Filosofia

Female Beauty, As Preserved and Improved by Regimen, Cleanliness and Dress; and Especially by the Adaptation, Colour and Arrangement of Dress, As Variously Influencing the Forms, Complexion, & Expression of Each Individual, and Rendering Cosmetic Impositions Unnecessary.

Mrs. A. Walker; revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle · 1837 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Thomas Hurst, 1837. Leather. A scarce copy of Mrs. Walker's lessons on female beauty. Revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, Vice President of the College of Surgeons. With colour illustrations by J. W. Wright and E. T. Parris. The plates are arranged in such a way that...

Dialecticae Disputationes

Dialecticae Disputationes · 0 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

Toledo, Bernardini de Guzman, c1616. Leather. A scarce Seventeenth Century Spanish work on Dominican Theology and practices. In Latin. This work considers the responsibilities, practices and theology of the Dominican Order: a Roman Catholic relogious order founded by Saint Dom...

Della Istoria D&Apos;Italia Libri XX

Francesco Guicciardini · 1738 · Rooke Books

£4,700.00 (€5,633.61 | $6,208.99 | ¥991,497)

Venezia, Giambatista Pasquali, 1738. Leather. A very scarce copy of this groundbreaking history of Italy from Francesco Guicciardini. In Italian. Francesco Guicciardini (6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolo Machiave...

Oeuvres Completes de Condillac

Etienne Bonnot de Condillac · 1803 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.96 | $1,981.59 | ¥316,435)

Paris, Chez Dufart, 1803. Leather. A very scarce French edition of the complete works of Condillac, in very attractive leather binding. Dating from the early nineteeth century, the set splits the full thirty-one volumes of works into fifteen volumes, making for a concise and y...

A Discourse on the Love of Our Country

Richard Price · 1790 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.90 | ¥179,313)

London; Oxford, George Stafford for T. Cadell; Woodstock Books, 1790-1992 . Cloth. The important third edition of Richard Price's essay about the merits of revolutions, present alongside the very scarce 1992 facsimile of the second edition of this work. The sought after a...

M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera Omnia in Usum Serenis

[Marcus Tullius Cicero]; Josephi Oliveti [Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet] · 1773 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.49 | ¥295,340)

Patavii , Prostant Venetiis apud Thomam Bettinelli, 1773-1787. Vellum. A very scarce vellum-bound complete works of Cicero, with notes by French scholar Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet. Offering the complete works of Roman statesman, lawyer and scholar, Marcus Tullius Cic...

Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings

Henry Maudsley · 1886 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co, 1886. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Henry Maudsley's interesting work providing natural explanations for supernatural experiences, a unique work delving into the phenomena of ghost sightings. The first edition.Hen...

A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

The Right Hon. Edmund Burke · 1825 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Chiswick , C. & C. Whittingham for Thomas Tegg, Bowdery and Kirby, and R Griffin and Co. 1825 . Hardback. A scarce edition of Edmund Burke's important treatise on aesthetics, this edition published as part of Whittingham's Cabinet Library, bound in the original board...

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

William James · 1907 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of American philosopher William James's seminal work on the philosophy of pragmatism. The first UK edition of this work, first impression. This is bound from the original American sheets, wi...

Encomio Della Pazzia, Composto in Forma Di Declamazione Per Erasmo, E Tradotto in Italiano.

[Erasmo] Desiderius Erasmus · 1761 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Basilea , A Spese della Saviezza, 1761 . Leather. A very scarce work containing French and Italian translations of 'Encomio della Pazzia', or 'In Praise of Folly', by Erasmus of Rotterdam. The first edition thus, being the first work to contain the French-I...

On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions with an Account of Mesmerism

Herbert Mayo · 1851 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1851 . Cloth. The third edition of this very scarce work exploring the underlying truths behind old superstitions, written by British physiologist Herbert Mayo. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. The third edition of this very ...

Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon · 1836 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Charles Tilt , 1836. Cloth. A very scarce miniature copy of the first published work from philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon. A very scarce miniature edition of Francis Bacon's highly praised essays.Published as part of 'Tilt's Miniature Classical L...

The Age of Ideologies: A History of Political Thought in the Twentieth Century

Karl Dietrich Bracher; Ewald Osers [translated] · 1984 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.84 | ¥31,433)

London , Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 1984. First edition. Leather. The first UK edition of this translated work exploring the rise of ideologies, written by German political scientist Karl Dietrich Bracher. The first U.K edition of this work.In signed half calf binding by Maltby...

Essays or Counsels, CIVIL and Moral

Francis Bacon; Brian Vickers [editor]; Lord Quinton · 2002 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, The Folio Society, 2002. Hardback. A very smart copy of this illustrated collection of essays from Francis Bacon, with the original slip case. Illustrated with a frontispiece and many in-text engravings. A collection of essays from Francis Bacon, an English philosopher...

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

Thomas Carlyle · 1840 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, James Fraser, 1840. Cloth. The scarce five volume second edition of this collection of the works of the prominent essayist, historian and philosopher. The second edition of this scarce collection of Carlyle's works, in the publisher's original cloth bindings....

Schellings Abhandlung Uber Das Wesen Der Menschlichen Freiheit

Martin Heidegger · 1971 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Germany, Max Niemeyer Verlag Tubinhen, 1971. Cloth. A very smart edition of Heidegger's study on human freedom, in the original German language. German language. A philosophical study on human freedom, with reference to: systems of freedom, pantheism, the question of bein...

Lettres Persanes Suives de Arsace Et Ismenie Et de Pensees Diverses

Montesquieu [Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu] · 1866 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Paris, Garnier Freres, 1866 . Leather. A smart copy of Montesquieu's 'Persian Letters', a satire of eighteenth century Parisian society. First published in 1721, 'Lettres Persanes' presents a satire based on the imaginary correspondence of a Persian vi...

Observations on the Growth of the Mind

Sampson Reed · 1827 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, T. Goyder, 1827. First edition. Disbound. A scarce first UK edition of this transcendentalist work by Sampson Reed. First UK edition. Originally published in Boston, 1926. Sampson Reed's most important work, which influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendent...

La Nevrose Galante Au Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Adventures Et Portraits D&Apos;Amoureuses

Antonin Reschal · 0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Paris, Albin Michel, c1909. Leather. A smart volume on neuropathy in gallantry in love, with illustrations of women in love. In the French language. French language. Undated. Illustrated with nineteen plates. Collated complete. A detailed work on the neurology of gallantry and...

The Thinker&Apos;S Library

Various · 1930 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, Watts & Co. 1930-47. Cloth. Seven volumes from Watts's 'The Thinker's Library' series of essays on a variety of subjects from contemporary humanists and rationalists. One copy signed by the author. Seven volumes from The Thinker's Library in th...