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The Humanist Frame

by Huxley, Julian

Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

Vintage; 2014. Paperback. Uncreased spine. In very good condition.

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A$10.80

Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Epistola ad Cyrillum de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi; Vita Sancti Hieronymi; Vita sancti Pauli; illuminated medieval manuscript on parchment

by Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona, Pseudo-Augustine, Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem, Jerome

ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN ON PARCHMENT, Northern Italy, c. 1440-1470. 203 x 153 mm. 70 folios, complete (collation, i-vii10), remnants of quire and leaf signatures, flourished vertical catchwords, written in a humanist minuscule on 30 long lines (justification, 147-149 x 95-100 mm), horizontal lines ruled very lightly in ink, single vertical bounding lines ruled in lead, prickings remain in top and bottom margins on some leaves, rubrics and paragraph marks in pale red, two-line red or blue... Read more about this item

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A$91,413.80

Essays of a Humanist (Pelican Books)

by Huxley, Julian

Penguin Books, Middlesex, Britain, 1964. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. preface by author,acknowledgements and index. Photographic card cover with black coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the backstrip. A collection of the author's essays, setting out the facts and principles of Evolutionary Humanism. For, as the rear panel blurb states "... His important 1962 Galton Lecture on 'Eugenics In Evolutionary Perspective' is... Read more about this item

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A$9.10

The Gate of Silence

by Stace, Walter Terence

Boston: Beacon Press, 1952. Hardcover. [10], 50, [6]p., boards. 8.5 x 5.75 in. Light blue dust jacket with a small tear and chips at head of spine; chipped at foot of spine; edges and spine sun-faded. Author's signature on page opposite the title page; one of 500 signed copies. Poems by the philosopher who taught many years at Princeton.

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A$31.52

Adversariorum Subsecivorum Libri II

by Pithou, Pierre

Paris: J.Borel, 1565. Contemporary limp vellum (soiled, small lacunae on spine), old title label (perished), evidence of four pigskin ties. First Edition. This is the scholar, lawyer and book collector's first book. These forty essays treat ancient and medieval texts and concern Druids, law, medicine, oaths, grammar and theater. They present variant readings, emendations and corrections based on manuscripts in his own library and in those of other bibliophiles. Lyonese printer Claude Senneton is a... Read more about this item

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A$2,628.93

A. Persii Satyrarum liber I.D. Iunii Iuvenalis Satyrarum lib. V. Sulpiciae Satyra I.

by Persius & Juvenal; Pierre Pithou, ed

Paris: Mamert Pattison, at the press of Robert Estienne, 1585. Very Good. Octavo (17 cm); [10], 302, [10] pages. Estienne device on title page. Foliated woodcut initial and ornamental headpiece at beginning. In c17 polished calf, double-ruled in gilt on boards; five raised bands on spine, with gilt floral tools in the compartments. All edges gilt. A fine copy with some wear to corners and joins of binding; a few scattered underscorings and marginalia in an early hand. References: Schreiber, 258;... Read more about this item

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A$1,182.08

Proceedings of the first international congress on humanism and ethical culture. Amsterdam, August 21-26, 1952 at the Municipal University

by [Roy, M.N.], Julian Huxley, J. P. van Praag, et al

Utrecht, Netherlands: Humanistisch Verbond, 1953. Paperback. 151p., 6x9 inch wraps in dustjacket; corners mildly bumped, slight soil on dj and wear along top-edge, ownership signature in pen on front dj, wrappers browned, rubberstamp on front dj from the Rochester Humanist Association, in good condition. M.N. Roy is recognized as one of the newest members elected by the board.

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A$47.28

Towards Tomorrow : the Autobiography of Fenner Brockway (SIGNED COPY)

by Fenner Brockway

Hart-Davis, London, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. beige end-papers; title page in red & black; inscription on front end-paper reads: "Hilda Willis All the Best! Fenner Brockway. Christmas '81." Fenner Brockway was born in 1888 in Calcutta, the son and grandson of missionaries, became a journalist and dedicated socialist and pacifist, serving three years hard labour for refusing to fight in the Great War. He entered Parliament in... Read more about this item

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A$68.72

De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus

by Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523)

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524. FOURTH EDITION (1st ed. 1519). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52). Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis, one of the earliest and most important books on the topic. Hutten, who had himself suffered from... Read more about this item

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A$23,641.50

Indian Renaissance Institute: Prospectus

Dehra Dun: Indian Renaissance Institute, 1947. Pamphlet. 8p. pastebound pamphlet, 6x9.75 inches, some uneven toning and edgewear. Unused application form laid in. Includes a secretary's report for activities up to November 1947. The Institute (later Association) was founded and led by M.N. Roy, a prominent Indian revolutionary, whose international adventures included working to found the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India (Tashkent Group). He was a delegate to the Communist... Read more about this item

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A$197.01

Manabendranatha o antarjatika kamiunijama

by Roy, Samaren

Calcutta: Paribesaka Ananda, 1984. Hardcover. v, 153p. hardcover, very good, text in Bengali; inscribed in English by the author. Eight pages of plates. Biography of M.N. Roy, a prominent Indian revolutionary, whose international adventures included working to found the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India (Tashkent Group). He was a delegate to the Communist International, expelled in 1929. After WWII he advocated a new philosophy expounded in his 1947 manifesto, New Humanism.

