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Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1869. First Edition. In an attractive Zaehnsdorf binding. Three quarters blue calf and marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt to spine. Bookplate of Lord Battersea (Cyril Flower) to front pastedown. This book of social and political criticism was, at its time, seen as quite controversial. Binding is a little rubbed. Foxing to front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and not foxed. lx + 272pp. 21 x 15 cm.
Book ID: 2923More details Price: £250.00 -
Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inégalité parmi les hommes
Book ID: 3729More details Price: £125.00 -
Érasme: Étude sur sa vie et ses ouvrages.
Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1874. Original soft back covers. Pages uncut. Text in French. xvi + 457 + [2] pp. Covers slightly darkened and fragile at the edges. Sporadic foxing and some soiling to a few page edges. Overall in a very good condition. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches). Original soft back covers. Pages uncut. Text in French. xvi + 457 + [2] pp. Covers slightly darkened and fragile at the edges. Sporadic foxing and some soiling to a few page edges. Overall in a very good condition. 230 x 140 mm
Book ID: 2694More details Price: £35.00 -
Euphormionis Lusinini, Sive Satyricon, in sex partes dispertitum, et notis illustratum, cum clavi. Accessit Conspiratio Angelicana. Editio nova.
Book ID: 2674More details Price: £90.00 -
Giambattista Vico als philosoph und gelehrter forschen. Neue ausgabe
Wien [Vienna]: Wilhelm Braumuller, 1881. Original pale blue paper wraps. Text in kurrent / Sütterlin German throughout. Some pages uncut. 330 pages. 230 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches). Giambattista Vico (1668 -1744) was an Italian philosopher of history and law who dealt with the rise and decline of civilizations.
Condition: A touch of darkening to the pale blue wrapper. No significant wear. Slight foxing to pages, but in very good condition overall.
Book ID: 2682More details Price: £50.00 -
La guerre civile en France 1871. (la Commune de Paris)
Book ID: 3549More details Price: £20.00 -
The Hite Report On Women Loving Women
London: Arcadia Books Ltd, 2007. First Edition. Hardback in black cloth. Original photographic dust jacket. This report is an exploration of the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, sisters, friends, colleagues, leaders, and lovers. An insight in to why relationships between women can often end in acrimony. Book and unclipped dust jacket in very good to fine condition. 213 pages. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3394More details Price: £20.00 -
The Philosophy of Bergson
Cambridge: Published for "The Heretics" by Bowes and Bowes, 1914. First edition. In 1911, Bergson had visited Britain for a series of lectures which led to his increasing popularity. In this, Bertrand Russell writes critically of his work - having first attended Bergson's lecture at University College London. 36 (1) pp.
230 mm x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches). Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941) was a French-Jewish philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until WW2. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science, for understanding reality.Condition: In blue/grey paper covers, with small loss to bottom right of front. Spine is a little chipped with a tear to the top. Internally clean, with some page darkening.
Book ID: 2249More details Price: £50.00 -
Truth and Truthfulness. An Essay in Genealogy
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. The philosopher Bernard Williams explores what it means to be truthful with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket. 328 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3461More details Price: £30.00 -
Two copies of The Aquinas Society of London Aquinas Papers
London: Blackfriars Publications, 1954 & 1953. No. 18: The Meaning of Existentialism (reprint 1954) 18 pp. 215 x 140 mm (8½ x 5½ inches).
No. 9: Existentialism and Modern Man (reprint 1953) 28 pp. 215 x 140 mm (8½ x 5½ inches).
Publisher's original stapled blue card covers.Condition: Toned at edges, otherwise both in a very good condition.
Book ID: 2353More details Price: £15.00 -
Voiage du monde de Descartes / Suite du voyage du monde de Descartes our Nouvelles difficultez proposees a l'auteur du Voyage du Monde de Descartes Two volumes bound as one
Book ID: 3675More details Price: £450.00