ARISTOTLE.

Aristotelis Stagiritae Rhetoricorum Artis[que] Poeticae libri omnes. Quorum seriem, inscriptionémque altera ab hac pagina commostrabit.

Lugduni Apud Iocabi Juntae [Printed by Theobaldus Paganus] 1561. 12mo, 117 x 75 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 302, engraved printer's device on title-page, engraved head- and tail-pieces, and initials, with contemporary inscription at foot of title-page, with contents on verso of title-page: Rheticorum ad Theodectum libri III Georgio Trapezuntio interprete. Rhetorica ad Alexandrum Francisco Philelpho interprete. De poetica Alexandro Paccio Patritio Florentino interprete. BOUND WITH: Aristotelis Stagiritae Problematum Duodequadraginta Sectiones, Quibus Alexandri Aphrodisaei Problematum libri adiecti suere. Lugduni. Apud Simphorianum Beraud, 1572. 12mo, pp. [305 - 306] 307 - 751 [752 blank]. 2 volumes in 1, with continuous pagination and collation, bound in contemporary calf with gilt ornament on both covers, bookplate of Arminster Catholic Mission on front paste-down end-paper, faint contemporary note on top margin of recto of front free end-paper; top of spine severely chipped, base of spine chipped, upper front joint volume 1 cracked, upper rear joint wormed, some other general wear to binding. The commentator Alexander, of Aphrodisias, is usually said to be "the greatest exponent of Aristotelianism after Aristotle." The three translators were George of Trebizond (1396-1486), the Byzantine humanist, Greek scholar, and Aristotelian polemicist; the Venetian scholar Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), is described in Wikipedia as "a man of vast physical energy, of inexhaustible mental activity, of quick passions and violent appetites; vain, restless, greedy of gold and pleasure and fame; unable to stay quiet in one place, and perpetually engaged in quarrels with his peers"; and Alessandro Pazzi de Medici (1483 - c. 1830), a member of the Pazzi family in Florence and a noted Aristotelian. Brandes, P.D. History of Aristotle's Rhetoric, p. 117. Cranz, F. E. Bibliography of Aristotle Editions, 1501-1600 (2nd ed.), 108. 430. Green and Murphy. Renaissance Rhetoric Short-Title Catalogue, 1460-1700, RR. 280. OCLC locates only two copies, both in US lilbraries: Chicago and California Berkeley

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[BAXTER (Andrew)]:

Matho: Or, The Cosmotheoria Puerilis, A Dialogue. In which The first Principles of Philosophy and Astronomy are accommodated to the Capacity of young Persons, or such as have yet no Tincture of these Sciences. Hence the Princilples of Natural Religion are deduced. Translated, and enlarged by the Author. Second Edition.

London: Printed for A. Millar..., 1740. 2 volumes. 8vo, 190 x 113 mms., pp. [xii], 400; [viii], 362 [363 - 392], bound in 19th century diced morocco, gilt borders on spine, later reback with gilt spines, black morocco labels; upper margins in volume 1 water-stained, small repair to upper margin of title-page of volume 1, some browning of text, with the later bookplate olf Frank P. Hadley on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume; an indifferent set. Baxter first published a work under this title in a small quarto of 64 pages Edinburgh in 1738. This "translation" is more of a new work than a strict translation. He revised and enlarged the Latin version for a new edition in 1746 and published a second edition of the above work in 1745, and further editions followed in 1754 and 1765. Baxter was born in Aberdeen and educated at King's College, Aberdeen; he lived much of his life in Whittingham, near Edinburgh, but, as Sir Leslie Stephen remarked in Baxter's DNB entry, he seems not to have been aware of the work of David Hume. For that matter, Hume also seems not to have referred either in his published writings or his correspondence to Baxter's work, but Francis Hutcheson did, citing Baxter in his System of Moral Philosophy (1755; I, 200). The ten dialogues occur between Matho "A Boy of a fine Genius" and Philon; Matho's putative age would appear to be about twelve, but the discussion is sophisticated and demanding. Baxter was one of the earliest critics of George Berkeley, opposing, in the second volume, Berkeley's immaterialism and arguing instead that the existence of matter is crucial to theism.

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[BERKELEY (George):]

Alciphron: or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, against Those Who are Called Free-Thinkers.

