé expressed particular dislike of the character: "She resembles a ravenous wolf on which a sheep's skin has been growing for a very long time and who has forfeited its predatory strength only to keep its predatory soul." Contemporary half-leather with marbled boards. Spine edges and corners a bit rubbed. With the bookplate of Frieda Freiin von Bulow on the verso of the front cover. A lovely, clean copy.

Lou Salomé’s Second Novel

ANDREAS-SALOMÉ , Lou. Ruth. Erzählung (Ruth. A Narration), J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1895, Original front wrap + half title + TP + half title + [5]-302 + original rear wrap, Octavo. First Edition.

$250

Lou's fourth book, a novel. In her time, she was a well-known writer, but today all her fifteen novels are all but forgotten.

Original printed wraps. Spine chipped (about 25% lost) and cracked. Front wrap is uniformly soiled with a former owner’s name covered with blue crayon (½” x 1½”) in top center. Otherwise, a remarkably fresh copy.

Simone de Beauvoir on the Necessity of Political Engagement

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. L'existentialisme et la sagesse des nations. (Existentialism and the Wisdom of the Nations), Nagel, Paris, 1948. Half title + TP + dedication page + 9-[165] + [167] = Table des matieres; small Octavo. First Edition.

$100

One of Nagel’s “Collection pensées.” This assembly of articles first appeared in Les Temps Modernes between 1945 (the founding date of that periodical) and 1947, insists on the necessity of political engagement by intellectuals. Original publisher's printed wraps. Spine a bit cracked and worn but intact. Former owner’s label on front fly leaf. Overall, a good copy.

First Edition of the SECOND Volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s Autobiography

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. La Force de L’Age , (The Prime of Life), Gallimard, Paris, 1960. Half title + TP + Dedication Page + [9]-622 + [623] = Table des Matières; Octavo. First Edition.

$100

In 1958, Beauvoir began the publication of her four volume autobiography with Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) in which she described her happy childhood, her intellectual development and, of course, Sartre. This was followed by La Force de l'âge (The Prime of Life) in 1960, La Force des choses, (The Force of Circumstances) in 1963, and Tout compte fait (All Said and Done) in 1972. Throughout these works, she examined her choices between love and work from an existentialist perspective. In original wraps with a lightly sunned spine. A very good copy.

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First Edition of the THIRD Volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s Autobiography

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. La Force des Choses (The Force of Circumstances), Gallimard, Paris, 1963. Half-title + TP + [7]-686 + 1 leaf = Oeuvres & Printer's Information. First Edition.

$100

In 1958, Beauvoir began the publication of her four volume autobiography with Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) in which she described her happy childhood, her intellectual development and, of course, Sartre. This was followed by La Force de l'âge (The Prime of Life) in 1960, La Force des choses, (The Force of Circumstances) in 1963, and Tout compte fait (All Said and Done) in 1972. Throughout these works, she examined her choices between love and work from an existentialist perspective.

In original wraps. Signature to front fly leaf, otherwise fine.

First Edition of the FOURTH Volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s Autobiography

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. Tout Compte Fait (All Said and Done), Gallimard, Paris, 1972. Half-title + TP + Dedication page + [9]-[513] + 1 leaf = Oeuvres + 1 leaf = Printer's Information. First Edition.

$100

In 1958, Beauvoir began the publication of her four volume autobiography with Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) in which she described her happy childhood, her intellectual development and, of course, Sartre. This was followed by La Force de l'âge (The Prime of Life) in 1960, La Force des choses, (The Force of Circumstances) in 1963, and Tout compte fait (All Said and Done) in 1972. Throughout these works, she examined her choices between love and work from an existentialist perspective.

In original wraps. Fine.

First Edition of a Revolutionary 17th Century Feminist Tract from England

[DRAKE , Judith?]. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, in which are Inserted the Charactres of a Pendant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critck, &c. , Roper, Wilkinson & Clavel, London, 1696. TP + [i]-[vi] = Dedication to Princess Anne of Denmark + [vii]-[xviii] = Preface + [xix]-[xxi] = Poem by James Drake + [xxii] = Errata + 1-148 + [149]-152] = Contents. Small Octavo. First Edition, First Printing.

$2,500

With the A8, B4 B8 collation called for in the first printing, along with the Errata which was dropped in the second printing done in the same year. Lacks the frontispiece which appears in some copies. Frequently attributed to Mary Astell (the author of A Serious Proposal to the Ladies and other works), today this work is more commonly attributed to Judith Drake, a woman who published several other works using pseudonyms. The extremely early English Feminist tract calls for the education for women and defends their intellectual equality.

Contemporary calf, with rounded corners and a thumb-sized piece of leather missing from the top left front cover. Spine with five raised bands and rubbed joints. On the front flyleaf are two old entries by prior owners: "Jane Corbett her book 1698" and "Jane Ridgway her book 1711." A lovely copy of a rare work.

The First Published History of Women Philosophers

MÉNAGE, Gilles (Ægidio Menagio). Historia mulierum philosopharum (A History of Women Philosophers), 1630. First Edition.

$1.000 [For a complete description of this book, see the HISTORY section of this catalog on page 5]

INSCRIBED First Edition by Edna St. Vincent Millay

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. Conversation at Midnight, 1937. First Edition. $200

[For a complete description of this book, see the LITERATURE section of this catalog on page 2]

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Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Anti-Fascist Collection – Published Just Before WWII MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. Huntsman, What Quarry? , First Trade Edition. $110

[For a complete description of this book, see the LITERATURE section of this catalog on page 2]

INSCRIBED and Corrected by Wright

WRIGHT, Frances. England the Civilizer: Her History Developed in its Principles; with Reference to the Civilizational History of Modern Europe, (America Inclusive,) and with a View to the Denouement of the Difficulties of the Hour, By a Woman. Sipkin, Marshal & Co., London, 1848. TP + Prefatory Note + [v]-vii = General Heads of All the Chapters + [1]-470 + 1 blank leaf with printer id on verso, large 12mo. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Wright.

$450

INSCRIBED: "Mrs Nancy Martin / Presented to by Frances Wright" at the top of p. [v]. There are also penned corrections on page 410 in Frances Wright's hand.

America's first utilitarian philosopher, colleague to Jeremy Bentham, admired by John Stuart Mill, Frances Wright made money with this book (Cf. Dykeman, American Women Philosophers, pp. 188-212). Wright ends this book: "America has to uncover, and to render to her own people and the world, all the principles of the future." (p. 467) Frances Wright early fame was based on a collection of her letters with reflections on her first visit to the US and Canada from 1818 to 1820. England the Civilizer contains her last published reflections on the USA as her new country and how its principles should be applied to the history and to the future of Great Britain and all of European culture.

Original brown cloth with embossed covers - worn, a bit faded and lightly spotted. Top and bottom of spine worn. Weak gilt title lettering on spine of which the top half is split but 'hinged' to the front. Ink spotting to front endpapers, front inside joint splitting. Two small round 'spots' stuck to inside of both front and rear boards.

First Edition of an Early Address by Wright

WRIGHT, Frances. Introductory Address, Delivered by Frances Wright, at the Opening of the Hall of Science, New York, on Sunday, April, 26, 1829, George H. Evans, New York, 1829. TP + [1]-18, Octavo. First Edition.

$350

An early address by Wright extolling the virtues, the benefits and the promise of scientific advancement – and the resulting political liberty that must necessary result from the progress of science. The piece ends with two Odes composed by Wright especially for this occasion. According to the pamphlet, these were sung at this event – one at the beginning and the other at the end. The first was sung to the tune of Rule Britannia and the second to the tune of Rousseau’s Dream. This lecture was included in the Course of Popular Lectures collection (see next item) published in 1829 – where it is listed as “Address III.”

A lovely, well-preserved copy of this rare offprint. With pencil notations to the front, upper corner (“Sabin 10559,” etc.). Lightly browned and soiled on the front wrapper. The back wrapper with a bit of foxing and a light water stain. Otherwise, a pretty copy of this rare piece of Americana and feminism.

A Collection of Wright’s Popular Lectures

WRIGHT, Frances. Course of Popular Lectures, as Delivered by Frances Wright in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville, and other Cities, Towns and Districts of the United States with All Her Addresses on Various Public Occasions, and a Reply to the Charges Against the French Reformers of 1789, G.W. & A.J. Matsell, New York, 1835. 1 blank leaf + TP + Dedication Page + Contents Page + [7]-239 [bound with] Supplement Course of Lectures Containing the Last Four Lectures Delivered in the United States, G.W. & A.J. Matsell, New York, [1829], [1830], [1830], [1830]. TP + half title + [3]-21 + half title + [3]-20 + half title + [3]-13 + half title + [3]-22 + [1]-4 = Catalog of Liberal Books for Sale + 1 blank leaf, Large 12mo. Fifth Edition of Popular Lectures, First Editions of Supplement Course.

$400

Because of her radical views, Wright was a notorious and popular public speaker. These Popular Lectures – first printed in 1829 – went through many editions in her lifetime. The fourth edition added this ‘Supplement” of four more lectures first given in the following year.

A remarkably well-preserved copy in the original publisher’s brown boards with the original paper label (FRANCES / WRIGHT”S / Lectures / Comp[lete] / New Edition. / 1835) on the spine. Boards and spine worn and stained but, overall, a handsome and attractive exterior. Light, decreasing, triangular water stain to lower front corner of first leaves and first 20 pages. Light water stain to top right corner from page 155 to end. Despite these stains, this is a pretty and a desirable copy

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PHILOSOPHY & Philosophers

Bronson Alcott’s Contribution to American Transcendentalism – with His Autograph Card Laid In

ALCOTT , A. Bronson. Concord Days, Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1872. I blank leaf + half title + title page +section half title + [3] - 276 + 4 page of advertisements for his and Louisa May Alcott's books. First Edition.

