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Aristotelis Stagiritae Rhetoricorum Artis[que] Poeticae libri omnes. Quorum seriem, inscriptionémque altera ab hac pagina commostrabit.
Lugduni Apud Iocabi Juntae [Printed by Theobaldus Paganus] 1561. 12mo, 117 x 75 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 302, engraved printer's device on title-page, engraved head- and tail-pieces, and initials, with contemporary inscription at foot of title-page, with contents on verso of title-page: Rheticorum ad Theodectum libri III Georgio Trapezuntio interprete. Rhetorica ad Alexandrum Francisco Philelpho interprete. De poetica Alexandro Paccio Patritio Florentino interprete. BOUND WITH: Aristotelis Stagiritae Problematum Duodequadraginta Sectiones, Quibus Alexandri Aphrodisaei Problematum libri adiecti suere. Lugduni. Apud Simphorianum Beraud, 1572. 12mo, pp. [305 - 306] 307 - 751 [752 blank]. 2 volumes in 1, with continuous pagination and collation, bound in contemporary calf with gilt ornament on both covers, bookplate of Arminster Catholic Mission on front paste-down end-paper, faint contemporary note on top margin of recto of front free end-paper; top of spine severely chipped, base of spine chipped, upper front joint volume 1 cracked, upper rear joint wormed, some other general wear to binding. The commentator Alexander, of Aphrodisias, is usually said to be "the greatest exponent of Aristotelianism after Aristotle." The three translators were George of Trebizond (1396-1486), the Byzantine humanist, Greek scholar, and Aristotelian polemicist; the Venetian scholar Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), is described in Wikipedia as "a man of vast physical energy, of inexhaustible mental activity, of quick passions and violent appetites; vain, restless, greedy of gold and pleasure and fame; unable to stay quiet in one place, and perpetually engaged in quarrels with his peers"; and Alessandro Pazzi de Medici (1483 - c. 1830), a member of the Pazzi family in Florence and a noted Aristotelian. Brandes, P.D. History of Aristotle's Rhetoric, p. 117. Cranz, F. E. Bibliography of Aristotle Editions, 1501-1600 (2nd ed.), 108. 430. Green and Murphy. Renaissance Rhetoric Short-Title Catalogue, 1460-1700, RR. 280. OCLC locates only two copies, both in US lilbraries: Chicago and California Berkeley
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Matho: Or, The Cosmotheoria Puerilis, A Dialogue. In which The first Principles of Philosophy and Astronomy are accommodated to the Capacity of young Persons, or such as have yet no Tincture of these Sciences. Hence the Princilples of Natural Religion are deduced. Translated, and enlarged by the Author. Second Edition.
London: Printed for A. Millar..., 1740. 2 volumes. 8vo, 190 x 113 mms., pp. [xii], 400; [viii], 362 [363 - 392], bound in 19th century diced morocco, gilt borders on spine, later reback with gilt spines, black morocco labels; upper margins in volume 1 water-stained, small repair to upper margin of title-page of volume 1, some browning of text, with the later bookplate olf Frank P. Hadley on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume; an indifferent set. Baxter first published a work under this title in a small quarto of 64 pages Edinburgh in 1738. This "translation" is more of a new work than a strict translation. He revised and enlarged the Latin version for a new edition in 1746 and published a second edition of the above work in 1745, and further editions followed in 1754 and 1765. Baxter was born in Aberdeen and educated at King's College, Aberdeen; he lived much of his life in Whittingham, near Edinburgh, but, as Sir Leslie Stephen remarked in Baxter's DNB entry, he seems not to have been aware of the work of David Hume. For that matter, Hume also seems not to have referred either in his published writings or his correspondence to Baxter's work, but Francis Hutcheson did, citing Baxter in his System of Moral Philosophy (1755; I, 200). The ten dialogues occur between Matho "A Boy of a fine Genius" and Philon; Matho's putative age would appear to be about twelve, but the discussion is sophisticated and demanding. Baxter was one of the earliest critics of George Berkeley, opposing, in the second volume, Berkeley's immaterialism and arguing instead that the existence of matter is crucial to theism.
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Catalogue: Philosophy
Keywords: Philosophy prose Scottish Enlightenment
Alciphron: or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, against Those Who are Called Free-Thinkers.
