Religion & Philosophy

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. Leiden/NY, E.J. Brill, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering, decoration. 392 pages, English and Latin text. Name, date on front fly leaf otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 108 pages. "As the ancients themselves knew, Stoicism was not a uniform doctrine. Throughout the centuries there existed factions; the Stoics treasured their independence of judgment and quarreled among themselves." Yet, "despite their individual differences, the Stoic dissenters remained Stoics. That which they had in common, that which made them Stoics, is what I understand as the meaning of Stoicism." Thus delimiting his framework, Ludwig Edelstein attempts to define Stoicism by grasping the elusive common element that bound together the various factions within the ethical system. He begins this exemplary essay with a description of the Stoic sage--the ideal aimed at by Zeno and his followers--which establishes the basic characteristics of the philosophy. Mr. Edelstein then proceeds to a more detailed examination, discussing the Stoic concepts of nature and living in accord with nature; the internal criticism of the second and first centuries B.C., which indicates the limitations and possibilities inherent in the doctrine; the Stoic's way of life and his attitude toward practical affairs, revealing the values cherished by the adherents of the Stoa; and, finally, the place of Stoicism in the history of philosophy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Ruth Boeker offers a new perspective on Locke's account of persons and personal identity by considering it within the context of his broader philosophical project and the philosophical debates of his day. Her interpretation emphasizes the importance of the moral and religious dimensions of his view. By taking seriously Locke's general approach to questions of identity, Boeker shows that we should consider his account of personhood separately from his account of personal identity over time. On this basis, she argues that Locke endorses a moral account of personhood, according to which persons are subjects of accountability, and that his particular thinking about moral accountability explains why he regards sameness of consciousness as necessary for personal identity over time. In contrast to some neo-Lockean views about personal identity, Boeker argues that Locke's account of personal identity is not psychological per se, but rather his underlying moral, religious, metaphysical, and epistemic background beliefs are relevant for understanding why he argues for a consciousness-based account of personal identity. Taking his underlying background beliefs into consideration not only sheds light on why many of his early critics do not adopt Locke's view, but also shows why his view cannot be as easily dismissed as some of his critics assume. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stuttgart GR, Friedrich Frommann , reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering, 272 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1768 London edition. Light pencil marginalia to a dozen pages, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Lanham MD, Rowman & Littlefield , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 349 pages. In Vergil's Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergil's Aeneid. Adler argues that in this epic poem, Vergil presents the theoretical foundations of a new political order, one that resolves the conflict between scientific enlightenment and ancestral religion that permeated the ancient world. The work concentrates on Vergil's response to the physics, psychology, and political implications of Lucretius' Epicurean doctrine expressed in De Rerum Natura. Proceeding by a close analysis of the Aeneid, Adler examines Vergil's critique of Carthage as a model of universal enlightenment, his positive doctrine of Rome as a model of universal religion, and his criticism of the heroism of Achilles, Odysseus, and Epicurus in favor of the heroism of Aeneas. Beautifully written and clearly argued, Vergil's Empire will be of great value to all interested in the classical world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1715 pages. Hardcover. color illustrations throughout, illustrated by Salvador Dali. Pages unmarked (including back pages intedend for recording of family information). 2 red ribbon book marks attached at spine. No slipcase. Marbled decorated endpapers. leather cover boards, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Gilt edges (slightly faded). Binding beautiful. Spine straight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. St. Peter's in the Vatican has a long and turbulent history. First constructed in the fourth century to honor the tomb of St. Peter, the Early Christian edifice was gradually torn down and replaced by the current structure. The history of the design and construction of this new building spans several centuries and involved several of the most brilliant architects, including Bramante, Michelangelo and Bernini, of the early modern period. This volume presents an overview of St. Peter's history from the late antique period to the twentieth century. Lacks dust jacket, clean, bright copy.

