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‎Sermons Preached by That Reverend and Learned Divine Richard Clerke, Dr. in Divinitie Sometimes Fellow of Christ Colledge in Cambridge. One of the most Learned Translators of our English Bible" Preacher in the Famous Metropolitan Church of Christ, Ca...‎

‎London, Thomas Alchorn, 1637. Folio (280 x 200 mm). In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities and small paper label pasted on to top of spine indicating the placement in an estate library. Inner boards with a few marks and notes, but otherwise internally fine. (10), 72, (8), 73-248, (16), 249-446, 445-577 pp. ‎

‎Exceedingly rare first edition, posthumously published, of Clerke’s sermons. Richard Clerke embarked on his academic journey when he was elected as a fellow at Christ's College in 1583, a role he held for fifteen years. Despite the college's puritan leaning, Richard was a prominent figure among the conformists. This ideological divide led to tensions, prompting Richard Clerke to lodge complaints of bias with Lord Burghley, who served as the university chancellor. This discord eventually escalated, resulting in physical altercations, with Richard being accused of striking George Downame, a Puritan fellow and future bishop. Edmund Barwell, the college master, ultimately found merit in the accusation. However, before any punitive measures could be taken against Clerke, he appealed the matter to the vice-chancellor. The historical records do not provide further details on the outcome of this appeal. By November of 1590, Barwell and the quarreling fellows managed to reconcile. In a sign of reconciliation, Richard Clerke, George Downame, and others signed an agreement stating: ""We, the undersigned, forgive and forget all past injuries and pledge to treat each other with Christian goodwill in our words and actions moving forward."" In 1596, Richard Clerke received a significant honor by being chosen as the Lady Margaret Preacher at the university. The following year, he took on the role of vicar in Minster, located on the Island of Thanet. Later, he assumed the positions of rector in Snargate, Kent (1609), and vicar of Monkton with Birchington, Kent, holding these positions concurrently for the remainder of his life. In 1602, he was appointed as the Six-Preacher at Canterbury Cathedral, a role that brought him to the attention of the king and his fellow clerics. (See kingjamesbibletranslators . org).‎

‎Der menschliche Weltbegriff. - [INTRODUCING THE CONCEPT OF INTROJECTION - PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎Leipzig, Reisland, 1891. 8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in a contemporaryhalf leather binding with gilding to spine. Spine with some wear and corners bumped. Internally fine. Bookplate to inside of front board. Inscription to front wrapper. XXIV, 133, (1) pp.‎

