Philosophy
Q.B.L. or The Bride's Reception. Being a Short Qabalistic Treatise on the Nature and Use of the Tree of Life
New York, Samuel Weiser, 1969. Limited edition of 750 copies. More about Q.B.L. or The Bride's Reception. Being a Short Qabalistic Treatise on the Nature and Use of the...
The Physiology of Marriage, or Meditations of an Eclectic Philosopher on Happiness and Unhappiness in Marriage. Translated and with an Introduction by Francis Macnamara
London, The Casanova Society, 1925. Number 135 of 1000 copies. More about The Physiology of Marriage, or Meditations of an Eclectic Philosopher on Happiness and...
Le Moyen de Parvenir. OEuvre contenant La Raison de ce qui a esté, est et sera, avec Demonstrations certaines selon la renconre des effects de vertu
Paris, Leon Willem, 1870 ('nouvelle edition')/ [circa 1616]. Printed for subscribers only, this copy comes from the issue on fine laid China paper. 'Cet ouvrage, imprimé à petit nombre aux frais & pour le compte des Souscripteurs n'a pas été mis en vente. MM. les Libraires-Souscripteurs sont prévenus qu'il leur..... More about Le Moyen de Parvenir. OEuvre contenant La Raison de ce qui a esté, est et sera, avec...
The Foundations of Mathematics. A Study in the Philosophy of Science
Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1959. With the contemporary ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin, and his very occasional emphases. More about The Foundations of Mathematics. A Study in the Philosophy of Science
Bertrand Russell. Cambridge Essays 1888-99
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985 (second impression)/ 1983. Volume 1 of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. More about Bertrand Russell. Cambridge Essays 1888-99
The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honorable Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, in Five Volumes
London, David Mallet, 1754 (first collected octavo edition). Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of A.R. Downer, Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat. He was the Minister for Immigration under Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to 1972. Henry St John... More about The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honorable Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, in...
The Works of .. Edited by Charles Sayle. Volume 1. [Together with]: .. Volume 2 [and] .. Volume 3
Edinburgh, John Grant, 1927. Not least, the Religio Medici, and Pseudoxia Epidemica. The English Library series. More about The Works of .. Edited by Charles Sayle. Volume 1. [Together with]: .. Volume 2 [and] .. Volume 3
The Causal and the Casual in History
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1929. The Rede Lecture, 1929, delivered by novelist and MP John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. More about The Causal and the Casual in History
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added Two Brief Disserations: I. Of Personal Identity, [and] II. Of the Nature of Virtue. With a Life of the Author, Copious Notes and Index by the Right Reverend William Fitzgerald. [Together with]: Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel .. with Notes, Analytical, Explanatory and Illustrative; and Observations in Reply to Mackintosh, Wardlaw and Maurice, by the Reverend Robert Carmichael
London, William Tegg, and Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1860 (second edition) and 1856 [first edition]. With the armorial bookplate of the significant South Australian Downer family in each volume, and a different early bookseller's stamp also in each volume. 'The Analogy of Religion' bears the ownership signature (dated 1865)... More about The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which...
The Monadology of Leibniz with an Introduction, Commentary and Supplementary Essays
London, The Favil Press, 1930 (first edition). 'The Monadology is pure metaphysics. It belongs not to any particular time but to all time [and] cannot be neglected by anyone who is seeking to participate in the philosophical thinking of the presend time ... The Monadology was not written for publication...'. More about The Monadology of Leibniz with an Introduction, Commentary and Supplementary Essays
Donne's Sermons. Selected Passages with an Essay by Logan Pearsall Smith
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1950/ 1919. With the pencilled ownership signature of Professor Colin Horne. More about Donne's Sermons. Selected Passages with an Essay by Logan Pearsall Smith
Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987. Inscribed, dated (2 June 1987) and signed by joint author John Finnis. There is a publisher's printed and handwritten card to the recipient loosely inserted. More about Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism
Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1978. One of the Values and Philosophical Inquiry series. More about Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy
Our Lady of the Flowers
London, Anthony Blond, 1964 (first English edition). More about Our Lady of the Flowers
Shaftesbury's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. A Study in Enthusiasm
Cleveland, Ohio University Press, 1968/ 1967. More about Shaftesbury's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. A Study in Enthusiasm
Epistolae, in quibus multa Titi Livii loca Geographica emendantur & illustrantur
Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Apud Danielem Elsevirium [Elzevir], 1678. A scarce offprint from the 1679 Elzevir edition of Livy's 'History of Rome' (the second and third volumes bearing the date 1678, as here; not to be confused with the 1678 edition in one volume). With an early printed ownership label of 'M... More about Epistolae, in quibus multa Titi Livii loca Geographica emendantur & illustrantur
The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Including the Letters
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1973/ 1963 (corrected). Bollingen series number 71. More about The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Including the Letters
The Cambridge Companion to Galen
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. More about The Cambridge Companion to Galen
Cause, Mind and Reality. Essays Honoring C.B. Martin
Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. With the contemporary ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin, one of the contributors. Another contributor is Medlin's friend, Graham Nerlich. Number 47 in the Philosophical Studies Series. More about Cause, Mind and Reality. Essays Honoring C.B. Martin
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Second Edition
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005 (second edition)/ 1995. More about The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Second Edition
The Philosophy of Plotinus. The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918
London, Longmans, 1923 [second edition]/ 1923. With the bookplates of Lorna Waterhouse. Loosely inserted is a folded sheet of typescript (a segment from Milton and Browning respectively) with the previous owner's relevant pencilled annotations. More about The Philosophy of Plotinus. The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918
The Development of Ethics. A Historical and Critical Study. Volume I: From Socrates to the Reformation; Volume II: From Suarez to Rousseau [and] Volume III: From Kant to Rawls
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, 2008 and 2009. A 'selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence.' Irwin was Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Oxford from 2007 to 2017. More about The Development of Ethics. A Historical and Critical Study. Volume I: From Socrates to the...
Journal d'un Voyage En Angleterre 1763
Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, 1980. Text principally in French, with some English. Journal d'un Voyage En Angleterre 1763. Studies on Voltaire and The Eighteenth Century. More about Journal d'un Voyage En Angleterre 1763
Democracy and Liberty
London, Longmans, Green, 1896. More about Democracy and Liberty