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Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2020.. Hardcover. Fine. Fifty-six Ontological Studies is royal octavo (10½ by 6½ inches), 84pp, with a Bradel, or German case, binding, with printed paper over boards. It is published in a single state in an edition of 120 copies. The text type is Van Dijck, the paper Zerkall Soft White with the photographs, printed by the photographer on Hahnemühle Rice Paper, tipped in. Fine condition, as issued.

New York: Random House, (1967). First American edition. Octavo, teal blue cloth, pp. 283, [1]. Previous owner's name neatly on endpaper, else a near fine copy in dust jacket..

Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1972.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, dark blue cloth, pp. xi, 386, [1]. Text in German. Very good in a spine sunned dust jacket.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967. First UK edition.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, red cloth, pp. 265, Shorthand notes recorded by Waismann. From the jacket flap: Wittgenstein met Moritz Schlick in 1926 or 1927, and their close association was the chief means by which Wittgentein exercised an influence on the Vienna Circle. Freidrich Waismann took part in most of the meetings between the two and came to be regarded in the early thirties as the authorized mouthpiece of Wittgenstein in Vienna". Text in German. UK edition, with sheets printed in Germany. Very good in price-clipped, spine sunned dust jacket, with a couple of small edge chips, and some light edge wear.

Montreal and Kingston: McGill - Queens University Press, (2000)., 2001. Trade paperback format, pp. 226. Very good condition..

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1998). First trade paperback edition. Octavo, card covers, pp. xiii, 120. Fine..

Glasgow: Printed for William Collins, 1832. First edition.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, rebound in modern boards, new endpapers, pp. viii, 566; (2) ads. Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), Presbyterian minister, theologian, author, social reformer and the first moderator of the Free Church of Scotland. Occasional pencil in margins and on rear endpapers. light foxing throughout, else very good.

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., (1921). First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, pp. [166], [2] publisher's ads. Previous owner's name neatly in ink on endpaper, else fine; covers and gilt title very bright..

Montreal - London: McGill - Queen's University Press, 1975. First edition. Octavo, pictorial covers, pp. [xvi], 336; illustrated with eight plates. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small nicks at the edges and a small creased tear to the top edge of the rear panel..

Thoemmes Press, 2001. Seven volumes, cloth. Sir William Hamilton, (1788-1856), Scottish philosopher. He was widely interested in law, physiology, and literature and was professor of history and philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Hamilton helped to re-establish the waning fame of the Scottish school of metaphysics. His "Philosophy of the Unconditioned" (1829), a critique of Cousin's Cours de philosophie published in the Edinburgh Review, publicized his views on the infinite, which he considered unknowable. Under the influence of Kant, he conceived of the world that man knows as finite and conditioned in terms of space, time, and degree. In logic his attempt to "quantify the predicate" was a crude anticipation of later developments in mathematical logic. The British academic outlook was broadened by his emphasis on the German philosophers and on Aristotle. (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition). Published at USD$750.00. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. Fine… Read More