‎Scarce first edition, presentation-copy, of one of Avenarius' main works, his foundational ""The Human Concept of the World"", which constitutes one of the greatest expositions of the radical positivist doctrine of ""Empiriocriticism"" (or ""empirical criticism"") and which introduced the theory of 'Introjection' (a certain theory of a fundamental difference between the 'inner' and 'outer' experiences, with different consequences. The term has later become fundamental in psychoanalysis). The work was extremely influential and is considered one of the main works of empiriocriticism, which after WWI evolved into logical positivism. The work directly influenced thinkers such as Ernst Mach and Ber Borochov and had an immense impact upon positivist thought, both philosophical and scientific. The book is inscribed to the famous Danish philosopher Harald Høffding: ""Herr Professor H. Hoffding/ mit herzl. Gruss u. in dankbar Erinnerung/ an Skodsborg/ hochachtungsvoll/ d. Verf."", dated 1895. Harald Høffding (1843-1931) was one of the leading Danish philosophers of the turn of the century. His philosophy is greatly inspired by positivism, which around 1900, mainly due to Avenarius and Mach, came to be synonymous with empiriocriticism. Høffding had met Avenarius for the first time in Zürich and met him again in 1895 in Skodsborg (the time for which Avenarius thanks him in the presentation-inscription), a small city along the coast North of Copenhagen. Høffding describes this encounter in his ""Contemporary Philosophers"" from 1904. He describes how Avenarius sought ease in cities of water and writes how their meeting in Skodsborg constituted the first time that Avenarius made him acquainted with ""pure experience"", when walking around together in the garden of acclimatization. Avenarius died two years later. Høffding clearly admired the great thinker and describes Avenarius' character as ""a rare energy of thought united with an artistic taste and an open and calm character"". Avenarius' philosophy is further described by Høffding in his great work ""The History of Newer Philosophy"" (1894-95). The German philosopher Richard Avenarius (1843-1896), most famous for his formulation ""empirical criticism"", was not only read and studied in France and Germany, but also greatly influenced Russian philosophy"" his ""The Human Concept of the World"" was severely criticized by Lenin in his extremely influential ""Materialism and Empirio-criticism"" (1909), which became an obligatory subject of study in all institutions of higher education in the Soviet Union, as a seminal work of dialectical materialism. In the text Lenin argued against Avenarius' concept of ""Introjection"" and stated that human perceptions correctly and accurately reflect the objective external world. Avenarius believed that scientific philosophy must be concerned with purely descriptive definitions of experience, which must be free of both metaphysics and materialism. In his ""The Human Concept of the World"", Avenarius formulates his first natural idea of the universe, which forms the basis of all of his thought.""WHEN Richard Avenarius, Professor of Philosophy at the University, died at Zürich on 18th August, 1896, only a very small circle of philosophers and pupils knew what a powerful mind had been snatched from amongst them"" for he was a man whose unique thought was unappreciated by his contemporaries solely because it was unique, and diverged too much from what was previously familiar."" (Friedrich Carstanjen: Richard Avenarius and his General theory of Knowledge, Empiriocriticism. In: Mind, N.S., Vol. 6 (1897): pp. 449-475). ""An especially new point in this paper is the theory of 'Introjection,' by which Avenarius explains the growth and formation of the theory that a fundamental difference exists between the 'inner' and 'outer' experiences. Avenarius does not find in these two kinds of experience any 'incomparability' or any 'fundamental dualism'. The idea of their essential difference has been derived, according to his opinion, from a kind of false materialism, which believed in the enclosure of the soul in the body or in a part of it, and, later, in the enclosure of the faculties of the soul in the soul's substance. From this belief sprang the notion that the soul was something enclosed from the 'outer world,' into which enclosure every impression from without could come only through a putting-in, or 'introjection'. The whole modern psychology, psycho-physics and most of philosophical theories contain such opinions, and therefore serve to strengthen the artificial wall between the inner and outer experiences which makes the sciences of the 'inner world' always more inaccessible to exact methods of investigation, and consequently more sterile."" (D. Josepha Kodis, in the Psychological Review, vol. iii., 6, p. 609). ""The Philosophy of Avenarius attracts more and more attention from thinkers who are striving for new views, and it gains ground steadily. England still holds aloof from it, and this is to some extent strange, since it is in England that we find the origin of the Association Psychology and of a Common-Sense Philosophy"" it is true that taken as wholes neither of these has anything to do with Empiriocriticism, but in detail they would find many of their propositions in Empiriocriticism. It must not indeed be concealed that the difficulties of penetrating into Avenarius' works are very serious, chiefly because of the entirely new terminology introduced by him."" (Friedrich Carstanjen: Richard Avenarius and his General theory of Knowledge, Empiriocriticism. In: Mind, N.S., Vol. 6 (1897): pp. 449-475). ‎

‎Vindic pietatis, or, A vindication of godliness in the greatest strictness and spirituality of it from the imputations of folly and fancy.‎

‎London, 1664. 8vo. In contemporary full calf. Light wear to extremities. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Innter hinges split. Previous owner's name to title-page. Light browning throughout. (16), 400 pp. (numerous errors in pagination but total number of pages is still 400 - complete).‎

‎Rare later edition of Alleine’s influential 'Vindiciae Pietatis', first published four years earlier in 1660. All editions are of the utmost scarcity. Richard Alleine was a 17th-century English Puritan preacher and author. He is primarily known for his religious writings and sermons, which were influential during the Puritan movement in England. Alleine was associated with the Puritan emphasis on personal piety, conversion, and religious devotion. “Richard was educated at St Alban’s Hall, Oxford, where he was entered commoner in 1627, and whence, having taken the degree of B.A., he transferred himself to New Inn, continuing there until he proceeded M.A. On being ordained he became assistant to his father, and immediately stirred the entire county by his burning eloquence. In March 1641 he succeeded the many-sided Richard Bernard as rector of Batcomb (Somerset). He declared himself on the side of the Puritans by subscribing “The testimony of the ministers in Somersetshire to the truth of Jesus Christ” and “The Solemn League and Covenant,” and assisted the commissioners of the parliament in their work of ejecting unsatisfactory ministers. Alleine continued for twenty years rector of Batcomb and was one of the two thousand ministers ejected in 1662. The Five Mile Act drove him to Frome Selwood, and in that neighbourhood he preached until his death on the 22nd of December 1681. His works are all of a deeply spiritual character. His Vindiciae Pietatis (which first appeared in 1660) was refused licence by Archbishop Sheldon, and was published, in common with other nonconformist books, without it. It was rapidly bought up and “did much to mend this bad world.” Roger Norton, the king’s printer, caused a large part of the first impression to be seized on the ground of its not being licensed and to be sent to the royal kitchen. Glancing over its pages, however, it seemed to him a sin that a book so holy—and so saleable—should be destroyed. He therefore bought back the sheets, says Calamy, for an old song, bound them and sold them in his own shop. This in turn was complained of, and he had to beg pardon on his knees before the council-table and the remaining copies were sentenced to be “bisked,” or rubbed over with an inky brush, and sent back to the kitchen for lighting fires. Such “bisked” copies occasionally occur still. The book was not killed. It was often reissued with additions, The Godly Man’s Portion in 1663, Heaven Opened in 1666, The World Conquered in 1668. He also published a book of sermons. Godly Fear, in 1664, and other less noticeable devotional compilations.” (Encyclopedia Britannica). OCLC only list one copy (with the 400 pp.).‎