$300 With autograph card: "A. Bronson Alcott / Concord.Mass / March 15 1876" laid in. Highly edited excerpts by Alcott from his dairy of April through September 1869 along with a long reflection on Emerson's oral presentations over the previous 30 years. Shorter reflections on Margaret Fuller, Pythagoras, Plotinus, Goethe, Carlyle and Plato. Also a review of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In beautifully blind stamped original green binding with bright gold lettering on the spine and front cover. Some light spotting on slightly worn covers. Otherwise, an immaculate copy.

Third Book of Francis Bacon’s Seminal Instauration Magna

BACON, Francis. Historia Vitae & Mortis. (The History of Life and Death), 1623. First Edition. $3,500

[For a complete description of this book, see the SCIENCE section of this catalog on page 3]

Simone de Beauvoir on the Necessity of Political Engagement

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. L'existentialisme et la sagesse des nations. (Existentialism and the Wisdom of the Nations), 1948. First Edition.

$100 [For a complete description of this book, see the WOMEN section of this catalog on page 9]

First Edition of the SECOND Volume of de Beauvoir’s Autobiography

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. La Force de L’Age, (The Prime of Life), 1960. First Edition. $100

[For a complete description of this book, see the WOMEN section of this catalog on page 9]

First Edition of the THIRD Volume of de Beauvoir’s Autobiography

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. La Force des Choses (The Force of Circumstances), 1963. First Edition. $100

[For a complete description of this book, see the WOMEN section of this catalog on page 10]

First Edition of the FOURTH Volume of de Beauvoir’s Autobiography

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. Tout Compte Fait (All Said and Done), 1972. First Edition. $100

[For a complete description of this book, see the WOMEN section of this catalog on page 10]

A High Point of British Idealism

BRADLEY, Francis Herbert. Appearance and Reality, A Metaphysical Essay, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, 1893. [i]-iii = half title and ads for The Library of Philosophy + half title + TP + Dedication page + [xi]-xxiv + [1]-558, large Octavo. First Edition.

$200

According to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “The main argument of Appearance and Reality is quite simple. It is divided into two books. The first and shorter one is entitled ‘Appearance’ and is about the contradictory character of mere appearances. Book II is entitled ‘Reality’ and is about the Absolute.” (EP, Vol. 1, p. 361) The first book actually attacks certain common-sense concepts such as relation, cause, space, time, thing and self, along with a number of philosophical concepts such as the thing-in-itself and the distinction between primary and secondary qualities. The second book then embarks upon a dense rational argument for the consistent and harmonious nature of Reality, defending the logical and necessary consequences of that belief. Appearance and Reality was perhaps the finest (and nearly final) grand expression of Hegelian Idealism to come out of the British Universities.

Original embossed, pebbled crimson cloth. Gilt lettering and publisher’s devise on the spine which is a bit faded and worn and lightly frayed top and bottom. Internally a bright and unmarked copy. Very Good.

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The First Comprehensive History of Western Philosophy

BRUCKER, Jacob. Historia Critica Philosophiae (A Critical History of Philosophy), 1742-1744. First Edition. $3,500

[For a complete description of this book, see the HISTORY section of this catalog on page 5]

First Edition of Buber’s Famous I and Thou

BUBER, Martin. Ich und Du (I and Thou), Inselverlag, Leipzig, 1923. 1 page with Inselverlag logo + TP + Quotation page + half title + 9-[138] + [139]-[140] = Printing information, Octavo. First Edition.

$110

Buber’s most important work, the one which outlines his “basic insight, an insight that runs through all of his work and that determines his approach to everything he touches… the realization that there is a basic difference between relating to a thing or to an object which I observe, and to a person or a “Thou” that addresses me and to whose address I respond.” (EP, Vol. 1, pp. 411) For Buber, the importance of this “I / Thou” relationship (note that in German the “Du” is familiar and this connotation is critical to Buber’s perspective) becomes most pronounced when he elaborates the religious context of his message in which the essence of the relationship between man and God is that in which each becomes the other’s “Thou”. Buber has had a wide influence on both theologians and philosophers with his attempt to replace the Cartesian subject/object relationship with the dialogic I/Thou relationship.

Original paper-covered printed boards (but without the rare dust jacket). Spine and top of rear cover a bit darkened by the sun. Otherwise, a lovely, tight copy.

The Book That Launched British Romanticism

BURKE , Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, R. and J. Dodsley, London, 1757. 1 blank leaf + half-title + TP + [v]-viii = Preface + [ix]-[xvi] = Contents + [1]-184 + 1 blank leaf, small Octavo. First Edition.

$4,000 “Burke’s book On the Sublime and the Beautiful is more important [than A Vindication of Natural Society]; indeed, it might well be said to signalize the point at which aesthetic taste in England changed from the classical formalism of the earlier years of the eighteenth century to the romanticism of the later years. Burke attacked the rationalist, classicist notion that clarity is an essential quality in great art. He argued that the imagination, moreover, is most strongly affected by what is suggested or hinted at and not by what is plainly stated. Burke also maintained that fear plays a large part in our enjoyment of the sublime. Such fear is diminished by knowledge, but sharpened by veiled intimations. Obscurity, not clarity, is the property of the most powerfully moving art; and Burke added, ‘It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.’” (EP, Vol. 1, pp. 429-430) Three-quarter mid-19th-century (?) brown speckled leather with marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and gilt lettering and date. Spine edges lightly worn as are the corners of the boards. The binding is particularly solid and the pages remarkably clean. A small oval bookplate has been partially removed from the inside front cover. With “Raynton Binder, Bath, Eng.” hand lettered in tiny ink letters on the top edge of the verso of the front fly leaf. A lovely copy of an important book on beauty.

First Latin Edition of The True Intellectual System of the Universe

CUDWORTH, Ralph. Systema intellectuale huius universi seu de veris naturae rerum originibus commentarii quibus omnis eorum philosophia, qui deum esse negant, funditus evertitur. Accedunt reliqua eius opuscula (The True Intellectual System of the Universe), Sumtu Vidvae Meyer, Jena, 1733. Five works in two volumes. Volume 1: 1 blank leaf + half title + engraved frontispiece showing “the Theists vs. the Atheists” + TP + [i]-[x] = Dedicatio + [xi] = engraved portrait of Cudworth + [xiii]-[xxxxvi] = Praefatio Moshemii + [xxxvii]-[lx] = Praefatio Auctoris + [1]-736 + 729-736 + 733-736 + 1 blank leaf; Volume 2: 1 blank leaf + half title + [737] = half title + 738-1206 + 1 blank leaf + half title + [i]-[vi] = Praefatio + 1-88 + half title + [3]-47 + half title + [i]-[xiii] = Praefactio + [xiv] = Vera notione et indole + 1-42 + half title + [i]-[vi] = Praefactio + [1]-25 + [i]-[lii] = Index; Folio, First Latin Edition

$1,500

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With the frontispiece engraving showing the Theists (Pythagoras, Aristotle and Socrates) versus the Atheists (Anaximander, Strato and Epicurus). This engraving is a copy of the same scene that appeared in the original English edition of 1678 but with some interesting minor variations.

FIRST LATIN EDITION of Ralph Cudworth’s refutation of the materialism of Epicurus and Thomas Hobbes, first published as The True Intellectual System of the Universe (London, 1678). The work was translated into Latin by Johann Lorenz von Mosheim. "Cudworth was the most systematic of the Cambridge Platonists, and his attempt to combine Neoplatonism and the mechanical philosophy is important in understanding the background to Newton and the early Newtonians." (DSB)

The present translation also includes not only the Latin version of The True Intellectual System of the Universe but also three of Cudworth’s lesser known theological works (De aeterna et immutabili rei moralis…, De vera notione coenae domini… and Coniunctio Christi et ecclesiae in typo…) and Mosheim’s De turbata per recentiores platonicos ecclesia commentatio….

The translator, Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (circa 1694-1755) was a German Lutheran divine. Mosheim’s written works and reputation as a lecturer and preacher led to his appointment as professor ordinarius in 1723 at the Helmstädt. Mosheim was a consultant for framing the statutes of the theological faculty for the new university of Göttingen and he was influential in making the university theologians independent of the ecclesiastical courts. In 1747, Mosheim became chancellor of the University of Göttingen. This translation of Cudworth is dedicated to Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick, who appointed Mosheim abbot of Marienthal in 1726.

Contemporary vellum with full paneled blindstamping to covers and stamped medallions on both front and back covers. Spines with six raised bands and blind stamped decorations at top and bottom of spines. Handwritten spine titles and volume identifications. The spines are darkened and the covers somewhat soiled. Small blue ex-library stamp to TP of Volume 1 and first half title of Volume 2. With some foxing and browning throughout but, in all, this is really pretty copy.

“Incontestably a Very Remarkable” Work on Analytic Geometry

COMTE, Auguste. Traité Éleméntaire de Géométrie Analytique (Elementary Treatise on Analytical Geometry), 1843. First Edition.

$1,200 [For a complete description of this book, see the SCIENCE section of this catalog on page 4]

“Cogito Ero Sum” First Latin Edition of the Discours and the First Appearance of “Cogito Ero Sum”

DESCARTES, René. Specimina Philosophiæ: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Di optice, et Meteora (The Proofs of Philosophy: The Discourse on the Method of Properly conducting the reason & seeking for truth in the sciences: Dioptics and Meteors), Ludovicum Elzevirium, Amstelodami [Amsterdam], 1644. TP + 7 leaves ([i]-[xiv]) = Table of Contents + 1-331; Small Quarto. First Latin Edition of Descartes’ First Book. (Guibert pp. 104-105, Tchemerzine, IV, p. 287)

$6,500

With printer’s woodcut device on the title and numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. NOTE: the treatise Geometri which appeared in the original Discours does not appear here. When Descartes published his famous Discours in 1637, it was written in the vernacular language, French. This was a radical thing to do in 1637 since all scholarly books at the time were written and published in Latin (Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems (1625-29) and the Discours (1637) are the two first important work of Western philosophy and science to be originally published in a vernacular language rather than Latin).

