Examen et Réfutation Des Elemens De La Philosophie De Neuton De M. De Voltaire Avec Une Dissertation sur La Réflexion & La Réfraction De La Lumiere. by BANNIERES, Jean - 1739

Nurnberg: George Peter Monath, 1780 Book. Fair. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original grey paper boards. A listing and description of several early editions of the Holy Bible, beginning with that of Johann Bamler in 1466, in Latin. Text is in German. Condition of this book is fragile. The front cover is detached but present. Light tanning throughout. Small labels of two previous owners. 148 pp..

Valentiae Edetanorum (Valencia Spain): Ex Praelo Josephi et Thomae de Orga, 1786. Second Edition. Leather. Acceptable. 0x0x0. VINNIUS CASTIGATUS, atque ad usum tironum Hispanorum accomodatus: in quorum gratiam Hispaniae leges opportunioribus locis traduntur. Volume 1 (Tomus Primus) Only. Opera Joannis Sala Presbyteri, in Valentina Metropolitana praepositi. Editio secunda. Text in Latin. Hardcover bound book. Full Leather, 568 pages. Vintage fountain pen ink notes and marginalia (also in Latin). frontis engraving. front cover detached. The rear hinge (the inside portion of the flexible fold where book cover meets the book spine) is split (loose or open) the rear cover is still attached by the joint (the exterior flexible fold where book cover meets book spine). Leather on Leather paste on spine title, gold gilt designs on spine. There is rub-through to the corners of the boards, but the text block is surprisingly sharp. [Punishment of Vinnius; and accommodated for the use of Spanish recruits: in… Read More

1690 1ed Secret History Charles II James II England Catholic Protestant English
At the end of the 17th-century, numerous anti-Catholic pamphlets and propaganda were published being very critical of the reigns of Kings Charles II and James II. This particular book, "The Secret History of the Reigns of Charles II and James II", was written by an anonymous author, though modern scholarship attributes it to John Phillips or Robert Burton. The author provides important context on the British throne and the political and religious battles between Protestants and Catholics.
Item number: #15234
Price: $599
PHILLIPS, John [attrib.]

The secret history of the reigns of K. Charles II and K. James II.
[London]: Printed in the year 1690. First edition.
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o [4], 50; 71-214
· References: Wing S 2347
· Provenance: Bookplate – M.H. Bloxam, F.S.A., O.R.
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~5.75in X 3.5in (14.5cm x 8.5cm)
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1610 1ed Catholic Church Italian POPES Charlemagne Ballerini Sacro de Successi

Francesco Ballerini's "Epilogo Sacro de'successi" is a collection of liturgical and political successes of the Catholic Church through the year 1610. It covers a variety of topics including the reigns of popes, Catholic authors, and the history of Catholicism in Europe. Notable figures described in this work include Charlemagne, Pope Gregory the Great, and Pope Leo III.
Item number: #15289
Price: $599
BALLERINI, Francesco
Epilogo Sacro De'successi, che' nella Chiesa di Dio dal principio del mondo sin al presente anno 1610. sono occorsi
Roma : Mascardi, 1610.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[52], 166, [2]
· Language: Italian
· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
· Size: ~8.75in X 6.5in (22cm x 16.5cm)
· Quite rare
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1873 1ed Undeveloped West Beadle Navajo INDIANS Mormons California GOLD Texas
John H Beadle was a member of the Mormon expedition across the United States to the American West. He made notes and reports on the excursion and ultimately published a fascinating work on every aspect of the trip. Beadle wrote 'The Undeveloped West' which turned out to be an autobiography of sorts, describing Beadle's time in Utah and his voyage westward. It includes accounts of time in Texas, Yosemite and California, and Nevada.
Beadle also includes numerous descriptions of Native American Indian tribes such as the Navajo and Mexicans, Aztec descendants, gold and silver mining, railroad construction, and the rise of Mormons in Utah.
Item number: #14576
Price: $499
BEADLE, John Hanson
The undeveloped West: or, Five years in the territories: being a complete history of that vast region between the Mississippi and the Pacific
Philadelphia : National Pub. Co., 1873. First edition.

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Dublin: M. Rhames, 1743. Published 1743. The only book published by this Irish philosopher. The author describes the natural state of the human mind as generally good but ignorant and prone to vice unless it is educated and enlightened to cultivate a sense of religion and love of truth (this in an incredibly simplified synopsis of the author's propositions). Full calf with gilt-lettered red spine label, raised spine bands, [4], 15, [37], 344 pages. Covers edgeworn and joints weak, front cover held by binder's cords, text block sound with no loosened pages, pages clean with some age-toning and a fairly faint dampstain to the lower right hand area through most of the first half of the book, affecting only the lower three lines of text at the most, no chips or tears. . Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge University Press. 1900. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 6 inches). Neat previous owner name to the top of the front blank free endpaper and a neat 4 line inscription on the verso of the same leaf. Some sporadic foxing throughout and a few pages with neat pencil underlining (which could be easily erased if desired) otherwise a very good copy in publishers dark blue cloth with the spine lettered in gilt. Boards with single blind ruled border lines. Spine has a few small white marks to the cloth and the book is a bit rubbed and bumped to the edges but Overall this is a very good copy of Russell's third book. Only 1500 copies were published.

NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. Signed hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. 8vo., xi+306pp. Gray cloth with gilt titles and designs. Inscribed by Niebuhr on the half title: "to Susan & Bob on their wedding day, Best wishes, Reinhold Niebuhr". Some rubbing to the gilt titles, offsetting from NY Times Book Review clipping on Niebuhr laid in, else very good, clean, bright in very good dust jacket with a small chip off the rear panel and wear at the extremities. . Signed by Author. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1927. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American Edition, third printing as noted on dust jacket. aka An Outline of Philosophy. The text block is solid, clean and square. Endpapers are clear of markings with NO previous owner's signature. Spine is stiff and appears unread, boards rigid and tips pointed.Just a bit of tanning on the endpapers. It is a beautiful copy! The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has about a one inch loss at the upper right hand corner of the front cover with a though bit of shelf wear and tiny loss here and there on edges and at center cover and spine ends and at tips. The reason this is a third printing is that the dust jacket cover says "Third Printing...15,000." Looks dashing in its shiny new plastic cover. .

Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor edge wear to dust jacket, and typical color fade at spine of gray to light green (though less than usual), else fine. Fine in near-fine dust jacket.. A fine first edition of Alasdair MacIntyre's (b. 1929) masterpiece-a book regularly counted among the twentieth century's greatest works of ethical philosophy, and the book that ushered in a revival of Aristotelian thought and virtue ethics. First published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 1981, After Virtue has since been reissued in two subsequent editions; the second edition, published in 1984, added a postscript by MacIntyre responding to certain critics of the book, and the third edition, published in 2007, added a prologue ("After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century") in which he reflects on the development and prospects of the ideas put forward in the book and reiterates his commitment to its central… Read More