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. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light pencil markings. Slight rubbing to dust jacket. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Catholic University of America, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 451 pages. Written for those charged with the responsibility of teaching the Latin of the Church, this book aims to give the student within one year the ability to read ecclesiastical Latin. It includes the Latin of Jerome's Bible and that of canon law, liturgy, scholastic philosophers, Ambrosian hymns, and papal bulls. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Honolulu, HI, East-West Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Translated with an introduction by Robert Schinzinger. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light wear to dust jacket with slight scratch to rear cover and small tear to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Messrs. Luzac & Co., 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set. Hardcovers. Domestic shipping only. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Vol. 1: 374 pages; Vol. 2: 217 pages. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Volume 2 has fading to spine. Pages unmarked. Spines straight. Binding tight. An important Islamic philosophical treatise in which the author defends the use of Aristotelian philosophy within Islamic thought. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. Xenophanes of Colophon was a philosophical poet who lived in various cities of the ancient Greek world during the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC. In this book, James Lesher presents the Greek texts of all the surviving fragments of Xenophanes' teachings, with an original English translation on facing pages, along with detailed notes and commentaries and a series of essays on the philosophical questions generated by Xenophanes' remarks. Also included are English translations of all the ancient testimonia relating to Xenophanes' life and teachings, and a discussion of how many of the testimonia pose the impediments to achieving a consistent interpretation of his philosophy. The Xenophanes who emerges in this account fully warrants classification as a philosophical thinker: moral critic and reflective student of nature, critic of popular religious belief and practice, and perhaps the first to challenge claims to knowledge about divine matters and the basic forces at work in nature. As with earlier works in the Pheonix series, this volume aims to make an important portion of Presocratic writing accessible to all those interested in ancient philosophy and the first phase of European natural science. This paperback edition contains an updated bibliography. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, orange wrappers, 405 pages plus Concordance with Jacoby. Classic scholarly text contains a collection of the surviving attested fragments of Posidonius, the leading stoic philosopher of his time in the first half of the first century, B.C. This book translates the surviving evidence for one of the most important intellectual figures of the Graeco-Roman world, whose interests spread widely over philosophy, history and the sciences. The translations are accompanied by contextual introductions and explanatory notes, and a general introduction assesses the importance of Posidonius and his contribution. The order of fragments follows exactly that of the ancient texts collected and edited by L. Edelstein and I. G. Kidd in Posidonius Vol. 1 and completes (with Vol. 2 The Commentary) what has become the definitive modern edition. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean.

Hardcover. London, England, SPCK, 1st Edition, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Hardcover. Red cover boards, fading to spine and edges, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. The Epitome covers a wide range of topics, including the nature of God, the creation of the world, the fall of man, the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, and the end of the world. It also discusses various aspects of Christian morality.

Hardcover. US, Lapis Press, 1st thus, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages. Light sun-fade and shelf-wear to dust jacket with slight scratch to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. La Salle, Illinois, Open Court, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 151 pages. No. 14 of the Paul Carus Lecture Series. Tears on dust jacket and some foxing on rear of dust jacket. Dust jacket rubbing on front. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Small notes and markings in pencil on about 20 pages. Light creasing on top edge. Nice reading copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages. This volume contains four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from the early humanists' efforts to reform medieval education. The four texts are Pier Paolo Vergerio, "The Character and Studies Befitting a Free-Born Youth"; Leonardo Bruni, "The Study of Literature"; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), "The Education of Boys"; and Battista Guarino, "A Program of Teaching and Learning." Bilingual edition, Latin and English. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2003, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 309 pages. Byzantine philosophy is an almost unexplored field. Being regarded either as mere scholars or as primarily religious thinkers, Byzantine philosophers have not been studied on their own philosophical merit. The eleven contributions in this volume, which cover most periods of Byzantine culture from the 4th to the 15th century, for the first time systematically investigate the attitude the Byzantines took towards the views of ancient philosophers, to uncover the distinctive character of Byzantine thought. Clean, bright copy.

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.

Springer, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 381 pages. This groundbreaking publication is the first comprehensive assessment of the extent to which scepticism featured in evolving Enlightenment philosophy, with expert commentary on a range of thinkers including less well known, but nonetheless influential figures.

