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$50.00
3d2/28

A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus


BLACK, MAX

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

$40.00
3d2/30

Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus


COPI, IRVING M (Ed) & BEARD, ROBERT W (Ed)

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

$850.00
3d2/31

Kurt Godel: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems


GODEL, KURT & MELTZER, B (Trans) & BRAITHWAITE, R B (Intro)

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

$60.00
3d2/32

The Anatomy of the Soul: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Mind


KENNY, ANTHONY

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

$100.00
3d2/52

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


N/A

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

$40.00
3d1/2

Causation and the Types of Necessity


DUCASSE, CURT JOHN & TOMAS, VINCENT (Intro)

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

$40.00
3d1/3

Writings on Physics and Philosophy


PAULI, WOLFGANG & ENZ, CHARLES P (Ed) & VON MEYENN, KARL (Ed) & SCHLAPP, ROBERT (Trans)

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

$40.00
3d1/4

The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas


GILLESPIE, CHARLES COULSTON

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

$40.00
3d1/6

Philosophical Introduction to Probability


GALAVOTTI, MARIA CARLA

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

$40.00
3d1/7

A Realistic Theory of Categories: An Essay on Ontology


CHISHOLM, RODERICK M

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

$40.00
3d1/8

Education and Inquiry


ANDERSON, JOHN & PHILLIPS, D Z (Ed)

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

$55.00
3d1/9

Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics


GRACIA, JORGE J E

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

$50.00
3d1/13

Kant's Concept of Teleology


McFARLAND, J D

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

$50.00
3d1/28

Aquinas on God: The Divine Science of the Summa Theologiae


TE VELDE, RUDI

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

$40.00
3d1/29

The Philosophy of Niels Bohr: The Framework of Complementarity


FOLSE, HENRY J

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

$85.00
3d1/30

Understanding Indentity Statements


MORRIS, THOMAS V

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

$40.00
3d1/34

The Cat's Table


ONDAATJE, MICHAEL

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

$150.00
3d1/35

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are


WATTS, ALAN

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

$40.00
3d1/39

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Vol V: Bhishma Parva


GANGULI, KISARI MOHAN

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

$40.00
3d1/40

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Vol VI: Drona Parva


GANGULI, KISARI MOHAN

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

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