Dublin: Printed for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street, MDCCXXXII 1732. FIRST IRISH EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, 195 x 118 mms., pp. [x], 220; [ii], 245 [246 blank], engraved vignette on each title-page, contemporary calf; lackk label, front joint slightly cracked, but a good to very good copy. The present book, Alciphron, was the longest work written by the great Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753), preeminent proponent of the philosophy of immaterialism, who was also Bishop of Cloyne, and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. The first edition of Alciphron was published by Tonson in London in 1732, but this first Irish edition published by Risk in Dublin the same year is far more rare, and has interest of its own: Berkeley being Irish, obviously, and the two editions, Tonson's in London and Risk's in Dublin, being in 1732 "nearly simultaneously released", according to Adam Grzelinski, an expert on the circumstances of the book's publication (see Grzelinski's "Alciphron; or the Minute Philosopher: Berkeley's Redefinition of Free-Thinking" in The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley, ed. by Bertil Belfrage and Richard Brook, [Bloomsbury Academic, 2016], p. 174). Readers familiar with the family background of George Berkeley will see the last name, "Wolfe", written in ink, atop the title-page, and stop in their tracks. The Wolfe family appears prominently in the Berkeley family tree. Oxford DNB records that Berkeley was "born at or near Kilkenny on 12 March 1685. His father, William Berkeley (d. in or after 1734), who later held a military commission, was a gentleman farmer descended from a Staffordshire family related to the earls of Berkeley; he owned the property of Dysart, further down the River Nore near Thomastown, where Berkeley grew up. Berkeley's mother, a great-aunt of General James Wolfe, has been tentatively identified as Elisabeth Southerne, daughter of a Dublin brewer and on her mother's side a descendant of James Ussher…" It is thus likely that the ownership inscription in this copy of the first Irish edition of Alciphron defines the present copy as a family association copy of Berkeley's longest book. But which Wolfe inscribed the book? The answer is nigh. My stock includes another book of philosophical content (if decidedly more light-hearted in temperament) titled Athenian Sport: or, Two Thousand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, To Amuse and Divert the Age: As a Paradox in Praise of a Paradox (1707), which has a variant of the Wolfe bookplate (one with the family name, "Wolfe de Forenaughts", engraved, in this case, just beneath the frame enclosing the trebled wolf-heads), and the ownership inscription, on the right-hand side at the top of the title-page, is, in this case, longer: "Phillpott: Wolfe." The "P" is unusual, being lollipop-shaped in its upper half and with a jack-boot upturn to the left in its lower half, as we see with the "P" in the inscription in the present copy of Alciphron. Keynes 16. Jessop 121b. ESTC T86362. Howe's catalogue, Franks Bequest, has three Wolfe bookplates (item nos. 32325, 32326, and 32327), but none is the one in this copy of Alciphron (1732). On the "Wolfes of Forenaughts" claiming kinship with "Major-General James Wolfe, the hero of Quebec", which, as we've seen, would also mean kinship with Bishop Berkeley, see George Wolfe, "The Wolfe Family of County Kildare" in the Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society and Surrounding Districts, Vol. 3, Dublin, 1902, pp. 361-367, most notably p. 364 and p. 367, the latter page illustrating the variant of the Wolfe bookplate, with the family name engraved.

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[BETHUNE (John)]:

Essays and Dissertations on Various Subjects, Relating to Human Life and Happiness.

