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CORY, Isaac Preston [1802-1842].
Metaphysical Inquiry Into The Method Objects and Result of Ancient and Modern Philosophy.
London: William Pickering, 1833..
small 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 222, [1]. with half-title. original cloth, rebacked. First Edition.
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COTTA, Sergio.
Giustificazione E Obligatorietà Delle Norme.
Milan: Dott. A Giuffrè Editore, 1981..
8vo. pp. vii, 156. untrimmed in original printed wrs. Very good (crease to corner of front wr.). Signed Presentation copy to American philosopher Alan Gewirth. First Edition.
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[DANIEL, Gabriel] [1649-1667].
Réponse Aux Lettres Provinciales De L. De Montalte. Ou Entretiens De Cléandre Et D'Eudoxe.
Amsterdam: Donato Donati, 1697..
12mo. pp. 2 p.l., 414. woodcut title vignette & ornaments. contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt back (bit rubbed, lacking free-endpapers). Second Edition under this title of Daniel's reply to Blaise Pascal's Lettres Provinciales (originally published as Entretiens De Cléandre Et D'Eudoxe, 1694). The work was much admired by the Jesuits. Barbier IV 305. cfCioranescu 23368.
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[DANIEL, Gabriel] [1649-1738].
Viage De El Mundo De Des-Cartes.Traducido Por Don Juan Baptista de Ybarra. Segunda Edición Añadida En Más De Una tercera parte.
Madrid: Royal Press, [c1745]..
4to. pp. 2 p.l., 432. woodcut ornaments & initials. numerous text diagrams. contemporary limp vellum (several institutional rubberstamps, some light foxing & browning, some staining to prelims & upper margins of a few leaves, worming in lower blank margins of gatherings O-X affecting one or two letters in several instances). Second Enlarged Edition of the Spanish Translation of Daniel's Voiage Du Monde De Descartes (Paris: 1690). De Backer-Sommervogel II 1797. Palau 68271n. cfCioranescu 23362. cfRand I p. 176. cfWellcome II p. 429.
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[DELISLE DE SALES, Jean Baptiste Claude Isoard, known as] [1739-1816].
De La Philosophie De La Nature, Ou Traité De Morale Pour L'Espèce Humaine, Tiré de la Philosophie & fondé sur la nature. Troisième Édition.
London [Amsterdam?]: 1778..
6 Volumes. 12mo. woodcut tailpieces. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (joints cracked, spine ends worn, 2 labels wanting). Delisle De Sales was an avid book collector and a prolific author. Apparently the present work passed relatively unnoticed until it was prosecuted by the French civil authorities, after which it became immensely popular. The author attracted the sympathy of Voltaire during his imprisonment. Prefixed to the main text is an appraisal by Helvétius. cfBarbier III 876. cfCioranescu 22809-11. cfQuérard II 457 (citing 3rd edn. in 8vo. format dated 1777).
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DENSLOW, Van Buren [1834-1902].
Modern Thinkers Principally Upon Social Science: What They Think, and Why.With An Introduction By Robert G.Ingersoll.
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1880..
8vo. pp. xxxii, [33]-384. 8 wood-engraved portraits (incl. frontis.). original black & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities frayed, stain to lower rear joint). First Edition. Including chapters on Emanuel Swedenborg, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Paine, Charles Fourier, Herbert Spencer, Ernst Haeckel, and Auguste Comte. The articles were originally separately published in The Chicago Times.
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DESCARTES, René [1596-1650].
Les Passions De L'Âme.
Paris: Théodore Girard, 1679..
12mo. pp. xlviii, 282. woodcut ornaments, initials & title vignette. contemporary calf, gilt back (head of spine worn). Later edition of Descartes' exposition of the causal relations between mind (soul) and body. "Descartes believed the soul [which he situated in the pineal gland] to be a definite entity, giving rise to thoughts, feelings, and acts of volition. He was one of the first to regard the brain as an organ integrating the functions of mind and body." (Garrison & Morton) Guibert pp. 168-69. cfBrunet II 611. cfCioranescu 23946. cfGarrison & Morton 4965. cfGraesse II 364. cfHunter & Macalpine pp. 133-34. cfRand I p. 174. cfTchemerzine IV 302. cfWellcome II p. 453.