This Latin translation from the French was done by Estienne de Courcelles and it contains the first appearance of Descartes most famous line (and perhaps the most famous single line ever written by a philosopher): “Cogito, ergo sum” (see page 30, line 4 of the present work).

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Original brown leather binding with five raised bands on the spine. Gilt decorations in each spine panel with gilt lettering (partly chipped) for author and title. The book has obviously been recased and some expert repair work has been done to the head, toe and body of the spine. Title page with old three-line ink inscription (Ex Libris Joannis Philippi Goberi Sacerdotis / Rhotomago (sp?) ??? non St Georgii / D’egvetor (sp?) Rectoris 1768) on title page – in and around the last line of the title and the Elzevirium woodcut. Additional light pencil notations on lower right portion of title page with details on Descartes’ life and the date of publication in arabic numerals. The verso of title page and first two leaves of the Table of Contents have been reinforced along the gutter. Occassional staining to some leaves. Overall, a very nice copy of one of the most important works in the canon of Western Philosophy.

First French Edition of Descartes’ Classic Textbook on Physiology

DESCARTES, René. L’Homme de Rene Descartes (Man by Rene Descartes) 1664. First French Edition. $7,500

[For a complete description of this book, see the MEDICINE section of this catalog on page 6]

Presentation Copy from Dewey to Palmer of His Study of Ethics

DEWEY, John. The Study of Ethics – A Syllabus, The Inland Press, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1894. 1 blank page + TP + [i] = Prefatory Notice & Errata - [ii] = Contents + [1]151 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition. George Herbert Palmer’s copy (from the author)

$450

Published during his final days as chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan, (before assuming the chair of philosophy at the University of Chicago) this book provides an outline (in almost short-hand form) of Dewey’s work on ethics. In the Prefatory Note he writes: “The edition of my Outlines of Ethics having been exhausted, I have prepared the following pages, primarily for the use and guidance of my own students… The present pages, it may be added are in no sense a second edition of the previous book. On the contrary, they undertake a thorough psychological examination of the process of active experience, and a derivation from this analysis of the chief ethical types and crises – a task, so far as I know, not previously attempted.” From the library of George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933) with his bookplate on the inside front cover. Palmer was the senior member of the Harvard philosophy department during its “Golden Age” and a notable writer on ethics in his own right. His best known work, The Nature of Goodness, was published in 1903. This copy also has his inscription on the front fly leaf: “G. H. Palmer / 11 Quincy St. / 1894”. Below and to the left of this is another note in the same hand: “???? the Author”. The inside of the rear cover has Palmer’s notes on when he read the book: “Cambridge, Feb. 1895 / From Venice to Florence April 20, 1896 / Vienna June 2 1896” and on the rear of the final blank, Palmer has made four lines of notes as his own index to the book. With his marginalia and corrections (the book is positively loaded with errata) throughout.

Original embossed and gilt boards with gilt lettering on spine. Some slight wear to exterior. Otherwise, a charming and very pretty copy of a scarce Dewey item with an excellent association.

Dewey Reaffirms the Importance of Philosophy

DEWEY, John. Philosophy and Civilization, Minton, Balch & Company, New York, 1931. Half-title + TP + 1 leaf = Introductory Note + vii = Contents + half-title + 3-334 + 1 blank leaf, large Octavo. First Edition.

$450

Dewey’s important book in which he continues his life-long argument that philosophy is and must be a part of Western Civilization in general and American culture in particular. Original blue cloth with lettered spine. Dust jacket with a couple of very minor chips and one major chip at top of spine (not effecting title of book). Overall, a beautiful copy.

The Experimental Method Applied to Religion

EDWARDS , Jonathan. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts , S. Kneeland and T. Green, Boston, 1746. 1 blank leaf + TP + [i]-vi + [1]-343 + [344] = “Errors to be corrected” + 4 leaves = Table of Contents + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition.

$1,200

George M. Marsden begins his outstanding biography of Edwards by saying: “[He] was extraordinary. By many estimates, he was the most acute early American philosopher and the most brilliant of all American theologians.” (Marsden, p. 1)

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Jonathan Edwards presided over the local religious Awakening that swept through his own church in Northampton Massachusetts in 1734-35 and then played a prominent role in the much larger and widespread Colonial revivalist movement of 1741-42 – which is commonly called “The Great Awakening”. Both of these periods of intense religious fervor reached, at times, hysterical peaks of religious enthusiasm. In the end, the enthusiasm waned and the general fall-out was widespread: “hundreds of churches were split, the people were exhausted, and the solidarity of New England society in the preceding century had been sundered as by a knife...” (Miller, PP. 176-77) “As the awakening was receding, defeated by its own excesses, [Edwards] had preached a series of sermons on the proper place of religious affections in the Christian life. During the next several years he revised and extensively expanded these into his Treatise on Religious Affections, which finally appeared in 1746. This careful exposition was immediately reprinted in England and remains the most widely read and admired of his theological works.” (Marsden, p. 284-5) A deep thinker, a brilliant writer and clearly the first great “American” philosopher, Edwards claimed here that “gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice.” Edwards gave by far the longest attention to this test. “Religion consist much in holy affections;” he repeated “but those exercise of affection which are most distinguished of true religion, are these practical exercise” So the way to gauge the genuineness of one’s faith was not to look at one’s feelings, but to one’s practice. Edwards spoke as an empirical scientist. “As that is called experimental philosophy, which brings opinion and notions to the test of fact; so is that properly called experimental religion, which brings religious affection and intentions, to the like test” (Marsden, p. 288) The Treatise on Religious Affections is the book that laid the foundation for the American “pragmatic” style of philosophizing. Bound in original, paneled calf that has been rebacked in period style with portions of the original spine and the original label laid down. Throughout, this is a tightly trimmed copy. Previous owner’s signature on TP which is interspersed with the text in faded brown ink: “Hanover County / Daniel Grant / his Book / 1750”. (NOTE: Hanover County is in Virginia.) Overall, a clean and bright copy.

“A Best Selling Religious Text in Nineteenth-Century America”

EDWARDS , Jonathan. An Account of the LIFE of the late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, D. Henchman, Boston, 1749. TP + [i]-xii + 9 leaves = Subscribers Names + [1]-316 + [317]-[318] = advertisements + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition.

$950

It is easy enough to dismiss this now all-but-forgotten book but in its day it was “celebrated” and became one of the “best selling religious text in nineteenth-century America.” (Marsen, p. 1)

David Brainerd was a missionary to the Indians who, in May of 1747, came to live in the Edwards’ house and on October 9th, he died there. It has been alleged that David was engaged to Edward’s daughter, Jerusha, but Edwards’ latest biographer, George M. Marsden, rejects this claim. According to Marsden, “the story of David and Jerusha is one of the history’s fabled spiritual love tales and has led to much speculation. Edwards’ account of Brainerd’s parting speech to her suggests that they cared deeply for each other, even if their deepest loves were for things spiritual. Legend has it that they were betrothed, but there is no real evidence for that… Jonathan himself love Brainerd. Immediately after the young man’s death, he set aside some of his own cherished projects to edit Brainerd’s diaries, which he would eventually publish as An Account of the Life of David Brainerd.” (Marsden, p. 329) In the book, Edwards built on Brainerd’s diaries to present his life as an example and as testimony to the true (New Light) Christian life and as a rebuke to the enthusiasts. “The missionary, in Edwards’ account, had all the traits of the model Christian. The Life of Brainerd, seen in this larger framework, is Religious Affections in the form of a spiritual biography.” (Marsden p. 331) “Compared to modern biographies, what is most striking about Edwards’ [book] is that it centers on the missionary’s internal spiritual life and uses the externals of his missionary travels only as scaffolding on which that real story is built. Edwards was much more interested in the sacrifice involved in Brainerd’s mission than in its success… Edwards and Brainerd’s emphasis on such readiness to renounce the world for the kingdom helps account for the immense impact of The Life of David Brainerd, Edwards’ most popular work and one of the most influential missionary accounts of all time… During the awakenings of the first half of the nineteenth century The Life of Brainerd, republished in various editions, became one of the most popular of American literary works, both at home and abroad… Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, the story of the self-made man, eventually became paradigmatic of the American ideal, but at least before the Civil War, Edwards’ Brainerd, the self-renouncing man, offered a major alternative.” (Marsden, pp. 332-33) Missing the front free end paper. The title page is clipped in the upper, right-hand corner .75" vertically and 1.5" horizontally -- obviously removing a signature. Two handwritten names of former owners on verso of TP with some bleed through ("Mrs Weaver / The Barrow / near / Cheltenham / 1834" and "Jesse Budge [sp?]). Contemporary calf binding with rubbing to corners and spine edges. Spine with five raised bands and gold stamped designs in each panel. Gilt lettering on a red field. Front cover pitted and scarred in a number of places (20% of the surface). Were it not for the damage to the TP, this would be a very lovely copy.

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Rare Early Writing by Fichte (the Younger) in First Edition

FICHTE , Immanuel Hermann. Sætze zur Vorschule der Theologie, J. G. Cotta’schen, Stuttgart und Tübingen, 1826. TP + [III]-LV + half title + [3]-239 + [241]-[242] = Druchfehler, Octavo. First Edition.

$700

Very rare, early writing of the younger Fichte, published from his Latin thesis of 1818 which addressed the emergence of the new Platonic philosophy and which was the first specific printed reference of his position against Hegel.

Contemporary half leather with marbled boards. Spine with gilt compartments and title. Modern bookplate to inside front cover. Contemporary inked owner’s inscription to front free endpaper. All corrections noted in errata have been made to the text in ink in a neat contemporary hand. A very pretty copy.

First Edition of I. H. Fichte’s Most Important Independent Work

FICHTE , Immanuel Hermann. Beiträge zur Charakteristik der neueren Philosophie, zu Vermittlung ihrer Gegensätze (Contribution towards an Analysis of the New Philosophy), J. E. v. Seidel’schen Buchhandlung, Sulzbach, 1829. TP + [I]-[II] = Druckfehler (Corrections) + [III]-XII = Vorrede + XIII-XXX = Inhalt + half title + [3]-416, small Octavo. First Edition.

