An Entire Body of Philosophy, According to the Principles of the Famous Renate Des Cartes
Anthony Le Grand
First edition in English of Le Grand’s influential volumes of Cartesian philosophy, richly illustrated with 100 splendid full-page copper engravings by John Kip & Michael van der Gucht after G. Freman and others, including five plates showing benefactors’ coats of arms, handsomely bound. $7200. | More...
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
Important second edition of Smith's first book, the first with Smith's major additions and revisions at the core of "his central concepts of sympathy and the impartial spectator" (Tribe, 14), a work increasingly regarded as "one of the truly outstanding books in the intellectual history of the world" (Amartya Sen), beautifully bound. $16,000. | More...
How to Kill War
Efim Mikhailovich Tschepourkovsky
First edition of this prominent Russian anthropologist's work on evasion of war through the embrace of universal values and scientific literacy. Text in English. $900. | More...
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir
First edition in English of Beauvoir's pivotal second work in philosophy, issued one year after the first French edition and only five years before the French edition of Second Sex, a core argument for existentialist ethics in response to Sartre's Being and Nothingness, with Ethics one of two works she saw as an "important starting point for any interpretation and evaluation of her oeuvre." $850. | More...
The Complete Works
Montesquieu
First edition in English of Montesquieu's collected works including his seminal Spirit of Laws, beautifully bound in contemporary calf-gilt. $6000. | More...
Essayes Written In French
Montaigne
Second edition in English of Montaigne's seminal masterpiece, with the important Elizabethan translation of John Florio used by Shakespeare as a source for The Tempest (circa 1611), from the library of noted British poet Peter Scupham, co-founder of Mandeville Press. $12,500. | More...
Phaedon; Or, The Death of Socrates
Moses Mendelssohn
First edition in English, preceded by the 1767 first German edition, of Mendelssohn's "classic of rational psychology" on the immortality of the human soul, a defining work by the preeminent philosopher "who launched the Jewish thinking of the modern age," his tribute to Socrates modeled on Plato's dialogue the Phaedo, an especially rare uncut copy in original boards. $11,000. | More...
In Octo Libros Topicorum Aristotelis Explicatio...
Alexander of Aphrodisias
First Muret edition of this commentary on Aristotle by Alexander of Aphrodisias, translated into Latin by Marc-Antoine Muret. $1500. | More...
Emilius; Or, an Essay on Education
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...
The Works
John Locke
Seventh edition, the first quarto edition, first four-volume edition, of Locke's collected Works, with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait (I), a handsome set in beautiful contemporary calf gilt. $9000. | More...
