HOFFMAN, ROSS J.S.

Edmund Burke: New York Agent. With his Letters to the New York Assembly and Intimate Correspondence with Charles O'Hara 1761-1776.

Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1956. 1st edition. Edmund Burke was the agent of the New York Assembly during the four years preceding the American Revolution. "The letters of Burke and other members of the Burke family to O'Hara make possible..an intimate insight into the character and private life of the great statesman and political philosopher. They illuminate also many motives of his conduct in American questions and as a party politician." Pp.xiv/632. Blue cloth, dustwrapper rubbed to spine with small edge tear to lower front and chipped losses to top and tail of spine. A heavy book which may require extra to send overseas. VG/Good.

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Keywords: Hoffman Edmund Burke New York Agent Assembly Correspondence Charles o'Hara Colonial America British Empire Parliament Irish Affairs Rockingham Chatham Townshend Ireland Wilkes Liberty Politics 48220 Politics

Thomas Horne

History of the Rise and Progress of the Belgian Republic, Until the Revolution Under Philip II. Including a Detail of the Primary Causes of That Memorable Event from the German Original of Frederic Schiller

London, J Coxhead, 1807. Leather. A history of the Rise and Progress of the Belgian Republic, taken from the original German, by Thomas Horne A leather bound edition of the 'History of the Rise and Progress of the Belgium Republic&apos. This volume offers an insightful history into the Belgian republic, it's time under the rule of Philip II, leading to the Revolution. The original German text was written by Frederic Schiller by Thomas Horne. In the volumes preface, Horne praises Schriller's 'genius' and compares his to the like of Edmund Burke. In full calf binding. Externally, worn. Rubbing to the spine, has resulting in loss to the head and tail. There is also some loss to the leather to the front and rear boards . Previous owners inscription to the front paste down, reads, 'Anne Atherton 1819&apos. Worming to the front pastedown and endpapers, to the tail. Small tear to the front endpaper to the foredge. No more than 1cm. Tidemark to the rear pastedown and endpaper, to the tail. Worming also to the rear endpaper and paste down to the head. Internally, firmly bound. There is a small amount of worming affecting the first few pages, not affecting the text. Pages are generally clean, with the occasional pencil notation from the previous owner, and the odd spot. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

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Keywords: History Belgium Phillip II German Belgium Thomas Horne None

Elbert Hubbard

Edmund Burke. Little Journeys to Homes of Eminent Orators. Published by The Roycrofters 1903.

The Roycrofters, New York, 1903. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 34 pages, 1 portrait plate. Original printed wrappers. A little loss of surface to spine and adhesion mark to the back cover at spine edge. Contents clean throughout. Size: Quarto (14 x 19 cms). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Varied Articles; Inventory No: 353733.

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Keywords: BZDB395 Softcover Varied Articles; Elbert Hubbard Edmund Burke. Little Journeys to Homes of Eminent Orators. Published by The Roycrofters 1903.

JOHANNES, F.V. (EDITOR).

Rethinking the Church. Trans. by Edmund Burke.

Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1970. 1st English ed. The book's aim is to give the reader a fresh insight into the very nature of the Church. Pp. 11/193. P/b. VG.

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Johnson, Claudia L.

Equivocal Beings : Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xi,239 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe and gratitude. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney and Jane Austen, this work examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender and feeling in the fiction of this period, it provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work - grotesqueness, strain and excess - as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. The author maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings." - Publisher's description.

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Keywords: English Literary History, Women Writers, Criticism, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Literature Fiction, Sentimentalism

JOHNSON (Samuel):

The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale.