London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly in the oultry, 1771. 2 volumes. 12mo, 176 x 100 mms., pp. viii, 284; [ii], 379 [380 adverts for Bethune's A Short View of the Human Faculties and Passions]. BOUND WITH: [BETHUNE (John)]: A Short View of the Human Faculties and Passions. With Remarks and Directions respecting thier Nature, Improvements, and Governments. Second Edition. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Neill and sold by A. Kincaid and J. Bell; and E. and C. Dillys, London. 1770], 3 volumes bound in 21, with the Short View bound as a second item in volume 1. Newly rebound in period style quarter calf, gilt spine, red morocco labels, marbled boards. A fine set. John Bethune (1725 - 1774) studied with David Verner at Marischal College and later at the universities of St. Andrews and Edinburgh (probably). These are his two most important works. The entry in The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers (1999) notes, "Following the example set by other philosophers who had adapted Locke's epistemology to their own purposes, Bethune published an ingenious synoptic guide to philosophy, A Short View of the Human Faculties and Passions (1770; 2nd ed.). This is both a descriptive and prescriptive guide, with his concept of the mind - `always to be considered as one simple indivisible principle' - leading the way. Mental powers can be examined separately and analytically, but they are not to be considered `distinct Agents in the mind' but examples of the mind operating or functioning in various different ways. In his Essays and Dissertations on Various Subjects (1771), he addresses himself to a number of the problems and issues raised by Hume's writings, but he denies Hume any merit as a `Theologician' [sic] or as a philosopher. Should Hume's doctrines be given their `full effect' it would mean `the end of all religion and morality.' The most philosophically interesting of these essays of these essays is the one on conscience, which he defines as a `reflex principle within us necessarily or involuntarily determining us to approve of some of our actions and affections as good, and disapprove of the contrary as evil, in a moral and religious sense,' but he gives no guidelines as to how the mind, in an act of consciousness reflecting on its `own ideas or operations,' makes a distinction between something acting or happening necessarily and something acting or happening involuntarily. He is not convinced that the mind is a tabula rasa, saying in his essay on experience that something more is necessary for our improvement as human beings `than the exercise of our sensible or bodily powers.' This, he claims, is obvious; otherwise `inferior and irrational animals' could excel us because they have more acute and lively bodily powers. Bethune attempts, without success, to conflate epistemology and moral theory, suggesting that the mind's exercise of its mental powers in moral situations will lead to good actions, the goodness of which may `be said to consist in their rectitude.' This is a word that does not often appear in eighteenth-century discourses about moral theory, except in a religious or theological context; but Bethune, despite the Christian context in which he wishes to position philosophy, uses the term here in as secular a manner as possible. His other essays are on time, liberty, teaching, education, providence, happiness, desire, death, and immortality. In these, he reveals a good acquaintance with the contemporary and classical literature on the subjects, and while there is nothing startling innovative or cogent in them, the essays can surprise and please by an unexpected combination of ideas." Copies of Bethune's works are uncommon and are seldom found. For the Essays ESTC records copies of this edition in BL, NLS (2), and Glasgow; and for the Short View ESTC find several copies in these islands and National Library of Medicine, Library of Congres , Arizona, Chicago, and Yale in the United States.

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BOETHIUS.

Boezio Severino Della Consolazione della Filosofia Tradotto dalla Lingua Latina in Volgar Fiorentino da Benedetto Varchi. Con Annotazioni in margine, Argomenti de' Libri, e Tavola delle cose più segnalate. Si aggiunge la Vita dell' Autore scritta latinamente da Giulio Marziano Rota, ed ora esattamente volgarizzata.

In Venezia, Appresso Giambattista Novelli, Con Licenza de' Superiori, 1757. 8vo, 170 x 110 mms., pp. xxii [xxiii - xxiv contents and license], 184, fine engraved portrait of Boethius as frontispiece, contemporary vellum, gilt spine; boards slightly sprung so a near-fine copy, beautifully printed. The Italian author and editor Benedetto Varchi (1503 - 1565 ) was an exceptional translator and editor of Latin texts; the earliest printing of this translation that I have found occurred in 1562. WorldCat notes that "Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. The Consolation was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. The Consolation was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante." The work alternates between verse and prose, with Boethius speaking his own person in prose, and philosophy answering in verse. In his History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell writes of Boethius: "During the two centuries before his time and the ten centuries after it, I cannot think of any European man of learning so free from superstition and fanaticism. Nor are his merits merely negative; his survey is lofty, distinterested, and sublime. He would have been remarkable in any age; in the age in which he lived, he is utterly amazing." This particular edition of Boethius' famous work is uncommon: OCLC locates copies in Yale, Harvard, Temple in the USA; Munchen in Germany; one in Switzerland; one in Rome and another in an Italian Jesuit university.

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BOETHIUS. Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boethii:

De Consolatione Philosophiae, Lib V. Cum Castigationibus Theodori Pulmann, Epicteti Stoici Enchridion ex Graeco ab Angelo Politiano in Latinum conversum.

Lugduni, Apud Alexandrum Marsilium, 1581. Small 8vo, 107 c 70 mms., foliated, 118 leaves, contemporary sheepskin, all edges gilt; binding a bit worn, front end-papers wormed, no rear paste-down end-paper, rear hinge cracked and open. The classics textual critic Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) is often identified as an important scholar who was instrumental in taking classical scholarship out of its medieval indulgences and into the Renaisance. And his scholarly achievements were recognized and valorized by the powerful Medici family. Wikipedia asserts that "Poliziano was well known as a scholar, a professor, a critic, and a Latin poet in an age when the classics were still studied with assimilative curiosity, and not with the scientific industry of a later period. He was the representative of that age of scholarship in which students drew their ideal of life from antiquity. He was also known as an Italian poet, a contemporary of Ariosto.... Anthony Grafton writes that Poliziano's 'conscious adoption of a new standard of accuracy and precision' enabled him 'to prove that his scholarship was something new, something distinctly better than that of the previous generation.'" And, as obituaries in The Times euphemistically observed in decades past, "he never married." Baudrier II, 167-168; BM (STC) 73; Index aurel. 121.133. OCLC locates copies in European libraries, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Universitaatsbibliothek Eichstatt, Mannheim, and Biblioteca Nationale Centrale di Roma. Copies in the United States in George Washinton University, Harvard, Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Oklahoma.

