Philosophy
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# 37107
MEDICI, Sisto de' (1502-1561)
[JUDAICA] De foenore Iudaeorum, libri tres.
Venice : [Gryphius], 1555. Three parts in one volume, quarto (175 x 140 mm), later (probably 18th-century) marbled papered limp boards (heavily rubbed, loss of paper along spine), pp [16], 63, [1], [1 colophon]; title and colophon engraved with printer’s device; historiated and decorated initials; occasional and very light marginal foxing, text block trimmed close …
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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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# 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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# 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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# 29332
[CONFUCIUS]; POUND, Ezra (translator)
Confucius: the unwobbling pivot & the Great digest / Pharos Number Four, Winter, 1947
With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms, together with Ciu Hsi’s “Preface” to the Chung Yung and Tseng’s commentary on the Testament. Norfolk, CT : New Directions, 1947. Series: Pharos no. 4, Winter 1947. Octavo (235 mm), printed magenta wrappers with yapp edges (lower wrapper lightly marked), pp 53, [11] publisher’s advertisements …
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# 27110
JACOB, Max (1876-1922)
Quatre problèmes à resoudre; exercises proposés aux candidates au grade du Brevet élémentaire.
Liège : Éditions Dynamo [1962]. Series: Brimborions, 85. Edition limited to 40 copies on vélin Astra blanc and 11 copies on Hollande vergé (this copy is on Hollande, numbered 3/11). Octavo, pictorial limp covers with portrait medallion of Max Jacob by Picasso to front, in glassine wrapper, two frontispiece portraits of the author, the first a …
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# 23400
LOVELL, David (editor)
[CHRISTIANITY; SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY] Shalom
Caulfield East, Vic. : Published by Cripac Press Pty. Ltd., vol. 1, no. 1, February 7, 1972 – vol. 1, no. 12, July 31, 1972 (but missing vol. 1, no. 9). Eleven issues, quarto, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, illustrated, all in fine condition. An obscure Melbourne fortnightly periodical published between 1972 and 1973, Shalom examined current …