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley...and W. Johnston..., 1759. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, 150 x 94 mms., pp. [iii] iv - viii, 159 - 160 blank; [iii] iv - viii, 165 [166 blank], with leaf a2 in volume 2 reading "CONTENTS/ OF THE/ SECOND VOLUME," and on page 161 of volume 2 in the second line, the reading "indisceperpible," and the verso of D5 (age 106) in volume 2 signed D4, page 45 in volume 2 not numbered and the running title with the last "A" in "ABYSSINNA" in italics and spaced from rest of word, contemporary calf, red leather laebls; front free end-paper in each volume detached from inner margin, joints cracked (but firm), extremities worn, but a fair to good copy,with the presentation inscription on the front paste-down end-paper, "The gift of Mrs. Peareth/ to/ Dorothy Robertson," and the autograph "Miss Burrell" on the top margin of the title-page in each volume. Edmund Burke reviewed the novel in The Annual Register, beginning with the assertion that, "in this novel the moral is the principle, and the story is a mere vehicle to convey the instruction. Accordingly the tale is not near so full of incidents, or so diverting in itself, if the ingenious author, if he had not had higher views, might easily have made it; neither is the distinction of character sufficiently attended to: but with these defects, perhaps no book ever inculcated a purer and sounder morality; no book ever made a more just estimate of human life, its pursuits, and its enjoyments." Like many people, Burke was aware of the identity of the author and observed at the end of the review, "there is no doubt he is the same who has done so much for the improvement of our taste and our morals, and employed a great part of his life in an astonishing work for the fixing of the language of this nation; whilst this nation, which admires his works, and profits by them, has done nothing for the author." The giver in the inscription, "Mrs. Peareth", is no doubt the immensely wealthy female philanthropist Susanna (or Susan) Peareth (1752-1821), daughter and co-heiress of Collingwood Foster, Esq., of Alnwick. Collingwood Foster was an attorney at law, and an agent of the Duke of Northumberland, whose seat was Alnwick Castle. Susanna married William Peareth (1734-1810) of Usworth House, County Durham. By the 1820s, Mrs Peareth's wealth was valued at £14,000, according to an entry in the Special Collections catalogue of Durham University Library (). The inscription "Miss Burrell" in the present copy of Johnson's Rasselas may well be connected to the family of William Peareth's kinswoman Barbara Peareth (c.1759-1828), who married John Burrell of Bassington, a village near Alnwick, in 1775. Moreover, a certain William Burrell was one of the executors of Susan Peareth's last will and testament, and his name is frequently mentioned in the will, which is many pages in length (PROB 11/1657/74, National Archives, Kew). For more on these persons and families, see Burke's Landed Gentry, 6th edition (1882), Vol. 2, p. 1248; Joseph Michael Fewster, "The Politics and Administration of the Borough of Morpeth in the later Eighteenth Century", University of Newcastle Ph.D. thesis, 1960, pp. 191, 240 (); and the "Pedigree of Peareth, of Usworth" in Robert Surtees's chapter "Parish of Washington" in The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham: Volume 2, Chester Ward (London, 1820), pp. 40-49, accessible via British History Online (). Susanna Peareth is known even today in County Durham as the founder of a school for local children, which she endowed in 1814, four years after her husband's death and seven years before hers. A commemorative Blue Plaque was erected on the building of the school (still standing, though now a pub) in 2019 (). An old photograph of the school building, and a painted portrait of the foundress, can be seen online (, ). The aforementioned John Burrell is presumably the man of that name who appears in the list of subscribers to John Carr's book The Grove or Rural Harmony (1760), to which a certain "Mr Samuel Johnson" subscribed as well. (Johnson's first honorary doctorate would not be bestowed upon him until five years later; hence he was still, at this time, "Mr Johnson" rather than "Dr Johnson".) The ESTC finds no presentation inscriptions and no book ownership inscriptions relating to the philanthropist Susanna Peareth. In fact, the name Peareth is nowhere to be found in the ESTC database. Fleeman 59.4R/1. Rothschild 1242. The printer was William Strahan, who printed 1500 copies.

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Book number: 9305

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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

Edmund Burke and His Son. Published by W. & R. Chambers, December 10, 1836, No. 254. 1836.

W. & R. Chambers, December 10, 1836, No. 254. Edinburgh, 1836. First Edition, Disbound. Very Good Condition. 8 pages as issued. Folio. (9.5 x 14 ins). FEATURING approx 275 line article on Edmund Burke and His Son. A good copy of the original Weekly Newspaper. Posted folded. Size: Folio (23 x 33 cms). Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Chambers' Edinburgh Journal; Inventory No: 359476.

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Keywords: BZDB395 Newspapers Travel North American Historical Travel Texas Prairies Chambers Edinburgh Journal Chambers' Edinburgh Journal; Unbranded Chambers' Edinburgh Journal Edmund Burke and His Son. Published by W. & R. Chambers, December 10, 1836, No. 254. 18

KENDALL, ALAN

DAVID GARRICK. A Biography.

London. Harrap, 1985., Biography of the actor / manager who rose from humble beginnings to become a respected man in the theatre, a friend of Johnson & Edmund Burke, he was painted by the top artists, when he died he was buried in Westminster Abbey. 224 pages including chapter notes. About 100 illustrations, engravings & prints. 10" x 7½". Near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine d./w., not price clipped (£12.95) ISBN 0245542523. 1985

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Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Garrick theatre Dr. Johnson Peg Woffington Eva Viegel Robert Adam

Kenny, Herbert A

Literary Dublin: A History. With Illustrations by Charles Carroll

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company / Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, (1974). (1974). New York: Taplinger Publishing Company / Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, (1974). (1974). Fine. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a pictorial creamy white dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with creases and chips along the top edge. 336 pages, with black & white illustrations by Charles Carroll. Near fine in a very good dw.