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A$70.92

Institvtionvm Scholasticarvm Libri Tres

by Verepaeus, Simon

Antwerp: G. Smits for J. I Bellerus, 1573. 18th-century marbled calf (repaired), spine and red morocco label gilt, red edges. Only Edition of his treatise aimed at instructors: his schoolbooks had over two hundred printings. The first part enunciates the general principles, goal and utility of teaching. The second and third parts lay out detailed templates for secular and religious education, including remarks on games, recreation, punishments, which Greek and Latin authors to read and how to explain... Read more about this item

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A$6,343.80

Petri Bembi Epistolarum Leonis Decimi Pont. Max. Nomine Scriptarum Libri XVI

by Bembo, Pietro

Lyon: D. de Harsy for S. Vincent, 1538. Contemporary limp vellum (stained, spine damaged), overlapping edges, contemporary gothic lettered manuscript title in a cartouche on the front panel with the owner's initials and arms on the sides and below, manuscript spine title, evidence of four ties. Second Edition. Employing Bembo to draft and send these five hundred eighty-one chronologically arranged letters, Pope Leo X addressed Raphael, Lucrezia Borgia (with whom Bembo had a notorious affair), rulers... Read more about this item

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A$3,987.53

En damus C. Plinii Secundi divinum opus cui titulus, Historia mundi....

by Pliny the Elder (Plinius Secundus, Gaius); Desiderius Erasmus; Ermolao Barbaro

Basel: Johannes Froben, 1525. Very Good. Folio (37 cm); [18] leaves, 671, [143] pages. Woodcut printer's device, the double-headed caduceus designed by Holbein, on title page, on verso of p. 671, on the title page of the index, and on the final page. Holbein's detailed chiaroscuro woodcut initials throughout. Bound in vellum over boards, titled in manuscript on spine. Old jottings in manuscript on upper board (apparently an Italian and Latin vocabulary list including the names of foodstuffs).... Read more about this item

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A$7,880.50

[Small archive of News & Letters items from 1976]

Detroit: News and Letters, 1976. Ephemera. This small archive comprises one letter written and signed by Ron Brokemeyer, a 3 page official call for convention by the Resident Editorial Board, an advertisement for a new series, and a 6p. pamphlet of the Constitution and By-laws of News and Letters Committees. Constitution has minor pen notation on front, and most items maintain a light damp stain on top the left corner, the letter by Brokemeyer is a tear in one corner, otherwise all items are in very... Read more about this item

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A$34.67

Indomitable Spirits. The figure at the end of the century

Laguna Beach, CA: Art Institute of Southern California, 1999. Staplebound. [20]p., illustrations, wraps. 11 x 8.5 in. Presentation inscription from Stephen Douglas to R.B. Kitaj. Catalog for an exhibition (August and September 1999) of work by fourteen artists who depict the human spirit. With an essay by curator Grady Harp. With a presentation from Stephen Douglas, whose work adorns the front cover, to Ronald Brooks Kitaj.

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A$63.04

Vision and Realism: A Hundred Years of The Freethinker; foreword: Barbara Wootton

by Herrick, Jim

London: G.W. Foote & Co, 1982. Paperback. viii, 129p., wraps, 5.75x8 inches. Light handling wear to wraps, else very good.

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A$28.37

La Fiorita d’Italia; in Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment

by Guido da Pisa

BOOK DESCRIPTION: FIFTEENTH-CENTURY COPY OF GUIDO DA PISA'S HISTORY OF ROME, IN ITALIAN. In Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment, Italy, Tuscany, Florence(?), c. 1440-1460. Dimensions 260 x 182 mm., 83 folios, lacking nine leaves, horizontal catchwords, written in brown ink by two different scribes in Italian cursive mercantesca script in single column on 38 lines, penwork initials. BINDING: ORIGINAL dark brown calf over wooden boards blind-tooled with fillets, twisted rope and x-form motifs,... Read more about this item

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A$81,957.20

The humanist frame

by Huxley, Julian (1887-1975) [editor]

London : Allen & Unwin , 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 432 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; The humanist frame / Julian Huxley -- Body, brain, mind and soul / Russell Brain -- Human animal / C.H. Waddington -- Science is human / J. Bronowski --... Read more about this item

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A$41.51

The Pattern of the Future

by Comfort, Alex

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1949. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Price clipped DJ is edgeworn and age-toned. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Book cloth is slightly wrinkled. 53 pages. Four BBC Talks on Religion and Humanism given by poet, Alex Comfort in 1949. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

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A$28.00

Human Nature and Progress

by Schilpp, Paul Arthur

Stockton, CA: College of the Pacific, 1954. Pamphlet. 96p., wraps. 7.5 x 5.25 in. Presentation inscription. Good. Pacific Philosophy Institute publication, 4. Discusses dilemmas facing humanity at the dawn of the atomic age. Schilpp was a professor of philosophy interested in questions of moral decision making. Presentation inscription to Helen Mineta, sister of Congressperson Norman Mineta.

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A$39.40

The Wreck of Western Culture. Humanism Revisited

by Carroll, John

Melbourne: Scribe Publications. 2004. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 278 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.