126 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. We’re adding art including comic, some biography, history, photography, children’s but a majority covers a wide-range of philosophy and religion as we continue to upload books from the philosophy library we acquired. Below a sampling. See all 126 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Platonic Theology, Volume 1 Books I-IV
Ficino was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity and was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Read More
$25.00
The Atlas Comics Library 2: Venus; Strange Stories of the Supernatural
In the beginning, Venus, space goddess from the planet Venus, arrives on Earth to experience love as a human would. Read More
$80.00
Working Girls: An American Brothel, Circa 1892
In the 1890s, almost any American city had a red-light district, tolerated by the police in exchange for graft. Read More
$60.00
Horizontal Collaboration: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946
Naughty Paris between World Wars. Lurid details about prostitution, erotic night clubs, gay life, and so on. Read More
$50.00
Deadly Beloved and Other Stories
Deadly Beloved contains 21 stories with art (and sometimes writing) by Johnny Craig plus ten stories by other artists and writers. Read More
$50.00
I Must Be Dreaming
Includes illustrated tour thru “Dream-Theory Land” guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts alike. Read More
$20.00
Don Quijote de La Mancha: Edición del Instituto Cervantes 1605 – 2005, dirigida por Francisco Rico. Volumen complementario (2 Volumes)
Intent on becoming a knight-errant, Don Quixote with his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, sets off to follow his dream. Read More
$100.00
Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity
These accessible lecture notes serve as a fantastic introduction to many of the main ontological concepts in Heidegger’s Being and Time. Read More
Sydenham’s first book on the treatment of fevers. The third edition, retitled Observationes Medicae became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries. Read More
Aristotle addresses fundamental questions of his theory of substance, his idea of causes and principles, and his concept of motions. Read More
$80.00
De Cive: The Latin Version (Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes)
Hobbes is famous for his development of the “social contract theory.” An excellent book for anyone interested in constitutionalism and social contract theory. Read More
$120.00
Displacing the Divine
Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers and identifies a range of types from harsh Puritans to incorrigible scoundrels. Read More
$20.00
Lucretius on Atomic Motion
The first commentary to take into account the remarkable discoveries and re-evaluations in the field of Hellenistic philosophy over the past thirty years. Read More
$80.00
Science before Socrates
Graham argues that scientific astronomy actually originated in the fifth century with Parmenides and Anaxagoras. Read More
$50.00
Solitary Goose (INSCRIBED COPY)
Heartfelt story starts when the author encounters a solitary goose on her local pond. Leads to musings about natural world and ourselves. Read More
$12.00
Utopian Thought in the Western World
The Manuels provide a detailed analysis of the many utopias that have been achieved and sustained in the western world. Read More
$30.00
Freidrich Schiller on the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters
Schiller’s treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy’s most profound works. Read More
$40.00
Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo Masterpieces of the Wurzburg Years
Perhaps the greatest painter of eighteenth-century Europe, Tiepolo’s greatest works are the frescoed ceilings. The high point the ceilings in Würzburg, Germany. Read More
$40.00
William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books
Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, but he came to be highly regarded by later critics. Read More
139 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. Includes WW II, children’s illustrated, some Mark Twain, regional history, biography, and a range of philosophy books covering all five branches and thoughts from ancient to contemporary thinkers. Also some odds and ends. Here’s a sampling. See all 139 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P.T. Barnum.
Barnum was showman, businessman and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes. Some rather gruesome. His ideas were incredible and endless. Read More
$35.00
Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times (2 Volumes)
Each colony had opinions and laws of their own that were sometimes in complete contradiction with the laws of another. At least one prominent person from each colony is discussed. Read More
$40.00
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity
Both authors argue with force and ingenuity. The subject of their dispute is of central importance, not only for our understanding of ourselves but for the conduct of our lives. Read More
$18.00
The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition
Examines how the physics of atoms and the void shaped the imaginations of Lucretius and his contemporary scholars. Read More
$30.00
Learn Latin from the Romans: A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empire
Introduces students to Roman culture as well as Latin in an engaging, accessible, and enjoyable way. Includes clear explanations of grammatical concepts. Read More
$28.00
Toxophilus, the schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. Contayned in II Bookes. to Which is Added, a Dedication and Preface
Toxophilus, a book about longbow archery, first published in London 1545 and dedicated to King Henry VIII.The first book on archery written in English. Read More
$250.00
Plish and Plum
Plish and Plum are two naughty puppies. Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter, publishing comic illustrated cautionary tales. Read More
$40.00
Travels in History
A collection of essays and articles written by Twain about his travels to various historical locations around the world. Read More
$200.00
Winston S. Churchill / Compiled by Charles Eade
Churchill’s speeches throughout 1942. They convey sober, resolve, and defiance with an occasional sparkle of Churchillian wit. Read More
$18.00
Time Stood Still: My Internment in England: 1914-1918
When England’s Defence of the Realm Act passed 1914 Cohen-Portheim’s 2-week visit became a 2 year internment. His experience. Read More
$28.00
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, trans. Elborg Forster
The idea of universal history emerged in Western political thought in the middle of the eighteenth century. Bossuet is for many one of the most brilliant orators of all time. Read More
$80.00
In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni
Witt takes a broad view of humanism. Starting back in the 13th century, he traces the meaning of “humanism” as it shifted through several centuries. Read More
$80.00
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Gould’s first technical book. It was influential in stimulating research into heterochrony (changes in the timing of embryonic development). Read More
$18.00
Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution
First comprehensive study of Gangraena, a lively work of propaganda, crucial to Presbyterian campaigning in the mid-1640s. Read More
$200.00
The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science
From 1595, Padua’s famous anatomical theatre has drawn artists and scientists studying the human body during public dissections. Read More
$70.00
Historical Sketches of Andover, Massachusetts
Starts with the prehistory of the Andover area, then moves on to the arrival of the early settlers colonial times and continues to late 1800s. Read More
$50.00
Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of Modern Art
Mannerists artists rejected realistic proportions and instead rendered figures with impossibly elongated limbs and oddly positioned bodies. Read More
$30.00
Photography: The Whole Story
The contributors cover roughly every photographic movement, except for micro-genres. ßhows some important concepts and sheds light over historical references. Read More
$35.00
Montcalm and Wolfe (2 Volume Set )
Generals Montcalm (French) and Wolfe (British) lead their country’s forces in the French Indian War as England and France struggled for dominance over the New World. Read More