$450

“The more important of his independent works is Beitrage zur Charakteristik der neueren Philosophie (Sulzbach, 1829; 2d ed., completely rewritten, 1841)”

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/fichteih.htm Contemporary black boards with previous owner’s inscription dated 1830 on both front and rear inside covers. Rebacked with old, black tape. Pages foxed and browned throughout.

First Edition of the Third Volume of Hegel’s Science of Logic

HEGEL, Georg Friederich. Wissenschaft der Subjectiven Logik oder die Lehre vom Begriff (The Science of Subjective Logic or the Doctrine of the Idea), Johann Leonhard Schrag, Nurnberg, 1816. Half-title (on verso) + TP + [iii]-x + [1]-403, Octavo. First Edition.

$1,000

The third volume issued in this set (the other two being parts I & II of volume 1; 1812 & 1813 respectively). Hegel considered the Wissenschaft der Logik to be the greatest work of his career and the only one that truly qualified as philosophy by his own definition. The Phenomenology, which preceded this work, traces the course of consciousness on its way to “Absolute Knowing” while the present work (in all three volumes) lays out the conceptual components of philosophical thought and elaborates upon the relationships between them in Hegel’s normal tripartite way.

Rebacked with period-style marbled boards. Internally, a lovely copy.

Later Edition of Hegel’s Encyclopädie

HEGEL, Georg Friederich. Encylopädie der philosophischen Wissenshaften im Grundrisse. L. Heimann, Berlin, 1870. TP + [V]-XXII = Einleitung des Herausgebers + Half title + [1]-496. Small Octavo. Later Edition.

$100 Edited and introduced by Karl Rosenkranz.

Lovely, contemporary half leather binding with mottled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. A great reading copy.

One of Heidegger’s Many Expositions of Hölderlin’s Poetry

HEIDEGGER , Martin. Hölderlins Hymne, Wie wenn am Feiertage… Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle a. D. S, [1941]. TP + [2]-[32], Octavo. First Edition.

$50 Based on a lecture that Heidegger gave several times in 1939. Original, printed card covers. Some very light pencil markings on fist few leaves. Otherwise, very good.

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“The Bible of Materialism” – PMM 215

HOLBACH , Baron Paul von. Systême de la Nature. ou Des Loix du Monde Physique & du Monde Moral (The System of Nature. or The Laws of the Physical and Moral World), “par M. Mirabaud”, [printer unidentified], Londres [Amsterdam], 1770. In two volumes: Volume 1: 1 blank leaf + half-title + TP + 2 pp. = Avis de l’Editeur + 4 pp. = Preface de l’Autuer + 2 pp. = Table des Chapitres + [1]-370 + 1 blank leaf; Volume 2: 1 blank leaf + TP + 2 pp. = Table des Chapitres + [1]-412 + 1 blank leaf; small Octavo. First Edition, First Printing. Vercruysse 1770, A-6.

$5,000

This is the true first edition with the correct pagination and the comma after “Londres”. Not included here is the rarely seen 4-page “Errata” at the end of volume 1 -- which was added at some later point in the printing process when the mistakes were first discovered. Holbach contributed some four hundred articles to the Encyclopédie of his lifelong friend and colleague, Denis Diderot. Diderot, d’Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire and others of the philosophes met frequently for dinner and philosophical discussion at the Baron’s house, which became known as “the café of Europe” (among whose foreign visitors were Wilkes, Hume and Sterne).

In the Systême Holbach rejected the Cartesian mind-body dualism and attempted to explain all phenomena, physical and mental, in terms of matter in motion. Holbach rejected religion because he saw it as a wholly harmful influence, and he tried to supply a desirable alternative. In fact, he outlined a whole ethical and political philosophy – which is expanded in his later works.

Holbach was “the foremost exponent of atheistic materialism, and the most intransigent polemicist against religion in the Enlightenment.” (EP, Vol. 4, p. 49) “He could not publish safely under his own name, but had the ingenious idea of using the names of recently dead French authors. Thus, in 1770, his most famous book, ‘The System of Nature’, appeared under the name of Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud” (PMM, p. 130) “The third and properly philosophical stage of Holbach’s output began in 1770 with [this work]. This first – and only – example in the Enlightenment of a comprehensive, unmitigated defense of atheistic materialism was the culmination of a whole trend of ideas already expressed in varying degrees by La Mettrie, Helvetius, Diderot, and others. It caused much consternation in France, not only among spokesmen for the official faith but among the deistic philosophes as well. It was suppressed by judicial decree, and among the flood of refutations it provoked were those of Voltaire.. and Frederick the Great.” (EP, Vol. 4, p. 50)

Contemporary light calf with gilt edges and triple gilt line on covers. The spine is similarly gilt with decorations and the title and volume numbers on fields of red. A bit of wear to the boards and the spine edges (as would be expected). Title pages just a bit browned. The Contents page of volume 1 has a rather large paper fault in the lower right corner -- just barely affecting the text. Otherwise, a lovely, clean and crisp copy of Holbach’s most important work.

“It Is of All My Writings… Incomparably the Best” – David Hume

HUME , David. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals , A. Millar, London, 1751. Half-title + TP + 1 leaf = Contents + 1 leaf = Errata + 1-253 + [254]-[256] = advertisements + 1 blank leaf, 12mo. First Edition, First Issue.

$4,500

With L3 in an uncancelled state and the catchword "than" on p. 221. Includes the half-title, Errata and final leaf with ads. An important work by Hume condensing and simplifying his social philosophy. This work was designed to replace Book III of the Treatise on Human Nature but was later included in the Essays and Treatises. Hume himself considered this his finest work, "In my opinion (who ought not to judge on that subject) it is of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best: it came unnoticed and unobserved into the world" (Hume's Autobiography) Contemporary full calf with gold stamped border on front & back. Spine banded with gold rules and red leather label (somewhat worn). Half-title torn and expertly repaired. Half-title also lightly stained in upper left corner (3" triangle) and with contemporary writing at top "Ellis" and "WOE 1001". Page 103 torn (3" horizontal from right center). Paper fault on pages 205-206 (lower right corner, 1" high by 3" wide) just barely affecting text. Final blank leaf stained in upper left corner (3" triangle). Outside rear joint just beginning to start at top but still quite solid. Overall, a very lovely copy.

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The Second Major Work – On the Nature of the Passions – By a Founder of the Scottish “School of Common Sense”

HUTCHESON , Francis. An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations on the Moral Sense, J. Darby & T. Browne, London, 1728. TP + iii-xxii = Preface + [xxiii]-[xxiv] = Contents + 1-333 + [334] = Advertisement + [335]-[336] = Proposals for printing by Subscription, Octavo. First Edition.

$4,000

“In the essay on the passions, Hutcheson defined sense as every determination of the mind either to receive ideas independently of the will or to have perceptions of pleasure or pain. This definition led to the introduction of several new senses into Hutcheson’s system. For instance, there is public sense, which is our determination to be pleased by the happiness of others and to be uneasy at their misery. There is also the sense of honor, which makes the approbation or gratitude of others for any action we have done the necessary occasion of pleasure.” (EP, Vol. 4, p.100) Francis Hutcheson was Adam Smith’s teacher and mentor. The utilitarian nature of his philosophy anticipated Bentham and Mill. His opinion was respected by Hume who sent him a draft of the manuscript of the third part of The Treatise of Human Nature, “Of Morals” for comment prior to publication. Contemporary calf with spine and covers ruled in gilt, with new morocco label (this is hard to tell because it looks quite contemporary). Old armorial bookplate to front pastedown. One inch tear to bottom of R5 (page 249-250) that appears to be a natural paper flaw. Overall, a lovely, crisp copy.

Hutcheson’s Most Important Work – Published Posthumously by His Son

HUTCHESON, Francis. A System of Moral Philosophy , Printed and sold by R. A. Foulis of Glasgow and sold by A. Miller and T. Longman of London, 1755. Volume 1: 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 leaf = Dedication page + 3 leaves (6 pp.) = The Subscribers + 1 leaf (2 pp.) = Contents + [i]-xlviii = Preface + [1]-358; Volume 2: 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 leaf (2 pp.) = Contents + [1]-380 + 1 blank leaf, Quarto. First Edition.

$6,000

The System of Moral Philosophy, Hutcheson’s most important work, was probably completed as early as 1742 but only published posthumously by his son in 1755 from the original manuscript. The extensive subscribers’ list includes Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and other members of the celebrated Select Society of Edinburgh. In his early writings, Hutcheson attacked the cynical hedonism of Hobbes and Mandeville. This led to his election to the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow in 1729, where he remained for the rest of his life, lecturing on natural religion, morals, jurisprudence and government.

“It was [Hutcheson] who broke with Scholastic tradition in Scotland, introduced the method and outlook of Locke, and first used English formally in the lecture room of a Scottish University” (Jessop, preface). Adam Smith was a pupil of his and Dugald Stewart, in his Life of Adam Smith, testifies to the great influence he had, not only over Smith, but over the whole group of Scottish thinkers of his time. The young Hume corresponded with him on ethical questions and saw him as a leading authority on philosophy submitting a draft of Part III of The Treatise on Human Nature “On Morals” to Hutcheson for his comments prior to publication. He was one of the earliest proponents of the utilitarian doctrine of ethics and the founder of the corresponding theory of economics, whose future disciples included Smith, Bentham, James Mill and J.S. Mill. Bentham’s much-quoted phrase, “the greatest happiness for the greatest number” is first to be found in Hutcheson. There are extensive parts which anticipate the theories subsequently developed in The Wealth of Nations particularly in the discussion of private and public property and the origins of property. Smith was shortly to follow Hutcheson in the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow.

Contemporary full sprinkled calf. Spine with six compartments and gilt lettered label. Occasional foxing. In volume 1, a2 (pp. iii-iv) has a tear to the gutter margin, touching the text but with no loss. Joints of volume 1 just beginning to crack on the bottom but holding firm. Short split (2”) to foot of front joint of volume 2. Some scratching to upper boards. This is really lovely contemporary copy.

