Dictionnaire philosophique portatif par Mr. de Voltaire. by Voltaire - 1764

Lyon: Haratio Cardon, 1613. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in contemporary vellum, very light wear and quite clean, volume titles inked to bottom page edges and spine. Moderate foxing and browning throughout, many text illustrations, largely in the sections on Roman armies and gladiators (the military engravings are very good impressions, the gladiator section a bit lighter) ; printed in two columns. Engraved title, complete in 2 substantial volumes. half title, title, (7), portrait of Lipsius, 882pp; (8), 899pp. Lipsius developed a Neostoic system based in large part on Seneca and Tacitus that espoused a rational, dispassionate Christianity that was widely influential in post-Renaissance and pre-Enlightenment Europe. Size: Folio. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Philosophy; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042358.

Leipzig and Norristown, PA: Breitkopf & Hartel / Schwenckfelder Church, 1907. 12 volumes of a 19 volume edition. Edited by Chester David Hartranft and Elmer Ellsworth Schultz Johnson. All first editions, except vol 15, which is a second printing. Bound in leather and marbled boards. Includes Volumes 1 to 10, 12, 15. Published Leipzig and Norristown, PA: Breitkopf & Hartel / Schwenckfelder Church, 1907-1960. Thick 4to's., 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" x 3", approx. 700 - 900pp. per volume, illustrated with facsimilies. Text in German with introductions and commentaries in English. Three quarter leather with gilt spine titles and marbled boards and edges, decorative endpapers. External wear to first eight volumes, with rubbing and scuffing to leather and covers, some inner hinges tender on older volumes, markings on spine of volume seven, no other markings, text clean and bright. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

Petro Grad: Iz. N.P. Taberio, 1916. Second edition. Cloth bound in fine condition; Contents very good .. Original Russian edition of Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World; Originally paperbound, newly rebound in black cloth with copy of the original cover set into the cloth cover; 322 pages. Text in Russian.

Philadelphia: Baptist General Tract Society, 1828. HINDU. The First Appearance of The Memoir of Krishna-Pal [Hindu][American Tracts]. Memoir of Krishna-Pal, [as found in] The Tracts of the Baptist General Tract Society, Volume I. Philadelphia: Published by the Baptist General Tract Society, and Sold at their Depository, 1828. First edition. One octavo volume contains 41 numbered tracts. Each tract is individually paginated and contains the header "No. [22] of the series of tracts issued by the Baptist General Tract Society." Tract number 22 is the Memoir of Krishna-Pal, [16] pp, who is described as "The first Hindoo, in Bengal, who broke the chain of the cast, by embracing the gospel." Other works include tract number 41, Divine Songs for Children, By Isaac Watts, D.D. [24]pp. "Divine Songs was one of the standard texts of English childhood for almost two centuries after its first publication in 1715." (The Hockliffe Project). Bound in contemporary full marbled sheep. Spine ruled in gilt. With red… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1921. First English edition. Octavo. Navy blue boards with gilt title to spine. Foxing to front and rear paste-down and free endpapers. Minor wear to corners. Bright text block throughout. Rare in this condition. Near-fine.. Uncommon first English edition of Miguel de Unamuno's (1864-1936) celebrated philosophical essay on the human condition and the enduring struggle between reason and faith. First published in his native Spain in 1912 as Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos, Unamuno's famous cris de coeur was subsequently translated and published in English in 1921 by Macmillan. Unamuno was among a coterie of influential Spanish intellectuals referred to as the "Generation of '98" devoted to renewing the intellectual and cultural heritage of Spain. Unamuno himself was a philosopher, poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist, and he was also among Europe's leading existentialist scholars. In the tradition of Augustine, Pascal, and… Read More

Lyon: Haratio Cardon, 1613. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in contemporary vellum, very light wear and quite clean, volume titles inked to bottom page edges and spine. Moderate foxing and browning throughout, many text illustrations, largely in the sections on Roman armies and gladiators (the military engravings are very good impressions, the gladiator section a bit lighter) ; printed in two columns. Engraved title, complete in 2 substantial volumes. half title, title, (7), portrait of Lipsius, 882pp; (8), 899pp. Lipsius developed a Neostoic system based in large part on Seneca and Tacitus that espoused a rational, dispassionate Christianity that was widely influential in post-Renaissance and pre-Enlightenment Europe. Size: Folio. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Philosophy; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042358.

Leipzig and Norristown, PA: Breitkopf & Hartel / Schwenckfelder Church, 1907. 12 volumes of a 19 volume edition. Edited by Chester David Hartranft and Elmer Ellsworth Schultz Johnson. All first editions, except vol 15, which is a second printing. Bound in leather and marbled boards. Includes Volumes 1 to 10, 12, 15. Published Leipzig and Norristown, PA: Breitkopf & Hartel / Schwenckfelder Church, 1907-1960. Thick 4to's., 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" x 3", approx. 700 - 900pp. per volume, illustrated with facsimilies. Text in German with introductions and commentaries in English. Three quarter leather with gilt spine titles and marbled boards and edges, decorative endpapers. External wear to first eight volumes, with rubbing and scuffing to leather and covers, some inner hinges tender on older volumes, markings on spine of volume seven, no other markings, text clean and bright. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

Petro Grad: Iz. N.P. Taberio, 1916. Second edition. Cloth bound in fine condition; Contents very good .. Original Russian edition of Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World; Originally paperbound, newly rebound in black cloth with copy of the original cover set into the cloth cover; 322 pages. Text in Russian.

Philadelphia: Baptist General Tract Society, 1828. HINDU. The First Appearance of The Memoir of Krishna-Pal [Hindu][American Tracts]. Memoir of Krishna-Pal, [as found in] The Tracts of the Baptist General Tract Society, Volume I. Philadelphia: Published by the Baptist General Tract Society, and Sold at their Depository, 1828. First edition. One octavo volume contains 41 numbered tracts. Each tract is individually paginated and contains the header "No. [22] of the series of tracts issued by the Baptist General Tract Society." Tract number 22 is the Memoir of Krishna-Pal, [16] pp, who is described as "The first Hindoo, in Bengal, who broke the chain of the cast, by embracing the gospel." Other works include tract number 41, Divine Songs for Children, By Isaac Watts, D.D. [24]pp. "Divine Songs was one of the standard texts of English childhood for almost two centuries after its first publication in 1715." (The Hockliffe Project). Bound in contemporary full marbled sheep. Spine ruled in gilt. With red… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1921. First English edition. Octavo. Navy blue boards with gilt title to spine. Foxing to front and rear paste-down and free endpapers. Minor wear to corners. Bright text block throughout. Rare in this condition. Near-fine.. Uncommon first English edition of Miguel de Unamuno's (1864-1936) celebrated philosophical essay on the human condition and the enduring struggle between reason and faith. First published in his native Spain in 1912 as Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos, Unamuno's famous cris de coeur was subsequently translated and published in English in 1921 by Macmillan. Unamuno was among a coterie of influential Spanish intellectuals referred to as the "Generation of '98" devoted to renewing the intellectual and cultural heritage of Spain. Unamuno himself was a philosopher, poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist, and he was also among Europe's leading existentialist scholars. In the tradition of Augustine, Pascal, and… Read More