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ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. Translated by Thomas Taylor. Edited, with an introduction, by Esme Wynne-Tyson by Porphyry
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ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. Translated by Thomas Taylor. Edited, with an introduction, by Esme Wynne-Tyson
by Porphyry
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London: Centaur Press, 1965. Barnes & Noble cancelled title page with laid in review slip dated June 15, 1965. VERY GOOD+ cloth volume. 196 pages. Octavo.
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- Keywords neo-Platonism ancient Mysteries philosophy religion
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Select works of Porphyry : containing his four books On abstinence from animal food; his treatise On the Homeric cave of the nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the perception of intelligible natures / translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor ; with an appen
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Porphyry On Abstinence from Animal Food. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. Edited and introduced by Esme Wynne-Tyson
by Porphyry; translated by Thomas Taylor; edited and introduced by Esme Wynne-Tyson
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[New York]: Barnes & Noble; Centaur Press, 1965. Octavo, 196 pages. Later printing. One of the few extant texts by the great Neo-Platonist. Like his teachers, Plotinus and Pythagoras, Porphyry was a vegetarian. Fine in brown cloth, in a fine dust jacket.
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On Abstinence from Animal Food. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. Edited and introduced by Esme Wynne-Tyson. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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Centaur Press,, [1965]. 8vo., First Edition thus, neat signature on front free endpaper; original terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With an introduction by the editor. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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SELECT WORKS OF PORPHYRY; Containing his Four Books on Abstinence from Animal Food; his Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. With an Appendix, explaining the allegory of the wanderings of Ulysses. By the translator.
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London: Thomas Rodd. 1823. First edition. First edition. Large 8vo. Handsomely bound by Charles Lewis in contemporary full green morocco. Boards ruled in gilt, the spine with five raised bands, compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, date in gilt to the foot of the spine, and red morocco label with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Olive-green endpapers. Printed on thicker paper than usually encountered, possibly a large paper copy. Old pencil note to the front free endpaper "Bound by C. Lewis". A very good copy, the binding square, firm and bright with a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents with a nineteenth-century bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown, a small pen annotation to two page margins, underlining to three lines on one page, and some light scattered foxing to preliminary pages and page edges are otherwise in very good order. A most attractive copy. A beautifully bound copy of the first English translation of Porphyry's 'On Abstinence from Animal…
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