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A Beautiful, Early English Set of James’ Psychology – in Original Dust Jackets!

JAMES, William. The Principles of Psychology, [1890]. Early English Edition. $650

[For a complete description of this book, see the PSYCHOLOGY section of this catalog on page 7]

First Edition of Jaspers Early Work on Psychology

JASPERS, Karl. Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (Psychology of World Views), 1919. First Edition. $200

[For a complete description of this book, see the PSYCHOLOGY section of this catalog on page 8]

Kames’s Magnum Opus – His Contribution to the Developing Science of Natural History

KAMES, Henry Home, Lord. Sketches of the History of Man, Printed for W. Creech, Edinburgh; and for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, Edinburgh, 1774. Volume 1: 1 blank leaf + half title + TP + [v]-xii + [1]-519; Volume 2: 1 blank leaf + half title + TP + [1]-507 + 1 blank leaf; Quarto. First Edition.

$5,000

Henry Home was born at Kames in Eccles, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, the son of a minor landed gentleman. He was schooled at home and in 1712 was ‘apprenticed’ to become a writer (solicitor) in Edinburgh but soon began to study to become an advocate (barrister), which he achieved with his admission to the Faculty of Advocates in 1723. In 1752, he became a judge in the Court of Session (the highest civil court in Scotland) and in the following year he joined the Court of Justiciary (the criminal court). Henry managed to find excellent patronage from the Dukes of Argyll, who long managed government business in Scotland. Not only did he achieve the highest judicial offices, but he became a member of the main government boards managing the Scottish economy. He himself was no mean broker of patronage, not least for philosophers and theorists, most notably in the form of university professorships for Adam Smith, John Millar and Thomas Reid. He failed dismally, though, in the case of David Hume. Kames was perhaps the most complete ‘Enlightenment man’ among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers. In print, in conversation and in correspondence, he concerned himself with the whole spectrum of human knowledge and its applicability to his society. He wrote extensively on agricultural and horticultural matters, just as he wrote on

everything else, including education, where he had interesting things to say on male versus female education, perhaps reflecting his own experience of having a daughter whom he considered more able than his son. However, it was in law, criticism, philosophical history and, to some extent, philosophy that Kames made his name, both in his own time and for posterity. In law, his contributions range from the first major systematic collections of cases in Scots law, through a variety of legal antiquities, legal history and systematic, ‘institutionist’ works, to a philosophical work on equity that is a landmark in the history of this topic. His Elements of Criticism (1762) became a textbook in rhetoric and belles-lettres for a century, not least in America. And the Sketches of the History of Man (1774) was a major synopsis of Enlightenment philosophical anthropology, Scots style.(http://www.thoemmes.com/404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/home.htm)

The Sketches “represents Lord Kames’s contribution to the developing science of natural history. In a way, the book is a compendium of Kames’s thought; indeed, he refers to it in one place as his magnum opus” (Arthur E,. McGuinness, Henry Home, Lord Kames, New York, 1970, p. 119ff). An introductory essay on the “Progress of Men as Individuals” is followed by “Progress of Men in Society”, and “Progress of Science”. Included are sections on the female sex, on commerce and government, on the American nations, on reason, on Aristotle’s logic and on morality. A separate essay, “Sketches concerning Scotland”, is appended. (There is an interesting discussion of authors’ copyright, the book trade and the dissemination of knowledge in Volume I, p. 500n).

Among the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, Kames and Adam Smith were the chief exponents of the historical method in jurisprudence and moral philosophy. Kames went further, implying the integral relationship between history and

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the other branches of thought by the frequent references to the Sketches in the third, revised edition of his earlier Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1779).

Contemporary calf bindings with red morocco lettering pieces. Top of spines very lightly chipped. Gauffered edges to boards. Armorial bookplate of William Wrightson of Cusworth in Yorkshire. This is a bright, tight, wide-margined, clean copy. Overall, an excellent set.

Locke’s Second Reply in His Famous Argument with Stillingfleet

LOCKE , John. Mr. Locke’s Reply To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to his Second Letter, Printed by H. C. for A. and J. Churchill, London, 1699. TP + 1-452 + [453] = Errata, Octavo. First Edition. Yolton 250.

$1,250

Between 1696 and 1699 Locke was involved in one of the most memorable controversies in the history of philosophy. Bishop Stillingfleet, a learned divine (but no great philosopher) had attacked Locke in his Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity of 1696. Stillingfleet had read a pamphlet by the Irish pantheist Toland, who had argued that there was nothing mysterious in Christianity, which he claimed to base on Locke’s Essay. Stillingfleet accused Locke’s philosophy of materialism. Locke answered this attack promptly with A Letter to the Right Reverend.... published in 1697. Stillingfleet countered, Locke replied, Stillingfleet objected, Locke responded [which is the copy we have here]. This long and memorable controversy ended with the death of the Bishop soon after this, Locke’s third response.

Contemporary full-calf paneled binding with five compartments on the spine and title lettered in gilt. Joints very discreetly reinforced. TP and last two leaves browned. Paper fault in blank outer margin of Q5 (p. 233). Overall a lovely copy.

The First Published History of Women Philosophers

MÉNAGE, Gilles (Ægidio Menagio). Historia mulierum philosopharum (A History of Women Philosophers), 1630. First Edition.

$1.000 [For a complete description of this book, see the HISTORY section of this catalog on page 5]

Bain’s Landmark Biography of His Mentor – James Mill

[MILL, James] BAIN, Alexander. James Mill. A Biography, Longmans, Green & Company, London, 1882. Half title + frontispiece portrait of Mill + TP + [v]xxii + [1]-466 + 1 leaf = Publisher’s advertisements (“by the same author”), Octavo. First Edition.

$250 Bain’s biography of his mentor, the elder Mill.

Original green cloth with black embossed lettering and decorations to front cover and spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Very occasional pencil marginalia. Other than some spots of foxing on the outside edges, this is a lovely copy.

Bain’s Critical Biography of John Stuart Mill

[MILL, John Stuart] BAIN, Alexander. John Stuart Mill, A Criticism: with Personal Recollections, Longmans, Green, and Co. London, 1882. Half title + TP + 1 leaf = Preface + [vii]-xiii + half title + [1]-201 + 1 leaf = publisher’s advertisements for the same author, Octavo. First Edition.

$250 Bain’s biography and critique of the great Utilitarian, J. S. Mill.

Original green cloth with black embossed lettering and decorations to front cover and spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Other than some foxing spots on the outside edges and the upper corners being bumped, this is a pretty copy.

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First Edition of an Early Life of John Stuart Mill

[MILL, John Stuart] COURTNEY, W. L. Life of John Stuart Mill, Walter Scott, London, 1889. Half title + TP + [5]-194 + [i]-xi = Bibliography + [x11] = List of Works + 8 leaves (pp. 16) of Publisher’s Ads; Small Octavo. First Edition.

$110

Along with Bain’s John Stuart Mill, one of the early standard accounts of Mill’s life and works by William Leonard Courtney, who also wrote The Metaphysics of J. S. Mill published in 1879. The book includes a bibliography by John P. Anderson and a chronological listing of Mill’s works. Original burgundy cloth with light wear to spine edges. Gilt lettering on spine. Former owner’s name and date to front free endpaper. A nice copy.

Montesquieu’s Masterly Defense of His Spirit of the Laws

MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de. Défense de l’Esprit des Loix, A laquelle on a joint quelques Eclaircissemens (A Defense of The Spirit of the Laws), Barrillot & Fils, Geneve, 1750. TP + [3]-207 + 1 blank leaf, 12 mo. First Edition . Tzchemerzine Vol. 8, p. 461.

$2,200

The Défense ends on page 196 and is followed by an unnumbered half title page and then the text of Eclaircissemens for the remaining pages of the book.

The first edition of Montesquieu’s masterly self-vindication. It was written shortly before his death (which occurred on a trip to Paris) and it was the last of his works to be published in his lifetime. In it, he states that the work was occasioned by two articles by the Abbé Fontaine de la Roche “which made against him the most grave imputations. He was accused of being a Spinozist and a deist, and though these two accusations are in themselves contradictory and cannot be true, they serve to make him appear odious… Never was Montesquieu’s style better than in the Défense; never were grave and moderately gay more skillfully mixed; never were his statements more precise, or his command of his pen more complete; never were his arguments more telling.” (Shackleton, Montesquieu: A Critical Biography, pp 361-2) Despite the success of De l’Esprit and the present work, the quarrel over Montesquieu’s works continued as the Jansenists, Jesuits and others continuing to attack the author. De l’Esprit was eventually placed on the Index in November of 1751 and then condemned by the Sorbonne.

Contemporary full calf binding. Spine with five raised bands and gilt decorations and lettering. Old ink signature to top right corner of title page. A lovely copy of this work.

A Rare INSCRIBED Work by Nietzsche

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. De Laertii Diogenis fontibus I & II (On the Sources of Diogenes Laertius), [Johann David Sauerlander], [Frankfurt am Main], [1868]. [632]-653, Octavo. First Edition Offprint. Schaberg 11. INSCRIBED by Nietzsche

$38,000

INSCRIBED in Latin and signed by Nietzsche on the front cover: “Henrico Romundtio / amico / F.N.” (To friend, Heinrich Romundt, F.N.) Nietzsche met Heinrich Romundt (1845-1920) when they were both students at the University of Leipzig (the first mention of him in Nietzsche’s letters is October 10, 1866) and continued the relationship later when Romundt lectured at the

University of Basel. They were friends throughout this entire period -- frequently sharing vacations together. The relationship went into severe decline in early 1875 when Romundt (whose Basel lectures had not been going well) went through a spiritual crisis and decided to join the Catholic Church and to study to become a priest. His departure from Nietzsche and Franz Overbeck at the Basel train station was wrenching and dramatic and even four months later Nietzsche was still feeling that he had not fully recovered from the upset caused by Romundt’s leaving. Nietzsche was shocked by this abandonment and took Romundt’s conversion as a personal affront. Sometime later, Romundt abandoned his priestly ambitions and was once more restored in his friendship with Nietzsche. They continued to actively correspond until December of 1882.

