Religion & Philosophy

Hardcover. NY, Garland Publishing, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on spine, 253 pages. A Garland Series, British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th and 18th Centuries. A facsimile reprint of the 1655 London edition. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton , reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 339 pages. In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance. "Instead of treating these two great figures in isolation, Professor Gilbert puts them into the context of their times, into the stream of political thinking and historical writing of which they were a part. . . .His book is the fruit of years of writing of which they were a part. . . .His book is the fruit of years of original research among Florentine archives and of careful thought about the problems of Renaissance politics and historiography." Clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. Rochester NY, University of Rochester Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. 10 Essays, ranging from Locke, Berkeley, and Hume to Foucault's Critique of the Enlightenment, with an Introduction by Sylvana Tomaselli. Contributors include Richard H. Popkin, Peter Laslett, and Michael Ayers.

Hardcover. Edinburgh University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 210 pages. All students of Western political thought encounter Niccolo Machiavelli's work. Nevertheless, his writing continues to puzzle scholars and readers who are uncertain how to deal with the seeming paradoxes they encounter. 'The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli' is a clear account of Machiavelli's thought, major theories and central ideas. It critically engages with his work in a new way, one not based on the problematic Cambridge-school approach. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Machiavelli's ideas, it is the ideal companion to the study of this influential and challenging philosopher.

Hardcover. Columbus OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 170 pages. LONG INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf dated 1987.

Softcover. Washington DC, University Press of America, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 378 pages. The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra-an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert's chapter-by-chapter commentary on Nietzsche's magnum opus clarifies not only Zarathustra's narrative structure but also the development of Nietzsche's thinking as a whole. "An impressive piece of scholarship. Insofar as it solves the riddle of Zarathustra in an unprecedented fashion, this study serves as an invaluable resource for all serious students of Nietzsche's philosophy. Lampert's persuasive and thorough interpretation is bound to spark a revival of interest in Zarathustra and raise the standards of Nietzsche scholarship in general."-Daniel W. Conway, Review of Metaphysics. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 277 pages. A look at the human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. Time and Place-Timeplace-is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material world.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 482 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Bristol, Thoemmes Press, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Volume 1 - 447 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 519 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Approximately 15 pages of light pencil marking/marginalia. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, reprint, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 452 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles and black embossed illustration, b&w tissue-protected frontispiece of Ruskin's portrait, brown decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Slight edgewear and rubbing to covers, previous owner's inscription on blank preview page, a few brown markings to right edge of page block, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Malden, NA, Wiley-Blackwell, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Hardcover. London, England, Cambirdge at the University Press, 1st Edition, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board, gilt faded on cover, some agewear. Some light pencil within. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Some tanning to pages and edges.

