Filosofia

The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man: Mental and Social Conditions of Savages

The Right Hon. Lord Avebury · 1911 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1911. Cloth. A new issue of this study of ancient civilisation by Lord Avebury. A fascinating study of social history by John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. A reissue from the sixth edition of this work, first published in 1870. Containing a comprehen...

Essays on the Active Powers of Man

Thomas Reid · 1788 · Rooke Books

£2,400.00 (€2,876.74 | $3,170.55 | ¥506,296)

Edinburgh, John Bell and G.G.J & J. Robinson, 1788. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound, first edition copy of Thomas Reid's important philosophic work of the Scottish Enlightenment. An important philosophic work of the Scottish Enlightenment, propositioning a defence...

Melancholy; As It Proceeds from the Disposition and Habit, the Passion of Love, and the Influence of Religion. Drawn Chiefly from the Celebrated Work Intitled Burton&Apos;S Anatomy of Melancholy; and in Which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences and Cures of This English Malady "- Are Traced from Within "Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin.

Robert Burton · 1801 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Vernor and Hood, 1801. Leather. A revised version of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, bound in full tree calf. In a full tree calf binding. Frontispiece engraving depicting melancholy. Tailpieces to each chapter. Robert Burton (157701640) was an English author who ...

Proverbial Philosophy: [Bijou Edition. ]

Martin F. Tupper · 1866 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Edward Moxon and Co. 1866. Leather. The Bijou Edition of Martin F. Tupper's successful Proverbial Philosophy, in a full calf binding. Two hundredth thousand of the Bijou Edition of this work, in a full calf binding. All edges gilt. Ink inscription to the first bla...

The Intercourse of the Soul and the Body

Emanuel Swedenborg · 1925 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, The Swedenborg Society, 1925. Cloth. A nice English translation of this important philosophical work by Emanuel Swedenborg, discussing the interaction of the soul and the body. A philosophical and spiritual work by Emanuel Swedenborg, discussing the existence of the so...

Glimpses of the Next State

W. Usborne Moore · 1911 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

London, Watts & Co. 1911. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this first edition spiritual work by William U. Moore. William Usborne Moore was a British naval commander as well as a psychical researcher and spiritualist. This work explores his early psychic experiences...

Mysteries of the Great Operas

Max Heindel · 1921 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,805)

Oceanside, California, The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1921. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Max Heindel's Christian occult examination of these prominent operas. This work explores the operas of Faust, Parsifal, the Ring of the Niebelung, Tannhauser and L...

Egoists: A Book of Supermen

James Huneker · 1918 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

New York, Charles Scribner's Son, 1918. Leather. A collection of critical essays examining the attitudes of key figures in the philosophy of egoism, in a lovely half morocco binding. A delightfully bound collection of essays relating to the philosophical egoists, from Ame...

The English Theophrastus

Abel Boyer · 1708 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, William Turner, 1708. Leather. An early edition of Abel Boyer's scarce work on moral philosophy. This is the third edition. Illustrated, with a frontispiece.ESTC reference no: N6266. Collated, complete. Attributed to Abel Boyer, a Huguenot who settled in London....

De Zoroastre Bactriano Hermete Trismegisto Sanchonia Phoenicio, Eorumq, Scriptis & Aliis, Contra Mosaicae Scripturae Antiquitatem

Johann Heinrich Ursinus · 1661 · Rooke Books

£5,800.00 (€6,952.12 | $7,662.15 | ¥1,223,550)

Nuremberg, Michaelis Endter, 1661. First edition. Vellum. A very smart, vellum bound copy of Ursinus' scarce critique and chronology of hermetic writings. A very clean, first edition copy of this work which looks at religious, philosophical and esoteric tradition. Rebound...

De Varia Historia Libri Tres, Nuper in Lucem Editi. Index Insuper Tum Capitum, Tum Eorum Quae Notatu Digna Sunt Locupletissimius Dialogi. Quorum Nomina Proxima Pagella Habentur

Nicolai Leonici Thomaei; [Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus] · 1532 · Rooke Books

£3,300.00 (€3,955.52 | $4,359.50 | ¥696,158)

Not Stated, Gryphium Lugduni; Gryphium Germ, 1532. Leather. A scarce set of two well known works by the philosopher Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus, being two volumes bound as one. Two volumes in one, containing two works by Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus, 'De Varia Historia Libri...

Thoughts Moral and Divine; Collected and Intended for the Better Instruction and Conduct of Life.

Wellins Calcott · 1758 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Birmingham, Printed for the author by T. Warren, jun. 1758. Leather. The scarce expanded second edition of Calcott"s alphabetical collection of moral and religious wisdom, an interesting Birmingham imprint with an extensive regional subscriber list. In a contemporary quarter c...

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Noel Joseph Desenfans; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; [StanisÃÂ-‚aw I LeszczyÃÂ-„ski] · 1751 · Rooke Books

£5,750.00 (€6,892.19 | $7,596.10 | ¥1,213,002)

Londres [London]; Geneve [Geneva] , R Davis; J. Ridley; Chez Cl.& Any. Philibert Freres; [Not Stated], 1751-1773. First edition. Leather. An exceptional literary and philosophical snapshot of Enlightenment thinking, from some of the great writers of the period. Four volumes bo...

Short Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Froude · 1893 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1893-1894 . Leather. A three volume set of English historian James Anthony Froude's collection of short essays on a variety of topics. Three volumes of a four volume set. Including volumes I, II, and IV, lacking volume III. The new edition....

Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

Samuel Smiles · 1866 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, John Murray, 1866. Leather. An early edition of the influential philosophical work that helped shape Gladstonian Liberalism, bound in full calf. An early edition of Self-Help; With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, the influential philosophical wor...

Dialogues on Various Subjects

William Gilpin · 1812 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 . Leather. A handsomely bound example of the second edition of William Gilpin's very scarce collection of dialogues, many of which have an Anglican moral message. The second edition of this work, which is very scarce in all editions. ...

The Ladies Calling in Two Parts

Richard Allestree · 1673 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

[Oxford] , At the Theatre in Oxford, 1673. Leather. The second impression of Richard Allestree's anonymously authored but enormously popular Anglican devotional conduct guide for women. The second impression of this uncommon work, published in the same year as the first e...

The Logic of Self-Involvement

Donald D. Evans · 1963 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

London, SCM Press Ltd, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this philosophical study of the Christian use of language. Donald Dwight Evans (born September 21, 1927 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian educator, psychotherapist and spiritual counsellor. In a cloth b...

Lay Sermons and Addresses Delivered in the Hall of Balliol College, Oxford

Edward Caird · 1907 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Glasgow, James Maclehose and Sons, 1907. Leather. An attractively bound copy of the works of the Scottish philosopher, Edward Caird. 'Sermon and Addresses' by Edward Caird. In a lovely leather binding. Edward Caird was a Scottish philosopher. He was master of Balliol...

Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth

John Abercrombie · 1836 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Edinburgh, Waugh and Innes, 1836. Leather. John Abercrombie was a Scottish physician and philosopher. In 1830 he published his philosophical speculations Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers of Man and the Investigation of Truth, which was followed in 1833 by a sequel,...