Philosophy

# 46285

TROTSKY, Leon (1879-1940), et al.

Leon Trotsky : a group of ephemeral publications, 1930s-40s.

I. Trotsky, Leon. Stalinism and Bolshevism : concerning the historical and theoretical roots of the Fourth International. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, 29, [1] pp; a fine copy. II. Trotsky, Leon. In defense of the Soviet Union : a compilation 1927-1937. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, …

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# 46726

SINGER, Peter (1946 - )

Animal liberation

A new ethics for our treatment of animals. London : Jonathan Cape, 1976. First English edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered boards in illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked and edge wear, fore edge foxed), pp. xvii; [1]; 301, illustrated. First British edition of Australian ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer’s landmark work on the treatment of animals.

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# 46410

FORTUNE, Dion (pseud. of Violet Mary FIRTH)

[OCCULT] Applied magic

London : The Aquarian Press ; New York : Wehman Bros., 1962. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s cream cloth with gold lettering to spine (gleaming and unmarked), in the yellow dust jacket printed in red (price-clipped, but superb); pp. viii, 110; contents immaculate, a very fine copy. A posthumous collection of …

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# 46517

PALEY, William (1743 - 1805)

The principles of moral and political philosophy

London : Baldwin @ Co., 1821. A new edition, corrected and revised. Octavo, full calf (worn and stained), spine lettered in blind, short split to joint, pp. xvi; 512, small stain to fore edge, a good copy. ‘William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. …

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# 41310

[SPENCE, Catherine Helen]

Catherine Helen Spence : an autobiography

Reprinted from The Register. Adelaide : W. K. Thomas & Co., 1910. Octavo, lettered purple wrappers (lightly sunned at spine, small stain), pp. 101, small stain to fore edge, a very good copy. A rare work by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) – writer and suffragist, Australia’s first female political candidate, and the first Australian woman to …

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# 44689

RUSKIN, John (1819-1900)

Sesame and lilies.

Three lectures by John Ruskin. Sunnyside, Orpington and London : George Allen, [1898]. Thirteenth complete edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), in a prize binding of the Caulfield Grammar School (Melbourne) of full blue calf, boards with ornament gilt border and school crest in gilt to upper board, spine in compartments with gilt ornament and …

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# 44344

GELLIUS, Aulus [GRONOVIUS, Jacob, editor]

Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. Cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum recent edition et modicum.

London : A. J. Valpy, 1824. Four volumes in three, octavo (215 x 140 mm), in a handsome contemporary University of Glasgow prize binding by Carrs – the most prestigious Glasgow bookbinder of the period – of full vellum with gilt ornament and arms; the set was awarded as a First Class prize in Latin …

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# 44453

ROW, T. Subba

Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita.

To help students in studying its philosophy. By Mr. T. Subba Row, B.A., B.L., F.T.S. Printed for the Bombay Theosophical Publication Fund by Tookram Tayta. Bombay : printed at the Joint-Stock Printing Press, 1888. Octavo, plum cloth (spine sunned, lightly marked), offsetting to endpaper, pp. viii; 94, a few pencil annotations.

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# 22302

Raymond of Sabunde (c.1385-1436)

Theologia naturalis sive Liber creatura[rum] specialiter de homine [et] de natura eius in qua[n]tum homo.

:[et] de his qu[a] sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendu[m] seip[su]m [et] Deu[m] [et] om[n]e debitu[m] ad q[uo]d ho[mo] tenet[ur] et obligatur tam Deo q[uam] p[ro]ximo. Impressus Nurembergae : Per Anthoniu[m] koberger [sic] inibi co[n]cluem, 1502. Folio (290 x 210 mm), contemporary sheep over wooden boards (lacking clasps), elaborate blind-tooling to both boards, upper board including …

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# 41261

[SPENCE, Catherine Helen]

An agnostic’s progress from the known to the unknown

London and Edinburgh : Williams and Norgte, 1884. Octavo, gilt-lettered brown cloth (lightly flecked and rubbed), small owner’s stamp to front pastedown, small stain to lower margin of pastedowns, pp. [ii]; 266, 8 (catalogue), a very good copy. A rare work by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) – writer and suffragist, Australia’s first female political candidate, …

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# 16754

COLE, E.W. (1832-1918)

“Humanity” / Number one, containing: the human race at a glance, by E.W. Cole.

[Caption title]. Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide : E. W. Cole, Book Arcade, [1893]. Large quarto, original printed stiff wrappers (marked and foxed, paper splitting along spine), pp. 32, pages 5-31 comprised entirely of lithographed vignette illustrations of racial types from around the world (arranged 25 to a page), with Cole’s essay occupying the first 4 …

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# 32714

RUSKIN, John (1819-1900); DATILLO RUBBO, Antonio (1870 - 1955)

Sesame and lilies. (Antonio Dattilo Rubbo’s copy with self-portrait)

London : George Allen, 1901. Complete edition (fifty-second thousand). Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges rubbed), pp. xxxviii; 228, lacking the front free endpaper. Preliminary blank with large pencil signature ‘A Datillo Rubbo) with a small pencil sketch being a self-portrait of the artist folding an artist’s case. Sesame and lilies is comprised of two lectures …

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# 39819

[DESCARTES]. HART, Kevin

Losing the power to say “I” : an essay celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of René Descartes.

Melbourne : Art School Press, 1996. Limited edition of 100 copies, numbered, signed and dated by the author. Octavo, olive cloth boards with pictorial onlay (portrait of Descartes), title page printed in red and black with vignette portrait of Descartes (identical to onlay on upper board), 37 pp, a fine copy.

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# 39517

MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873)

Principles of political economy : with some of their applications to social philosophy.

London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. Sixth edition. Two volumes, octavo (225 x 150 mm), uniform contemporary blind-blocked green cloth (fine and unrubbed), spines with printed paper title pieces (one title piece with minor loss at one edge); pp. xvi, 617, [2 publisher’s ads.]; xv, 608; half-title of the second volume with ownership …

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# 30892

BIRNIE, Richard (1808-1888)

Essays: social, moral, and political. (Presentation copy from the author)

/ By Richard Birnie, Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-Law. [Selected and reprinted from “The Australasian”]. Melbourne : Alex M’Kinley & Co., Printers & Publishers, 61 Queen Street, 1879. Octavo (187 mm), publisher’s gilt-stamped red cloth over boards (scattered ink marks and small stains), spine lettered in gilt (softened at ends); a presentation copy from the author, inscribed …

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# 30841

BIRNIE, Richard (1808-1888)

Essays: social, moral, and political.

/ By Richard Birnie, Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-Law. [Selected and reprinted from “The Australasian”]. Melbourne : Alex M’Kinley & Co., Printers & Publishers, 61 Queen Street, 1879. Octavo (187 mm), publisher’s gilt-stamped tan cloth over boards (scattered ink marks and small stains), spine lettered in gilt (a little darkened); pp vii, [1 blank], 222, [1 publisher’s …

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