Dublin: Printed for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street, MDCCXXXII 1732. FIRST IRISH EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, 195 x 118 mms., pp. [x], 220; [ii], 245 [246 blank], engraved vignette on each title-page, contemporary calf; lackk label, front joint slightly cracked, but a good to very good copy. The present book, Alciphron, was the longest work written by the great Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753), preeminent proponent of the philosophy of immaterialism, who was also Bishop of Cloyne, and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. The first edition of Alciphron was published by Tonson in London in 1732, but this first Irish edition published by Risk in Dublin the same year is far more rare, and has interest of its own: Berkeley being Irish, obviously, and the two editions, Tonson's in London and Risk's in Dublin, being in 1732 "nearly simultaneously released", according to Adam Grzelinski, an expert on the circumstances of the book's publication (see Grzelinski's "Alciphron; or the Minute Philosopher: Berkeley's Redefinition of Free-Thinking" in The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley, ed. by Bertil Belfrage and Richard Brook, [Bloomsbury Academic, 2016], p. 174). Readers familiar with the family background of George Berkeley will see the last name, "Wolfe", written in ink, atop the title-page, and stop in their tracks. The Wolfe family appears prominently in the Berkeley family tree. Oxford DNB records that Berkeley was "born at or near Kilkenny on 12 March 1685. His father, William Berkeley (d. in or after 1734), who later held a military commission, was a gentleman farmer descended from a Staffordshire family related to the earls of Berkeley; he owned the property of Dysart, further down the River Nore near Thomastown, where Berkeley grew up. Berkeley's mother, a great-aunt of General James Wolfe, has been tentatively identified as Elisabeth Southerne, daughter of a Dublin brewer and on her mother's side a descendant of James Ussher…" It is thus likely that the ownership inscription in this copy of the first Irish edition of Alciphron defines the present copy as a family association copy of Berkeley's longest book. But which Wolfe inscribed the book? The answer is nigh. My stock includes another book of philosophical content (if decidedly more light-hearted in temperament) titled Athenian Sport: or, Two Thousand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, To Amuse and Divert the Age: As a Paradox in Praise of a Paradox (1707), which has a variant of the Wolfe bookplate (one with the family name, "Wolfe de Forenaughts", engraved, in this case, just beneath the frame enclosing the trebled wolf-heads), and the ownership inscription, on the right-hand side at the top of the title-page, is, in this case, longer: "Phillpott: Wolfe." The "P" is unusual, being lollipop-shaped in its upper half and with a jack-boot upturn to the left in its lower half, as we see with the "P" in the inscription in the present copy of Alciphron. Keynes 16. Jessop 121b. ESTC T86362. Howe's catalogue, Franks Bequest, has three Wolfe bookplates (item nos. 32325, 32326, and 32327), but none is the one in this copy of Alciphron (1732). On the "Wolfes of Forenaughts" claiming kinship with "Major-General James Wolfe, the hero of Quebec", which, as we've seen, would also mean kinship with Bishop Berkeley, see George Wolfe, "The Wolfe Family of County Kildare" in the Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society and Surrounding Districts, Vol. 3, Dublin, 1902, pp. 361-367, most notably p. 364 and p. 367, the latter page illustrating the variant of the Wolfe bookplate, with the family name engraved.
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Catalogue: Philosophy
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Boezio della Consolazione volgarizato da Maestro Alberto Fiorentino Co' Motti de Filosofi ed un' Orazione di Tullio Volgarizzamento di Brunetto Latini.
In Firenzi. Appresso Domenico Maria Manni Con Licenza de' Superiore 1735 8vo, 188 x 127 mms., pp. xv [xvi woodcut], 181 [182 woodcut, 183 - 184 Approvazioni], contemporary vellum spine, deckled boards; corners worn, but a very good copy The first Italian translation of Boethius' book was published in 1332, translated by Alberto della Piagentina, known originally as Maestro Alberto Fiorentino. So far as I can tell, this is the first translation into demotic Italian. Brunetto Latini (who signed his name Burnectus Latinus in Latin and Burnecto Latino in Italian (c. 1220–1294) was an Italian philosopher, scholar, notary, politician and statesman. He was a teacher and friend of Dante Alighieri.
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Catalogue: Philosophy
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De Consolatione Philosophiae, Lib V. Cum Castigationibus Theodori Pulmann, Epicteti Stoici Enchridion ex Graeco ab Angelo Politiano in Latinum conversum.