Softcover. London/NY, Routledge , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. This book is the first accessible introduction in English to Tertullian's works, providing translations of Adversus Iudaeos (Against the Jews), Scorpiace (Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting) and De Verginibus Velandis (On the Veiling of Virgins). Tertullian (c. AD 160 - 225) was one of the first theologians of the Western Church and ranks among the most prominent of the early Latin fathers. His literary output is wide-ranging, and provides an invaluable insight into the Christian Church in the crucial period when the Roman Empire was in decline. These crucial works studied, together with Geoffrey D. Dunn's comprehensive commentary, illuminate the early church's reaction to paganism, Judaism, Scripture, and its development of a distinctive Christian ethic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. A large part of the correspondence of John Locke is extant. The letters range in date from 1652 to 1704. They constitute the principle authority for Locke's biography, more especially in so far as they show his environment - material, intellectual, and spiritual. They bring together the ordinary course of his life and many of the great issues of his time. Locke had many interests, including medicine, education, discovery and expansion overseas, the foundations of government, and more especially religion, and the conciliation of Christian revelation with the contemporary advances in scientific knowledge and thought. The Enlightenment is coming into being; here its emergence can be watched through the eyes of its great progenitor. This is Volume 2 only of an 8 volume set. 805 pages. Two ink stamps on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERLMAN on the front fly leaf. Abraham Heschel believed that the Holocaust was an "Eclipse of Humanity." In the philosophical and historical context in which it occurred, Heschel saw this eclipse as embedded in the phenomenological approach of Heidegger. Focusing on their respective phenomenological methods, attitudes toward being, Heschel's view of Adam and Heidegger's notion of Dasein, this book is an analysis of Heschel's critique of Heidegger and the postmodernism that followers of Heidegger espoused. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 283 pages. This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophical system of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi. Gassendi's importance is widely recognized and is essential for understanding early modern philosophers and scientists such as Locke, Leibniz and Newton. Offering a systematic overview of his contributions, LoLordo situates Gassendi's views within the context of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century natural philosophy as represented by a variety of intellectual traditions, including scholastic Aristotelianism, Renaissance Neo-Platonism, and the emerging mechanical philosophy. LoLordo's work will be essential reading for historians of early modern philosophy and science. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 330 pages. "In Ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in nonphilosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life." Clean copy.

Softcover. San Rafael CA, Coracle Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 330 pages, b&w frontis. A new printing of the journal and letters of Stephen Mackenna (1872-1934), a vivid and representative thinker whose life intersected with many of the leading figures of his day, and especially those of the Irish literary renaissance. The editor, E. R. Dodds, writes: Stephen MacKenna's working life was divided among three countries, and was further broken by two complete changes of occupation and by continual changes of residence. When he died, he left behind him no wife, child or lifelong friend; . . . and with the exception of the 1907-9 Journal no papers of any considerable biographical value. He left instead a legend. In the Memoir which follows I have endeavored to recover and present the facts underlying the legend. Best known for what AE (George William Russell) called his 'noble translation of Plotinus', MacKenna nonetheless harbored views that collided with those of Plotinus, and so speaks to us as an authentic forerunner of the 'modern' human being, by which is meant those who, once their individual inner light is lit-and no matter how it may gutter in the wind of uncertain freedoms-must, even while hallowing earlier and magisterial records of paths of spiritual ascent, accept the need for a complete 'descent' (without which the whole engine of creation will have had no final purpose), with all the provisional darkness this may entail, so that the final ascent may be made in personal love and freedom. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Binghamton NY, Medieval & Rennaissance Texts & Studies, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover. 652 pages. Identical binding to the Harvard University Press set. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Eugene OR, Wipf & Stock Publishers, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages.

Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st pbk, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 83 pages. In Humanism of the Other, Emmanuel Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. In paperback for the first time, Levinas's work here is based in a new appreciation for ethics and takes new distances from phenomenology, idealism, and skepticism to rehabilitate humanism and restore its promises. Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization that reached its apotheosis in Hitler and Nazism, Levinas does not underestimate the difficulty of reconciling oneself with another. The humanity of the human, Levinas argues, is not discoverable through mathematics, rational metaphysics, or introspection. Rather, it is found in the recognition that the other person comes first, that the suffering and mortality of others are the obligations and morality of the self. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 382 pages, b&w frontis. Remainder line to fore-edge of the text block.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 310 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1911 edition. One of 9 volumes in More's collected works. Includes Parts One and Two. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 261 pages. Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries A.D., investigating the discourse's essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and its eventual preeminence. Scholars of late antiquity and general readers interested in this crucial historical period will be intrigued by her exploration of these influential changes in modes of communication. The emphasis that Christians placed on language-writing, talking, and preaching-made possible the formation of a powerful and indeed a totalizing discourse, argues the author. Christian discourse was sufficiently flexible to be used as a public and political instrument, yet at the same time to be used to express private feelings and emotion. Embracing the two opposing poles of logic and mystery, it contributed powerfully to the gradual acceptance of Christianity and the faith's transformation from the enthusiasm of a small sect to an institutionalized world religion. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. UK, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 150 pages. This study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the reform of learning and the natural sciences, the Great Instauration. Bacon's Instauration writings are saturated with theological statements and Biblical references which inform and explain his program, yet this aspect of his writings has received little attention. Previous considerations of Bacon's religion have been drawn from a fairly short list of his published writings. Consequently, Bacon has been portrayed as everything from an atheist to a Puritan; scholarly consensus is lacking. This book argues that by considering the historical context of Bacon's society, and his conversion from Puritanism to anti-Calvinism as a young man, his own theology can be brought into clearer focus, and his philosophy more properly understood. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 539 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1659 edition. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 284 pages. Thirteen original essays by leading scholars explore aspects of Spinoza's ethical theory and, in doing so, deepen our understanding of the richly rewarding core of his system. Given its importance to his philosophical ambitions, it is surprising that his ethics has, until recently, received relatively little scholarly attention. Anglophone philosophy has tended to focus on Spinoza's contribution to metaphysics and epistemology, while philosophy in continental Europe has tended to show greater interest in his political philosophy. This tendency is problematic not only because it overlooks a central part of Spinoza's project, but also because it threatens to present a distorted picture of his philosophy. Moreover, Spinoza's ethics, like other branches of his philosophy, is complex, difficult, and, at times, paradoxical. The essays in this volume advance our understanding of his ethics and also help us to appreciate it as the centerpiece of his system. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Lutterworth, 1st UK, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, 115 pages. A fascinating glimpse into the debate in Scandinavia concerning a number of inter-related Biblical themes focused on the concept of the Messiah, a debate associated with scholars such as Mowinckel, Pedersen, Widengren, and Bentzen himself. The argument traces the development of the Messianic figure from its Old Testament roots, starting with the Messiah of many of the Psalms, which represents a demythologised form of the Oriental conception of kingship, through the eschatologised Messiah of the prophetic thought of Isaiah and Micah, and then to the prophet-Messiah of Second Isaiah, which although still a present and entirely human figure, embodies the insight that the saviour of Israel must suffer and be cast in the role of a Moses Redivivus as leader of a new Exodus. The Son of Man of Daniel 7 carries this eschatologising process even further, until the Christology of the New Testament emerges as a creative synthesis of these Old Testament types. In this synthesis, Jesus is a new Adam, the Messiah present in the flesh and present still in His body the Church, the suffering Prophet playing the part of the new Moses and the once and future Divine King. Bentzen argues that ultimately this figure of Christ the Messiah transcends not only the Old Testament types on which it is based, but also the subsequent historical development of the Christian Messianic tradition.