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The largest, best argumented and most philosophical summary of Newtonian science View picture(s) 21 GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob 's. Elemens de physique, demontrez mathematiquement et confirmez par les experiences; ou introduction à la philosophie Newtonienne: ouvrage traduit du Latin par Elie de Joncourt. Leyden, Jean Arn. Langerak, Jean et Herman Verbeek, 1746. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt with red title-labels, blue marbles edges. With numerous figures, diagrams and illustrations of experiments in physics on 127 folding engraved plates. (2), LXXIII, (1 blank), 534; (14), 460, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Perspective  Philosophy  Physics  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first, best and most complete edition View picture(s) 22 HOBBES, Thomas, Elemens philosophiques de citoyen. raicté politique, où les fondemens de la societé civile sont descouverts ... traduicts en François par un de ses amis. Amsterdam, Joan Bleau, 1649. 8vo. Contemporary mottles calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt binding edges, red speckled edges. With the printer's orrery device on title, an engraved allegorical title ("Les fondemens de la politique"), and the full-page portrait of Hobbes opposite his dedication to the count of Devonshire, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. (64), 246, (2, blank), 144, (16) pp. Collation: *-3*8, 4*-5*4, A-P8, Q4, 2A-2K8. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  English  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Horace in the (partly first) Italian translation by Lodovico Dolce View picture(s) 23 HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus. I dilettevoli sermoni, altrimenti satire, e le morali epistole, insieme con la poetica. Ridotte da M. Lodovico Dolce dal poema Latino in versi sciolti volgari. Con la vita di Horatio. Origine della Satira. Discorso sopra le Satire. Discorso sopra le Epistole. Discorso sopra la Poetica. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1559. 8vo. Marbled paper wrappers. Woodcut printer's device on title, large woodcut illustration (variant of Ferrari's printer's device of an eagle staring at the sun with the motto 'Semper Eadem') on the recto of the last leaf (verso blank; Marques typogr. de G. Giolito: Ascarelli, nrs 119 et 123), woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. 318, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Italy  Philosophy  Poetry  Satire  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The orations and letters of the famous Greek philosopher Isocrates from Athens View picture(s) 24 ISOCRATES. Orationes et epistolae. (In Greek). Venice, Petrus Nicolinus Sabiensus for M. Sessa, 1549. 8vo. Later half calf with black title-label on spine. Woodcut printer's device on title, many woodcut initials throughout text. 276 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the last great work by the famous German original philosopher View picture(s) 25 KANT, Immanuel. Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst. Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798. Orig. boards. XIV, 334 (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anthropology  Philosophy  Printing and the Mind of Man  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A ferocious attack on Descartes by a follower of Voetius View picture(s) 26 KOELMAN, Jacobus. Het vergift van de Cartesiaansche philosophie grondig ontdekt. En meest historischer wijze, uit de schriften van des Cartes zelfs, en van andere schrijvers, zo voor als tegen hem, getrouwelijk aangeweezen. Amsterdam, Johannes Boekholt, 1692. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. (32), 669, (34) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Descartes  Philosophy  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A very nice set of 12 of Lipsius's most important works on Ancient Roman history, together with his 'Mirror of Princes' and his letters, all published during his lifetime by Joan. Moretus View picture(s) 27 LIPSIUS, Justus. Collection of 12 important works uniformly bound in contemporary blind tooled pigskin, in 3 vols. Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Joannes Moretus, 1596-1605. 3 vols. Large 4to. Original blind tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards (bound shortly after 1605), with three different rolls around a central panel with decorative roll, divided by triple lines: (1) roll with 4 scenes from the life of Christ with the captions 'Satisfa', 'Hic est', 'Ecce ag(nus Dei)', and 'Iustifi'; (2): roll with 4 portraits of Paul, David, and Christ with 4 captions: 'Apparuit benignit(as)', 'Ecce agnu(s) Dei qui to(llit)' (=Gospel acc. to John, I:29); 'Data est mihi omn(is)' (=Gospel acc. to Matth. I:18, and 'De fructu ventrist(uo)' (=Psalm 131:11); (3) roll with 4 different small portraits in roundels with coats-of-arms; the original brass clasps on leather thongs and catches, ribbed spines, two of them with two slips of yellow paper with the titles of Lipsius's works written in a neat Humanistic hand. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antiques  Classical Antiquity  History  Philosophy  Plantin  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Shining examples View picture(s) 28 LOON, Sophia van. Nuttige voorbeelden, bijeengezameld. Gouda, G.B. van Goor, (ca. 1850). Sm.8vo. Orig. lithographed boards, with illustration of a little bird on front cover. With 4 full-page lithographed plates, all nicely coloured by hand. VI, (2), 72 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art  Biography  Education  Painting & Drawing  Philosophy  Poetry  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only Aldine edition of three astronomical treatises View picture(s) 29 MACROBIUS, Theodosius Ambrosius and CENSORINUS. In somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis VI libro de rep. eruditissima explanatio. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Censorinus De die natalia, additis ex vetusto exemplari nonnullis, quae desiderabantur. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Torressano, April 1528. 8vo. 19th-century blind-ruled brown calf. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf, some astronomical woodcuts and a world-map in text. [6], [2 blank], 322, [1 blank], [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  World Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Bible of materialism. The book that provoked even Voltaire to reply in defence of religion View picture(s) 30 MIRABAUD (= HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'). Système de la nature. Ou des loix du monde physique & du monde moral. London (= Amsterdam), (no publ.), 1770 2 parts in one. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders along the edges of the boards, gilt spine with green morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. (12), 366; (4), 408 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Diderot  Enlightenment  France  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy of the Count's doctoral thesis in a very elegant binding View picture(s) 31 OETTINGEN-WALLERSTEIN, Count Franz Albrecht zu & BANHOLZER, Johann. Philosophia legalis seu quaestiones dialecticae physicae et metaphysicae ad scientiam juris accomodate quas sub serenissimis auspiciis Maximiliani Emmanuelis Ut. Bav. & Sup. Pal. Ducis S.R.I. Archidapis. Electoris &c. &c. publice disputationi proposuit Franciscus Albertus S.R.I. Comes in Oettingen &c. Praeside P. Joanne Banholzer Soc. Jesu Philosophiae professore ... in ... Universitate Dilingana. Dilingen, Joannes Federle, typis Joannis Caspari Bencard, April 1682. Large 4to. Contemporary vellum over boards, elaborately gilt tooled (blackened) with nine different floral rolls and floral stamps in the central panels, remnants of ties, gilt edges. With two full-page allegorical beautifully engraved plates, the first showing the judgement of Salomo and the second showing the Count in armour with a quill in his right hand, some nice head- and tailpieces, printed in 2 columns. (6),101, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Law  Philosophy  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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What is wrong with the ideas of Descartes and Spinoza View picture(s) 32 POIRET, Petrus. Cogitationum rationalium de Deo, anima, et malo libri quatuor. In quibus quid de hisce Cartesius, ejusque sequaces, boni aut secus senserint, omnisque philosophiae certiora fundamenta, atque imprimis tota metaphysica verior, continentur; nec non Benedicti de Spinoza atheismus & exitiales errores funditus exstirpantur. Amsterdam, Typographia Blauiana, 1685. 4to. Vellum over boards with title written on spine. Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut intials and head- and tailpieces. Woodcut in text. (52), 82; 808, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Descartes  Philosophy  Spinoza  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fundamental work for the spread of Carthesian ideas View picture(s) 33 REGIUS, Henricus. Philosophia naturalis; in qua tota rerum universitas, per clara & facilia principia, explanatur. Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier, 1661. