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A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 451pp, VG+ (sl rubbing/bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light fading & moderate tanning to spine & edges, sl creasing & chipping to egdes, minor general soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1964
KEYWORDS: first editions philosophy literature Ludwig Wittgenstein companion tractatus
Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 414pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning& foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate fading & scuffing to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, sl tanning & soiling, 2.5cm clsoed tear to base of spine)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1966
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature essays Ludwig Wittgenstein first editions
Kurt Godel: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
UK FIRST EDITION, SCARCE! PENCIL ANNOTATIONS OF NZ PHILOSOPHER G J REID, octavo, light green/grey buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, viii + 72pp, VG (moderate staining & discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label & prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light cracking to gutters, aforementioned annotation throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy scuffing to spine, 3cm tear to base of spine- tidy archival tape repair, moderate chafing & soiling, minor tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Oliver & Boyd 1962
KEYWORDS: UK first editions philosophy literature English translations Kurt Godel principia mathematica
The Anatomy of the Soul: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Mind
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 146pp, VG (light bruising & tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occassional pencil markings) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning to spine & rear cover, minro tanning & foxing to flaps, minor creasing & chipping to edges- 1cm closed tear to head of spine)
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1973
KEYWORDS: first editions literature essays philosophy Anthony Keith
The Handbook to the Bay of Plenty and Guide to the Hot Lakes, the Boiling Springs, the Healing Baths, the Geysers, the Intermitting Fountains &c in the Rotomahana and Taupo Districts, (Province of Auckland) New Zealand
Ex-library- stiffened boards utillizing original cover, octavo, black hand-written lettering to spine, marbled eps, large folding map to prelims- tidy, 20pp + 18pp ads to rear, VG (usual library markings, light rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate scuffing & foxing/soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Langbridge & Edgcumbe 1875
KEYWORDS: New Zealand historical travel literature guides Rotomahana Taupo hot lakes thermal pools
Causation and the Types of Necessity
SCARCE, ex-library, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, iii + 156pp + catalogue to rear, VG (usual library markings, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear pastedowns)
PUBLISHER: Dover Publications 1969
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature causation
Writings on Physics and Philosophy
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, purple & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, vi + 289pp, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Springer-Verlag 1994
KEYWORDS: philosophy physics science literature Wolfgang Pauli
The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas
UK FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 562pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor creasing to bottom corners of prelims) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & foxing to spine & rear cover, moderate soiling, moderate creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1960
KEYWORDS: UK first editions essays literature science history scientific ideas
Philosophical Introduction to Probability
Super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine & covers, x + 265pp, VG+ (occasional light pencil markings, minor curling to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear)
PUBLISHER: CSLI Publications 2005
KEYWORDS: philosophy probability literature Maria Carla Galavotti
A Realistic Theory of Categories: An Essay on Ontology
Octavo, pink glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, ix + 146pp, VG+ (sl creasing/curling to cover edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: philosophy theory literature ontology metaphysics Roderick M Chisholm
Education and Inquiry
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 228pp, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, prev. owner's name in ink & pencil annotation to rear eps) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine, light creasig & chipping to edges, 2.5cm closed tear to base of rear cover- archival tape repair)
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1980
KEYWORDS: first editions philosophy literature essays education
Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, xx + 315pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, sl foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep & rear pastedown)
PUBLISHER: University of New York Press 1988
KEYWORDS: philosophy metaphysics literature essays Jorge J E Gracia
Kant's Concept of Teleology
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained brown, ix + 150pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep & rear pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning to spine, light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: University of Edinburgh Press 1970
KEYWORDS: Immanuel Kant kantian philosophy literature teleology J D McFarland
Aquinas on God: The Divine Science of the Summa Theologiae
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine & covers, viii + 192pp, VG+ (sl creasing to cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, sl tanning & foxing to page egdes, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2005
KEYWORDS: theology philosophy Thomas Aquinas summa theologiae criticism literature Rudi te Velde
The Philosophy of Niels Bohr: The Framework of Complementarity
Super octavo, grey light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & covers, x + 281pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, minor crack to front gutter, prev. owner's sm ink stamps to front & rear eps & title page)
PUBLISHER: North-Holland Physics Publishing 1988
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Niels Bohr metaphysics empiricism complementarity
Understanding Indentity Statements
Octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 152pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl tanning to base of front cover & flaps, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Aberdeen University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature identity language
The Cat's Table
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE, octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 287pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges, minor glue staining/residue to gutter of half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2011
KEYWORDS: modern first editions signed novels fiction literature Michael Ondaatje
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
EARLY EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained black, x + 146pp, VG (boards sl warped, sl soiling to board edges, sl rubbing/bruising to board corners, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (all corners lightly clipped, moderate tanning & foxing to spine, moderate general foxing, minor creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1971
KEYWORDS: early editions zen buddhism spirituality Alan Watts eastern philosophy literature
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Vol V: Bhishma Parva
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, vii + 314pp, VG (sl bruising to spine extrems, pink crayon marking to top of front board, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to base of covers & spine, heavy soiling to rear, light fading to spine, moderate foxing to flaps, sl creasing & chipping to top edges)
PUBLISHER: Munshiram Manoharlal 1973
KEYWORDS: classical literature Mahabharata English translations spirituality
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Vol VI: Drona Parva
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, vi + 492pp, VG (sl bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to covers & spine, heavy soiling to rear, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Munshiram Manoharlal 1976
KEYWORDS: classical literature Mahabharata English translations spirituality