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Refreshing new insights and ideas View picture(s) 1 ABAT, Bonaventure. Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathematiques. Amsterdam, for Jean Mossy, Marseille, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title label lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. XXXII, 564, 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare edition of an interesting collection of works by Arrian View picture(s) 2 ARRIAN(US), Lucius Flavius. [Title in Greek & Latin] Ars tactica, aciers contra Alanos periplus Ponti Euxini, periplus Maris Erytraei, Liber de venatione, Epicteti Enchiridion, ejusdem Apopthegmata et fragmenta, quae in Joannis Stobaei Florilegio, et in Agelli noctibus Atticis supersunt. um interpretationibus Latinis, & notis ex reccensione & museo Nicolai Blancardi. Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arksteus & Merkus, 1750. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (dated Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesbergen, 1683), 2 folding engraved maps of the Indian Ocean (397 x 467mm), and the Black Sea (170 x 215mm), and folding engraved battle plan (265 x 412mm), 4 full-page and 7 half-page engraved battle plans in text, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Facing Greek and Latin texts. (14, incl. frontispiece), 450, (4, Errata) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Printing [Greek]  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two first Plantin editions of two classical epigrammatists bound together in contemporary tooled pigskin View picture(s) 3 AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus. D. Magni Ausonii Burdigalensis opera a Theod. Pulmanno Craneburgio in meliorem ordinem restituta, correcta, & scholiis illustrata: adiectis Graecis quibusdam epigrammatibus, ut conferri cum Latinis possint. Cum Latina Graecorum interpretatione, & duplice indice. Antwerp, C. Plantijn, 1568 (colophon: printed November 1567). 2 works in one. 16mo. Contemporary panelled pigskin over wooden bevelled boards, ribbed spine, both covers with blind stamped roll with the personifications of 'Fides', 'Fortit(udo)', and 'Carita(s)' around a central panel with decorated roll, original brass clasps and catches. Sm. woodcut printer's device on title. (16), 359, (25, 3 last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Philology  Philosophy  Plantin  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Written for the benefit of mankind View picture(s) 4 BACON, Francis. Sermones fideles, ethici, politici, oeconomici; sive interiora rerum. Accedunt faber fortunae colores boni et mali, &c. Leyden, Franciscus Hackius, 1644. 2 works in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with two clasps, red edges. Engraved title. (2), 5-416, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Philosophy  Politics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare third edition of the first translation into Italian, with the coat of arms of the Gaetani family on both covers View picture(s) 5 BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius. Di consolatione philosophica volgare, nuovamente revisto & di molti errori porgato opera al tutto dignissima eccellente & bella. Don Anselmo Tanzo al pio lettore. Varie en le voglie, i stati & il valore ... (sonnet by A. Tanzo). Colophon: Venice, Marchio Sessa, December 1531. 8vo. 17th-century full green morocco, gilt title on spine, double gilt filets along edges and gilt central crowned coat-of-arms incorporating the arms of the GAETANI (or CAETANI) family on both sides, interesting paper pastedowns with stamped and coloured floral decoration, red painted edges. Title and fol. B1r within woodcut typographical border, some woodcut initials of which one historiated. (8), 104 lvs. [Collation: A-O8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition in the desirable large 4to issue of the Complete Works of one of the fathers of modern biology View picture(s) 6 BONNET, Charles. Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie. Collection complette des oeuvres de Charles Bonnet. Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche, 1779-83. 8 vols. 4to. Uniformly bound in full contemporary calf, richly gilt spines with two green morocco title-labels lettered in gold, gilt border along the edges, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, blue endpapers, g.e. With engraved vignettes on titles, many head- and end-pieces (some by Bradt), one folding and 55 full-page engraved plates, some signed by Billé and R.B... (4), XXXII, (4), 1-114, (8), 115-574, (2); (4), II, 524, (2); (4), IV, VII-XVI, 579, 2; (4), XX, 396; (4), IV, 396; (6), XXIV, 422, 215/6, 425-428; (4), II, VIII, 698; (4), XIV, 509 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Natural History  Philosophy  Switzerland  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First modern treatise on oceanography View picture(s) 7 BOTERO, Giovanni. Aggiunte fatte. Rome, Presso Giorgio Ferrari, 1598. 6 works in one vol. 4to. 18th century vellum, spine with gilt ornaments. Woodcut on title which is repeated on every title-page. (22), (2), 72, 46, (2), 32, 16, 14, (2), 32 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Economy  History  Law  Oceanography  Philosophy  Politics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A close friend of Montaigne on morality: into the breath for freedom of thought! View picture(s) 8 CHARRON, Pierre. De la sagesse, trois livres. Leiden, Jean Elzevier, ca. 1659. 12mo. 19th century green morocco, ribbed spine with title and imprint lettered in gold, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved allegorical frontispiece. (24), 1-264, 295-366, 377-621, (12), (3 lvs. blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Elzevier  France  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a work against all religions by 'L'une des figures les plus curieuses de la Révolution' View picture(s) 9 CLOOTS (or CLOOTZ), dit Ana(r)charsis, Jean Baptist de. La certitude des preuves du mahométisme, ou réfutation de l'examen critique des apologistes de la réligion mahométane. Par Ali-Gier-Ber, Alfaki. London (= Holland, probably Amsterdam), 1780. Sm.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, with red title-label, gilt binding edges. (4), 1-336, 313*-336*, 313**-330**, 337-636 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Hebraica & Judaica  Islamitica  Philosophy  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First translation of Confucius, with appendix on I-ching View picture(s) 10 CONFUCIUS. Le Chou-King, un des livres sacrés des Chinois, ... traduit & enrichi de notes, par feu le P. Gaubil, ... Revu & corrigé ..., accompagné de nouvelles notes, de planches gravées en taille-douce & d'additions ... par M. de Guignes, ... On y joint un discours ... & une notice de l'Y-King, ... Paris, N.M. Tillard, 1770. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled edges and endpapers, green ribbon marker. With 4 engraved plates, a part-title to the appendix on the I-Ching, about 20 woodcut head- and tailpieces (plus repeats) and headpieces built up from cast fleurons. [3], [1 blank], CXLIV, 474, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: China  History  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of the great book collector Gomez de la Cortina View picture(s) 11 DAMIRON, Jean Philibert. Mémoire sur Naigeon et accessoirement sur Sylvain Maréchal et Delalande par M. Damiron. Lu à l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Paris, A. Durand, 1857 (printed in Orléans by Colas Gardin) Large 8vo. Contemporary buckram, spine gilt, gilt coat of arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina on sides. 126, (1, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very fine large paper set View picture(s) 12 DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus. De natuurkunde uit ondervindingen opgemaakt. Uit het  Engels. Amsterdam, I. Tirion, 1746-51. 3 vols. 4to. Marbled calf, spine gilt, centre-piece and double border gilt on sides, gilt edges. With 114 folding plates. (24), 483, (25); (16), 510, (2); (8), 250, (66) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Manuals  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The principal works of René Descartes View picture(s) 13 DESCARTES, René. Principia philosopiæ. Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650. 4to. Contemporary speckled calf. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts in the text. (40), 302 [= 292] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Descartes  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work which drew the attention of Voltaire and Turgot View picture(s) 14 DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel du. Philosophie de l'univers. Troisième édition. Augmentée de plusieurs notes, et d'une table des matières. Paris, Goujon fils, Fructidor an VII (1799). 8vo. Later half calf, spine gilt with title lettered in gold on red morocco label, speckled edges. Full-page engraved author's portrait for frontispiece by I.J Cathelin after J. Ducreux. 339 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  France  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Seventeenth century prize book & certificate from the Latin School at Leiden View picture(s) 15 EPICTETUS. Enchiridium, unà cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Graecè & Latinè: ex recensione Abrahami Berkelii, cum ejusdem animadversionibus & notis: quibus acc. notae Wolfii, Casauboni, Caselii & aliorum, cum Graeca paraphrasi. Leiden & Amsterdam, Ex Off. Daniel, Abraham & Adriaan à Gaasbeek, 1670. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with blind double ruling and corner pieces and a large gilt-stamped figure of Minerva, holding an escutcheon with the coat-of-arms of the city of Leyden, and underneath lettered "Lugd. Bata.", in centre on both covers. With richly designed frontispiece including the full-length portrait of Epictetus, and beautiful large folding allegorical plate, both etched by one of the most celebrated print makers of the late seventeenth century, Romeyn de Hooghe and dated '1670'. (24), 250, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Leyden  Philosophy  Prize Binding  Romeyn de Hooghe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the biography of Erasmus, including hitherto unplushing letters by Erasmus View picture(s) 16 ERASMUS, Desiderius & Petrus SCRIVERIUS (ed.). Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis æqualibus fideliter descripta; accedunt epistolæ illvstres plus quam septuaginta, quas ætate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent. P. Scriverii, & fautorum auspicijs. Leyden, G. Basson, 1615. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut roundel with portrait of Erasmus on leaf 5, woodcut initials. (24), 286, (2 blank). Collation: *12, A-M12 (M12 blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Erasmus  History  Philosophy  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Erasmus on the Latin language: two basic texts in a very attractive contemporary binding View picture(s) 17 ERASMUS, Desiderius. De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commenratii duo. Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, August 1521. 8vo. Contemporary full blind tooled calf with ornamental rolls with four different 'heads-in-medaillions' within fillet frames on both covers; the centre of both, the front and back cover tooled with different separate stamps with floral motives. Titles in ink written on the spine (upside down in the third and fourth compartment); later paper label with written title pasted to the second compartment; holes for the ties; title also written on fore-edge. Title printed in woodcut border with Schoeffer's printer's device in the lower part; six beautiful woodcut initials (7-11 lines). (16), 248 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Education  Erasmus  Humanism  Humanists  Philology  Philosophy  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive notes on Cicero's Philippics by an Italian philologist, printed by Paulus Manutius View picture(s) 18 FERRARIUS, Hieronymus (Girolamo FERRARI). Ad Paulum Manutium emendationes in Philippicas Ciceronis. Venice, Paulus Manutius, (March) 1542. 8vo. Later vellum, spine raised in compartments with title lettered in ink, pastedowns of gilt paper with blue floral decorations. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. [126] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best edition of the important biography of De Peiresc View picture(s) 19 GASSENDI, Pierre. Viri illustris Nicolai Claudij Fabricij de Peiresc, senatoris Aquisextiensis vita. Editio tertia; auctior, correctior, & distinctior. The Hague, Adriaen Vlacq, 1655. 4to. Contemporary full calf, triple blind filets along edges of sides, blind ruled spine, speckled edges. Title in red & black with woodcut vignette, full-page engraved portrait of De Peiresc in collation, some small woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. (8), 300 (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Biography  French  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Criticism impossible to publish in France View picture(s) 20 GAZON D'OURXIGNÉ, Sébastien- Marie-Mathurin. Essai historique et philosophique sur les principaux ridicules des differentes nations. Suivi de quelques poesies nouvelles. Par M. G... Dourx... Amsterdam (= Paris?), Chez Rey, 1766. 2 parts in one volume. 12o. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt & ribbed spine with black title label lettered in gold, central gilt arms of M.J. Diodati, dark green sprinkled edges. (4), 152; (2), 80 p. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Anthropology  Bindings  Philosophy  Politics  Social Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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