Nietzsche’s second published essay in the Rheinisches Museum and the first to focus on

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Diogenes Laertius – which compromised well over half of Nietzsche’s published work as a philologist. It was on the basis of this article and seven others that Nietzsche’s teacher, Ritschl, granted him a doctorate without requiring him to publish and defend a thesis.

Original, plain grey wraps, inscribed on the upper right corner of the front cover. The edges of the covers are lightly chipped in several places and just a bit water stained on the front. The text is lightly soiled with a few underlinings in pencil on the second and third page. Overall, a remarkably preserved copy of a very delicate piece.

Nietzsche's First Book - Apollo, Dionysius... and Wagner!

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Die Geburt der Tragödie (The Birth of Tragedy). E. W. Fritzsch, Leipzig, 1872. TP + [III]-IV + [1]-143, Octavo. First Edtion (Schaberg 20).

$3,500

Printing and the Mind of Man notes, "[Nietzsche's] principle work during the Wagner period, 1868-1878, was Die Geburt der Tragodie aus dem Geist der Musik, 1872. In this he adopted a tragico-pessimistic conceptions of Greek civilization, like Burckhardt but contrary to Grote. This started his career as a critic of modern civilization based on disgust with imperial Germany, Christianity, bourgeois ethics and so on." (PMM 224) In this, his first book, Nietzsche theorized that Greek tragedy was built upon a wedding of two principles that he associated with the deities Apollo and Dionysus. The Apollonian principle is the principle of order, static beauty and clear boundaries. The Dionysian principle, in contrast, is the principle of frenzy, excess and the demolition of boundaries. It is in the subtle interaction of these disparate principles that the greatness of Greek tragedy resides, and by extension, in which the creative spirit still finds its proper soil. The book ended with a long section devoted to Richard Wagner and the importance of his music. When first released, it met with only limited success. Despite Nietzsche's eventual near contempt for the book, it must be considered, along with Aristotle and Hegel, among the greatest contributions to the understanding of Greek tragedy and, in fact, to the Greek way of life in general. It is scarcely to be imagined that an obscure philologist of the eighteen seventies could dare to publish a book like The Birth of Tragedy - a soaring paean to and dissection of the artistic spirit, chiefly as it manifested itself among the Greeks, but implicitly and explicitly with reference to the modern spirit as well, largely as embodied by Richard Wagner - a work without footnotes, references or Greek

quotations! The publication of The Birth of Tragedy created a furor. Wagnerians embraced it while philologists were appalled. As the controversy escalated, Nietzsche's academic reputation declined sharply, even though, in retrospect, it tolled the death of the accepted view of Greek culture. Only two students enrolled in the one class that Nietzsche taught during that winter term - a law student and a Germanist - and all of his other announced lectures were canceled. Enrollment would return to a more normal size of eight to twelve students in the coming years, but Nietzsche's standing in the academic community was seriously damaged. Late 19th or early 20th century orange binding with the graphics from the original wraps trimmed and pasted to the front cover. This is the famous picture of Prometheus that also appears on the title page of this first edition copy. Title page and final leaf with tape reinforcement along gutter edge. Overall, an excellent copy.

First American Edition of Beyond Good and Evil

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1907. Half title + TP + [v] = Contents + [vii]-v = Introduction + [1]-268 + 2 leaves (4 pp.) = Publisher’s Advertisements; Small Octavo. First American Edition.

$250

The first American edition of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, translated by Helen Zimmern with an Introduction by Thomas Common. Helen Zimmern was an English woman who wrote several books over the course of her career including Schopenhauer, his life and philosophy (1876) – the first independent presentation of the German philosopher to England – as well as a

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biography of Lessing, G. E. Lessing, his life and his works (1878; German, Celle 1879). Zimmern actually met Friedrich Nietzsche several times at the resort, Sils Maria, where he summered for six years and where he actually wrote this book – first published in 1886. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Overall a very well-preserved copy.

A Collector’s Set of Palmer Materials

PALMER , George Herbert & Alice Freeman. A Service / in Memory of / Alice Freeman Palmer + The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer + A Marriage Cycle + The Autobiography of a Philosopher, 1903, 1908, 1915, 1930. First Editions.

$2,000

A collectors set of FOUR BOOKS with INSCRIPTIONS and laid in card. This is a collection of four books that sets forth in documents and the books themselves the life and the love shared by George Herbert Palmer and Alice Freeman Palmer. Often it recalls the great stories of the love between intellectuals from Aphasia and Pericles, through Abelard and Eloise, and beyond to Sartre and DeBeauvior, but all of this in a uniquely American nineteenth century style. These works and documents reflect the times and the great academics of Europe and America who came together in the so-called "Classical Age" of American philosophy. The collection begins with the death of Alice Freeman Palmer in 1902 and eventually we are taken forward to May 1945 when memories of the Palmers are slipping into the culture's unconsciousness. The remarkable book begins the story with a copy of Alice’s funeral service with George’s presentation card and the inlaid letter from a recently bereaved George Trumbull Ladd. Next is George’s 1908 biography of his wife which went through many issues and editions. The presentation copy here is rare and contains an INSCRIPTION to their favorite niece. The third text, A Marriage Cycle, was published six years later contains the poems Alice – literally during the last moments of her life – asked George to burn. The Preface to the book contains an account of his struggle with the idea of publishing them. Lastly in this set is George’s 1930 Autobiography, inlaid with a series of letters to their friend Apatha Laughlin dated from before Alice's death to fifteen years after George's death. The editions, the inscriptions and the laid-in materials make this a historically unique set of first editions.

True Second Edition of the Pensées

PASCAL, Blaise. Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont esté trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers.(Thought of Mr. Pascal on religion and some other subjects, which were found among his papers after his death). Guillaume Desprez, Paris, 1670. TP + [i]-[lxi] = Preface + [lxii]-[lxxii] = Approbations + [lxxiii]-[lxxv] = Table desTitres + [lxxvi] = Privlege du Roy + [lxxvii]-[lxxviii] = Avertissments + [1]-312 + 307-330 + 313-334 + 20 pp. = Table des Matieres, small Octavo. True Second Edition, sometimes called the First Edition, Corrected, Second Issue. Second Edition (Le Guern C, Maire 6, Lafuma 3, Tchemerzine, Vol. IX, p. 73 (b).)

$2,400

This 358 page issue (1-312 + 307-330 + 313-334 = 358 pages) is sometimes called the First Edition, Corrected, Second Issue but is actually the true Second Edition. See the listings for Lafuma 3-5, (pp. [131]-132) for clarification. Desprez, who was the 'official' printer for Port Royal, published this second edition in 1670 with the title page and ornaments identical to the First Edition but with the errata corrected (and some problems with the pagination). This second printing consisted of 227 leaves ([80],[1]2-312, 307-330, 313-334, [20]). In the same year, Desprez also published two issues of the Second Edition (marked as such on the title page). Maire notes that there were also two pirate editions that look similar to Desprez' First Edition but these can be easily distinguished by several pagination errors (4 for 42, 67 for 97, 166 for 169). Original full leather boards, rebacked in period style with five raised bands. Contemporary five -line ink inscription in English (upside down) on the detached front fly leaf. Overall, a pretty copy of this rare printing.

Rousseau’s First Book in First Edition, First Printing

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Discours sur L’origine et les Fondemens de L’inegalité Parmi les Hommes (Discourse on the Origins and the Foundations of Inequality among Men), Marc Michel Rey, Amsterdam, 1755. Engraved frontispiece “Il retourne chez fes Egaux” + TP + [III]-LXX + 1 leaf = “Avertissement” with “Question” on verso + [1]-262 + [263] = “Errata” + [264] = “Avis pour le Relieur”, Octavo. First Edition, First Printing. (Dufour #55 , Volume 1, pp. 55-57.)

$3,500

Rousseau’s most important work after Contract Social (1762) -- posing a radical challenge to Locke and Hobbes. Having won the prize from the Academy of Dijon with his essay, Discours sure les sciences et les arts, in 1749, Rousseau responded to another essay competition by the same Academy in 1753 which posed the question: “What is the origin of inequality

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among Men, and is it authorized by Natural Law?”. Rousseau responded promptly: “If the Academy has the courage to raise such a question, then I will have the courage to write about it.” The result was an essay which is remarkable both as philosophy and as science. In less than a hundred pages, Rousseau outlined a theory of the evolution of the human race; he propelled the study of anthropology and linguistics into new channels, and made a seminal contribution to political and social thought. Most important is his thesis that current human society is the result of a long series of declines from Man’s original state of nature. Rousseau imagined primitive man living in isolation in the forests, self-sufficient, equal to his fellows because he was independent of them. Gradually Man formed primitive societies based on the family which carried within them a sense of mutual obligation. Finally, with the advent of the concept of property, Man succumbed to inequality. Central to this vision, is the belief that all government is founded on a contract between the people and their rulers -- a doctrine he was to develop more fully in his Contract Social seven years later. Even if his arguments were seldom fully understood by his readers, the book altered the way people thought about themselves, about their world and about society in general having a profound effect upon future political discourse and actions.

With twelve of the fourteen points noted by Dufour (I, 55) to distinguish it from the pirate edition of similar appearance in the same year: (1) the frontispiece engraved with a title reading “chez” not “chés”, (2) frontispiece properly signed at the bottom, (3) the TP printed in red and black, (4) the figure of Liberty on the TP is full-sized and (5) signed by Fokke, (6) the Geneva coat of arms on page [III] engraved not copied and (7) signed “S.F.”, (8) Rousseau’s name misspelled on p. LII (“Jaques”), (9) the hand inked accent mark for “conformé” on page 11 (first word, third line from bottom), (10) pp. 139-140 a cancel, (11) p. 262 beginning “cune difference” rather than “dans laquelle” and (12) including the “errata / avis” page {263]-[264]. In this copy pp. LXVII-LXVIII and 111-112 do not readily appear to be cancels (as called for by Dufour) but that may a function of the way the book has been bound.

