CARNAP, Rudolf.

1959 & 1962.

The first photograph shows Carnap and his wife outside their house and is signed and, in another hand, dated 1959 as having been taken in Santa Monica. The second photograph is of Carnap and is dated 1960, signed and inscribed “Der lieben Erna, in alter Freundschaft”. This refers to Erna Lowenberg...

£1500

CASTELLESI, Adriano.

Hadriani cardinalis de vera philosophia libri IIII ex quatuor ecclesiae doctoribus conscripti, varia eruditione...

Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1540.

A fine sammelband of theological works, with interesting provenance. The De vera philosophia (first published Bologna, 1507) is the most important work of the Italian cardinal and English agent in Rome, Adriano Castellesi (c. 1461–1521). ‘The dedication to Henry VII suggests that Castellesi...

£1750

[CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]

Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio Bianchi sopra l’opera de’diritti dell’uomo del sig....

Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1792 (colophon 1793).

First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary polemic written in response to Spedalieri’s I diritti dell’uomo of the previous year and attributed to the Barnabite Paolo Agostino Cavalleri (1742-1803). Spedalieri had attempted a Catholic response to the revolutionary ideas of the rights of...

£375

CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.

‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate Dictatus ab...

[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.

A manuscript treatise concerning the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity as expounded in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, compiled by a student at the University of Douai from lectures by André-Joseph Chevalier.

£375

CHRYSOSTOM, John. 

[Opera: Homeliae.]  Que in secundo Ioannis Chrisostomi volumine continentur: Super Mattheum homelie 89 …...

Venice, Stagnino & de Gregoriis, 1503. 

First edition of Chrysostom’s Opera omnia, the second volume (of two), annotated throughout by two critical readers. 

£2800

COMTE, Auguste.

Cours de philosophie positive.

Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842. 

First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s principal work, the outline of positivism.

£1600

COMTE, Auguste.

Cours de philosophie positive.

Paris, Au Siège de la Société Positiviste, 1892–1894.

A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1830–1842, disseminated by the Positivist Society as a fitting memorial to the author, whose original work, as stated by the editor’s preface, was already very difficult to obtain.

£350

COMTE, Auguste, and Albert CROMPTON (editor).

Confessions and Testament of August Comte: and his correspondence with...

Liverpool, Young, 1910.

First edition in English of Comte’s Confessions, which first appeared with his ‘testament’ in French in 1884. These take the form of ‘Twelve Saint Clotildes’, a series of annual confessions which he recited to his muse’s grave. Clotilde de Vaux was a divorced woman whom Comte met in 1844...

£80

CORTÈS, Gioacchino. 

Dissertazione anti-Bolgeniana sopra la carità difesa dal suo autore l’abate Gioacchino Cortes contro...

Rome, Salomoni, 1793. 

First edition of this response to and attempted refutation of Bolgeni’s Della carità o amor di Dio by the Spanish Jesuit Joachim Cortès.  Della carità was the best-known work of the Jesuit theologian and controversialist Gianvincenzo Bolgeni, in which he had argued, against the Dominican...

£450

[CULANT-CIRÉ, René Alexandre, Marquis de.]

Recueil de fables, contes, epigrammes & pensées diverses de Monsieur le M. de...

‘The Hague’ [Paris?], 1767.

First collected edition, very rare, of various writings on diverse subjects by Culant-Ciré, including the first appearance of several of his works, including Symbole raisonné du philosophe, a satirical attempt at proving the necessity of the existence of God, and the comedy L’impudent.

£650

DENISSE, Nicolas.

Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus preclarissimum opus super quattuor novissimis cui Speculu[m] mortalium...

Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium of the Franciscan theologian Nicolas Denisse, printed at Rouen by Martin Morin.

£1650

[DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]

The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts, translated from an Indian manuscript, written by a Chinese...

Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.

Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on the Isle of Wight by James Mallett. Only nine publications are listed in ESTC as Mallett, Newport: mostly occasional endeavours, undertaken in 1767, 1770, 1782, 1783 (two publications, including ours), 1784, and 1789 (three publications), and almost all consisting...

£450

DOLCE, Lodovico.

Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e prima della dialettica.

Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa, & fratelli, [1565].

First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s dialectics, moral, and natural philosophy by one of the most significant poligrafi and artistic theorists of the cinquecento, intended for a non-specialist readership.

£2500

DONI, Anton Francesco.

Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali, de gli academici pellegrini … mondo piccolo, grande, misto, risibile,...

Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

A handsome copy of the second edition of Doni’s collected utopian dialogues, with the addition of a full-page woodcut portrait, first owned by a German nobleman studying in Padua.

£850

EPICTETUS.

Το του Επικτητου εγχειριδιον. Ex editione Joannis Upton accurate expressum.

Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.

The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus in Greek, and the first Foulis Epictetus in Greek only. A 1765 reissue was, according to ESTC, reset.

£650

EUNAPIUS; Hadrianus JUNIUS, translator; Hieronymus COMMELIN, editor.

Βιοι φιλοσοφων και σοφιστων...

‘Cologny’ [Geneva], Samuel Crespin, 1616.

An uncommon edition of the twenty-four biographies of Eunapius of Sardis (c. 345–415), valuable as a source for the neo-Platonic, and anti-Christian, philosophy of the fourth century; like the Emperor Julian, whom he admired, he wrote to oppose Christianity and defend his own beliefs. His subjects...

£450

EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

Ευστρατιου και αλλων τινων επισημων υπομνηματα...

[(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, July 1536.]

Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by Eustratius of Nicaea, Michael of Ephesus, the Peripatetic philosopher Aspasius, and other anonymous scholiasts, published by the Aldine press, annotated in Greek by a contemporary scholar.

£5500

‘FLORENT DE SALES’, pseud.

Vrai systême du monde physique et moral. 

[Switzerland,] 1797.

Only edition, rare, of this utopia, the identity of whose author, and even of whose printer, remains unknown.

£1500

[FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS.]

Lo Stato Pontificio agli altri incliti co-stati d’Italia.

[S.l.,] 1797.

Anonymous anti-French pamphlet, which saw a number of printings in 1796 and 1797, and calls for a general insurrection against the French in Italy. The pamphlet draws very heavily, albeit without any acknowledgment of its debt, on Francesco Gusta’s 1794 Saggio critico sulle cruciate, in which...

£450

[GALEN.] STEPHANUS.   

Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes in Galeni priorem librum therapeuticum ad Glauconem, Augustino...

Venice, Giunta, November 1554. 

First edition of Agostino Gadaldini’s Latin translation of Galen’s medical treatise Ad Glauconem and of Stephanus’ commentary upon it, enhanced with his own scholia.

£950