Hardcover. London, Religious Tract Society, 1st, 1838, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Contains 13 sermons. Hardcover with leather spine and marbled covered. Gutter cracked and tender with loose pages throughout. Moderate soil and fraying to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1933, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with gilt title and design, 68 pages. Gilt lettering on spine with light fading. This is the first printing with 1933 on title page and First Edition stated on copyright page. Illustrated with seven drawings on glossy stock by Gibran and two facsimile manuscript pages, all present and intact. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, mild wear to covers, faint foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 4th pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Ornamented with wood cuts from designs of Albert Durer, Hans Holbein, and others. In imitation of Queen Elizabeth's Book of Christian Prayers. Foreword by Sir Patrick Cormack. Quarter bound in green leather with gilt design over marbled paper, gilded head, green stained edges, frontispiece, place ribbon, green slipcase with gilt design. Facsimile of the 1853 edition by William Pickering and Charles Whittingham the Younger. A pristine copy with slipcase.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. Alexander X. Douglas offers a new understanding of Spinoza's philosophy by situating it in its immediate historical context. He defends a thesis about Spinoza's philosophical motivations and then bases an interpretation of his major works upon it. The thesis is that much of Spinoza's philosophy was conceived with the express purpose of rebutting a claim about the limitations of philosophy made by some of his contemporaries. They held that philosophy is intrinsically incapable of revealing anything of any relevance to theology, or in fact to any study of direct practical relevance to human life. Spinoza did not. He believed that philosophy reveals the true nature of God, and that God is nothing like what the majority of theologians, or indeed of religious believers in general, think he is. The practical implications of this change in the concept of God were profound and radical. As Douglas shows, many of Spinoza's theories were directed towards showing how the separation his opponents endeavored to maintain between philosophical and non-philosophical (particularly theological) thought was logically untenable.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, dark green cloth covers with gilt title on spine. 350 pages. The distinctive aim of Philosopher-Kings is to show, by giving a rational reconstruction of its overall argument, that the Republic is not the flawed patchwork it is usually made out to be by interpreters, but a deeply consistent and systematic work, which raises fundamental problems for philosophy and develops powerful and probing solutions to them. The book's central innovative thesis is that Plato's psychology, more specifically his theory of desires, holds the key to this, his most ambitious work. "Although the Republic has come to seem frazzled from too much use in introductory courses, in Reeve's hands it is new and refreshing".--Paul Woodruff, Ancient Philosophy "Although the philosopher-kings of Reeve's title are central to the argument of this handsomely produced book, it is in reality nothing less than a complete reinterpretation of the Republic. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Thorverton UK, The Rota/Imprint Academic, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A facsimile of 17th century polemical work, with a modern introduction. Approx. 800 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 564 pages. This volume offers an outline of developments in the intellectual debate on religious liberty, religious toleration and religious concord in the eighteenth-century Netherlands. Emphasizing changes in the relations between religious belief and the public sphere, it seeks to add new perspectives to recent analyses of toleration. Each chapter of this book discusses a different aspect of the eighteenth-century Dutch toleration debate. On the basis of a large number of sources, and paying particular attention to minor writers, a broad variety of topics is treated, ranging from the official Reformed confessions and legal scholarship to unionism, apologetics, sociability, and the press. This study extends contemporary analyses of early modern thought on toleration to the end of the eighteenth century. Name on front fly leaf, pencil notations to front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 132 pages. Name on front fly leaf, pencil markings to about 20 pages. Light edgewear to covers, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black. 164 pages. The Career of Toleration considers the Locke-Proast controversy from the standpoint of political theory, examining Locke's and Proast's texts and tracing their relationship to later discussions of toleration. Vernon reconstructs the grounds of the dispute, drawing attention to the long-term importance of the arguments and evaluating their relative strength. He then examines issues of toleration in later contexts, specifically James Fitzjames Stephen's critique of John Stuart Mill, the perfectionist alternative to contractualist liberalism, and the view that the traditional attachment to toleration must, by the force of its own arguments, move from liberalism to a defence of a much stronger form of democracy. Arguing that Locke's and Proast's exchange marks a turning point in the intellectual history that has helped to structure the terms of modern political debate, Vernon presents a solid case for thinking that the exchange between Locke and Proast is as important for the twentieth century as it was for the seventeenth. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 209 pages. The papers in this collection provide views on central aspects of Thomas Hobbes's (1588-1679) life and work. The collection testifies to his enduring importance as a major philosopher four hundred years after his birth, and helps to unravel aspects of his intellectual biography which are relevant to a proper appreciation of his philosophy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover. The writings of Richard Hooker are of central interest to those studying English Renaissance thought and literature. In this, the third volume of a much-needed critical edition of the Works of Richard Hooker, are the posthumous books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Hooker planned the Laws in eight books, but he died shortly after publication of Book Five. Books Six, Seven, and Eight, which contain his analysis of jurisdiction, episcopacy, and the royal supremacy, are here transcribed from versions that have the most authority. The volume also includes Hooker's autograph notes toward those texts (brought to light by P. G. Stanwood in the course of his research) and the contemporary notes by George Cranmer and Edwin Sandys on a lost draft of Book Six. Mr. Stanwood's introduction lays to rest all doubts about the authenticity of the last three books as we have them, doubts current since publication of Walton's Life of Hooker in 1662.Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover ib a dust jscket with sun-faded spine. Why suppose that sense perception is an accurate source of information about the physical environment? More generally, is it possible to demonstrate that our basic ways of forming beliefs are reliable? In this book, a leading analytic philosopher confronts this classic problem through detailed investigation of sense perception, the source of beliefs in which we place the most confidence. Carefully assessing the available arguments, William P. Alston concludes that it is not possible to show in any noncircular way that sense perception is a reliable source of beliefs. 148 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Clarendon Press/Oxford, 5th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 783 pages. Revised with corrections. An important and monumental work of relevance both to philosophy and mathematics.