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BRINE (John):

A Treatise on Various Subjects: Viz. On the Original Purity of Human Nature. On its present Depravity. Of the Defects which attended the Doctrine of Morality of Morality , as taught by Philosophers and Poets. Of Regeneration, Conversion, and Sanctification. On the Difference between real Conversion, and the Semblance of it. On the Assurance of Faith. On the Life of Faith. On the Growth of Grace. Of Declension in the Power of Religion; its Causes, and the Ways and Means of a happy Revival under Decays of Grace. On the Temptations of the present Age; and Cautions against them. Of Communion with God, in the Course of that Obedience, which we are required to yield unto Him. Wherein various difficult Cases of Conscience are answered, as they occur, on the several Subjects treated of. The Second Edition.

London: Printed for John Ward...; And Sold by George Keith...and John AEynon..., 1756. 8vo, 194 x 118 mms., pp. vii [viii "Books written by John Brine," 400, contemporary calf; lacks prelims, fore-margins of a few leaves wormed, various ink scribbles on early leaves and last two leaves, ink-stain on front cover which also slightly affects upper fore-edge, rear cover with remains of paper label. The Baptist minister John Brine (1703–1765) was the author of some 30 books. He was regarded in his lifetime as a Calvinist and a supralapsarian, as well as an antinomian, but he identified as a Baptist minister. The present work was first published in 1750. ESTC T96830 locates 4 copies of this second edition: BL, Bodleian (2); Union Theological Seminary. It was reprinted in 1766 with a cancel title-page. See "John Brine And The Glory of God," Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies 2021.

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BURDON (William):

Materials for Thinking.

Newcastle: Printed by K. Anderson...and sold by T. Ostell...London, 1806. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 404 [405 Table of Contents, 406 blank], contemporary boards, slightly later linen spine, with hand-written paper label; last 12 leaves noticeably water-stained, boards and edges worn, spine snagged and soiled. Burdon (1764 - 1818) made a name for himself in the early 19th century as a prolific author and commentator on social and political events. Although he had published works exhibiting some philosophical inclinations, this was his first attempt at a more comprehensive exposition of philosophical ideas. His purpose is, as he puts in the Preface, "to lessen the effect of prejudice and diffuse the comforts of society." His topics here are "Liberality of Sentiment," "Human Inconsistencies," "The Imagination," "Characters," "The Feelings," "Education," "Liberty and Necessity," and "Political OEconomy." There are very few mentions of other authors in the main body of the text, but when one occurs it seems clear that Burdon was well-acquainted with the literature of the preceding two centuries, and the Notes, which take up pp. 307 - 404, are full of references to other authors. The "Table of Contents" is for "Vol. I," but this volume was the only one published at this time. Burdon reissued the work in 1810, this time in two volumes.

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[COETLOGON (Charles Edward de)]:

The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and Morals. Analytically Arranged. Second Edition.

London: Printed by Luke Hansard...for J. Mawman..., 1807. 8vo, pp. [iv], 566, contemporary diced rusia, gilt spine. A very good copy. Coetlogon (?1746 - 1820) published this work in 1806, and this second edition eventually comprised the first volume of his miscellaneous works published between 1807 and 1810 and is blocked "vol. 1" in gilt on the spine.

