Filosofia

Knowledge and Life

William Arkwright; R. Brimley Johnson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. Leather. A splendid limited edition on the philosophical tales of William Arkwright from the library of his son, in a full leather binding. With contents including 'The Tree of Knowledge', 'Loneliness', &apos...

Oxford Pamphlets 1914: Volume IV; Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915; XVI: The Farmer in War-Time; British & German Steel Metallurgy; the War and the Cotton Trade; the War and Employment; Prices & Earnings in Time of War; XVII: Alsace-Lorraine; the Evolution of Thought in Modern France; Russia and Britain; Rumania: Her History and Politics; Poetry and War; Coronel and the Falkland Islands; Bombastes in the Shades : A Play in One Act; National Ideals; Canada and the War.

Murray; Lindsay; Barker; Fisher; Muir; C. S. Orwin; J. O. Arnold; S. J. Chapman; A. L. Bowley; F. Y. Eccles; Ernest Dimnet; Percy Dearmer; D. Mitrany; Sir Herbert Warren; A. Neville Hilditch; Laurence Binyon; P. E. Matheson; A. B. Tucker · 1914 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.84 | ¥48,520)

London; Edinburgh; Glasgow; New York; Toronto; Melbourne; Bombay, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1914-1915. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. An exciting collection of First World War pamphlets from the Oxford University Press. First edition of this collection prin...

A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity

Walter B. Pitkin · 1935 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935. Cloth. A scarce and insightful look at the human psyche by professor Walter Pitkin. A scarce and fascinating title reflecting and speculating on the psychological nature of humanity, it tendencies and its pitfalls.Only two record of this...

The Greater Origins and Issues of Life and Death

James John Garth Wilkinson · 1885 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, James Speirs, 1885. Leather. Wilkinson's religious philosophical work, in an armorial prize binding. First Edition. With a Swedenborg Society prize presentation label to the front pastedown, dated 1810. The New Church (or Swedenborgianism) is the name of the relig...

On the Philosophical Tendencies of the Age

John Daniel Morell · 1848 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, John Johnstone, 1848. First edition. Cloth. A uncommon first edition philosophical volume by pastor and school inspector John Daniel Morell. A series of three lectures delivered at Edinburgh and Glasgow in January 1848, the work tackles positivism, individualism and th...

The Essays of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1899 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London , Arthur L. Humphreys, 1899. Cloth. An uncommon complete set of The Essays of Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In two volumes complete. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th ...

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive. In Two Volumes

John Stuart Mill · 1872 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London , Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1872. Cloth. An early edition of John Stuart Mill's influential philosophical work. Eighth Edition. 'Being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation&apos. Complete in two volu...

The Philosophy of Emphasis: One of a Course of Lectures Delibered at University of North Carolina 1881

Jasper J. Vance · 1881 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

Baltimore , Printed by John B. Piet, 1881. Cloth. A scarce and interesting set of philosophical lectures. Blank pages bound in between each page of text. 'Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1881 by J. J. Vance in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at W...

Horae Paulinae; or, the Truth of the Scripture History of Saint Paul Evinced

William Paley · 1838 · Rooke Books

£84.00 (€100.69 | $110.97 | ¥17,720)

London, Longman and Co.; T. Cadell; J. Richardson, et al, 1838. Cloth. An early nineteenth century edition of this Christian work concerning the scriptures and St Paul by theologian William Paley. From the Widdrington library, Newton Hall, with a pencil shelfmark to the front ...

Vitae Comparatae Aristotelis Ac Demosthenis Olympiadibus Ac Praeturis Atheniensium Digestae

And. Schotto; Andre Schott · 1603 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.27 | ¥253,148)

Augsburg, Christopherum Mangum, 1603. Leather. A very scarce copy of this work by Andre Schott. Printed by one of the earliest private presses. Known by its device 'at the sign of the Pine-Tree' found on the title page. The press was active in Augsburg from 1594 to 1...

The Saint&Apos;S Everlasting Rest; a Call to the Unconverted

Richard Baxter · 1808 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Burslem, John Tregortha, 1808-1809 . Leather. Two of the major nonconformist Puritan theological works of English Nonconformist church leader Richard Baxter, in which he introduces readers to his understanding of the Christian faith. Early 19th century editions of two works fr...

Auguste Comte and Positivism

John Stuart Mill · 1907 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co LTD, 1907. Cloth. A philosophical treatise on Auguste Comte and his school of positivism, by John Stuart Mill. An insightful philosophical work by John Stuart Mill, in which he explores the theories of Auguste Comte.Mill pays particular...

The Elements of Individualism. A Series of Lectures.

William Maccall · 1847 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, John Chapman, 1847 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Scottish minister William Maccall's philosophical work on individualism, with the author's signature to the front pastedown. A very scarce first edition.Tipped in to the front pastedo...

Les Caracteres de Theophraste: Traduits Du Grec Avec Les Caracteres Ou Les Moeurs de Ce Siecle

Theophrastus; Jean de La Bruyere · 1885 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,594)

Paris , Garnier Freres, 1885. Leather. A leather bound copy of Bruyere's translation of Theophrastus' philosophical work 'The Characters&apos. With the original French text. Bound in half crushed morocco, with marbled boards. Undated, dated from an identical c...

A Philosophy of Solitude

John Cowper Powys · 1933 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this philosophical guide from John Cowper Powys, with the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. A best-selling guideb...

Light and Leading: Being Light Leaders Reprinted from the Times

None stated · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in book form of this collection of philosophical thoughts reprinted from 'The Times', in the original dust wrapper. The first edition in book form. First published in 'The Times' magaz...

The Works of Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,917.83 | $2,113.70 | ¥337,531)

London, Williams and Norgate , 1880-1907. Leather. A brilliant collection of uniformly leather-bound works from Herbert Spencer, including the first edition of his two-volume autobiography. From the library of Foyle's co-founder, W. A. Foyle. An impressive collection of w...

Seneca&Apos;S Morals by Way of Abstract

Seneca; Roger L'Estrange · 1682 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.78 | $1,182.35 | ¥188,806)

London, Tho. Newcomb; Joanna Brome, 1682. Leather. The second edition of Roger L'Estrange's translation of Seneca's insightful moral essays, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The scarce second edition of Roger L'Estrange's translation, first pu...

The Foundations of Manchester: Comprising the College and Collegiate Church, the Free Grammar School, and Chetham&Apos;S Hospital

The Episcopal See of Manchester · 1848 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

Manchester, Thomas Agnew, 1848. Cloth. A scarce complete set of this detailed account of the foundations of Manchester. Complete in four volumes. Scarce work. Volume three is illustrated with thirty-seven plates. Collated complete. A detailed work on the foundations of Manches...

Das Weltbild Der Iranier

O. G. Von Wesendonk · 1933 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

Munchen [Munich], Ernst Reinhardt, 1933 . First edition. Leather. An excellent example of the first edition of Otto Gunther von Wesendonk's study of the philosophy and world view of the people of Iran. In the original German. Illustrated with a double page map of the &ap...