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 570 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1660 edition. One of 9 volumes in More's collected works. Pencil marking to 3 pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 163 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. We subject others and are ourselves subjected to risk all the time - risk permeates life. Despite the ubiquity of risk and its imposition, philosophers and legal scholars have devoted little of their attention to the difficult questions stimulated by the pervasiveness of risk. When we impose risk upon others, what is it that we are doing? What is risking's moral significance? What moral standards govern the imposition of risk? And how should the law respond to it? This book highlights these important but neglected questions and offers novel answers to them in a systematic way, constructing a normative framework of risk imposition that draws upon a wide range of insights from diverse sources within philosophy and legal theory. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press , 2nd Ed., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 341 pages. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil notations to several pages.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages. Ex nihilo nihil fit. Philosophy, especially great philosophy, does not appear out of the blue. In the current volume, a team of top scholars-both up-and-coming and established-attempts to trace the philosophical development of one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Featuring twenty new essays and an introduction, it is the first attempt of its kind in English and its appearance coincides with the recent surge of interest in Spinoza in Anglo-American philosophy. Spinoza's fame-or notoriety-is due primarily to his posthumously published magnum opus, the Ethics, and, to a lesser extent, to the 1670 Theological-Political Treatise. Few readers take the time to study his early works carefully. If they do, they are likely to encounter some surprising claims, which often diverge from, or even utterly contradict, the doctrines of the Ethics. Consider just a few of these assertions: that God acts from absolute freedom of will, that God is a whole, that there are no modes in God, that extension is divisible and hence cannot be an attribute of God, and that the intellectual and corporeal substances are modes in relation to God. Yet, though these claims reveal some tension between the early works and the Ethics, there is also a clear continuity between them. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 227 pages. Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state". Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 161 pages. Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano, In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those features of an ancient historian's work that not only gave it importance in its own day but also encouraged imitation and exploitation in later centuries. He reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiographic tradition, and then goes on to examine the first Roman historians and the emergence of national history. In the course of his exposition, he traces the development of antiquarian studies as distinctive branch of historical research from antiquity to the modern period, discusses the place of Tacitus in historical thought, and explores the way in which ecclesiastical historiography has developed a tradition of its own. All these lectures illustrate Momigliano's unrivaled ability to combine the study of classical texts and the history of classical scholarship. First delivered in 1962, the lectures were revised during the next fifteen years and then held for annotation that was never completed. They are now published from the author's manuscripts, collated and checked by Momigliano's literary executor, Anne Marie Meyer, of the Warburg Institute, with a foreword by Riccardo Di Donato, of the University of Pisa. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil notations to about 30 pages.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, Revised Ed., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages. This book investigates what it means, and whether it is coherent, to say that there is a God. The author concludes that, despite philosophical objections, the claims which religious believers make about God are generally coherent; and that although some important claims are coherent only if the words by which they are expressed are being used in stretched or analogical senses, this is in fact the way in which theologians have usually claimed they are being used. This revised edition includes various minor corrections and clarifications. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Paderborn GER, Mentis, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 199 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. This book investigates whether knowledge is closed under known entailment. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Routledge, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 599 pages. John Locke (1632-1704) is considered one of the most important philosophers of the modern era and the first of what are often called 'the Great British Empiricists.' His major work, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, was the single most widely read academic text in Britain for fifty years after its publication and set new limits to the scope and certainty of what we can claim to know about ourselves and the natural world. The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were both highly influenced by Locke's libertarian philosophical ideas, and Locke continues to have an impact on political thought, both conservative and liberal. It is less commonly known that Locke was a practicing physician, an influential interpreter of the Bible, and a policy maker in the English Carolina colonies. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, spine with maroon title block and gilt lettering, 385 pages. Vol. 5 ONLY of a six volume set. Clean, bright copy, no markings.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 211 pages. By treating the history of moral concepts as geological strata, Rosenthal discovered the archaeological method long before it became fashionable. The appeal of this book - in addition to its wryly delightful style - is to those for whom Hobbes and Spinoza's thoughts are themselves part of a continuing and unavoidable meditation on unavoidable questions.This is philosophy as an essentially moral, frustratingly human enterprise. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Chico CA, Scholars Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 173 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, lacks dust jacket, 256 pages. A major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world. It is devoted to a demonstration that the Torah, properly understood, is identical to true philosophy. Volume 1 ONLY. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 178 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1778 edition, Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 478 pages. Name on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Rogers & Fowle, 7th Ed., 1746, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, contemporary calf. Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral: With a Sacred Hymn Suited to each Subject. Designed for the Use of Christian Families, as well as for the Hours of Devout Retirement. By I. Watts, D.D., Formerly published in Two Volumes, and now reduced into One. The Seventh Edition. Boston, New-England, Printed and Sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-street, next to the Prison, and by J. Blanchard at the Bible and Crown in Dock-Squre. 1746. VOLUMES I & II BOUND IN ONE; A COMPLETE WORK. 740 pages. Two title pages, but first 8 leaves of text (Dedication) torn and chipped. Partial 28 page pamphlet laid-in at rear (only pp 5-23), very worn. Book itself is firmly bound with mostly bright, clean pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Three pages of advertisements in rear with tears, light stain. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages. Friedrich Nietzsche's work has had a significant impact on the intellectual life of non-Western cultures and elicited responses from important thinkers outside of the Anglo-American philosophical traditions as well. Bringing together thirteen internationally renowned scholars, this is the first collection of essays to address the connection between Nietzsche's ideas and philosphies in India, China, and Japan. The contributors are Roger T. Ames, Johann Figl, Chen Guying, Michel Hulin, Arifuku Kogaku, David A. Kelly, Glen T. Martin, Sonoda Muneto, Graham Parkes, okochi Ryogi, Eberhard Scheiffele, Mervyn Sprung, and Joan Stambaugh.

