METAPHYSICS: A Study in First Principles
1882
First edition of this comprehensive survey of ontology, cosmology, and psychology, by the eminent Boston University philosophy professor and theologian.
Philosophy
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REPRESENTATIVE MEN
1850
Inscribed first edition, first issue, second printing (before publication) of this transcendentalist approach to the Great Man theory of history — an important copy, early among Emerson's inscriptions.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALAIN LOCKE: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
(1989)
First edition of this anthology of Locke's philosophical writings, some previously unpublished, each "directly arguing for, criticizing, or expressing a fundamental notion of race, culture, civilization, identity, or value."
LOST IN THE COSMOS
(1983)
Signed limited first edition of this popular philosophical work by the author of THE MOVIEGOER, "a darkly humorous parody of the literature of self-help" (Hoogheem).
ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MIND
(1840)
First printing of this groundbreaking treatise on female psychology by a pioneer in women's education.
DISCOURSES CONCERNING GOVERNMENT
MDCXCVIII [1698]
First edition of this major influence on the US Founders, "probably the best elementary book of the principles of government [...] which has ever been published in any language," according to Thomas Jefferson (1804 letter to Mason Locke Weems).
ON CERTAINTY / UBER GEWISSHEIT
1991
Majestic Arion Press limited edition of Wittgenstein's last work, illuminated with twelve prints by Mel Bochner.
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