Philosophy

  • An agnostic's progress from the known to the unknown

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

    # 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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  • Quatre problèmes à resoudre; exercises proposés aux candidates au grade du Brevet élémentaire.

    # 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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  • [CHRISTIANITY; SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY] Shalom

    # 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 …

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