Filosofia

Notes Taken from Professor Veitch&Apos;S Lectures from December 11th Glasgow University Session 1865-6

John Veitch; Archibald Craig · 1855 · Rooke Books

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None, None, 1855-1856. Cloth. A unique manuscript account of Professor John Veitch's lectures at Glasgow University during the 1860s. Hand-written by a student at the time, Archibald Craig In a charming clothbound notebook. With nineteen separate lectured outlined to the...

Paradoxes Problems Essayes Characters Written by Dr Donne Dean of Pauls

John Donne · 1652 · Rooke Books

£2,600.00 (€3,116.47 | $3,434.76 | ¥548,488)

London, Humphrey Moseley , 1652. First edition. Leather. A very scarce selection of John Donne's philosophical essays. Being the first edition of this particular English translation. A first edition thus. Translated into English by J Maine. This particular copy contains...

Le Temple Du Gout

Voltaire · 1733 · Rooke Books

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Amsterdam, Jaques Desbordes, 1733. Paperback. A very scarce, early edition of this important attack by Voltaire on contemporary taste in art and literature. Published the same year as the first, which was issued in Rouen by Jore in 1733. Voltaire's bibliographer Bengesco ...

The Soule&Apos;S Immortalitie or Certaine Discourses Defending the Immortalitie of the Soule

John Jackson (Editor) · 1611 · Rooke Books

£3,950.00 (€4,734.63 | $5,218.19 | ¥833,280)

London, W W White; Robert Boulton, 1611. Cloth. A very scarce anthological work of both ancient and medieval author's writings on immortality, life and death. Compiled and edited by one John Jackson. The first edition of this anthology which contains translations of Guill...

Iris: Studies in Colour and Talks About Flowers

Franz Delitzsch; A. Cusin (translator) · 1889 · Rooke Books

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Edinburgh, T. and T. Clark, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this fascinating collection of essays on colour in religion, academic dress and flowers by Franz Delitzsch. Franz Delitzsch was a renowned German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist, best known for his ...

Exact Philosophy Books First and Second

Hughes Fraser Halle · 1848 · Rooke Books

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London, Effingham Wilson, 1848. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce philosophical work by Hughes Fraser Halle. Signed by the author to the recto of the front free endpaper to Sir John Herschel. With a presentation copy from Halle to Herschel dated 24th June ...

The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington Esq Collected Methodiz&Apos;D and Review&Apos;D with an Exact Account of His Life Prefix&Apos;S by John Toland

James Harrington; John Toland · 1737 · Rooke Books

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London, A Millar, 1737. Leather. An early eighteenth century edition of the great radical James Harrington's works. Compiled with an account of Harrington's life by the Irish rationalist and philosopher, John Toland. Being mostly Harrington's magnum opus, '...

Letters, Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman

Elizabeth Hamilton · 1806 · Rooke Books

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London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 . Leather. In full tree calf bindings, this is the second edition of Elizabeth Hamilton's conduct manual for young women of the aristocracy, offering advice on morality and religion. The second edition of this work, complete in two vo...

Religious Courtship: Being Historical Discourses on the Necessity of Marrying Religious Husbands and Wives Only

Daniel Defoe · 1824 · Rooke Books

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London, Thomas Kelly, [1824]. Leather. A illustrated later edition of Defoe"s unusual domestic conduct manual, advocating that marriage and households ought to be founded upon shared religious principles. In a later half roan binding with maroon cloth boards, endpapers renewed...

Village Dialogues

Rowland Hill · 1823 · Rooke Books

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London, Thomas Tegg; T. Kelly, Knight, and Lacey, 1823-1824 . Leather. Illustrated throughout, this is the twenty-second edition of Rowland Hill's collection of short religious dialogues written in conversational form for a popular audience. The two volume twenty-second e...

The Use of Life

Sir John Lubbock, The Right Hon. Lord Averbury P.C. · 1906 · Rooke Books

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London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906. Leather. A guide to life encompassing how to be happy and practical chapters on a wide range of topics such as Money Matter, Social Life and Health. Sir John Lubbock was a successful merchant and banker in London. With a previous owner&...

The Commonplace Philosopher in Town and Country

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd · 1865 · Rooke Books

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London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1865. Leather. A finely-bound mid nineteenth century edition of Boyd's series of philosophical essays. Bound in half-leather with gilt lettering and decoration, and marbled paper-covered boards. New Edition. Published as "by the author of ...

The Essays or Counsels CIVIL and Moral and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis, Lord Verulam · 1845 · Rooke Books

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London , Pickering, 1845. Cloth. A first Pickering edition of this classic work by Francis Bacon. In this little volume, Lord Verulam explores classical interpretations to the questions of life; ranging from love, envy, death, and religion, to usury, anger, and vicissitude. Th...

English Thought 1860-1900 the Theological Aspect

L. E. Elliott-Binns, D.D., F.R.Hist.S · 1956 · Rooke Books

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London , New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co. 1956. Cloth. English Thought 1860-1900 The Theological Aspect by L. E. Elliott-Binns. In unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. Providing the sequel to Canon Storr's well-known study of the subject down to 1860. With D. A...

Dissertations on Leading Philosophical Topics

Alexander Bain, LL.D. · 1903 · Rooke Books

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London, Longmans, 1903. Cloth. A thoughtful compendium of articles by Alexander Bain concerning prescient philosophical topics. First edition. Largely reprinted from the pages of Mind Journal, of which Bain himself was the proprietor from 1876 until 1891. Mind is a peer-review...

The Imaginative Faculty a Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution May 26th 1893

Herbert Beerbohm Tree · 1893 · Rooke Books

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London , Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893. Cloth. An edition of The Imaginative Faculty by Herbert Beerbohm Tree. With a Portrait from a drawing by the Marchioness of Granby. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager...

Table Talk 1689 Being the Discourses of John Seldon, Esq; or His Sence of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence Relating Especially to Religion and State.

John Selden; Edward Arber (Ed) · 1868 · Rooke Books

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London, Alex Murray and Sons, 1868. Paperback. A nice copy of John Selden's work, published posthumously, with two pages of publishers ads to the rear and copy of original title page. Part of the 'English Reprint' series. John Selden (December 16, 1584 – Novemb...

Les Causes Finales Final Causes

Paul Janet · 1876 · Rooke Books

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Paris, Librairie Germer Bailliere Et Cie, 1876. Leather. A copy of Janet's philosophical work, in French. Paul Alexandre Rene Janet (30 April 1823 – 4 October 1899) was a French philosopher and writer. Born in Paris, he became professor of moral philosophy at Bourges (18...

De L&Apos;Usage Des Passion

R P I F Senault · 1668 · Rooke Books

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Amsterdam , Jean de Ravesteyn, 1668. Leather. A very interesting book on philosophy from the 17th century. The central argument of Senault's work follows on from the preachings of St Augustine in that the only passion capable of moving man is love. Love itself takes on a ...

Authority and the Individual

Bertrand Russell · 1949 · Rooke Books

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London , George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A captivating set of six lectures by British philosopher Bertrand Russell, with a frontispiece in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original beige cloth binding...