AYER A.J.

The Concept of a Person and other Essays.

Macmillan,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With a contemporary review (by Strawson) mounted on front preliminaries.

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Book number: 21351

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AYER A.J.

Philosophical Essays. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Macmillan,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with or two short closed tears. Collects twelve essays from the eminent proponent of logical positivism. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 37883

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BAIN Alexander

The Emotions and the Will. Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1888. 8vo., Third Edition; original chocolate cloth, sides with double frame border in blind, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, top lightly dust-soiled, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a bright, fresh, attractive copy. With small personal name-stamp on blank preliminaries [only] and 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Bain's notable sequel to 'The Senses and the Intellect' was first published in 1859. The present edition (the largest and arguably the best) is a heavily revised and extended version of the second edition of 1865. It includes Bain's new Peface written in 1875, and retains those to the previous editions. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 30439

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BAIN Alexander

The Senses and the Intellect. Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1868. 8vo., Third Edition; newly bound in brown cloth to style, old backstrip laid down, uncut, a bright, fresh copy. The first part of Bain's two-work exposition of the human mind was first published in 1855. The present edition is a heavily revised and extended version of the second edition of 1864. It includes Bain's Prefaces to all three editions. The second work, 'The Emotions and the Will', appeared in 1859. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Jessop p. 85; NCBEL III, 1514

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Book number: 30440

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BOWLE John

Hobbes and his Critics. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Jonathan Cape,, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. THE COPY IS INSCRIBED TO PROFESSOR MICHAEL CHERNIAVKSKY WHOSE SIGNATURE APPEARS ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

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Book number: 21089

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Keywords: philosophy, thomas hobbes, michael cherniavsky, john bowle, philosophy, hobbes, his, critics

CAMPBELL J.

The Liar's Tale A History of Falsehood.

Norton, NY,, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition; boards, cloth back, gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Philosophic examination of the ethics of falsehood. The first edition is uncommon.

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Book number: 12318

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Keywords: philosophy, lying, liars, falsehood, j. campbell, philosophy, liar's, tale, history, falsehood

COTTER A.C.

Logic and Epistemology. Fourth and Revised Edition. [Fifth Impression]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Stratford Company, Boston MA,, [1940]. 8vo., Fifth Impression, page-edges very lightly browning, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, a very good, tight copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at backstrip and and chipped with minor loss (affecting lettering) at edges. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.

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Book number: 23467

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Keywords: modern firsts, philosophy, cotter, jesuits, a.c. cotter, philosophy, logic, epistemology

EDWARDS Arthur

Images of Eden. An Enquiry into the Psychology of Aesthetics. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Skylark Press, [Tewin],, [2003]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and monochrome photographs in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 36748

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Keywords: philosophy, aesthetics, arthur edwards

HUGHES G. E.

An Introduction to Modal Logic. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Methuen,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss at upper edge of front panel. This copy was formerly in the library of Professor D.J. O'Connor of the Department of Philosophy, Exeter University, and bears his neat signature on front free endpaper.

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Book number: 48272

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Keywords: philosophy, logic, modal logic, hughes, cresswell

HUNTER J.E.M.

Essays after Wittgenstein. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Allen & Unwin,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly rubbed at extremities.

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Book number: 37919

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Keywords: philosophy, wittgenstein, philosophy, essays, after, wittgenstein

JOACHIM Harold H.

Descartes's Rules for the Direction of the Mind.. Reconstructed from Notes taken by his Pupils. Edited by Errol E. Harris. Foreword by Sir David Ross. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Allen & Unwin,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, a few small annotations in the text, neat signature on front paste-down; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly-browned dustwrapper. SCARCE.

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Book number: 37534

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Keywords: philosophy, descartes, rene descartes, joachim, harold joachim,

KLINE M.

Mathematics in Western Culture. [First UK Edition].

Allen & Unwin,, [1954]. 8vo., First UK Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; orange cloth, gilt back, backstrip very slightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in the US in the previous year.

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Book number: 22601

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LIVINGSTONE Sir Richard Winn

Greek Ideals and Modern Life. NEAR FINE COPY

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1935. 8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With the separately printed errata slip mounted facing B1. The text of a Martin Classical Lecture, delivered at Oberlin College.

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Book number: 50096

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LOVEJOY A.O.

The Reason the Understanding and Time. GEORGE BOAS'S COPY

John Hopkins Press, Baltimore MD,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF PROFESSOR GEORGE BOAS OF JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AND BEARS HIS SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 23550

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Keywords: philosophy, arthur lovejoy, history of ideas, a.o. lovejoy, philosophy, reason, understanding, time

LUDOVICI Jakob Friedrich

Dissertatio Juridica de Domino Vasalli Vasallo quam deo ter opt. max. adnuente in illustri Academia Giessensi. CRISP, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Litteris Johannis Mulleri, Giessen,, 1722. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, text in Latin, title lightly age-browned; disbound, sewed as issued, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. The eminent German jurist's last published work. Ludovici (1671-1723) was appointed successively privy councillor, vice chancellor and Professor Juris Primarius at the University of Giessen. COPAC locates but two copies in the UK, both bound with other titles in the Bodleian. RARE.

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