Lugduni, Apud Alexandrum Marsilium, 1581. Small 8vo, 107 c 70 mms., foliated, 118 leaves, contemporary sheepskin, all edges gilt; binding a bit worn, front end-papers wormed, no rear paste-down end-paper, rear hinge cracked and open. The classics textual critic Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) is often identified as an important scholar who was instrumental in taking classical scholarship out of its medieval indulgences and into the Renaisance. And his scholarly achievements were recognized and valorized by the powerful Medici family. Wikipedia asserts that "Poliziano was well known as a scholar, a professor, a critic, and a Latin poet in an age when the classics were still studied with assimilative curiosity, and not with the scientific industry of a later period. He was the representative of that age of scholarship in which students drew their ideal of life from antiquity. He was also known as an Italian poet, a contemporary of Ariosto...." Anthony Grafton writes that Poliziano's 'conscious adoption of a new standard of accuracy and precision' enabled him 'to prove that his scholarship was something new, something distinctly better than that of the previous generation.' And, as obituaries in The Times euphemistically observed in decades past, he never married. Baudrier II, 167-168; BM (STC) 73; Index aurel. 121.133. OCLC locates copies in European libraries, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Universitaatsbibliothek Eichstatt, Mannheim, and Biblioteca Nationale Centrale di Roma. Copies in the United States in George Washinton University, Harvard, Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Oklahoma.
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A Treatise on Various Subjects: Viz. On the Original Purity of Human Nature. On its present Depravity. Of the Defects which attended the Doctrine of Morality of Morality , as taught by Philosophers and Poets. Of Regeneration, Conversion, and Sanctification. On the Difference between real Conversion, and the Semblance of it. On the Assurance of Faith. On the Life of Faith. On the Growth of Grace. Of Declension in the Power of Religion; its Causes, and the Ways and Means of a happy Revival under Decays of Grace. On the Temptations of the present Age; and Cautions against them. Of Communion with God, in the Course of that Obedience, which we are required to yield unto Him. Wherein various difficult Cases of Conscience are answered, as they occur, on the several Subjects treated of. The Second Edition.
London: Printed for John Ward...; And Sold by George Keith...and John AEynon..., 1756. 8vo, 194 x 118 mms., pp. vii [viii "Books written by John Brine," 400, contemporary calf; lacks prelims, fore-margins of a few leaves wormed, various ink scribbles on early leaves and last two leaves, ink-stain on front cover which also slightly affects upper fore-edge, rear cover with remains of paper label. The Baptist minister John Brine (1703–1765) was the author of some 30 books. He was regarded in his lifetime as a Calvinist and a supralapsarian, as well as an antinomian, but he identified as a Baptist minister. The present work was first published in 1750. ESTC T96830 locates 4 copies of this second edition: BL, Bodleian (2); Union Theological Seminary. It was reprinted in 1766 with a cancel title-page. See "John Brine And The Glory of God," Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies 2021.
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Materials for Thinking.
Newcastle: Printed by K. Anderson...and sold by T. Ostell...London, 1806. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 404 [405 Table of Contents, 406 blank], contemporary boards, slightly later linen spine, with hand-written paper label; last 12 leaves noticeably water-stained, boards and edges worn, spine snagged and soiled. Burdon (1764 - 1818) made a name for himself in the early 19th century as a prolific author and commentator on social and political events. Although he had published works exhibiting some philosophical inclinations, this was his first attempt at a more comprehensive exposition of philosophical ideas. His purpose is, as he puts in the Preface, "to lessen the effect of prejudice and diffuse the comforts of society." His topics here are "Liberality of Sentiment," "Human Inconsistencies," "The Imagination," "Characters," "The Feelings," "Education," "Liberty and Necessity," and "Political OEconomy." There are very few mentions of other authors in the main body of the text, but when one occurs it seems clear that Burdon was well-acquainted with the literature of the preceding two centuries, and the Notes, which take up pp. 307 - 404, are full of references to other authors. The "Table of Contents" is for "Vol. I," but this volume was the only one published at this time. Burdon reissued the work in 1810, this time in two volumes.
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The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and Morals. Analytically Arranged. Second Edition.
London: Printed by Luke Hansard...for J. Mawman..., 1807. 8vo, pp. [iv], 566, contemporary diced rusia, gilt spine. A very good copy. Coetlogon (?1746 - 1820) published this work in 1806, and this second edition eventually comprised the first volume of his miscellaneous works published between 1807 and 1810 and is blocked "vol. 1" in gilt on the spine.