Other bibliographers have also noted two further points in distinguishing the true first edition from the pirate, both of which are present here: (1) p. LXV misnumbered as XLV and (2) gathering “L5” incorrectly signed as “K5”.

Beautifully bound in full leather (early 20th century?) with spine labels in red & gold and black & gold, encased in a clamshell box. An exceptionally bright and clean copy.

“One of the Most Lucid Statements of His Thought”

SANTAYANA, George. Platonism and the Spiritual Life, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1927. Half-title + TP + [1]-94 + [95] = Reviews + [96] = Printer’s Information, small Octavo. First Edition.

$85

Platonism and the Spiritual Life has been characterized as “one of the most lucid statements of his thought” – providing an important link between his early works and later, more mature system.

With a worn, chipped and ripped dust jacket. Otherwise, a bright, clean and lovely copy.

Existentialism & Humanism

SARTRE, Jean-Paul. L'existentialisme est un Humanisme (Existentialism as Humanism). Nagel, Paris, 1946. Half-title + TP + 1 leaf + 9-141 + 1 leaf, small Octavo. First Edition (Douglas 358; Contat 46/88)

$150

An extended lecture in which Sartre "was interested mainly in defending himself against Communist attack [and] in showing that his philosophy is not solipsistic, quietist, neurotic." (Douglas 358). Original publisher's printed wraps. A pretty copy.

Early 20th Century Pragmatism by Roy Wood Sellars

SELLARS , Roy Wood. The Philosophy of Physical Realism , The MacMillan Company, New York, 1932. Half title, + TP + v-x = Preface + xi-xiv = Contents + half title + 1-487. Tall Octavo. First Edition.

$50

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Roy Wook Sellars (1883-1973), was an American philosopher of critical realism and religious humanism who, for much of his career, taught at the University of Michigan. His son was the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Spine a bit sunned. Overall, a good copy.

Schelling’s Attempt to Resolve the Problems of Religion and Philosophy

SCHELLING, Friedrich. Philosophie und Religion (Philosophy and Religion), J. G. Cotta’schen, Tübingen, 1804. TP + [III]-VI = Vorbericht + [1]-80, Octavo. First Edition.

$750

“In 1803 Schelling married Caroling Schlegel after the legal dissolution of her marriage with A. W. Schlegel, and the pair went to Würtzburg, where Schelling lectured for a period in the University. About this time he began to devote his attentions to the problems of religion and to the theosophical utterances of the mystical shoemaker of Görliz, Jakob Boehme. And in 1804 he published Philosophy and Religion.” (Copelston, volume 7, part 1, p. 123) Contemporary three quarters leather with dark boards and light brown spotting. All of the leather is worn except for the bottom two-thirds of the spine which has gilt lettering. Occasional foxing to the text with moderate stains to upper and lower right corners of the title page. Overall, a really well-preserved copy of this book.

A Comprehensive Treatise on the Theory of Knowledge

SIGWART, Christof. Logik, H. Laupp’schen Buchhandlung, Tübingen, 1873 & 1878. Volume 1: Half-title + TP + [V]-IX + [1]-420; Volume 2: half-title + TP + [V]-VIII + half-title + [3]-612 + [613] = Druckfehler (Corrections), Octavo. First Edition.

$225

Sigwart was professor of philosophy at Tübingen from 1865 to 1903. The task of the logician, as he saw it, was to develop a methodology which can be used to guide research in any area of human inquiry. Like ethics, logic should tell us what we ought to do, and in this work he develops this thesis in great detail. The rapid development of symbolic logic, which is not normative, led to the neglect of Sigwart’s theory, but this book remains important for outlining the road not taken. It is also noteworthy for its extended critical discussion of John Stuart Mill’s treatment of induction in logic. “His most important work was the two-volume Logik, a comprehensive treatise on the theory of knowledge. The aim of logic, Sigwart maintained, is normative rather than descriptive. Logic is a regulative science whose aim should be to present a normative methodology for the extension of our knowledge. It is ‘the ethics rather than the physics of thought and concerns itself not with an account of psychological processes but with finding the rules in accordance with which thought may achieve objective validity… In Sigwart’s philosophy there is a voluntarist element combined with respect for natural science, both of which evidently impressed William James. (James quoted from Sigwart in his essay ‘The Dilemma of Determinism.’)” (EP. vol. 7, p. 441)

Lovely contemporary mottled boards with half-cloth. Some very slight wear to board edges but otherwise near fine bindings with bright gilt lettering on spine. Internally, just a little bit browned with very occasional foxing. Overall, a beautiful set.

“Survival of the Fittest” Enters the English Language

SPENCER, Herbert. The Principles of Biology, 1864 & 1867. First Edition. $750

[For a complete description of this book, see the SCIENCE section of this catalog on page 4]

First Edition of Spinoza’s Opera Posthuma

SPINOZA , Benedict. Opera Posthuma, Quorum series post Præefationem exhibetur, [Jan Rieuwertsz], [Amsterdam], 1677. TP + 18 leaves (35 pp.) = Præfatio + half title + [1]-614 + 16 leaves (31 pp.) = Index Rerum, small Quarto (8" x 6"). First Edition (Van der Linde 22; Kingma-Offenberg 24)

$7,500

NOTE: This copy is MISSING the Compenium Grammatices Lingæ Hebrææ (Compiled Hebrew Grammar) which originally appeared at the end of this book with separate pagination (normally: half title + 1-112 + 4 leaves = Indiculus & Errata).

The fifth and final work in Spinoza's Opera Posthuma (with its own title page, pagination, and errata) is a Grammar of the Hebrew Language, Compendium Grammaticus Lingua Hebraeae. Spinoza was one of the first to subject the Bible to critical analysis but demanded that such analysis be rooted in a thorough understanding of the Hebrew language. Then, and only then, Spinoza states, may one turn to "the life, the conduct and the pursuits of the author-of each book ... [and] the fate of each book: how it was first received, into whose hands it fell, how

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many different versions there were of it, by whose advice it was received into the Canon, and how all the books now universally accepted as sacred, were united into a single whole."

Also, without the portrait that, at one time, was thought to be a rare and distinguishing mark that appeared in only a few copies of the Opera Posthuma. Subsequent scholarship has proved, however, that the portrait post-dates the publication of the Opera and is therefore an interesting but not an integral part of that book. It is, in all cases, a later addition to the binding - sometime after 1680 or 1681 - since, according to the son of the publisher, the portrait was not engraved until three or four years after Spinoza's death (Rieuwertsz to Dr. Hallmann, see Die Lebensgeschicthe Spinozas, Leipzig, 1899, p. 232). This is eminently logical since it makes very little to sense to publish a book anonymously (without listing a publisher or city of origin) and then printing a named portrait and placing it opposite this title page Published in the year of Spinoza's death, this posthumous collection was edited by his close friend, Jarig Jelles, whose preface, originally written in Dutch, was translated into Latin by L. Meyer. Spinoza had contemplated publishing his Ethica two years earlier but the furor over his supposed atheism forced him to postpone the book’s release. The day before his death, Spinoza arranged for these works to be published by sending them to Jan Rieuwertsz who had previously published his Principia on Descartes and the Tractatus-theologico-politicus. In the Ethica Spinoza sought to apply the "geometric method" and mathematical reasoning to metaphysics resulting in what is considered to be the first systematic exposition of pantheism wherein God is identified with the entire universe. This is the work upon which Spinoza's reputation as a philosopher, a rationalist and an atheist chiefly rests. In addition, the book contains the Politica, De emendatione intellectus, Epistolae, & ad eas responsiones, and, missing here, the Compendium grammaticus linguae Hebraeae (with separate half-title and pagination).

“The Ethics is an ambitious and multifaceted work. It is also bold to the point of audacity, as one would expect of a systematic and unforgiving critique of the traditional philosophical conceptions of God, the human being, and the universe, and above all, of the religions and the theological and moral beliefs grounded thereon. Despite a dearth of explicit references to past thinkers, the book exhibits enormous erudition. Spinoza’s knowledge of classical, medieval, Renaissance, and modern authors – pagan, Christian, and Jewish – is evident throughout. Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Maimonides, Bacon, Descartes, and Hobbes (among others) all belong to the intellectual background of the work. At the same time, it is one of the most radically original treatises in the history of philosophy.” (Nadler, p. 226)

The book was prepared in great secrecy and issued a few months after Spinoza's death, with the author identified only by the initials. The place of publication and the publisher were not specified. The year after its publication, it was proscribed by the states of Holland and West Friesland for being atheistic and blasphemous. The following year, 1679, it was placed on the Index by the Vatican.

Contemporary full vellum binding, which is only lightly soiled and just a bit of cracking to the front joing. With a hand-lettered title on the spine (B D S / OPERA / POSTHUMA.). There is the stamped seal Seminary library in Munich in the lower right quadrant of the title page – not effecting the text – and overmarked “Ungültig” (invalid, i.e. deaccessioned). Otherwise, a lovely copy of this important work.

First Edition of Stirner’s Famous Treatise in Defense of Philosophical Egoism

STIRNER , Max. Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum (The Ego and His Own), Otto Wigand, Leipzig, 1845. TP + Dedication page + Inhalt + [5]-491 + [492]-[493] = Publisher’s ads, Octavo. First Edition.

$2,500

Published in an edition of 1,000 copies, the book was immediately banned and 250 copies were seized in Leipzig. Later the ban was lifted because the authorities decided that the book was “too absurd” to be a threat to local students and intellectuals.

