Philosophy & Religion Books

Cambridge: University Press. Good+. 1702. Second Edition. Hardcover. Shewing, What is meant by Schism; That Schism is a Damnable Sin; That there is a Schism between the Establish'd Church of England, and the Dissenters; That this Schism is to be charged on the Dissenters side; That the Modern Pretences of Toleration, Agreement is Fundamentals and will not excuse the Dissenter's from being guilty of Schism. Written by way of Letter to thre Dissenting Ministers in Essex viz. Mr. Gilson & Mr. Gledhill of Colchester and Mr. Shepherd of Braintree. To which is annexed an answer to a Book intituled, Thomas against Bennet, or, The Protestand Dissenters Vindicated from the Charge of Schism. Bound in the original embosed leather. Spine with raised bands and intact title label. Light cover wear Front cover was professionally reattached. Page edges age toned. Rear free endpaper with a tiny top edge chip. Religion; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 207 pages .

t' Amsterdam: Hendrick vander Putte, Papier en Boekverkooper op't Water, in de Lootsman, [n.d.]. Vellum. Very Good+. Early eighteenth century edition (based on imprint) of the Dutch poet and politician's rhymed dissertations on marriage and conjugal fidelity, first published in Dordrecht, in 1637. 16mo (159 x 97mm): [44],673,[3]pp, with additional engraved title page to first work, two full-page portraits (of Anna Maria Schurmans and Jacob Cats), full-page allegorical engraving ("Het Derde Deel") and 51 half-page text engravings. Contemporary vellum, with "J. Cats" in manuscript to spine. Contemporary ownership inscriptions to fly leaves. Binding soiled but sound, pages and plates generally clean, with occasional browning, finger-soiling, and mild staining. Marginal loss to S3, affecting neither text nor the plate. Not in Landwehr or Praz. Cats was one of the distinguished writers of Holland's golden age, but his Orangist and Calvinistic opinions set him apart from the liberal school of Amsterdam… Read More

Tolouse: Dominici Desclassan, 1715. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to pp. [16], 538, [2]. Engraved frontispiece. Library blind stamp on title page and in margin of several leaves; ink stamp on bottom margin of frontispiece and inner margin of title. Interior contains scattered foxing, spotting and age-toning. A few marginal corners are clipped. Occasional minor tear neatly sealed. Bound in modern half brown calf with marbled boards. Juan Saguens, a scholar in the Order of Minims produced his "Atomismus demonstratus" in defense of Cartesian atomism. The book, written in dialogue form, was designed to counter the anti-Cartesian arguments of Francisco Palanco (1657-1720), a scholar also of the Order of Minims and a professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Salamanca. Palanco attacked Cartesian philosophy in the fourth tome of his work "Cursus Philosophicus" (Madrid, 1714). (See Randles, The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos 1500-1760, p. 206).

London: J. Johnson, 1794. First Edition . Calf / Boards. Very Good. 8 3/4" Tall. Xvi, 420 + 8 Pp Catalog At End, With "Errata" Pasted Onto Top Of Catalog. Original Quarter Calf, Red Morocco Spine Label, Wear At Edges With Fraying At Corners And Edges, Joints Cracked, Professionally Repaired; Binding Intact With Secure Hinges. Apparently Has Original Hinges, No Half-Title. No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates. First Printing, Prior To Three-Volume Collected Discourses Published 1794 - 1799, No Indication On Title Page Of Volume Number Or Where Speeches Given.

[s.l., Amsterdam?]: [s.n.], 1664. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. [48], 672. Re-backed, preserving period calf boards (rubbed with areas of darkening). Endpapers are tastefully renewed with laid paper. The inside front cover displays a remounted 19th century bookplate, ("The Hope Trust 31 Moray Place, Edinburgh"). A modern bookbinder’s ticket is pasted on the inner rear cover. Interior pages show occasional minor wear and ageing but are generally clean. A single word on page 43 is lightly underlined in an early hand; the bottom marginal corner tips on pages 99 and 395 are clipped. Page 533/34 contains a 25 mm. tear - professionally sealed. Bartolomeo Platina (1421-1481) was an Italian scholar. During the pontificate of Pope Paul II (1417-1471) Platina and other humanists were dismissed from their positions in the Roman College. Platina led a protest which ended with his imprisonment and torture. He was eventually exonerated. Later, Pope Sixtus IV appointed Platina to be the… Read More

London: Freedom Press, 1910. First English Edition Thus . Red Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. Frontispiece Portrait. 63 Pp + 1 Page Catalog Of 30 Titles Also Offered By Freedom, A Journal Of Anarchistic Communism. The Rear Cover Indicates Other Works Available From Freedom: Six By Kropotkin, Two By William Morris, One By Proudhon.With Important Additions And Revisions From The Tucker Translation, And Detailed Notes. The Preface Provides An Exact Explanation Of The Development Of This Text, Including Major Corrections And Additions. Red Paper Covers, Near New But Bumped And Split At Base Of Spine With Only A Tiny Loss Of Paper. Per Wikipedia, Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814 - 1876) Was A Russian Revolutionary Anarchist. He Is Among The Most Influential Figures Of Anarchism And A Major Figure In The Revolutionary Socialist, Social Anarchist, And Collectivist Anarchist Traditions. Bakunin's Prestige As A Revolutionary Also Made Him One Of The Most Famous Ideologues In Europe, Gaining Substantial… Read More