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Catalogue: Philosophy
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Grundsätze der Moralphilosophie Uebersetzt und mit einigen Anmerkungen versehen von Christian Garve.
Leipzig, In der Dyckischen Buchhandlung, 1772. FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION. 8vo, 174 x 100 mms.,[xii], 420, later half calf, marbled boards, black leather label; joins worn and slightly tender, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, with Ex Libris of Dr Gero Wildt on the verso of the title-page. David Hume described Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) as a "Man of Sense, knowledge, Taste, Elegance, & Morals," and when Ferguson settled himself in Edinburgh when he about 40, he was surrounded by like-minded intellectuals. After publishing his most imporant and influential An Essay on the History of Civil Society in 1767, and followed this up in 1769 with his classroom text book, The Institutes of Moral Philosophy for the Use of Students in the College of Edinburgh. This German translation is by Chrisopher Garve (1742 - 1798), who also traslated Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
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Catalogue: Philosophy
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One View of Human Life Taken, and Reconciled by a Prospect of Heaven; Together with an Attempt towards the Right Direction of our Conduct for the attainment of that Certain, Glorious, and Happy State.
London Printed. -- And sold by J. Noon in Cheapside; J. Buckland in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Robinson on Ludgate-Hill; and A. Millar in the Strand, [no date], [?1743] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], ii, 72, disbound. This appears to be the author's only publication and is a meditation in the style of Marcus Aurelius, whom he alludes to or quotes several times. ESTC T101975 locates copies in BL, CUL, Cambridge: Trinity, St. John's, Lambeth Palace, NLS, John Rylands; National Library of Ireland; Duke University only in North America. OCLC adds Columbia.
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Idealism: An Essay, Metaphysical and Critical.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xl, 198, original cloth; some marginal annotations in ink and pencil, spine a little snagged and worn.
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The Philosophy of Thomas Hill Green.
London: Methuen & Co...., 1896. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 187 [188 printer's imprint, 189 - 192 blank], 32 pages adverts dated September 1895, half-title, original cloth. A very good copy.
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A Discourse of the Several Dignities and Corruptions of Man's Nature Since the Fall.
London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1720. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 110 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 146 [147 -152 blank], HALES (John): A Discourse of the Several Dignities and Corruptions of Man's Nature Since the Fall. London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1720. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 110 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 146 [147 -152 blank], contemporary sheepskin, sympathaticallty rebacked to match old sheepskin, raised bands, red leather label; some slight staining in text, binding a bit scratched and knocked about, tear to front cover repaired, but a good to very good copy. [9713] £750 The name on the title-page is likely to be John Rumney (1703 - 1778), the father of the great eighteenth-century painter George Romney (1734 - 1802). A note in pencil in the hand of a previous owner, probably a bookseller, notes, "With Autoph of John Rommey son of Cold. Geo [Robinson] & bought at family sale in Norfolk." Another name in a later 18th century hand appears on the recto of the front free end-paper in pencil, "[? Ge W] Robinson." John Hales (1584 - 1656) did not publish this work in his lifetime, and this text is abridged from a work by Edward Reynolds (1599 - 1676), A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul (1647). The index was compiled by L. Howel, and Curll edited the work, and provided the preface. John Hales (1584 - 1656) did not publish this work in his lifetime, and this text is abridged from a work by Edward Reynolds (1599 - 1676), A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul (1647). The index was compiled by L. Howel, and Curll edited the work, and provided the preface.
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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform. Chiefly from The Edinburgh Review; Corrected, Vindicated, Enlarged, in Notes and Appendices.
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman..., 1852. FIRST EDITION. Large, thick 8vo, pp. x, 758, 32 page catalogue at end, some leaves unopened, original cloth; top of spine snagged, rear joint splitting, front joint slightly split, top edge soiled. Hamilton reprints here articles that appeared, anonymously, in The Edinburgh Review between 1829 and 1839, but the work contains some of his most interesting and entertaining observations.
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Philosophical Arrangements.
London: Printed for John Nourse..., 1775. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiv, 485 [486 blank, 487 - 517 Index, 518 Errata], engraved frontispiece, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, new morocco labels; joints cracked (but firm). "Harris's penultimate book, Philosophical Arrangements (1775), reveals more clearly than any other that the intellectual foundations of his whole career as a writer lie in a series of dialectical relationships between the past and the present, and between two broadly opposed ways of thinking" (Clive Probyn, in his biography of Harris, The Social Humanist [1991]).
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Catalogue: Philosophy
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