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University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1985. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book . Fine HB with no DJ. xvi, 255 p.; 21 cm. Dark blue cloth over boards w/bright silver title on cover & spine. Text block is tight, bright & unmarked. In "as new" condition. Essays positing (and revising) the author's contention that Hume sought "to refute the attempts made in eighteenth-century versions of the design argument to exploid Newtonian science for religious purposes." Regrets "that revealed religion is on the rise"--"a depressing vindication of Hume's" fear of religion (p. viii). Size: Octavo (8vo; up to 9 3/4" / 20-25 cm tall). 256 pages. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Metaphysics; United States; 1980s; . ISBN: 0803223374. ISBN/EAN: 9780803223370. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 879. . 9780803223370

Chez Pierre Savouret, Amsterdam, 1688. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Book Collectible copy of the first French printing of sayings by Confucius. British Museum Short-title Catalogue of Books in French 1601-1700, C1371b. The Bodleian Library at Oxford holds John Locke's copy of this book (Locke 7.262a). Jesuit missionaries in China introduced the Analects of Confucius to the West with the publication in Latin of "Confucius Sinarum philosophus" in 1687. This book followed the next year, not as a complete version of the Analects, but as a compilation that presented Confucius' ethics. In the introduction (Avertissement), the unnamed editor says the public is indebted "to the fathers Intorcetta & Couplet, Jesuits, who translated, from Chinese into Latin, the three books of Confucius, from which we have drawn this piece of morality" (p. [13]). In keeping with the Jesuit's syncretism between Confucianism and Catholicism, the editor… Read More

John A. Grimes, Richmond, K[entucky], 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Book Pagination: [5], vi, [2], 1-336. The pages, which are variously sized, befitting a frontier press, remain uncut on the top edge. This is collectible as an early Kentucky imprint (McMurtrie & Allen’s 1939 Checklist of Kentucky Imprints, 1811-1820, list it as #415)., a work by an early American work anticipating the development of psychiatry, and the output of an original thinker and writer on what at the time was the American frontier. In his preface Buchanan says the contents are derived from lectures intended for a medical school at Transylvania University where he was to be Professor of the Institutes of Medicine (p. v). The school didn’t open, but, Buchanan writes, after reviewing his notes “it appeared to me, that they they contained original matter, which ought to be communicated to the public.” He adds, “It… Read More

Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1910. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book VG HB with No DJ. 227 p.; 19 cm. Red cloth over boards with embossed frame on front cover and bright gilt title on spine. The "three seers" are James Hinton, Nietzsche and Edward Carpenter. Based on lectures she gave on these "prophets of a sane morality (p. [11]). Presumed first edition. Size: Duodecimo (12 mo; up to 7 3/4" / 17.5-20 cm tall). Item Type: Book. Text block is tight, but a bit tanned from age. Scattered light pencil marks in the margins (a straight vertical line to mark a passage). A couple of pages have slightly darkened rectangles from a calling card for Mrs. William H. Monk, Jr., (care Athelston Club, Mobile, Ala.), laid in. Binding is tight; corners sharp, but showing some minor shelf wear. There is a poetic inscription by the previous owner, William H. Monk, Jr., of Mobile, Alabama, written in fountain pen on the front endpaper: "A… Read More