Search Results: Titles starting with F from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

Quarto, contemporary vellum, pp.(10) + 102, Arabic and Italian throughout, title with printers woodcut device, some browning throughout, an excellent copy.
Schnurrer, Bibliotheca Arabica, 67. Brill, Philologia Orientalis, II,224. Graf IV 177. Lambrecht 464. Copac: 3 copies only at BL, Oxford, Cambridge
FIRST EDITION of this rare Arabic manual printed in Rome at the Propoganda de Fidei Press. Dominicus was the editor of the famous Arabic-Latin dictionary printed in the same press in 1639. Father Germanus [1585-1670] succeded Obicini as Lector of Arabic and as a collaborator on the Arabic Bible project. He later stayed for a time in Persia and ended his life as a scholar in Madrid. There he left his manuscript of an unfinished Qur'an translation and grammaqtical treatises of Persian and Turkish. The Propaganda Press was founded in 1622 and in 1626 a true printing house was established together with a foundry named after the Congregatio. To its stock were added exotic types from the Stamperia Vaticana.… Read More

MILL,James. A Fragment on Mackintosh: being strictures on some passages in the dissertation by Sir James Mackintosh, prefixed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. London, Baldwin & Cradock 1835Octavo, original boards rebacked in calf, spine lettered in gilt, corners worn, leaf edges uncut, pp.vi, (2), 431, (1), ownership inscription of W R Sorley, (1855-1935), professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge University.

Rare first edition of James Mill's last book. Published a year before James Mill's death A Fragment on Mackintosh is a severe exposure of the flimsiness and misrepresentations of Sir James Mackintosh's famous Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy 1830 and discusses the foundations of ethics from the author's utilitarian point of view. John Stuart Mill was to write about his father's work in his Autobiography
"His 'Fragment on Mackintosh' which he wrote and published about this time, although I greatly admired some parts of it, I read as a whole with more pain than pleasure; yet on… Read More