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The First Philosophers of Greece; An Edition and Translation of the Remaining Fragments of the Pre-Sokratic Philosophers, Together with a....
Fairbanks, ArthurLondon: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. LTD, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [4], 2-300 pp. Navy cloth with boards ruled in blind, gold lettering on the spine. Greek text on the left, English translation and commentary on the right. Philosophers from the Ionic and Eleatic schools are.....
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Russell, BertrandLondon: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [2], 2-234, [2] pp. Bound in maroon cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Lacks the dust jacket. Russell today remains one of the most significant philosophers and logicians of the twentieth century, and was.....
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Victorian Women Chromolithograph Calendar
[Victorian Women; Calendars; Chromolithography]Chicago: The Winters Co., 1896. Sheets. Chromolithograph calendar, 4 chromolithograph sheets. 8” x 11.25” (or 20 cm by 29 cm). Each drawing has a lady dressing for winter, spring, summer, and fall (in the latest fashion of the day). The winter sheet was a supplement to the Boston Herald, issued.....
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Man and Wife
Collins, WilkieNew York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1870. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 239, [1], 3 and [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text drawings. Andrew Gasson, "Man and Wife" (accessed 7/27/2020). Parrish 80. The first American trade edition.....
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A Tramp Abroad
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xvi, 17-631, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated by two frontispieces, several full-page illustrations, and numerous in-text illustrations (in all 328.....
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Ismailia; A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Supppression of the Slave Trade
Baker, Sir Samuel W.London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-viii, [1], 2-447, [2], 2-55 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1]; [3], vi-viii, [1], 2-588 pp. Green cloth with a gold rule on each board, decorations in gold on the front boards with gold lettering and decorations on the.....
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The Peasant War in Germany
Engels, FriedrichNew York: International Publishers, 1926. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-191, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements) pp. Navy cloth with the front board ruled in blind, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $1.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a wood engraving on the.....
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Creative Evolution
Bergson, HenriNew York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], v-xv, 407, [3] pp. Blue cloth with gilt rules and lettering on the spine. Lacks the dust jacket. Translated and with an introduction by Arthur Mitchell. Gunter 133; 43. Bergson was an influential figure in early.....
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Oeuvres Philosophiques de Descartes, Publiées, D'Après les Textes Originaux [= Philosophical Works of Descartes, Published after the Original Texts]
Descartes, RenéParis: Librairie Classique et Élémentaire de L. Hachette, 1835. Later edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [5], ii-clxiv, [3], 4-469, [5]; [5], ii-xl, [3], 4-560, [6]; [5], ii-xxxiii, [8], 8-456, [4]; [5], ii-xl, [3], 4-464, [6] pp. Mid-nineteenth century pebbled green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on each spine. Marbled.....
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Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization
VariousNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 832 pp. Bound in brown leather over light brown cloth, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and gilt rules, black and white patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Heavily illustrated by some of the finest American illustrators of the era including.....
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La Voix et Le Phénomène [= The Voice and the Phenomenon]; Introduction au problème du signe dans la phénoménologie de...
Derrida, JacquesParis: Presses Universitaires de France, 1967. First edition. Wraps. Small 4to. [5], 117, [2] pp. Printed, stiff yellow wrappers with lettering in black and orange, decorations in blind, and a black and orange decoration of Epimetheus and Pandora on the front wrapper, spine lettered in black. Other publications of the.....
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The Orations of Demosthenes: Pronounced to Excite the Athenians Against Philip, King of Macedon
Demosthenes; Thomas Leland, [Tr.]London: Printed for Baynes and Son, 1824. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xviii, [1], 20-519, [5] pp. Contemporary calf with the spine in six compartments, a black morocco label on the spine, gilt decorations on the boards and spine; all edges decoratively stained yellow. Marbled endpapers. Brueggemann and Moss only.....