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DESCARTES, René [1596-1650].
Opera Philosophiae. Editio Ultima, nunc demum hac Editione diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata. [General Title].
Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1685..
5 Parts in 1. 4to. pp. 22 p.l.(the last blank), 222, [blank leaf]; [8 leaves], 248; [12 leaves], 92, [4]; [8 leaves - the last blank], 191; 164, 88. engraved frontis. portrait. numerous woodcuts in the text. woodcut device on titles. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary vellum. Seventh Edition. Descartes' philosophical works, comprising: Principia Philosophiae; Specimena Philosophiae: Seu Dissertatio De Methodo.Dioptrice, Et Meteora.; Passiones Animae.; Meditationes De Prima Philosophia.; and Appendice Continens Obiectiones Quintas & Septimas In Renati Descartes Meditationes De Prima Philosophia. by Gisbert Voet, which contains Descartes' Epistola.Ad celeberrimum Virum D. Gisbertum Voetium. "It is no exaggeration to say that Descartes was the first of modern philosophers and one of the first modern scientists; in both branches of learning his influence has been vast.The revolution he caused can be most easily found in his reassertion of the principle (lost in the Middle Ages) that knowledge, if it is to have any value, must be intelligence and not erudition. His application of modern arithmetic to ancient geometry created the analytical geometry which is the basis of the post-Euclidean development of that science. His statement of the elementary laws of matter and movement in the physical universe, the theory of vortices, and many other speculations threw light on every branch of science from optics to biology.". (Printing and the Mind of Man) Guibert p. 232. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 129.
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DIDEROT, [Denis] [1713-1784].
Collection Complette Des Oeuvres Philosophiques, Littéraires Et Dramatiques.
London: 1773.
5 Volumes. 8vo. with half-titles in Vols. II-V. folding table. 10 engraved plates. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (several joints cracked, extremties rubbed, a few gatherings foxed). Included are four works which are not by Diderot: Le Code de la Nature by Morelly, Les Principes de Philosophie Morale by Étienne Beaumont, La Justification de Plusieurs Articles de l'Encyclopédie by Abbé Monlinot, and Lettre au P. Berthier sur le Matérialisme by Abbé Coyer. Quérard II 455. Tchemerzine IV 462.
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[DIDEROT, Denis] [1713-1784].
Le Fils Naturel, Ou Les Preuves De La Vertu, Comédie En Cinq Actes, Et En Prose.
Amsterdam [i.e. Paris: Prault fils aîné], 1757..
8vo. pp. ix, [10]-299. contemporary mottled calf , gilt back (binding, damage to corners & spine ends). First Edition of the first of Diderot's two plays. "The publication of the Fils Naturel occasioned an uproar.[It] was sufficently novel - in techniques of staging and acting as well as new emphases in character analysis and intellectural content - to make it controversial.The plays of Diderot were in sober fact revolutionary, not merely in an aesthetic sense but also in a political one. The motivations, the values, the morality, the self-evident truths set forth in the Fils Naturel and the Père de Famille were those of a new social class just beginning to feel its own power and to respect its own intutions. it is impossible to say anything more cogent about Diderot's plays than to repeat what Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America. 'If you would judge beforehand,' he remarked, 'of the literature of a people which is lapsing into democracy, study its dramatic productions.The tastes and propensities natural to democratic nations, in respect to literature, will therefore first be discernible in drama, and it may be foreseen that they will break out there with vehemence.' (Arthur M. Wilson, Diderot, pp. 261-62) Diderot sought to reform the theatre in three principal ways, by giving it greater realism through an emphasis on stage settings, the use of explicit stage directions, and increased use of pantomime and gesture, by creating what he called domestic and bourgeois tragedy, and by making theatre a vehicle for inspiring virtuous conduct. Many of these theoretical aspects were dealt with in the accompanying Discours sur la Poésie Dramatique. The play was published anonymously although everyone knew Diderot was the author mainly because of some remarks concerning heaven and the ways of its providence that prevented the work from being published under public licence. Adams FN1. Tchemerzine IV p. 447. Cioranescu 24091 (incorrectly referring to 12mo. format).
