Extremely rare editions of both parts of Paine's revolutionary classic Rights of Man, together in one volume, featuring the rare and desirable Jordan second edition, first issue of Part I, issued mere days after his first edition, bound together with the Jordan third edition of Part II. Paine's Rights of Man, one of his most important, influential, and best-selling works, is "the clearest of all expositions on the basic principles of democracy" (PMM), and remains "one of the most ardent and clear defenses of human rights, liberty, and equality in any language" (Fruchtman). Paine hoped the work "would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America" (Gimbel), but it resulted in the prosecution of Paine, his publishers and booksellers, and forced Paine to flee to France. $25,000. | More...
Of the Citie of God
St. Augustine
Second edition in English of Augustine's monumental "scheme of universal history… providing a vocabulary for Christian thinking in the West for centuries" (Boorstin, The Creators). Because of the innovative conception of history presented in this work, Augustine was considered "the founder of a new science, to which Voltaire assigned the name 'philosophy of history.' For the first time a comprehensive survey of human history is presented" (PMM). $12,500. | More...
The Spirit of Laws
Montesquieu
First American edition of Montesquieu's classic De L'Esprit Des Loix, based on the fifth London edition, an enormous influence on American and French revolutionary thought. $3200. | More...
Emilius
J.J. Rousseau
First edition in English, published only one year after the first edition, of one of Rousseau's greatest works, with four (of six) engraved plates by Eisen, this copy extra-illustrated with 43 fine engraved plates by Ponce, Lorieux, Longueil, Marcret, Leclerc, Deveria and others—for a total of 47 engraved plates—in lovely full morocco-gilt by renowned French bookbinder Thierry sc. de Petit-Simier. $8000. | More...
Existentialism
Jean Paul Sartre
First edition in English of Sartre's epoch-making Paris lecture on existentialism—"the first sustained exposition of Sartre's philosophy to appear in English," including an "exact transcription of the discussion" that followed Sartre's lecture, in original dust jacket. $750. | More...
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria
First edition in English of Beccaria's influential Essay, a work whose impact "can hardly be exaggerated" (PMM). $5200. | More...
Titus Lucretius Carus
Translated by Thomas Creech
Rare 1683 3rd edition in English, first issued the previous year, of Roman poet Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, a seminal work in Western history offering "key principles of a modern understanding of the world," as well as a "crucial guide" to Thomas Jefferson, who proclaimed himself "an Epicurean" like Lucretius, owned an edition of Creech's translation, and gave the Declaration of Independence "a distinctly Lucretian turn" by naming "the pursuit of happiness" to be a pivotal American right, with copper-engraved frontispiece. $5200. | More...
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