The Anatomy of the Body of God. Being the Supreme Revelation of Cosmic Consciousness
New York, Samuel Weiser, 1969. More
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
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
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
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
Bertrand Russell. Cambridge Essays 1888-99
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985 (second impression)/ 1983. Volume 1 of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. More
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
An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. By the Author of Essays on the Characteristics, &c
London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757 [first edition]. The first edition of this popular satire against the 'vain, luxurious and selfish effeminacy of England's higher ranks, in the wake of the loss of Minorca to the French at the opening of the Seven Years' War' (ODNB). This..... More
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
In Search of Philosophic Understanding
London, Allen and Unwin, 1967. More
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
Hudibras. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by John Wilders
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1975/ 1967. More
The Collected Essays of Sir William Osler. Volume I: The Philosophical Essays
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1985 [first edition thus]. Mounted on the flyleaf is the publisher's numbered bookplate (copy 332) and the original subscriber's name. Classics of Medicine Library. More
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
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
A letter (in French) signed by Maksim Gorki ('M. Gorcy') to one Willem Vogel, discussing his views on religion
Not having time to offer a full critique of a manuscript Vogel has sent him, Gorki writes that he will limit himself to a brief sketch of his own conception of religion, which is entirely contrary to Vogel's. 'La religion surgit de la sensation de la liaison entre l'homme et..... More
Shaftesbury's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. A Study in Enthusiasm
Cleveland, Ohio University Press, 1968/ 1967. More
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
The Cambridge Companion to Galen
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. More
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
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Second Edition
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005 (second edition)/ 1995. More
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
Life and Living
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1939. With the ownership signature of Edith Ulrica 'Rica' Hubbe (1885-1967), dated 1940. Rica maintained a correspondence with an array of Adelaide notables; 'including letters from 'Ray' and Phyllis Cilento and Doris Simpson'. The State Library of South Australia holds 'papers relating to..... More
Democracy and Liberty
London, Longmans, Green, 1896. More
Rationis Defensor. Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
Dordrecht, Springer, [2012]. Volume 28 in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. '[This] is a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life of Colin Cheyne ... Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago.' (from the publisher's blurb). More