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[DIDEROT, Denis] [1713-1784].
Le Père De Famille, Comédie En Cinq Actes, Et En Prose, Avec Un Discours Sur La Poésie Dramatique.
Amsterdam [i.e. Paris: Michel Lambert], 1758..
2 Parts in 1. 8vo. pp. xxix, 220; xii, 195. contemporary mottled calf, gilt back (front joint cracked & tender, chipping to spine ends). First Edition of the second of Diderot's two dramatic works. "As one biographer of Diderot has remarked, it is only in the eighteenth century that a situation like this would be likely to occur: a married man's unmarried mistress and his friend, the bachelor of another man's wife, are invoked as the twin inspirations of a play, the purpose of which is to glorify the family." (see Arthur M. Wilson, Diderot, p. 328) As with his first play, Le Fils Naturel, Le Père de Famille was printed with an additional text discussing theoretical aspects of the theatre and theatrical production, here the Discourse on Dramatic Poetry with separate title and pagination. "In his several chapters Diderot dealt with such subjects as plot, dialogue, incident, the different kinds of plays, characterization, division of a play into acts and scenes, stage decorations, costumes, pantomime, and gestures, and, most important of all, the social function of the theatre.[The discourse] embraced some of the greatest and most abiding themes - of the nature of genius and the criteria of taste; of the function of the artist; and, most of all, of the good, the beautiful, and the true. Nor was this all.[Diderot also hoped tha]t "all of the imitative arts would adopt a common purpose and one day co-operate with the laws in making us love virtue and hate vice." (Ibid., p. 331) Adams P1. Tchemerzine IV p. 448. Cioranescu 24151.
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DOUGLAS, James (of Cavers).
The Philosophy Of The Mind.
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black & London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839..
8vo. pp. iv, 387, [1]ads. Untrimmed in original cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (covers soiled, spine label chipped). First Edition. Jessop p. 120. Rand II 1129.
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EDGEWORTH, Maria [1767-1849] & R[ichard] L[ovell] [1744-1817].
Essays On Practical Education.In Two Volumes.
London: Printed for J.Johnson & Co. 1811..
8vo. pp. xv, [1], 491, [1]ads; 2 p.l., 501, [1]ads. 3 engraved plates (1 folding). contemporary calf, rebacked (bit rubbed, library rubberstamps on verso of titles, bookplates, plates bit spotted & folding plate with short tear along fold - no loss). Third Edition. The first in a long series of collaborative literary efforts by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his famous daughter, Maria. Edgeworth, who incidentally was married four times and fathered nineteen children, was a pioneer of child study and experimental methods of teaching. Inspired by Rousseau, along whose principles Edgeworth had brought up his eldest son, but based on a scientific examination of childish methods of thought as recorded in actual conversations with the Edgeworth children at various stages of their development, the Essays were quite distinct from other pedagogical works of the time. The chapters on special subjects of study, chronology, geometry, &c., were written by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, those on toys, rewards and punishments, temper, &c., by Maria. NCBEL III 666.
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ELLIS, Havelock [1859-1939].
Psychology Of Sex The Biology Of Sex - The Sexual Impulse In Youth - Sexual Deviation - The Erotic Symbolisms - Homosexuality - Marriage - The Art Of Love A Manual For Students.
London: William Heinemann (Medical Books) Ltd. 1933..
8vo. pp. xii, 322. tipped-in errata slip. original cloth. dw. (edges of dw. bit tatty). First Edition.
$173 USD Book Number: PLIycELL5 Order / Enquire
ENGELS, Friedrich [1820-1895].
Sotsializm nachnyi I utopichiskii. [Socialism Scientific and Utopian].
St. Petersburg: 1907..
8vo. pp. 39, [1]blank, viii. self-wrs. (edges slightly tatty). This is the only Russian-language edition listed on Worldcat with only one copy located, at the Berlin State Library. The first Russian edition predated 1892 according to the preface to the English translation published that year.
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