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild tanning, 220 pages. Lowith is probably most known for his two books From Hegel to Nietzsche, which describes the decline of German classical philosophy, and Meaning in History, which discusses the problematic relationship between theology and history.

Hardcover. London, John Bennett, reprint, 1832, Book: Very Good, 366 pages photocopied from the 1832 Seventh Edition, xeroxed two leafs per page with the reverse side blank. Bound in oblong black cloth covers. Volume 1 only (of 2).

Hardcover. UK, Imprint Academic, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book examines Oakeshott's political philosophy within the context of his more general conception of philosophical understanding. The book stresses the underlying continuity of his major writings on the subject and takes seriously the implications of understanding the world in terms of modality. The book suggests strongly that Oakeshott's philosophy of political activity cannot be reduced to a branch of conservatism, liberalism, or postmodernism or a theory or set of doctrines which fit neatly into any conventional school, like that of Idealism or Skepticism. Rather, Oakeshott's philosophy of political activity is a provocation to all of the currently dominant schools of political theory and political practice. It questions their presuppositions and exposes as ambiguous, arbitrary, or confused all of the supposed certainties which they take for granted. It does all this by offering profound insights into the character and limits of both political activity and political theory in the modern world.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light fading to dust jacket front. Light edgewear to dj. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy. In 1999 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe a patron saint of the Americas. According to oral tradition and historical documents, in 1531 Mary appeared as a beautiful Aztec princess to Juan Diego, a poor Indian. Speaking to him in his own language, she asked him to tell the bishop her name was La Virgen de Guadalupe and that she wanted a church built on the mountain. During a second visit, the image of the Virgin miraculously appeared on his cape. Through the centuries, the enigmatic power of this image has aroused such fervent devotion in Mexico that it has served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite skepticism and anticlericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. In Mexican Phoenix, David Brading traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence, and the theology that has sustained the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Brading also documents the interaction of religion and patriotism, and describes how the image has served as a banner both for independence and for the Church in its struggle against the Liberal and revolutionary state.

Hardcover. New York, Abaris Books, 1st Thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Text in German and English. Translation by Mary J. Gregor. No dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburch and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 2nd revised edition, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 463 pages. Vol. 2: 500 pages. Scarce. Hardcovers. Colored endpapers (black). Light pencil notes/marks in margins. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, light age wear to covers. Front endpapers' gutters are split, binding is good. Spines straight. Edges untrimmed, pages and edges have some tanning from age. Some foxing to preliminary pages. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Oxford, Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1st, 1743, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated in parts. Leather binding shows heavy wear to edges, especially corners. Gilt decoration on spine and stamped embellishment on front. Heavy foxing on pages. Gutter cracked in center. Black and white illustrations.