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. Title printed in red and black with Elzevier's printer's device; full-page portrait of Henricus Regius by T. Matham after H. Bloemaert; ca. 200 woodcuts of which 7 full-page, of diagrams, illustrations of physical experiments and instruments, anatomical and astronomic plates; 10 full-page engravings of magnetic experiments and 2 maps: a full-page celestial map and a double-page world map. (44), 523, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Medicine  Philosophy  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With 65 colour-printed Redouté plates, finished by hand View picture(s) 34 ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques and Pierre Joseph REDOUTÉ. La botanique. Paris, Baudouin brothers, 1822. Large 4to (36 x 27 cm). Later 19th-century brown half sheepskin, papier coulé sides, marbled endpapers. With tissue guard leaves. With a stipple-engraved "Roussœa Simplex" (alluding to the author's name) used as a vignette on the title-page and 65 stipple-engraved plates printed in colour (inked à la poupée) and finished by hand. XI, [1 blank], 153, [1] pp Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Philosophy  Redouté  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded (pirated?) edition of Rousseau's most explicit and boldest discussions of the Christian doctrines View picture(s) 35 ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques. J. Jacques Rousseau, citoyen de Geneve, à Chritophe (sic!) de Beaumont, archevêque de Paris, duc de St. Cloud ... avec sa lettre au Conseil de Geneve. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1765. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with redtitle label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. XLVII, (1), 143, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: French  Philosophy  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On logics, ethics and science, by the heretic Savonarola View picture(s) 36 SAVONAROLA, Girolamo. (Johann JESSENIUS (Ed.)). Hieronymi Savonarolae Ferrariensis, ordinis praedicatorum, universae philosophiae epitome. Eiusdem de divisione, ordine atque usu omnium scientiarum, nec non de poetices ratione, opusculum quadripartitum. Omnia Iohan Iessenii a Iessen, philosophiae, medicinaeque doctoris& professoris, opera & studio emendatiora, auctioraque edita. Wittenberg, Simon Gronebergius, Andrea Hoffmann, 1596. Small 8vo. Later boards with paper title label pasted on spine. Woodcut portrait of Savonarola, woodcut diagrams. (16), 828, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  German  Medicine  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Limited edition of a famous German philosophical work View picture(s) 37 STIRNER, M. (Pseudonym of J.C. Schmidt). Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum. (Charlottenburg, John Henry Mackay, 1911) 4to. Leather, uncut. 354 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Germany  Philosophy  Private Press Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Emblems by a German philosopher View picture(s) 38 TAURELLUS, Nicolaeus. Emblemata physico-ethica, hoc est naturae morum moderatricis picta pracepta. Editio secunda. Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, 1617. 2 works in one vol. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, traces of ties. Woodcut printer's device on title, 116 emblematical woodcuts. (23, 120) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alba Amicorum  Emblem  German  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two influential philosophical works by an acquaintance and admirer of Spinoza and Descartes and inventor of European porcelain View picture(s) 39 TSCHIRNHAUS, Ehrenfried Walther von. Medicina mentis, sive Tentamen genuinæ logicæ, in quâ differitur de methodo detegendi incognitas veritates.- IDEM. Medicina corporis, seu cognitationes admodum probabiles de conservandâ sanitate. Amsterdam, Albertus Magnus, & Johannes Rieuwerts Junior, 1686-1687. 2 works in one vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title in ms. in ink on spine, two clasps. Half title,  woodcut devices on each of the two titles, 4 engravings in text, several woodcut diagrams in text. (16), 224; (4), 59, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Enlightenment  Germany  Mathematics  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare: on the bean that killed Pythagoras View picture(s) 40 WORM, Castanus. Dissertatio. De faba Pythagorica quam superiorum permissu publico examini subjicit Castanus Worm ... respondente ingeniosissimo juvene Johanne Begtrup, in auditorio Collegii Regii anno M.DC. XCVI. die 28. Martii horâ  post meridiem prima. Hafniae, (Copenhagen), Joh. Jac. Bornheinrich, 1696. Sm. 4to. Later half calf with sprinkled boards, red sprinkled edges. (2), 26 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Medicine  Philosophy  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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