First edition. Fine .

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Book number: 3762

Catalogue: History

Keywords: HISTORY; LITERATURE; IRISH; IRELAND; LITERARY; DUBLIN; CHARLES CARROLL; ILLUSTRATIONS; HERBERT A. KENNY; FIRST EDITION; JAMES JOYCE; WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS; EDMUND BURKE; GEORGE BERNARD SHAW; J.M. SYNGE; SEAN O'CASEY; MARY LEVIN; STREET SONGS; ORAL ROOT

Kirk, Russell

Edmund Burke; a Genius Reconsidered

New Rochelle, Arlington House, 1967. 255p. dj (Architects of freedom series). .

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Keywords: Edmund Burke England political Philosophy

KNIGHT (William Payne):

An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste. The Third Edition.

London: Printed by Luke Hansard...For T. Payne...and J. White..., 1806. 8vo, pp. xx, 473 [474 blank], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; joints cracked but reasonably firm, spine rubbed and dried, top and base of spine chipped, some flaking of leather. Knight's book, first published in 1805, was written in immediate response to Uvedale Price's Essay on the Picturesque, as well as Edmund Burke's earlier Sublime and Beautiful. Knight begins with Longinus, whom he finds a more reliable guide to the sublime than Burke. Knight's emphasis on the aesthetic values of light and colour unassociated with any particular emotions or psychological states represents one of his contributions in this work to the advancement of aesthetic theories. The work, however, ranges over a number of topics, and Knight's constantly-changing attention span throws up some surprising observations, e. g., "Imitative art separates [the] faults and defects from the magic, which recommends them in real life: for figures in stone or on canvass, excite too little either of social or sexual sympathy to engage the feelings of the man in support of the theories of the philosopher."

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Book number: 5018

Catalogue: Aesthetics

Keywords: aesthetics philosophy prose

Koen Vermeir , Michael Funk Deckard

The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry

Springer Netherlands, 2011. Hardcover. Pp: 338. Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke`s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke`s prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke`s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collection is the first book length work devoted primarily to Burke`s Philosophical Enquiry in both its historical context and for its contemporary relevance. It will establish the fact that the Enquiry is an important philosophical and literary work in its own right. ISBN: 9789400721012. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Kramnick, Isaac

The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative

New York: Basic Books, 1977. 8vo. 225 pp. Very Good, Brown Cloth, Dust Jacket with small tears, edge wear & rubbing; shelf wear. .

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KANT Emmanuel & PEYER-IMHOFF Hercule & BURKE Edmund & LAGENTIE DE LAVAÏSSE E.

Observations sur le sentiment du beau et du sublime [avec] Recherche philosophique sur l'origine de nos idées du sublime et du beau