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CROLL (Oswald):

Philosophy Reformed & Improved The I. Discovering the Great and Deep Mysteries of Nature: By that Learned Chymist & Physitian Osw. Crollius. The Other III. Discovering the Wonderfull Mysteries of the Creation, by Paracelsus: Being His Philosophy to the Athenians. Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of Learning and true Knowledge. 8vo, 158 x 98 mms., pp. [xxiv], 160, 171 - 226 [text and registration continuous], engraved portrait of Paracelsus as frontispiece, late nineteenth-century ownership markings on verso of title-page. London: Printed by M. S[immonds] for Lodowick Lloyd, at the Castle in Cornhill, 1657. 8vo, 158 x 98 mms., pp. [xxiv], 160, 171 - 226 [text and registration continuous], engraved portrait of Paracelsus as frontispiece, late nineteenth-century ownership markings on verso of title-page. [BOUND WITH:] Three Books of Philosophy Written to the Athenians: By that famous, most excellent, and approved Philosopher & Phisitian Aureal. Philip. Theoph. Bombast. of Hohenheim, (commonly called) Paracelsus. With an Explicatory Table alphabetically digested; wherein the hard words that are found in this Authour, and in the forging Preface of Osw: Crollius, are Explained. Done into English for the increase of the knowledge and fear of God. By a young Seeker of truth and holines [sic]. London: Printed by M. S. for L: Lloyd at the Castle in Cornhill, 1657. 8vo, pp. [ii], 70, with an inscription and drawing on the verso of the last leaf.

London: London: Printed by M. S. for L: Lloyd at the Castle in Cornhill, 1657. 1657. The renowned alchemist Oswald Croll or Crollius (1563-1609) was "a professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing books and influencing thinkers of his day towards viewing chemistry and alchemy as two separate fields. … Croll received his doctorate in medicine in 1582 at Marburg, then continued studies at Heidelberg, Strasburg, and Geneva. After working as a tutor, he arrived in Prague in 1597. He remained there for two years, and again from 1602 until his death. There, through Rudolf II, he came into contact with other alchemical writers such as Edward Kelley" (Wikipedia). It was in 1583 at Prague that Edward Kelley (1555-1597/8) had been "appointed alchemist to the emperor, Rudolph II" (Oxford DNB). "Croll died suddenly in 1609. His reputation and influence grew after his death, and was noted by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. In 1618, Croll was deemed one of alchemy's heroes in Johann Daniel Mylius' Basilica Philosophica" (Wikipedia). BOUND WITH: The renowned alchemist Oswald Croll or Crollius (1563-1609) was "a professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing books and influencing thinkers of his day towards viewing chemistry and alchemy as two separate fields. … Croll received his doctorate in medicine in 1582 at Marburg, then continued studies at Heidelberg, Strasburg, and Geneva. After working as a tutor, he arrived in Prague in 1597. He remained there for two years, and again from 1602 until his death. There, through Rudolf II, he came into contact with other alchemical writers such as Edward Kelley" (Wikipedia). It was in 1583 at Prague that Edward Kelley (1555-1597/8) had been "appointed alchemist to the emperor, Rudolph II" (Oxford DNB). "Croll died suddenly in 1609. His reputation and influence grew after his death, and was noted by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. In 1618, Croll was deemed one of alchemy's heroes in Johann Daniel Mylius' Basilica Philosophica" (Wikipedia). Not only was Croll an associate of the famous British alchemist Edward Kelley, but he also was a correspondent of the female Latin poet Elizabeth Jane Weston (bap. 1581?, d. 1612), who became Kelley's stepdaughter when Weston's mother married for the second time. After Croll's death, large portions of his work were translated by Richard Russell, who was one half of an esteemed two-brother team of alchemists and translators of alchemical works, Richard Russell (d. circa 1697) and William Russell (1634-1696), the latter having been "chemist-in-ordinary to Charles II" (Oxford DNB). It was Croll's Bazilica Chymica (1670) that Richard translated first, but he did so in secret, concealing his authorship of the translation for many years. The present book, ESTC R208771, is the first appearance in book form of Croll's work in the English language: remarkably, the ESTC finds some copies in the British Isles and some in North America but not one copy held by a library of continental Europe. 8vo, pp. [ii], 70, with an inscription and drawing on the verso of the last leaf. The renowned alchemist Oswald Croll or Crollius (1563-1609) was "a professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing books and influencing thinkers of his day towards viewing chemistry and alchemy as two separate fields. … Croll received his doctorate in medicine in 1582 at Marburg, then continued studies at Heidelberg, Strasburg, and Geneva. After working as a tutor, he arrived in Prague in 1597. He remained there for two years, and again from 1602 until his death. There, through Rudolf II, he came into contact with other alchemical writers such as Edward Kelley" (Wikipedia). It was in 1583 at Prague that Edward Kelley (1555-1597/8) had been "appointed alchemist to the emperor, Rudolph II" (Oxford DNB). "Croll died suddenly in 1609. His reputation and influence grew after his death, and was noted by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. In 1618, Croll was deemed one of alchemy's heroes in Johann Daniel Mylius' Basilica Philosophica" (Wikipedia). Not only was Croll an associate of the famous British alchemist Edward Kelley, but he also was a correspondent of the female Latin poet Elizabeth Jane Weston (bap. 1581?, d. 1612), who became Kelley's stepdaughter when Weston's mother married for the second time. After Croll's death, large portions of his work were translated by Richard Russell, who was one half of an esteemed two-brother team of alchemists and translators of alchemical works, Richard Russell (d. circa 1697) and William Russell (1634-1696), the latter having been "chemist-in-ordinary to Charles II" (Oxford DNB). It was Croll's Bazilica Chymica (1670) that Richard translated first, but he did so in secret, concealing his authorship of the translation for many years. The present book, ESTC R208771, is the first appearance in book form of Croll's work in the English language: remarkably, the ESTC finds some copies in the British Isles and some in North America but not one copy held by a library of continental Europe.

