The Anatomy of the Body of God. Being the Supreme Revelation of Cosmic Consciousness
New York, Samuel Weiser, 1969.
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.
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.
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.
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...
The Mathematical Analysis of Logic. Being an essay towards a calculus of deductive reasoning
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1951 (facsimile reprint)/ 1847. With the ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin. George Boole (1815-1864) was an English mathematician 'who helped establish modern symbolic logic and whose algebra of logic, now called Boolean algebra, is basic to the design of digital computer circuits' and internet search patterns...
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.
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.
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)...
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...'.
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.
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.
Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1978. One of the Values and Philosophical Inquiry series.
Our Lady of the Flowers
London, Anthony Blond, 1964 (first English edition).
Shaftesbury's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. A Study in Enthusiasm
Cleveland, Ohio University Press, 1968/ 1967.
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...
The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Including the Letters
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1973/ 1963 (corrected). Bollingen series number 71.
The Cambridge Companion to Galen
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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.
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Second Edition
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005 (second edition)/ 1995.
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.
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.
Democracy and Liberty
London, Longmans, Green, 1896.
The Discourse of Sensibility. The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment
Cham, Springer, [2013]. Volume 35 in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series.
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).