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John Price Antiquarian Books: Morality
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A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality With A Preface by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Lord Bishop of Durham
London: Printed for James and John Knapton, 1731, FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 192 x 117 mms. pp. xii [xiii - xx Contents], 303 [304 blank], engraved portrait of Cudworth as frontispiece, contemporarly panelled calf, red leather label; top of spine chipped, some other slight wear to binding, but a very good copy. The philosopher and theologian Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) is often remembered as the father of Damaris Masham, "the second wife of Sir Francis Masham of Oates in Essex. She was a learned lady who inherited her father's papers as well as his interest in scholarship, defended him against critics who included Leibniz, published (anonymously) A Discourse Concerning the Love of God (1696), and became a friend of John Locke, who made her home his permanent residence in his final years and died there" (ODNB). Cudworth's most significant work is his The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1671); the present work was published after his death. He has been credited with a refutation of the so-called "naturalistic fallacy" [is an informal logical fallacy which argues that if something is 'natural' it must be good. It is closely related to the is/ought fallacy – when someone tries to infer what 'ought' to be done from what 'is']. The work challenges Puritan Calivinism, as expressed, for example, by Descartes, and rejects if not refutes Hobbes's reduction of morality to civil obedience: Cudworth stressed the natural good or evil inherent in an event or an act in contrast to the Calvinist-Cartesian notion of divine law or to Hobbes's concept of a secular sovereign. Cudworth's promulgation of a system of ethics that priotitizes rational, disinterested, spontaneous and public spirited acts and activities over wilfulness and solipsistic self-interest didn't get much attention in a recent election in the United States. the Sandys copy, from the Ombersley Court Sale [part lot 408].
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10600
GBP 825,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 940 US$ 1084.73 | JP¥ 167271]
Catalogue: Morality
Keywords: morality ethics prose
The Economy Human Life. In Two Parts. By R. Dodsley.
Kelso: Printed by James Ballantyne, For W. Creech , Bell and Bradfute, Manners and Miller, and A. Constable, Edinburgh. 1802. 8vo, 210 x 127, pp. xxiv. 134. including half-title, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; front joint a little rubbed, other slight wear to but a very good copy. Although this work has been attributed to other 18th century, it was in fact Dodsley's work. The anonymous editor of this edition was clearly not taken in by the words on the title-page of the first edition, "Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discover'd. In a letter from an English gentleman, now residing in China, to the Earl of ****." In his Oxford DNB entry, James E. Tierney asserts, "During the 1750s Dodsley reached the zenith of his career: his book production reached new highs, he became the London publisher of belles-lettres, he introduced many significant works and new talent, and his own pen enjoyed a few triumphs. He opened the decade with his own popular compilation of moral aphorisms, The Oeconomy of Human Life by an 'Ancient Bramin' (1750), a work that was soon translated into five languages and became the most frequently printed work of the entire eighteenth century." This is only the second Kelso imprint that has passed through my hands in 25 years of database bookselling.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10526
GBP 330,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 376 US$ 433.89 | JP¥ 66909]
Catalogue: Morality
Keywords: morality provincial imprint prose
History of European Morals from Augusts to Charlemagne. Second Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xviii, 498; x, 423 [424 blank], including half-titles, contemporary half calf, linen boards, red morocco labels; joints slightly cracked. With the armorial bookplate of W. H. Mullens on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 3690
GBP 71,50 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 81.5 US$ 94.01 | JP¥ 14497]
Catalogue: Morality
Keywords: morality history prose
The Principles and Connexion of Natural and Revealed Religion Distinctly Considered.
London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton..., 1740. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii, 507 [508 blank], contemporary calf; lacks blank leaves before title-page, joints a little cracked (but firm), spine slightly rubbed and dried, corners slightly worn. Sykes (?1684 - 1756) belonged to the latitudinarian side of the Anglican Church and is often associated with the views of Benjamin Hoadly. Here he argues that both natural and revealed religion are strictly rational. In the last two chapters, on the nature and existence of morality prior to Christ and the existence of moral principles not derived from revelation, he more-or-less argues that a virtuous, moral life and a Christian one are identical.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 4690
GBP 165,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 188 US$ 216.95 | JP¥ 33454]
Catalogue: Morality
Keywords: morality religion prose
Manners. Translated from the French. The Third Edition.
London: Printed for W. Owen..., W. Johnston..., and J. Payne..., 1752. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [xviii], vi, 251 [252 - 253, adverts, 254 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary calf; joints cracked, spine rubbed and dried. With the contemporary autograph and date "Robt. Twyford/ 1753" on the recto of the front paste-down end-paper, the Jolliffe armorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, and "Barbara und Johann/ March 27th 1940 - Bath" above the bookplate. Robert Twyford is possibly the young man who was infatuated with Mary Delaney (née Granville) in 1717. This translation was first published in 1749 and was frequently reprinted. Toussaint (1715 - 1772) published Les Moeurs originally in 1748; he was prosecuted immediately, and the book was burnt. He later disavowed the work, though parts of it were used in the Encyclopédie.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 5609
GBP 165,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 188 US$ 216.95 | JP¥ 33454]
Catalogue: Morality
Keywords: morality education prose
Manners. Translated from the French. The Second Edition.
London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet..., 1752. 12mo (in 6s), 170 x 105 mms., pp. [xviii], vi, 251 [252 - 253, adverts, 254 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary calf, red leather label; slight worming around label, joints a little rubbed, but a very good copy. This translation was first published in 1749 and was frequently reprinted. Toussaint (1715 - 1772) published Les Moeurs originally in 1748; he was prosecuted immediately, and the book was burnt. He later disavowed the work, though parts of it were used in the Encyclopédie.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 6335
GBP 165,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 188 US$ 216.95 | JP¥ 33454]
Catalogue: Morality
Keywords: morality education prose
Lectures on Natural and Revealed Religion, Read in the Chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge.
London, Printed by William Bowyer, 1765. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 260 x 193 mms., pp. 20, 308, contemporary calf, recornered and rebacked in darker calf, with new morocco labels; top margin of first ten leaves slightly wormed, rather clumsily rebound, with the bookplate of David Arthur Pailin on the front paste-down end-paper. The list of subscribers (pp. 5 - 20) accounts for about 1200 copies. Tunstall (1708 - 1762) began his literary career with an attack on Conyers Middleton's life of Cicero; Middleton replied vigorously, and Tunstall renewed his charges in a further publication. The above lectures were published by subscription to benefit his widow and children and were edited by his brother-in-law, Frederick Dodsworth. The lectures have more to do with practical morality than natural religion, since Tunstall argues for the truth-value of revealed religion. The work was sympathetically reviewed in a long article in the Critical Review for 1765, with the reviewer concluding, "This learned author, having perhaps calculated his lectures for the benefit of younger students, has suggested only the plainest and most obvious arguments: but he has treated them in a distinct and regular way, and, upon the whole, furnished us with a useful treatise on this important subject."
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 7666
GBP 275,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 313.5 US$ 361.58 | JP¥ 55757]
Catalogue: Morality
Keywords: morality religion prose
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