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Philosophy
77
£275.00
BAILEY, Samuel. ~ Discourses on various subjects; read before literary and philsophical societies. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1852.
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105
£250.00
[BAKER, Thomas]. ~ Traité de l’incertitude des sciences. Traduit de l’anglois [translated by Nicolas Berger]. Paris: Pierre Miquelin and Jacques Piget, 1714.
First edition in French of Baker’s Reflections upon Learning (1699), a work designed to display the inadequacies of human knowledge and reason and to emphasize the ultimate need for belief in revelation.
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It proved controversial (provoking an angry response from geologist and physician John Woodward) and was widely reprinted. Bacon and Descartes are closely considered.
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150
£525.00
HUME, David. ~ Le Génie de M. Hume, ou analyse de ses ouvrages, dans laquelle on pourra prendre une idée exacte des mœurs, des usages, des loix, et du gouvernement du peuple Anglois. “Londres & se trouve à Paris, Chez Vincent” [printed at Paris], 1770.
First and only edition, apparently the last of numerous French translations of Hume’s works to be published in his lifetime.
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It contains excerpts from his Essays (arranged thematically) and History of England (arranged chronologically). It was evidently aimed at a wider audience than the philosophical and appears as much a guide to the peculiarities of the British as to Hume’s philosophy.
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82
£200.00
MILL, John Stuart. ~ Autobiography. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873.
First edition.
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78
£65.00
(MILL, John Stuart.) BAIN, Alexander. ~ John Stuart Mill. A criticism: with personal recollections. London: Longman, Green, and Co. 1882.
First edition in book form.
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102
£325.00
(SCOTISM). ASCARGORTA, Juan de. ~ Manual de confessores, ad mentem Scoti, por el R.P. Fr. Juan de Ascargorta, de el Orden de N.S.P.S. Francisco, lector jubilado, custodio, y examinador synodal. Van anadidas las direcciones, practicas para los nuevos confessores, y al fin las definiciones. Seville: for Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, [1743].
A confessor’s manual arranged according to the Scotist system favoured by the Franciscans: a system named after the thirteenth-century Oxford theologian John Duns Scotus.
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It was first printed in 1713.
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