Search Results: Authors starting with S from Zetetic Books

New York: Mini-Print Corp. Twenty-nine volumes in two. The micro-print edition, published in 1967, with eight pages of the original on each page. Original cloth. Spines faded, slightly running around on to covers, slightly rubbed, but generally fairly clean. Magnifying glass recommended. First Thus. Hardback. Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 8vo (Oblong).

London: Duckworth, 1989. [6], vii-x, 198pp. Original cloth in DJ. With the bookplate of Professor James P. Griffin to front pastedown, otherwise quite bright and clean. Mark Sacks (1953-2008) was a British philosopher best known for his work on Kant, Post-Kantian idealism, and the epistemological tradition in European Philosophy. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: John Watkins Carte-de-Visite of the Marquis of Salisbury, approximately 65mm x 105mm in size, n.d., c.1865?. Very lightly soiled, name of sitter to head of reverse, otherwise fairly bright and clean. Reverse is printed with the details of John Watkins in 34 Parliament Street, London, with an ink stamp of Marion and Co. to foot. Watkins occupied this address between 1856 and 1875, see Pritchard, page 117. For the 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, a Conservative Prime Minister see ODNB. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. 32mo. Carte-De-Visite.

Parisiis (Paris): Fredericum Leonard, 1674. [30], 234pp, [124]. Full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, lacking title label to second panel, remaining panels have a central gilt lozenge and meeting corner pieces. Chipped to spine ends with small amount of loss, gilt rubbed and dulled, corners bumped and worn, several scrapes to covers couple of small splits to outer joints but well held. Very lightly browned internally, but generally clean. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. Engraved frontispiece engraved by J. Langlois. From the library of Sir J.T. Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge's uncle). Usual attractive Delphin edition. Harwood, page 223. First Thus. Full Calf. Good. Illus. by Langlois, J.. 4to.

Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Joannis Baskerville, 1773. [5], 2-317pp, [1]. Contemporary full straight grain morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, author lettered directly to second panel with a small number of fleuron tools to foot, covers with single line border, single line to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., shell patterned marbled endpapers. Rubbed to outer joints and extremities, corners lightly bumped. Some light browning and occasional light foxing internally, but generally fairly bright and clean. Moss regarded this as "one of the most beautiful of Baskerville's editions, and by far, the most elegant one we have of this historian" (Moss, 'Manual of Classical Bibliography', Volume II, page 561). Gaskell 51; Harwood, pg 160, Moss II:561; Schweiger, page 883. First Thus. Hardback. Good+. 4to.

No Place: No Publisher, 1822. [40]p, bound in shell patterned marbled paper over card, a manuscript in the same largely legible hand throughout, with the author's name to inside of upper cover, and dated July 1st, 1822. Covers worn and almost detached, lacking back strip and small piece to foot of upper cover, two closed tears to upper cover, one large one from fore edge and a smaller one from bottom edge, corners worn. Internally lightly browned, with one or two spots of heavier browning towards the end but not affecting sense. Starting with the 'rudiments of cookery', including boiling, roasting and frying, before moving on to broths and soups, and more specific notes, ie. 'to drop a calf's head', 'clarifying dripping' and 'stuffing for veal or turkey'. Salting and pickling meat is then covered, along with 'observations on puddings and pies' and finally sauces are examined, including 'egg sauce for fowls', 'lobster sauce' and 'white onion sauce for rabbits etc. etc.'. First Edition. Card Covers.… Read More

London: I. Dawks for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710. [6], i-xxiv, 680pp; [2], 681-1296pp, [44], published 1710-1711. Full contemporary calf, raised bands, spines in seven panels, title label to second panels, remaining panels with central fleuron device, covers with thick line and dog tooth rolled border, roll to edges, with combed and curled marbled endpapers. Heavily chipped to spine ends and outer joints with loss to leather, lacking end caps, cords exposed but holding well, corners bumped and worn, covers worn and scraped, inner joints cracked. Internally lightly browned and foxed throughout, sometimes heavily, but generally tolerable, in the second volume 5F1 is missing a small piece from the top margin, with a small worm track to top margin throughout. With the bookplate of G.K. Cowlishaw to front pastedowns. Lacks the 6pp 'Index Morborum' as often. Engraved frontispiece engraved by Michael Van Der Gucht after Eloas Knight, title in red and black. Unusually bound here in two volumes, with… Read More

London: Olliver, 1848. [5], 6-32pp. Modern cloth, title and date in gilt to spine. Lightly browned throughout, otherwise clean. Goldsmiths suggests the author is T. Clutton Salt, but Library Hub calls this attribution 'dubious'. Library Hub also suggests that 'John Bull' is John Stanley. It was reprinted a year later with the second and third examinations and an appendix. Goldsmiths 35610. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. 8vo. Pamphlet.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1948. [2], 94pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, a few small nicks and tears to edges. Name stamp of James Griffin to ffep, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

Exeter: Flindell [Printer] Single sided printed broadside, approximately 175mm x 220mm in size, n.d. c.1820? Quite bright and clean. The full title is 'Wanted Immediately, Many Thousands, to Pay Off Old Scores and New Ones. For Which Purpose an Auction Will be Held of All That Inn Famous Concern, Situate in Bampfylde-Lane, at the Sign of the Great Cann, in the Parish of Spreyton, for Sale of the Undermentioned Live and Dead Stock'. The printer is probably Thomas Flindell fl. 1812-1824 (see BBTI). Relating mainly to local politicians ('Bampfylde-Lane' presumably relates to Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, an Exeter MP between 1796 and 1812), there is also a mention of 'a large lot of White Hats on dirty poles', which presumably relates to Henry Hunt who was famous for wearing a white hat. The individual disguised as, 'One Old Poltimore [a village in Devon] Cock, without spurs, having Chicken by various Hens', remains unknown to this cataloguer. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. 8vo. Broadside.

No Place: No Publisher, 1853. Single sided broadside, approximately 480mm x 380mm in size, no publisher or place. Lightly browned with minor staining and light offsetting, creased from old folds, small amounts of remnants from elsewhere to central fold of reverse, otherwise fairly bright. Appears to be an anti-Catholic satire appearing in the format of an advertisement for a panorama, aimed at Pusey and others associated with the Oxford Movement, Exeter is mentioned three times, so possibly published there? Not in COPAC. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Folio. Broadside.

London: Peace News, 1944. 12pp, original paper covers. Lightly browned but clean. BL and NLW in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. [6], vii-viii, [3], 2-133p, [1]. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine faded, flaps with some browning. Bookplate of Professor James P. Griffin to front pastedown, with a few pen lines and notes of his to margins. Samuel Scheffler works mainly in the areas of moral and political philosophy and the theory of value. His first book. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good+. 8vo.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. [4], v-xi, [1], 136pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ chipped to spine ends with some loss and water stained towards centre of spine. Name stamp of James Griffin to ffep, otherwise fairly bright and clean. Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. First Thus. Hardback. Good/Fair. 8vo.

Wien: Springer, 1974. xxvi, 410pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ very slightly soiled, previous owners ink stamp to foot of ffep, otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008. viii, 9-79pp, [1]. Original quarter cloth and laminated boards, with original paper label to spine. Bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued). Folio.

London: Fabian Publications, 1943. 34pp, original paper covers, spine slightly rubbed, previous owner's name to head of title, otherwise quite bright and clean. Early Schumacher pamphlet. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good+. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2002. xiv, 542pp, [4], original printed boards. Bright and clean. Text in German. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued). 4to.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. [10], 235pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. DJ spine faded, running round on to panels, otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv, [1], 382pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.