Chez J. J. Lucet; Chez Pichon & Mme Depierreux, Paris 1796 et An XI [1803], in-8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 123 pp. ; xxxix ; 21-323 pp., deux textes reliés en un volume. | Unique association des traductions françaises des deux premiers ouvrages philosophiques sur le concept du Sublime, inaugurant la plus importante réflexion sur l'esthétique de l'Histoire occidentale | Rarissime édition originale de la première traduction française d'une œuvre philosophique de Kant et seconde traduction d'un texte kan­tien, les autres ne seront connus du public non-germanophone qu'au cours du XIXe siècle. Cette édition, dont l'originale allemande parut en 1764 à Königsberg sous le titre Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen, est illustrée d'un portrait de l'auteur par J. Béniry dit Dubuisson. Relié à la suite : seconde traduction française du texte de Burke, considéré comme le premier essai philosophique sur l'Esthétique, établie par E. Lagentie de Lavaïsse, après celle, critiquée, de l'abbé Des François en 1765. Elle est illustrée d'un portrait de l'auteur par Ma­riage. La première édition anglaise, intitulée A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, est parue en 1757. Reliure de l'époque en demi basane brune à coins de vélin, dos lisse orné de doubles filets dorés, plats de papier à la colle, gardes et contreplats de papier blanc, toutes tranches jaunes mouchetées de rouge. Quelques traces sur les gardes, rousseurs éparses plus pronon­cées sur quelques feuillets. L'ouvrage de Kant contient les pre­mières observations du philosophe - qui n'avait jusqu'alors publié que des textes scientifiques - sur l'Esthétique et plus particulièrement le Sublime, concept qui acquerra toute sa portée dans Critique du jugement. Celle-ci, à l'instar du reste de l'œuvre du philosophe, ne sera traduite en français qu'au cours du XIXe siècle. « Certes dès avant 1781, le nom de Kant n'était pas totalement inconnu à l'Univer­sité de Strasbourg où quelques étudiants et professeurs l'avaient cité dans leurs re­cherches ou dans leurs cours, et les tra­vaux de l'Académie de Berlin, contenant des mémoires d'adversaires résolus du kantisme, n'étaient pas complètement ignorés en France, mais il faut attendre la Révolution française et même la fin de la Convention et le début du Directoire, c'est-à-dire près de quinze ans après la parution de la Critique de la Raison pure, pour qu'en France on commence à parler de Kant et de son œuvre. » (Jean Ferra­ri, « L'œuvre de Kant en France dans les dernières années du xviiie siècle » in Les Études philosophiques n° 4, Kant (oc­tobre-décembre 1981), pp. 399-411). Si Kant est incontestablement celui qui institue l'Esthétique comme dis­cipline essentielle de la philosophie moderne, il doit au manifeste empi­riste d'Edmund Burke, les origines mêmes de sa réflexion, et plus par­ticulièrement la distinction entre le Beau et le Sublime. Toutefois, alors que Burke considérait le sublime comme une « terreur délicieuse », produit suprême de l'œuvre d'art, Kant - admirateur de sa philosophie - dépassera cette considé­ration, définissant le Sublime comme « ce qui est absolument grand », la terreur étant la conséquence de la confrontation de la raison humaine à l'illimité. Pertinente et précoce association des deux premières définitions mo­dernes du Sublime et fondements de la philosophie esthétique, réali­sée par un érudit conscient des dé­bats philosophiques de son époque. - Chez J. J. Lucet; Chez Pichon & Mme Depierreux, Paris 1796 et An XI [1803], in-8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 123 pp. ; xxxix ; 21-323 pp., deux textes reliés en un volume. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Observations sur le sentiment du beau et du sublime [Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime] [with] Recherche philosophique sur l'origine de nos idées du sublime et du beau [A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful], Chez J. J. Lucet & Chez Pichon & Mme Depierreux, Paris 1796 et An XI [1803], 8° (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 123 pp. ; xxxix ; 21-323 pp., bound. A unique combination of French translations of the first two philosophical works on the Sublime, marking the beginning of the most important reflection on aesthetics in Western history. Extremely rare first edition of the first French translation of a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant, and the second ever translation of a Kantian text. The others were only translated during the 19th century. Illustrated with a portrait of the author by Benezy. The first edition in German was published in 1764 in Königsberg under the title ""Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen"". Contemporary half brown roan binding with vellum corners, smooth spine ruled in gilt, blue paper boards, white paper pastedowns and endpapers, yellow red-speckled edges. Some marks on the endpapers, scattered foxing more noticeable on a few leaves. This essay contains Kant's first observations on aesthetics - he had previously only published scientific texts - and more specifically on the sublime, a concept that would come into its own in Critique of Judgment (1790) left untranslated until the 19th century as it is the case with almost all of Kant's oeuvre. ""Certainly even before 1781 Kant's name was not completely unknown at the University of Strasbourg, where some students and professors had cited him in their research or lectures. The works of the Berlin Academy which included memoirs by staunch opponents of Kantianism were not completely ignored in France. However, it was not until the French Revolution and even the end of the Convention and the beginning of the Directoire, i.e. almost fifteen years after the publication of the Critique of Pure Reason that people in France began to talk about Kant and his work"" (Jean Ferrari, ""L'œuvre de Kant en France dans les dernières années du XVIIIè siècle"" Les Études philosophiques No. 4, Kant (oct-dec 1981), pp. 399-411). Bound at rear: Second French translation of Burke's text by E. Lagentie de Lavaïsse considered superior to the first 1765 translation by Abbé Des François. Illustrated with a portrait of the author by Mariage. The very first work on aesthetics, published in 1757 and translated into English the same year under the title A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Burke regarded the sublime as that which has the power to compel and destroy us (a ""delightful terror""). As an ardent admirer of his philosophy, Kant went beyond this consideration in Critique of Judgment (1790), concluding that the sublime is ""that which is absolutely great"", something in the face of which man feels inferior and feels respect. The first two modern definitions of the sublime - one as realization of human reason, the other as reason's confrontation with that which surpasses it - aptly bound together by a scholar aware of the philosophical debates of his time.

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MANITOBA. LAW

Judgments in the Queen's Bench, Manitoba, 1875. Reported by Daniel Carey, (Clerk of the Crown and Peace)

Calgary, Burroughs and Co.. 1918. (Half leather) Very good plus. 92pp. The first volume of law reports printed and published in the Canadian Northwest, with the judgements of Chief Justice Edmund Burke Wood. A reprint of 200 copies (100 for Canada). "Only three copies of the original volume of Carey's Manitoba Reports (1875) are known to exist." Peel(3) 746.

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Keywords: Politics-Economics, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Law, North American Indian