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 686 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 340 pages. Proclus was the most important figure in Neo-Platonism when it was established as the dominant philosophy of Late Antiquity. Neo-Platonism is not only the final flowering of Greek thought but also the mode in which it was transmitted to the Byzantine, Western European and Islamic civilisations. Stripping away the complexities surrounding this traditionally difficult philosopher, Lucas Siorvanes takes the reader through Proclus' metaphysics and theory of knowledge with original research examining all aspects of Proclus' work. This is the first book which places Proclus in his complete intellectual context and sheds new light on aspects of Proclus' thought, to which previous scholars have rarely done justice. - Presents a general survey of Proclus and his Neo-Platonism- Introduces results of original research, mainly on his metaphysics, theory of knowledge and science. All areas of Proclus' philosophical interest are covered including religion, physics, astronomy, mathematics and poetry. His philosophy is found in all these because concern with being and truth is central to all. Also introduced is the neglected area of his natural philosophy with its remarkable freshness of thought punctuated by the rejection of Aristotelian science and Ptolemy's cosmology. In this book, Proclus is shown as much more than just a metaphysician. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages, b&w illustrations. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe's most famous men. A friend of Pope Urban VIII and Galileo, of Peter-Paul Rubens and Hugo Grotius, of Tommaso Campanella and Marin Mersenne, Peiresc played an important role in the intellectual culture of his time. This book is the first study in English of this extraordinary man, as well as a vivid portrait of his whole circle. Looking through the lens of Peiresc's life, Peter N. Miller brings into focus the early-seventeenth-century world of learning-its people, places, and ideas. Drawing on the extensive Peiresc archive (more than 50,000 pieces of paper), Miller brilliantly evokes the lives of antiquaries, philosophers, theologians, and politicians of Peiresc's day, only some of whom remain known today. He explores the age in which Peiresc's toleration and sociability, his political action and cosmopolitanism, and his serious scholarship without dogmatism were identified as a set of virtues and practices by which to live. Peiresc's notion of scholarship as a moral exercise, the sweep of his interests, and the cross-Continental reach of his intellectual life show with new clarity what it meant to be a man of learning during the decades around 1600. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine, 249 pages, two b&w plates. Through criticism and analysis of ancient traditions, Kahn reconstructs the pattern of Anaximander's thought using historical methods akin to the reconstructive techniques of comparative linguists. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to a dozen pages. Cloth spine faded.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 415 pages. This is the first ever English rendition of the classic statement of divine right absolutism in French, published in 1707 when the power and glory of the French ancien regime was at its zenith. Patrick Riley has provided full supporting materials including a chronology, guide to further reading and brief notes on persons mentioned, in addition to a lucid introduction placing Bossuet's bibliocentric politics in their historical and intellectual context. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Delmar NY, Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 597 pages. A facsimile reproduction of the 1605 London edition. Du Bartas was extremely popular in early modern England, and was still being read widely in the later seventeenth century even as his reputation in France began to decline. His world-famous La Sepmaine, ou creation du monde (1578), an epic poem on the creation of the world, divided into seven parts, for each of the seven days of creation, was first translated into English in 1598 and published in 1605 and was reprinted six times up until 1641. "No other poem (besides those in the Bible itself) was read as widely as the Semaines were across early modern English and Scottish society. Based on references to Sylvester in print, Snyder believed that 'Clearly everyone in pre-Restoration England who had received a literary education read the 'Weekes' ande almost all.... Admired it'. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pages 349-708. A clean, tight copy. Volume 2 only of a two volume set.

Hardcover. London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 85 plus 67 pages. Two titles in one volume. Reprints of 1838 and 1891 editions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, red cloth with gilt stamping to spines. A reprint of the 1758 Fourth Edition. Introduction by Victor Nuovo. 555 total pages plus Index. Vol. 1 with fading to spine and part of front cover, otherwise tight and clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cover boards, with gilt lettering and line decoration on spine and top page block. . Light foxing on top, and bottom cover boards. Top corners slightly bumped, otherwise, tight copy.

Hardcover. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 131 pages. German text. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Light wear to blue cloth covers. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.