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FERGUSON (Adam):

Grundsätze der Moralphilosophie Uebersetzt und mit einigen Anmerkungen versehen von Christian Garve.

Leipzig, In der Dyckischen Buchhandlung, 1772. FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION. 8vo, 174 x 100 mms.,[xii], 420, later half calf, marbled boards, black leather label; joins worn and slightly tender, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, with Ex Libris of Dr Gero Wildt on the verso of the title-page. David Hume described Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) as a "Man of Sense, knowledge, Taste, Elegance, & Morals," and when Ferguson settled himself in Edinburgh when he about 40, he was surrounded by like-minded intellectuals. After publishing his most imporant and influential An Essay on the History of Civil Society in 1767, and followed this up in 1769 with his classroom text book, The Institutes of Moral Philosophy for the Use of Students in the College of Edinburgh. This German translation is by Chrisopher Garve (1742 - 1798), who also traslated Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.

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FERGUSON (Hugh):

One View of Human Life Taken, and Reconciled by a Prospect of Heaven; Together with an Attempt towards the Right Direction of our Conduct for the attainment of that Certain, Glorious, and Happy State.

London Printed. -- And sold by J. Noon in Cheapside; J. Buckland in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Robinson on Ludgate-Hill; and A. Millar in the Strand, [no date], [?1743] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], ii, 72, disbound. This appears to be the author's only publication and is a meditation in the style of Marcus Aurelius, whom he alludes to or quotes several times. ESTC T101975 locates copies in BL, CUL, Cambridge: Trinity, St. John's, Lambeth Palace, NLS, John Rylands; National Library of Ireland; Duke University only in North America. OCLC adds Columbia.

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GRAHAM (William):

Idealism: An Essay, Metaphysical and Critical.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xl, 198, original cloth; some marginal annotations in ink and pencil, spine a little snagged and worn.

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GREEN (Thomas Hill). FAIRBROTHER (W. H.):

The Philosophy of Thomas Hill Green.

London: Methuen & Co...., 1896. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 187 [188 printer's imprint, 189 - 192 blank], 32 pages adverts dated September 1895, half-title, original cloth. A very good copy.

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HALES (John):

A Discourse of the Several Dignities and Corruptions of Man's Nature Since the Fall.

London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1720. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 110 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 146 [147 -152 blank],  HALES (John): A Discourse of the Several Dignities and Corruptions of Man's Nature Since the Fall. London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1720. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 110 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 146 [147 -152 blank], contemporary sheepskin, sympathaticallty rebacked to match old sheepskin, raised bands, red leather label; some slight staining in text, binding a bit scratched and knocked about, tear to front cover repaired, but a good to very good copy. [9713] £750 The name on the title-page is likely to be John Rumney (1703 - 1778), the father of the great eighteenth-century painter George Romney (1734 - 1802). A note in pencil in the hand of a previous owner, probably a bookseller, notes, "With Autoph of John Rommey son of Cold. Geo [Robinson] & bought at family sale in Norfolk." Another name in a later 18th century hand appears on the recto of the front free end-paper in pencil, "[? Ge W] Robinson." John Hales (1584 - 1656) did not publish this work in his lifetime, and this text is abridged from a work by Edward Reynolds (1599 - 1676), A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul (1647). The index was compiled by L. Howel, and Curll edited the work, and provided the preface. John Hales (1584 - 1656) did not publish this work in his lifetime, and this text is abridged from a work by Edward Reynolds (1599 - 1676), A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul (1647). The index was compiled by L. Howel, and Curll edited the work, and provided the preface.

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