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“Stirner was the nom de plume of the German individualist philosopher Johann Kaspar Schmidt... The immediate stimulus that provoked Stirner to write his one important book, Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum, was his association with the group of young Hegelians know as Die Freien (the “free ones”), who met under the leadership of the brothers Bruno and Edgar Bauer. In this company Stirner met Marx, Engels, Arnold Ruge, Georg Herwegh, and many other revolutionary intellectuals.” The book, “a treatise in defense of philosophical egoism, carried to its extreme the young Hegelians reaction against Hegel’s teachings. In part it was a bitter attack on contemporary philosophers, particularly those with social inclinations. Stirner’s associates among Die Freien were rejected as strongly as Hegel and Feuerbach... There is much in common between Stirner’s embattled ego and Nietzsche’s superman; indeed, Stirner was seen as a forerunner of Nietzsche during the 1890’s.” (EP, vol. VIII, pp. 17-18)

Stirner's approach was characterized by a passionate anti-intellectualism which led him to stress the will and the instincts as opposed to the reason. He attacked systematic philosophies of every kind, denied all absolutes, and rejected abstract and generalized concepts of every kind. At the center of his vision he placed the human individual, of whom alone we have certain knowledge; each individual, he contended, is unique, and this uniqueness is the very quality he must cultivate to give meaning to life. Hence, he reached the conclusion that the ego is a law unto itself and that the individual owes no obligations outside himself'

Well-preserved, contemporary half-linen with marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. A few foxing spots on TP (not effecting text).Lightly foxed throughout. Overall, a lovely copy.

Thoreau's First Book – Which Was a HUGE Failure!

THOREAU, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company,, 1849. 1 blank leaf + TP + [3]-413 + [415] = Advertisement + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition (BAL 20104, Borst A1.1.a)

$9,500

First edition, first printing of the author's first book - the ad on the final printed page announcing: "Will Soon Be Published, Walden, or Life in the Woods. by Henry D. Thoreau". Thoreau himself paid to have this edition of 1,000 copies printed and published in either late May or early June of 1849. One of only 550 surviving copies in this first issue state.

Thoreau's famous first book was a failure when it was released. Over four years later, in October of 1853, the publisher shipped all 706 remainder copies (256 bound & 450 in sheets) to the author who kept them in his attic bedroom for the next nine years. From this stock, he would occasionally sell copies or distribute them to friends. In one of his more renowned journal entries he wrote: "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author should behold the fruits of his labor?"

By April of 1862, Thoreau had disposed of 111 of these copies leaving just 595. These he sold to Ticknor and Fields for 40 cents each. The 450 unbound copies were subsequently reissued with a new title page, dated 1862.

Original brown cloth (BAL binding variant A, Trade binding) with five-rule border stamped in blind on front and back covers. Spine lettered in gilt with rules and decorative leaf designs stamped in blind. Buff endpapers with front and back blank flyleaves. Small bookplates of George Mason and Henry William Poor to inside front covers. Head and tail of spine with nicely restored ends (? ” at top and ¼” at bottom). Covers and spine edges lightly worn. Still an exceptionally bright copy. (Housed in a cloth chemise and a quarter brown morocco slipcase.)

First Book Appearance of Civil Disobedience – a Fundamental Work for Gandhi and M. L. King

THOREAU, Henry David. A Yankee in Canada with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 leaf = Contents + [1]-286 + 2 blank leaves, Octavo. First Edition. BAL 20117, Binding A; Borst A7.1.a.

$1,250

One of the most significant volumes to be published in the wake of Thoreau’s death in 1862, this contains the first book appearance of his most famous essay “Civil Disobedience” which profoundly influenced the lives of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. (The essay had previously appeared under the title “Resistance to Civil Government” in Elizabeth Peabody’s periodical Aesthetic Papers.) Also included are the important essay “Life Without Principles” along with all of Thoreau’s

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major political writings and one work “Prayers” which was actually written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The first five chapters present Thoreau’s humorous record of a tour of Montreal and Quebec made in the Autumn of 1850.

Lightly chipped at top and bottom of spine. Covers and spine faded with some unevenness and a few ink spots to front cover. Interior in good shape. Overall, a nice copy.

Upham’s Seminal Work on Psychology

UPHAM , Thomas. Elements of Mental Philosophy,1831. First Edition. $500

[For a complete description of this book, see the PSYCHOLOGY section of this catalog on page 8]

Voltaire Ethical and Humanistic Philosophy of History

VOLTAIRE . La Philosophie de l’Histoire, par feu l’Abbé Bazin, Chez Changuion, Amsterdam, 1765. TP + V-VIII + 1-268 + 2 blank leaves, small Octavo. Pirate Edition from the same year as the first edition.

$650

“…in 1765 he wrote a preliminary discourse first published separately as La Philosophie de l’Histoire, a general view of the peoples and civilizations of antiquity that reached far beyond the Hebrew and Greek origins of Occidental cultures. In this most controversial section of his Essai, which is often more philosophical than historical, his instincts were correct, even though the development of archeology and the social sciences have invalidated many of his conclusions. This work is dominated by Voltaire’s conviction that the Hebrew religion had bequeathed superstition, bigotry, and fanaticism to the Christians, whose own religion (according to Bayle) had caused more wars and shed more blood than any other.” (EP, Vol. VIII, p. 268)

Contemporary half calf. Spine with raised bands and six compartments with gilt decorations and lettering. Two small worm holes to front cover with both mottled board covers a bit worn. Old ink signature to front flyleaf. Small brown stain on fore edge of all pages – almost missing in center and most prominent in the back. It looks as if a page has been excised from between the TP and p. V. Overall, a lovely copy.

First Edition of Watts’ Famous Logick

WATTS , Issac. Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, with a Variety of rules to guard against Error, in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences., John Clark, Richard Hett et al., London, 1725. 1 blank leaf + TP + [i]-vi = Dedication + [vii]-[xiii] = Contents + [xiv] = Books by the same Author + 1-534 + [535]-[536] = Advertisement [i.e. Errata]; Tall 12mo. First Edition.

$1,500

Watts, the English theologian, was a follower of Malebranche. He is best known as a composer of hymns and the founder of modern English hymnody. His most widely known hymn is “Joy to the World.”

This educational work was used a basic textbook at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Yale well into the early 19th century. "Throughout the years between 1728 and 1785 the vogue of his Logick in institutions of higher learning does not appear to have slackened. When Jeremy Bentham attended Queens College, Oxford, in the first three years of the 1760s, the Logick was still in use as the standard English treatise in its field; but Bentham regarded it as 'Old Woman's logic.’'" (Howell, Eighteenth-Century British Logic and Rhetoric). Contemporary calf binding. The covers both have a gilt double rule and are worn and bumped. Recently rebacked in a nicely matched contemporary style with five bands and red label with gilt lettering. Some worming at the inside foot of pages 45-76 – but not affecting the text. Overall, a very pretty copy.

“A Work of Pure Genius, If There Is One”

WHITEHEAD, Alfred North. The Function of Reason, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1929. 1 blank leaf + half-title + TP + 1 leaf = Introductory Summary + [1]-72, Octavo. First Edition.

$150

Whitehead’s Louis Clark Vanexum Lectures delivered at Princeton in March of 1929. American philosopher, Charles Hartshorne, called this short book "a work of pure genius if there is one."

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“In fact the art of life is first to be alive, secondly to be alive in a satisfactory way, and thirdly to acquire and increase in satisfaction. It is at this point of our argument that we have to recur to the function of Reason, namely the promotion of the art of life…” (p. 5 of The Function of Reason).

Original brown boards with gilt lettering of title and author on front cover. Very slight wear to top of spine and in one tiny spot on front cover. Former owner’s ink inscription (“Barbara Jisus (?) / 1933-“) to inside front fly leaf. A lovely copy.

The Writer Who “Taught Philosophy to Speak German”

WOLFF , Christian. Philosophia practica universalis, methodo scientifica pertractata, (Practical Universal Philosophy, Using the Scientific Method), Rengeriana, Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1738-39. Volume 1: TP + 4 leaves (8 pp.) = Dedicatio + 7 leaves (14 pp.) = Præfatio + 1-592 + 10 leaves (19 pp.) = Index; Volume 2: TP + 5 leaves (10 pp.) = Dedicatio + 5 leaves (10 pp.) = Præfatio + 1-808 + 12 leaves (24 pp.) = Index + final blank, Quarto. First Edition.

$950

Little known today, Christian Wolff (1679-1754) was a Rationalist philosopher of the German Enlightenment who published over 26 titles, spanning more than 42 quarto volumes, with contributions primarily in the areas of mathematics and philosophy. He is often regarded as the central historical figure linking the philosophical systems of Leibniz and Kant. According to Kant – in the “Preface” to his Critique of Pure Reason – Wolff is “the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers.” Wolff's “strict method” in science, Kant explains, is predicated on “the regular ascertainment of principles, the clear determination of concepts, the attempt at strictness in proofs, and the prevention of audacious leaps in inferences.” If nothing else, Wolff has been credited as the first writer to “teach philosophy to speak German.”

Worn contemporary pasteboards with handwritten titles on the spines. Text is uncut and a bit browned in places. Title pages in red and black. Beautiful copies of these books.

INSCRIBED and Corrected by Wright

WRIGHT, Frances. England the Civilizer , 1848. First Edition. $450

[For a complete description of this book, see the WOMEN section of this catalog on page 11]

First Edition of an Early Address by Wright

WRIGHT, Frances. Introductory Address, 1829. First Edition. $350

[For a complete description of this book, see the WOMEN section of this catalog on page 11]

A Collection of Wright’s Popular Lectures

WRIGHT, Frances. Course of Popular Lectures, 1835. [1829], [1830], [1830], [1830]. Fifth Edition of Popular Lectures, First Editions of Supplement Course.

$400 [For a complete description of this book, see the WOMEN section of this catalog on page 11]

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accept checks (in U.S. currency) and wire transfers. Connecticut residents please add 6% sales tax. Payment in advance is required for first time clients. We can offer deferred billing to institutions. Shipping is not included in the

book price. Minimum domestic ground shipping is $5, with larger orders at cost. International air and surface shipments at cost. Title to all material remains with Athena Rare Books until receipt of payment in full.