The Dramatic Universe. Volume One. The Foundations of Natural Philosophy
Santa Fe, Bennett Books, 1997 (first thus) / 1956. More
Philosophy
Gurdjieff. Making a New World
London, Turnstone Books, 1973. Plus several plates from photographs. More
Is There "Life" on Earth? An Introduction to Gurdjieff
Santa Fe, Bennett Books, 1989 (reprint)/ 1973. "... a book that dares to disturb complacency and arouse a practical concern for the future of our planet ..." (rear cover). 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
The Essays of Francis Bacon
Tolz, Bremer Presse, 1920. Number 215 of 270 copies printed by Johannes Hoops, based on the first complete edition of 1625. This may be a secondary binding; it is certainly not up to the standard of the quality of the paper or the presswork. More
The Voyce of the World. Selected Writings of Sir Thomas Browne
London, The Folio Society, 2007 (first thus). Edited by Geoffrey Keynes; preface by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. 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
The Anatomy of Melancholy. [A three-volume boxed set comprising The First Partition, The Second Partition, and The Third Partition]
London, The Folio Society, 2005 (first thus). Edited, and with an introduction, by Holbrook Jackson; and with an introduction by Philip Pullman. 'The text of this edition follows that of the 1932 edition'. [3 items]. More
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De Natura Deorum [and] Academica
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2005/ 1951 (revised edition)/ 1933. Loeb Classical Library Number 268; number XIX in the Loeb Cicero series. More
Greek Studies in Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University, June 2005
Flinders University, Department of Languages, 2007. Sections include Classical Greek Philosophy and The Greek-Australian Migrant Experience. Text in English and in Greek. More
Grete Hermann. Between Physics and Philosophy
Cham, Springer, 2016. Number 42 in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series. More
Oeuvres et lettres
[Paris], Gallimard, 1983. Part of the 'Bibliothèque de la Pléiade' series; the text is in French. More
No Man is an Island. A Selection from the Prose of John Donne
London, The Folio Society, 1997 (first thus). Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Rivers Scott. More
T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays. A Study in Sources and Meaning
London, The University of Chicago Press, 1958 (second impression)/ 1956. 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
History of Western Science, 1543-2001
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (fourth impression)/ 2006 (first thus). 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
All and Everything. Ten Books, in Three Series, of which this is the First Series
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1956 (third impression) /1950. 'After a lifetime spent in the teaching of a system of knowledge which he gave only to a small circle of puplis, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff decided shortly before his death in October 1949 to publish the first of a series..... More
Gurdjieff Remembered
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1965. 'Peters tells of their later encounters in America & France'. More
Gurdjieff. Views from the Real World. Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Chicago as recollected by His Pupils. With a Foreword by Jeanne de Salzmann
New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1973 (third printing)/ 1973. Gurdjieff's pupils 'managed to write down what they had heard afterwards. These are the talks presented in this book. Incomplete as they are, they are an authentic rendering of Gurdjieff's approach to work on oneself ...' (dustwrapper). With 38..... More
The Cambridge Companion to Galen
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. More
Essays upon some Controverted Questions
London, Macmillan and Co., 1892. More
Life and Living
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1939. With the ownership signature of Dr 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..... More