New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. Eighth printing. Softcover. Octavo. IX, [1], 197, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over red cloth with gold lettering on spine. The problem of anxiety has dominated much of contemporary literature and philosophy. In this book, Professor Tillich tries to point the way toward its conquest..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii, (1), 150pp. Selected bibliography. Black over light blue boards, photo of Novak on front cover. A fine, as new copy. This volume features the thought and writings of Rabbi David Novak, the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies, Professor..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. V, [1], 160pp. Original printed dust jacket over burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. In this detailed study of the republican tradition in the development of the Enlightenment, the central problem of utopia and reform..... More
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, (1971). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 336pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. The cult of Isis as a potent factor in the formation of the Graeco-Roman and Christian civilization of the Western world is the subject of this detailed..... More
Leipzig: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 269 (3)pp. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on cover. Frontispiece woodcut. Decorative headpiece on title page. Festschrift on the occasion of Immanuel Kant's 200th anniversary. Invitation to event on April 22, 1924 addressed to Professor Dr. Henry Slonimsky laid in, with..... More
Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1929. Softcover. 8vo. Original wraps. vii,109pp. Interesting look at the life and work of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848). Bolzano was a Czech Catholic priest, Professor of the doctrine of Catholic religion as well as an outstanding mathematician. Text in German. Original order card by publisher of this plus..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xv,124pp. Dark gray cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine in original dust jacket. "...a theory of analytic truth is developed employing only first-order logic with very simple semantical assumptions...The view of Frege, Carnap, Hilbert-Bernays, Tarski, and Quine..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, [2], 262pp. Original decorative wrappers over cloth spine with decorative paper covered boards. Gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. In this remarkable work, the interpretation of Kant is advanced as a translation of his concepts..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [8], 341, [1]pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. The present issue contains the fifth pair of Jackson Lectures, delivered April 18 and 19, 1961, by Russell Meiggs, of Balliol College, Oxford, entitled "The Crisis of Athenian Imperialism." Rubbing..... More
Archon Books, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xii,[1],244pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Frontispiece. "The events of 1378 and the period immediately following, presented with an awareness that the Schism dramatically represents the characteristic features of the ideological crisis of the 14th Century." Illustrated with..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VII, [1], 272pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. The nine essays compiled in this work deal with the nature of philosophical arguments and the degree to which they are linguistic; the possibility and status..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 365pp. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original price-clipped printed dust jacket. The author presents the history of the concept of human dignity. The work is divided in three sections and generally deals with..... More
Jena: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1933. First German edition (1. - 3. Tsd). Hardcover. Octavo. [2], 317, [3]pp. Original brick cloth with brown lettering on spine and front cover. Title page in red and black lettering. Publisher's logo on title page. In this remarkable work, the celebrated french philosopher applies his..... More
London: Williams and Norgate, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 194 pp. Brown wrapped boards. Book is a transcription of lectures given at a symposium organized by the Aristotelian Society that took place in London in July 1918 under the title, 'Do Finite Individuals Possess a Substantive or an Adjectival Mode..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1963. First edition for this translation. Hardcover. Octavo. XV, [1], 199, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work is the first full-scale analysis of the humanism and Platonism of the Renaissance by a trained philosophic mind..... More
New York: Charles Wells, 1832. Revised. Hardcover. 12mo. First American Sterotype Edition. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine, embossed "Cogito Ergo Sum". . Some abrasion to boards and leather. Corners and edges worn. Age wear throughout binding. Marbled endpapers. Decorated page edges. Hinges starting. Bookplate of previous owner..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. X, 335, [1]pp. Original maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Remarkable study on religious education in 18th-century France, a period when new ideas contradicted and challenged the traditional way of thinking and acting and resulted in a series of..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1965. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. X, 142pp. Original printed wrappers over black cloth with white lettering on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. Concentrating upon his two major works and the further development of analytic theory in the writings of Ryle, Strawson, Hart, and Urmson..... More
Lasalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi,335pp. Blue cloth in original dust jacket. Collection of essays by some of America's most distinguished philosophers includes a re-examination of the major traditional attempts to refute Anselm's argument of God's existence, as well as an examination of the..... More
New York: Paine-Whitman, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXVI, 27-224pp. Original printed wrappers over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. This work does not only provides a description of the ideas of important thinkers, it also intensifies our appreciation of the idea, the man, and the operation of both..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952. Reprint. Softcover. Quarto. 486pp. Original printed wrappers over red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. This captivating work shows that the legislative process is the system of the processes of life and culture as they develop into regulative maxims..... More
Zürich: Rascher & Cie. (1955). Hardcover. 2 volumes. Octavo. Gray cloth in original printed dust jackets. Vol. I: Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis. xi,396pp. Vol. II: Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte. ix,397pp. Collection of essays by various scholars and experts on Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology. Text in German, some essays in..... More
Köln: Joseph Melzer Verlag, 1961. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 484pp. Original photographic wrappers over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Remarkable biography of Martin Buber, the Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship..... More
Berlin u. Stuttgart: W. Spemann, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii,478pp. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards with title-plate. Abrasions to gold lettering and parts of title-plate. Minor age wear to binding. Signature of previous owner on half-title page. "Studien über Vorsokratiker, Sokrates und Plato." Essays on early philosophy (pre-Socrates, Socrates..... More
Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University, 1960. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XI, [1], 163, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. This remarkable work is a positive reply to Marx's philosophical ideas. Spine and edges age-toned. Wraps in overall good- to good, binding and..... More