BACON'S ESSAYS, SYDNEY EDITION
Finely printed and bound edition, based upon a 1673 collection of Bacon's philosophical essays, designed by A. A. Turbayne.
Finely printed and bound edition, based upon a 1673 collection of Bacon's philosophical essays, designed by A. A. Turbayne.
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.
First edition of this anthology of Locke's philosophical writings, some previously unpublished, each "directly arguing for, criticizing, or expressing a fundamental notion of race, culture, civilization, identity, or value."
First US edition, with interesting pencil marginalia by an educated 19th-century American reader – including a reference to New Jersey's little-known 18th-century laws granting women voting rights.
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).
First printing of this groundbreaking treatise on female psychology by a pioneer in women's education.
Inscribed first edition of these classic papers on countertransference in psychoanalysis.
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).
Startlingly rare first printing of Gilman's most important nonfiction work.
Majestic Arion Press limited edition of Wittgenstein's last work, illuminated with twelve prints by Mel Bochner.