London: J. Murray (successor to Mr. Sandby), 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. The Fifth Edition, Corrected." [2], xv, [1], 406 p.; 21 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Lyttelton's Dialogues." Gilt-rolled board edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Very small stamp at foot of title page verso reading "Printed in Great Britain." The anonymous author of the majority of these dialogues, inspired by Lucian's dialogues, is George Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773); the last three dialogues are by Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800). Among the speakers are "a North-American Savage"; Ulysses; William Penn; Louise de Coligni, Princess of Orange; Alexander the Great; Cardinal Wolsey; Lucian; Hercules; and a "modern Bookseller" who complains to Plutarch about being nearly ruined by being unable to sell many copies of Plutarch's Lives, and saved by selling fiction -- "secret History,… Read More

Chicago: Clarendon Press, 1879. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 136, 152 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt, Green Endpapers."Belford, Clarke & Co." And Mdccclxxix Date On Title Page, Printers Information Of Donohue And Henneberry On Copyright Page, No Copyright Notice. Poorly Made Book Consisting Of "Socialism" And "Utilitarianism" Bound Together, This Being The First Hardcover Printing Of The "Socialism" Essay / Book, Extracted From The Fortnightly Review Together With The Preface By Helen Taylor Dated January 1879; Also The First Printing Of These Two Works Together. Scarce. Cloth Clean, Spine Very Slightly Darkened, With Wear At Edges, Just Beginning To Fray At Corners, Cover Gilt Brilliant But Beginning To Redden, Spine Gilt Weaker But Clear And Complete. Hinges Tight But Binding Cracked Before Title Page Of Utilitarianism, Indicating Perhaps The Books Were Perhaps First Printed Separately Before Being Bound Together, But No Separate Publication Of… Read More

London: Methuen & Co, 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xii, [1], 97 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. Posthumous Essay Providing His Last And Best Thoughts, His "Opening Of The Eyes". Fine In Fine Jacket, Not Price Clipped, Tiny Nickat Top Of Rear Spine Edge.

Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes for W. Morden 2nd edition corrected., 1673. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto original calf on boards, spine on 4 cords gilt titled on newer leather skilfully restored with corners underlaid, xxx (inc. titlepage & to reader) +512pp (inc. short booklist at end). A wide-margined crisp copy with side notes and with Hebrew and some Greek interpolations, each of the 11 sections has a separate half title leaf. *John Smith (1618-1652) was a theologian termed one of the "Cambridge Platonists" (WING S4118).

Herald Publishing House, 1892. Softcover. Good. Peter M. Hinds' brief, early history of Lamoni, Iowa, then headquarters of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (renamed The Community of Christ in 2001). Assuming RLDS leadership in 1860, Joseph Smith's eldest son Joseph Smith III sought to create a living Zion, and, to this end, Lamoni was selected for the grand experiment because of its rich soil and sparse settlement. It was the only town ever founded by the sect, and between 1870 and 1890 reigned as RLDS headquarters, becoming home to Smith III and the legendary Herald Publishing House. Bound in dark green cloth-covered wrappers embossed with cherubs and botanical elements. Includes two engravings and six photos, among these Smith III's house and the Herald Publishing House. 29 numbered pages plus unnumbered engraving and 4 pages of ads. Ads also appear inside front and back panels. Also includes an 8-page booklet of ads laid in with Park Addition ad to front… Read More

Paris: Aubier, 1951. First edition. Two volumes. Small octavo. Original wrappers. Minor edgewear to wrappers and spotting to front wrapper of Vol. II; one-inch closed tear to top of first two leaves of Vol. II; minor spotting to page block of Vol. II; both volumes bright and largely uncut. Inscribed by Gabriel Marcel on title page to Vol. I. Very good.. Inscribed first edition, two-volume set collecting Gabriel Marcel's (1889-1973) Gifford Lectures presented at the University of Aberdeen between 1949 and 1950 on the nature and purpose of philosophy, faith, and metaphysics in human life. Marcel was an influential French philosopher, playwright, and music critic who, in the tradition of Søren Kierkegaard, was also a renowned Christian existentialist. Marcel focused much of his thought on the displacement of the authentically human in an increasingly industrial and technological world and, like other existentialist thinkers of his time, sought to explain the roots of human alienation. The Mystery of… Read More

Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press. London. 1935. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 6 inches). Translated from the Russian by Oliver Fielding Clarke. Neat ink inscription to the front pastedown endpaper, possibly from the translator; "With affectionate greetings from Oliver." otherwise a fine clean copy throughout. Published black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. In the scarce original dustwrapper. A couple of chips to the top edge and the spine toned but generally in very good condition. A fine copy of the book in a very good dustwrapper. Originally published in Russian in 1927.

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Light wear to boards.. 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. 0195394283 . Navy boards. Entries written by various scholars and focussed on the teachings of a range of influential philosophers, from Pythagoras to Simone Weil. Each volume contains a bibliography and index. Volume one: Ancient Philosophy of Religion, xiv, 320pp; Volume two: Medieval Philosophy of Religion, xiv, 289pp; Volume three: Early Modern Philosophy of Religion, xv, 348pp; Volume four: xv, 333pp; Volume five: Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion, xv, 347pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

This book is"an Apollo astronaut's remarkable quest to reconcile science and religion in a self-organizing universe". The book is inscribed and autographed by Edgar Mitchell, who flew in the Apollo 14 spacecraft and is one of only twelve individuals who have set foot on a celestial body other than Earth.