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Francofurti ad Moenum: Joannis Baptistae Schonwetteri, 1665. First Thus. vellum. Very good. BACON, Francis. Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis S. Albani, Summi Angliae Cancellarii, Opera Omnia, Quae extant: Philosophica, Moralia, Politica, Historica (etc.). Impensis Joannis Baptistae Schonwetteri, Typis Matthaei Kempfferi, Francofurti ad Moenum (Frankfurt am Main), 1665. Half-title with frontis on verso + TP + 1 leaf = Sacrae Caesareae Majestatis + 3 leaves = Vita Francisci Baconi + TP + 2 leaves = Singularum Argumenta and Partitiones ScientiarumÂ… + 1 - 1324 columns + [1] - [29] = index + 1 leaf. Folio. First Complete Edition in Latin. First Latin Edition of Bacon's Complete Works, containing Tractatus nempe de Dignitate & Augmentis Scientiarum; Novum Organum Scientiarum; Historia Ventorum; Historia Vitae & Mortis; Scripta de Naturali & Universali Philosophia; Sylva Sylvarum, or Natural History; New Atlantis; History of the Reign of King Henry VII; Sermones Fideles; Tractatus… Read More

Paris: Editions du Seuil,, 1963. First printing. Very Good/none. BARTHES, Roland. Sur Racine (On Racine). Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1963. Half-title + TP + 1 leaf + 9 - 167 + 2 leafs = Table + 1 leaf = Imprime, Octavo. SIGNED First Edition. On Racine is a brilliant, personal view of theatre in which Barthes discusses all the major tragedies of Racine as well as the range of critical views of his work. CONDITION: Original printed wrappers. Usual review copy perforations 'SP' to last few leaves and rear wrapper. Signed and inscribed on half-title page. Original printers band loosely laid-in. Very good. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Original printed wrappers. Usual review copy perforations 'SP' to last few leaves and rear wrapper. Signed and inscribed on half-title page. Original printers band loosely laid-in. Very good.

Paris: Gallimard, 1945. First printing "SP". Wraps. Very Good. TP + 1 leaf + half title = "preface" + [11] - 284 + 1 leaf = imprimer . Original Wrappers, "SP" Edition (Sur la Presse) first edition after the 14 copies on velin paper. Bataille's book on Nietzsche and how Nietzsche influenced his life, ultimately leading Bataille to abandon his Catholic faith. CONDITION: Very good in original wrappers. "SP" edition following 14 special copies on velin paper. Name in ink to corner of first free endpaper. Pages lightly browned as usual. Photos available upon request

Paris: Gallimard, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. very goodVery good +. BAUDRILLARD, Jean. Pour une critique de l'economie politique du signe. (For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign) Gallimard, Paris, 1972. Half-title + TP + [7] – 268 + [269] – [270] = Table + [271] – [274] = Advertisements + 1 leaf = Imprime, Octavo. First Edition. $50 For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign was BaudrillardÂ’s third book. It echoed many of the ideas of The System of Objects, furthering his social analysis of consumerism, continuing his neo-Marxist analysis, though differing on one point. For Marx, production represented the main force in modern society; for Baudrillard, consumption. Needs are socially constructed, rather than essentially located within a ‘human nature.Â’ The fetishization of commodities reveals more about the user of those objects within a system of signs than the object itself. Objects are consumed for their “sign-value” more than their “use-value.” CONDITION:… Read More

Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen, 1691. First edition. Very Good. with the Rare 1691 Portrait of the Author and All Four of His Certifying Signatures BEKKER, Balthasar, De betoverde Weereld, zynde een grondig ondersoek van 't gemeen gevoelen aangaande de GEESTEN, derselver Aart en Vermogen, Bewind en Bedryf: als ook 't gene de Menschen door derselver kraght en gemeenschap doen. vier Boeken ondernomen. (The Bewitched World, or, an Examination of the Errors in the Common or Vulgar Opinions Concerning SPIRITS: Their Nature, Power, Administration and Operations. and also the Effects Men are able to produce by their Communication with Good or Evil Spirits.). Daniel van den Dalen, Amsterdam, 1691-1693. Four books in one volume: 2 blank leaves + 1 leaf with engraved portrait of Bekker on verso + [i] = Verklaaringe van’t Sinnebeeld + TP to Book 1 [1691] + half title with Beright on verso [signed by Bekker] + [i]-[xii] = Voorrede + 1-136 + TP to Book 2 [1691] with Beright on verso [signed by… Read More

Paris: Grasset, 1927. First Edition. wrappers. Very good. “The Betrayal of the Intellect” (PMM 419) BENDA, Julien, La Trahison des Clercs (The Treason of the Intelligentsia), Grasset, Paris, 1927. 1 leaf + half-title + TP 1 leaf + [9] - 306 + 1 leaf = printerÂ’s information + 1 blank leaf, Small Octavo, First Edition. PMM 419 “The publication of [La Trahison des Clercs] was one of the major events in political thought between the two wars. The ‘ClercÂ’ is what Benda conceived the intellectual to be, someone disengaged from the mere contingencies of existence and fighting for ideals which went beyond the demands of a given moment in space and time. In violent and brilliant invective, he attacked the intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for having fallen short of this ideal by becoming the devoted advocates not of ideals, but of groups or existences, material and transient, such as a nation or a social class” (PMM). PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 419 CONDITION: Very good or… Read More

