THE ETHICS OF AMBIGUITY by Simone de Beauvoir - 1948

Exeter: William Robberts, Broadgate, 1861. "Despite the antiquity of this book it is still regarded as probably the most complete work on the subject." Blue blind embossed decoration to bds and Gilt spine title, original owners name to first blank Reginald Porter and dated March 1861 with purchase receipt for £1 laid in. pp xiii 503 with 15 Plates. CONDITION Mild rubbing to edges, cnrs canted, spine head and heel just starting, gutter crack to paper both ends, mull slightly loose though not worn, light foxed to plates due to paper type. Contemporary newpaper article pasted to inside rear listing contents of Churches and Cathedrals in Exeter. A few small tidy notations to margins mostly in pencil. Bright and crisp copy. Overweight. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

A Londres [i.e. Paris?]: Jacques Tonsson, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii, 180, 224 p.; 18 cm. Signatures: a6 A-O8+4 P6 2A-S8+4 T4 (12mo). Contemporary sprinkled calf with faint remains of gilt-tooled spine. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Running title: Essais de Politique, & de Morale. Front fixed endpaper bears armorial bookplate of P. Daubignard with motto "Tacio quid mihi placet." A few words written in an old hand on title page. Translated from English by Claude Pierre Goujet; imprint is false -- possibly printed in Paris. ESTC, 213884. The second part has separate title page and pagination. In Very Good- Condition: front joint weak; back joint starting at head of spine; loss of leather at ends of spine; corners rubbed; very occasional foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

Madrid: Blas Roman, 1781. Hardcover. Very Good -. xxvii, [1], 243, [1] p.; [8], 182, [2] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a-c4 d2 A-Z4 2A-2G4 2H2; [pi]4 A-Z4. 19th-century tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules; boards have bevelled edges. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Feyjoo Ilustracion. Remains of handwritten paper label at tail of spine. Marbled fixed endpapers. The second title was also published by Blas Roman in 1781. Engraved headpieces and initials. Pink oval stamp on p. 1 of Ilustracion Apologetica of the Biblioteca del Colegio Civil Queretaro. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro (1676-1764) was an important Spanish philosopher whose 9-volume Teatro Crítico Universal (1727-39) and 5-volume Cartas Eruditas y Curiosas (1742-60) were collections of essays on wide-ranging topics. The two works in this volume were his responses to criticisms of his previous work. The back fixed endpaper is partially detached; the front fixed endpaper is completely… Read More

The third edition corrected, and enlarged by an appendix, containing additional notes, and a dissertation on the Being and the attributes of the Deity. Printed for T Cadell. London. 1787. 8vo. vii, 512pp, 3pp publisher's adverts. Later full calf, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, blind tooling, leather label and gilt lettering. Signature to title page. The first work by Price, Richard (1723 - 1791) FRS, philosopher, demographer, and political radical. He studied under Vavasor Griffiths at Chancefield, Talgarth. His writings in defence of the American patriots led to an invitation to advise congress conveyed to him by Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, and John Adams. A member of the intellectual societies the Bowood Group and Benjamin Franklin's 'Club of Honest Whigs'. The journal Enlightenment and Dissent remains a focus for the study of Price's thought. This is his first work: the third edition, being greatly enlarged.
Provenance: Signature of William Torrence (slightly cropped) to upper margin… Read More

Palo Alto: Palo Alto Book Service 1982, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 1104pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. References. Volume 10 contains January to September, 1971. Time Period 1966-1971. (Ideas, Objectivism, Philosophy).

Exeter: William Robberts, Broadgate, 1861. "Despite the antiquity of this book it is still regarded as probably the most complete work on the subject." Blue blind embossed decoration to bds and Gilt spine title, original owners name to first blank Reginald Porter and dated March 1861 with purchase receipt for £1 laid in. pp xiii 503 with 15 Plates. CONDITION Mild rubbing to edges, cnrs canted, spine head and heel just starting, gutter crack to paper both ends, mull slightly loose though not worn, light foxed to plates due to paper type. Contemporary newpaper article pasted to inside rear listing contents of Churches and Cathedrals in Exeter. A few small tidy notations to margins mostly in pencil. Bright and crisp copy. Overweight. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bruxelles: Johannis Mommartius, 1656 A good copy of the second edition of this extremely rare work. First printed in Venice in 1652. Baldassare Bonifacio was a professor among many other talents and this work is a cabinet of curiosities - gathering a wide range of stories and recollections - including tales from classical antiquity of women who had serpent lovers. In full leather binding with raised bands and gilt decoration to the spine and tooling to the boards. It has had an old leather repair relaying the tooled front board onto plain leather. It is clean, showing wear to top and bottom of spine and edges and with a broken front hinge and weak rear hinge, although the board is still attached. The contents are in superb condition given the age of the book. There is a biographical note written in ink in english on a preliminary and 2-3 signs of previous ownershiip. Some of the ink has run a little. With black and white illustrated title page; page of names - D Carolo Hovyne, Equiti Aurato;… Read More

A Londres [i.e. Paris?]: Jacques Tonsson, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii, 180, 224 p.; 18 cm. Signatures: a6 A-O8+4 P6 2A-S8+4 T4 (12mo). Contemporary sprinkled calf with faint remains of gilt-tooled spine. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Running title: Essais de Politique, & de Morale. Front fixed endpaper bears armorial bookplate of P. Daubignard with motto "Tacio quid mihi placet." A few words written in an old hand on title page. Translated from English by Claude Pierre Goujet; imprint is false -- possibly printed in Paris. ESTC, 213884. The second part has separate title page and pagination. In Very Good- Condition: front joint weak; back joint starting at head of spine; loss of leather at ends of spine; corners rubbed; very occasional foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

London: J. Murray (successor to Mr. Sandby), 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. The Fifth Edition, Corrected." [2], xv, [1], 406 p.; 21 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Lyttelton's Dialogues." Gilt-rolled board edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Very small stamp at foot of title page verso reading "Printed in Great Britain." The anonymous author of the majority of these dialogues, inspired by Lucian's dialogues, is George Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773); the last three dialogues are by Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800). Among the speakers are "a North-American Savage"; Ulysses; William Penn; Louise de Coligni, Princess of Orange; Alexander the Great; Cardinal Wolsey; Lucian; Hercules; and a "modern Bookseller" who complains to Plutarch about being nearly ruined by being unable to sell many copies of Plutarch's Lives, and saved by selling fiction -- "secret History,… Read More

Madrid: Blas Roman, 1781. Hardcover. Very Good -. xxvii, [1], 243, [1] p.; [8], 182, [2] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a-c4 d2 A-Z4 2A-2G4 2H2; [pi]4 A-Z4. 19th-century tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules; boards have bevelled edges. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Feyjoo Ilustracion. Remains of handwritten paper label at tail of spine. Marbled fixed endpapers. The second title was also published by Blas Roman in 1781. Engraved headpieces and initials. Pink oval stamp on p. 1 of Ilustracion Apologetica of the Biblioteca del Colegio Civil Queretaro. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro (1676-1764) was an important Spanish philosopher whose 9-volume Teatro Crítico Universal (1727-39) and 5-volume Cartas Eruditas y Curiosas (1742-60) were collections of essays on wide-ranging topics. The two works in this volume were his responses to criticisms of his previous work. The back fixed endpaper is partially detached; the front fixed endpaper is completely… Read More