London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring, 1655-1662. First editions. Three volumes in two, comprising 13 parts. [8], 120, [2], 19, [3], 119 pp; [2], 46; [2], 34, 37-159; [2], 120; [2], 37; [2], 142, [22] pp. [6], 159, [3], 161-173, [2], 41, [2], 104, [2], 105-275, [65] pp..... More
Paris: Buchet/Castel, 1967. 221 pp. Publisher's white wraps. First edition. Very Good with some light creasing, toning and light soiling to wraps, ding to rear cover near bottom, small stain to inside front cover and pages toned. One of the major works of 20th century radical thought in the original..... More
Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. First edition, signed limited issue; copy #362 of a 760 signed by Albert Einstein. Bound in publisher's brown morocco-grain cloth over bevel-edged boards, stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight darkening to spine and trivial rubbing to crown. Endsheets faintly browned..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First British edition and the first English language edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with pages a little toned, and a small split started at the rear inner hinge, else a fantastic copy in a Near Fine unclipped..... More
New York: Pantheon Books / Bollingen Series XIX, 1950. First American edition, and first English language translation; first printing. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt; lacking dust jackets and publisher's slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing and wear to covers; previous owner name and..... More
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Caddell, 1791. The Sixth Edition. Complete in three volumes, In contemporary full tree calf, rebacked with new spines. Bindings worn, former owner bookplate to pastedowns. Old tidemarks to preliminary pages and faintly to textblock edge, light foxing and browning to pages, light and..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979. First edition. Signed by Richard Rorty on front free endpaper, inscribed under his nickname to former owner, likely fellow Princeton Philosophy professor James Ward Smith, in the year of publication, "For Jim Merry Christmas! [signed] Dick 20/12/79." xvi, 402 pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine..... More
London: J. Nourse & P. Vaillant, 1750. First British edition, and the first edition in the English language of Baron de Montesquieu's pioneering work in comparative law. Bound in recent marbled paper boards over leather spine with raised bands and morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Cigar smoke odor to..... More