Paris: Chez Bossange, 1802. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. BenthamÂ’s Legal Utilitarianism BENTHAM, Jeremy. Traités de législation civile et pénale. Paris: Chez Bossange, 1802. Vol 1: Half-title + TP + v - xx + [1] - 434; Vol 2: Half-title + TP + v - xlii + [1] - 370; Vol 3: Half-title + TP + v - viii + [1] - 452. 3-volume octavo. First Edition mostly unopened in original wrappers. First uncommon edition of this important treatise on the philosophy of law, transcribed and (in part) translated from the original manuscripts by Pierre Etienne Louis Dumont. Theory of Legislation was put on the Index by the Catholic Church. Bentham's principal work was first published in French in 1802. It embraces almost everything that is important in the science of human nature, and not only touches upon all the higher questions of government and legislation, but includes most of the abstract principles of ethics and metaphysics, and professes to delineate those important rules by which the finest speculations… Read More

Paris: YMCA Press, 1927. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. BERDYAEV, Nikolai, . [Philosophy of the Free Spirit. Problems and Apology in Christianity], YMCA Press, Paris [1927/28]. Vol I: TP + 1 leaf = contents + 5 - 271; Vol II: TP + 1 leaf = contents + 5 - [236]. 2 volume octavo. FIRST EDITION in original printed wrappers. Berdyaev is considered by many to be one of the most important thinkers of late 19th, early 20th century Russia. His writing engages with themes both philosophical and theological––the spirituality of human freedom in contrast to the historical determinism of Marx and Lenin—-and places him under the anachronistic umbrella of Christian Existentialism along with previous thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard. “In this book, Berdyaev tells us that the creative development of the spirit and the free exercise of man's powers can be conceived only as the free cooperation of man with the work of God. Creative spiritual… Read More

Paris: Religious Philosophical Academy, 1938. First Edition. Wraps. Good. BERDYAEV, Nikolai, ( ) [Christianity and Anti-Semitism], Religious Philosophical Academy, Paris, [1938]. TP + 3 - [32]. Small octavo. FIRST EDITION in original printed wrappers. Berdyaev is considered by many to be one of the most important thinkers of late 19th, early 20th century Russia. His writing engages with themes both philosophical and theological–the spirituality of human freedom in contrast to the historical determinism of Marx and Lenin–and places him under the anachronistic umbrella of Christian Existentialism along with previous thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard. In Christianity and Anti-Semitism Berdyaev observed that “for Christians, the Jewish question does not consist in knowing whether the Jews are good or bad, but whether we are good or bad” (Gary Saul Morson, Mosaic, 2020) CONDITION: Good+ in original wrappers, chipping along edges, splitting… Read More

Berlin: Schocken, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Buber, Martin, Die Stunde und die Erkenntnis Reden und Aufsätze 1933 - 1935 (The Time and Knowledge. Speeches and Essays 1933-1935), Berlin, Schocken Verlag 1936. 1 leaf + half-title + TP + 5 = inhaltsverzeichnis + 7 - 9 = vorwort + half-title + 13 - 181. A collection of speeches and essays by German theologian Martin Buber. CONDITION: Very good or better. Original burgundy cloth boards with paper label to spine. Very good maylar-protected dust jacket with minor chipping. Ink name to front free endpaper. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Frankfurt & Main: Leidinger, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. “The Gospel of Materialism” (PMM 338) BUCHNER, Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig, Kraft und Stoff (Force and Matter), Leidinger, Frankfurt & Main, 1855. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 leaf = epigraphs + 1 leaf = Inhalt on recto with Berichtigung on verso + [vii] - xvi = Vorwort + 1 - 269 + 1 leaf = advertisements + 1 blank leaf, Small Octavo, First Edition. PMM 338 “Berkeley denied the existence of matter. Buchner declared that nothing else existedÂ…. all the phenomena of the functioning of the human body were explicable on purely materialistic lines and it was only a question of time before this fact would be experimentally demonstrable. Buchner was not only one of the earliest, he was also the most uncompromising representative of this school. The thesis pursued in his Force and Matter is that thought is as much an emanation of the brain as bile is an emanation of the liver. The mind and the spirit are products of an animal organism… Read More

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Scientific History BUCKLE, Henry Thomas. History of Civilization in England. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857/61. Vol I: half-title + TP + 1 leaf = dedication + [vii] - viii = contents + [ix] - xxiii = list of authors quoted + [1] - 854 + [1] - 8 = advertisements; Vol II: half-title + TP + 1 leaf = dedication + [vii] - xx = analytical table of contents + [xxi] - xxxi = list of authors quoted + [1] - 601 + [1] - 3 leaves = advertisements. 2-volume thick octavo. First Edition. Henry Thomas Buckle is considered to be the father of scientific history. Intended as a 14-volume scientific examination of the history of civilization across the globe, Buckle only completed his volumes on England and France. In History of Civilization in England Buckle examines the influences of mental and physical laws on the development of history and the evolution of civilizations. He explores literature, government, religion, and politics.… Read More

Paris: Chez Debure, 1776. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. [Buzonniere, Nouel de]. Observations sur un ouvrage intitulé le Système de la Nature. Chez Debure, Paris, 1776. Half-title + TP + [5] – 18 = Avertissement + [19] – 126 + 1 leaf = Approbation + 1 leaf = errata. 12mo. First Edition. Rare copy of a critique of Holbach. While Buzonierre found much in Holbach’s Systeme de la Nature, he sought to expose what he saw as false reasoning in it. CONDITION: Very Good+ in original floral wrappers. Handwritten title to front wrapper. Lightly chipped with some loss to upper corner of front wrap and top of spine. Pages clean and bright. Important commentary on Holbach’s “Bible of Materialism.” PHOTOS AVAILABLEUPON REQUEST