Berlin-Grunewald: Walther Rothschild, 1924. Hardcover. 8vo. 301,[18],pp. Three-quarter leather over paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine chipped. Wear to edges. Two-inch split along head of spine. Browning to pages. Frontispiece. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher and professor of logic and metaphysics. This..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XII, 156pp. Original printed wrappers over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. This book is a study of the problems of Being in the writings of two great thinkers Kiergaard and Heidegger. The..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: (xiii) 244pp. Vol.2: (xv) 225pp. Glossy blue (vol.1) and red (vol.2) illustrated dust jackets with black lettering on the covers and spine. Blue and red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spines. A comprehensive and detailed 2-volume examination..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol. 1: (xiii) 244pp. Vol. 2: (xv) 225pp. Glossy blue (vol. 1) and red (vol. 2) illustrated dust jackets with black lettering on the covers and spine. Blue and red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spines. A comprehensive..... More
Pittsburgh: Y. M & W. H. A., 1935. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 35pp. Original light brown wrappers with brown frame, vignette and lettering on cover. Including contributions by Joseph H. Barach, Wolf Leiter, Solomon B. Freehof, and Herman Hailperin to the anniversary of the Spanish, Sephardic Jewish philosopher, physician and..... More
New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962. First edition for this translation. Softcover. Octavo. XI, [1], 158pp. Original illustrated wrappers over black cloth with silver lettering on spine and medallion in silver on front cover. Alfarabi (ca. 870-950), the great Arab philosopher and founder of the Islamic philosophic tradition..... More
Iena: Eugen Diederichs, 1912. First German edition (Erstes bis drittes Tausend). Hardcover. Small quarto. [2], 371, [5]pp. Original gold stamped cloth. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Ribbon marker. Title page in red and black lettering. Publisher's logo on title page. Decorative initials. "Schöpferische Entwicklung" (Creative Evolution) provides an alternate explanation..... More
Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1828. Eighth American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. viii-252pp., xxiii plates. Original brown calf. Adapted to the comprehension of young pupils and illustrated with plates by the author of "Conversations on Chemistry" and "Conversations on Political Economy." This edition improved by appropriate questions for the examination of scholars..... More
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1951. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. VI, [4], 122pp. Original printed wrappers. Remarkable work in which the author aimed to collect some of the data available in the state of science of Bochenski's times and to arrange them in a kind of outline, which showed forth some..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959. First edition of this One-Volume edition. Softcover. Octavo. XIV, 259, XV, [1], 159, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. The two volumes of Carnap's Studies in Semantics, both of which deal with semantical concepts and their relations to..... More
Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1881. Hardcover. 8vo. v. 457pp. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards. Marbled page edges. Marbled endpapers, with ex-libris plate to inside of front board: Hermann Bessemer. Work on ethics, written by renowned Austrian thinker, Bartholomaeus Carneri (1871 – 1909). Carneri attempted to open wide perspectives of world..... More
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, (1963). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiii, 209pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Condensed summary account of the 1913/14 Josiah Royce graduate seminar in comparative methodology at Harvard. Graduates of that year included T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Henderson, Elmer..... More
London: George Allen & unwin Ltd, 1949. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 240pp. Original printed wrappers over burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Croces's essays compiled in this remarkable work possess an underlying unity. This is a volume that has every relevance to our time, embodying a philosophy not for..... More
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1963. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XX, 540pp. Original decorative wrappers over cloth with blue lettering on spine. From the perspectives of historical evolution and ideological conflict, the author examines the new doctrines of moral behavior and values. He shows how the political theories that flourished..... More
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XIV, 212pp. Original decorative wrappers over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Captivating work in which the author shows how the concept plays an important part in Pythagoreanism and undergoes a transformation in the work of Parmenides, before going on..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. xiv, 178pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original decorative dust jacket. Fann thoroughly examines Wittgenstein's works, comparing his earlier writings to his later ones. Includes comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Wittgenstein. Tight copy with..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XX, 503, [3]pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Top edge blue. In the present work, an attempt has been made to organize the main outlines of Peirce's thoughts and to present them systematically..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Octavo. x,210pp. Black cloth with gold lettering over blue paper-covered boards in original dust jacket. "This book traces the development of Wittgenstein's thought on the subject of words' meaning and use, analyzes the reasons for his statement that words' meanings are their uses..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. VIII, [4], 308, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work contributes to an understanding of John Stuart Mill as a political theorist and to parliamentary history, especially the history of parties and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First American edition. Softcover. Octavo. X, 410, [2], XVI, [6]pp. Original decorative wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work deals with the methodology of art history, and so with questions about historical thinking; it enquires what scientific history of..... More
London: James Clarke & Co., no date (ca. 1915). Hardcover. 8vo. xvi. 386 pp. Followed by 8-page index and one-page summary of different work by same author. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Work on Mysticism. Minor age wear to binding, with fading to spine. Minor..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, (1969). Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xi,204pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. "Behemoth, or The Long Parliament, Hobbe's most important historical work, was his last word about the Civil War. The war was over, the King restored, but Hobbes..... More
Paris: Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 222, [4]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers with printer's device on covers and title-page. The Theurgia, or De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (On the Mysteries of the Egyptians), was attributed to Iamblichus Chalcidensis, a Neoplatonic philosopher who studied under Porphyry. Porphyry is..... More
Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 1949. First edition in this translation. Softcover. Octavo. XV, [1], 369, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. This volume contains the major works of Kant on ethics: "Critique of Practical Reason," "Foundations of the..... More
Dordrecht; New York: D. Reidel Publishing, 1961. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. [6], 194pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with black lettering on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. This remarkable collection of essays is dedicated to the study of the foundations and the methodology of science, the analysis of..... More