‎Famous Photographers Course I-II-III. ‎

‎Westport Connecticut, Famous Photographers School, 1964. 3 volumes grands in-4 (31 x 36 cm.), cartonnages façon toile, titre doré, coins arrondis, système de classeur. En belle condition. Index des 3 volumes (24 Lessons) en début du premier. Illustré de plus de 2000 photographies, souvent issues des collections propres des photographes, fac-similé autographe de leurs signatures en fin du dernier volume. A noter que certaines de ces photographies ont été prises spécifiquement pour cette publication et sont de ce fait inédites. ‎

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‎Dans les années 1950 et 1960, des dizaines de milliers d'étudiants à travers les États-Unis recevaient une éducation artistique par courrier, grâce à des cours par correspondance conçus et distribués par la Famous Artists School sur la peinture, l'illustration et la bande dessinée. Dès 1961, les étudiants purent s'initier à la photographie sous la direction de certains des noms les plus célèbres du domaine, de Richard Avedon à Irving Penn. Connue sous le nom de Famous Photographers School, cette ramification a duré un peu plus d'une décennie et s'est terminée en 1974. Les étudiants recevaient les cours par poste (d'où le format en classeurs). Ces cours couvraient de nombreux sujets: photographie de mode, portrait, photographie d'architecture, création de compositions dynamiques et capture de mouvement, travail avec la lumière et la couleur, instructions sur les techniques avancées ou expérimentales, entre bien d'autres. Chaque photographe contribua à façonner le programme (ici complet en 24 leçons). Ensemble pratiquement introuvable de ce côté-ci de l'Océan ! ‎

‎Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en général. Traduit de l'anglois. - [THE FOUNDATION OF ECONOMIC THEORY]‎

‎A Londres, Chez Fletcher Gyles, dans Holborn, 1755. 12mo (binding ab. 17x10 cm). Bound in a very nice, contemporary full mottled calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. All edges of boards with a single gilt line-decoration. Beautiful marbled edges. Very neat and professional restorations to hinges and upper capital. A single tiny worm-hole to middle of spine and a supeficial, barely noticeable, crack down the middle. Old paper-label to lower compartment of spine. One corner a bit worn. Small ex libris to inside of front board, ex libris stamp to half-title. Contemporary owner's name crossed out at title-page. Internally exceptionally nice and clean. Small worm-hole to inner margin of about 60 leaves towards the end, only just touching the edge of a very few letters, otherwise not affecting lettering at all. (4), 430, (6, -Table des Chapitres) pp.‎

‎The exceedingly rare first edition of one of the most important and influential works of economic literature, as well as being one of the scarcest. The author is considered a pioneer of economic theory who anticipated and influenced the likes of Smith, Malthus, Turgot, Quesnay, Mirabeau, etc., etc. and this, his only published work (!), is considered the first actual work of theoretical economics, an absolutely ground-breaking work which by Jevons was characterized as the ""Cradle of Political Economy"".Richard Cantillon (1680-1734), though his name is probably of Spanish descent, was an Irishman, and he spent most of his life in France. He was a man of secrecy, and little is known about his life and work. He wrote his only published book, the seminal ""Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général"" between 1730 and 1734 but never saw it published, as he was murdered in 1734 (when he was robbed and his house was set on fire, presumably by his former cook whom he had dismissed ten days earlier), and the book had to await posthumous publication. There is evidence that Cantillon wrote much more than this single work, but the ""Essai"" seems to be the only one that survived the fire in his house on the night of his death. The work was finally published for the first time in French, anonymously, in 1755, and it is not known whether Cantillon actually wrote the manuscript in French and that the mention of translation on the title-page is false (e.g. to avoid French censorship), or whether he wrote the manuscript in English and translated it into French himself"" in all cases, the work circulated in French manuscript form, before it was published, and an English manuscript has never been found. ""In any case, the ""Essai"" is a work of genious, and it was undoubtedly written by Cantillon"" (Brewer, p. 19). After having had an immense influence on the Physiocrats and the French School, directly influencing Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot , François Quesnay, Jean-Baptiste Say, Victor de Riquetti marquis de Mirabeau, Adam Smith, etc., the ""Essay…"" soon sank into obscurity only to be rediscovered by Jevons in the 1880'ies, and throughout the late 19th and the 20th century it has become increasingly evident that the present work is indeed a pioneering work, which directly and indirectly influenced almost all later economic theory. ""Richard Cantillon was a key figure in the early development of economics. He was one of the first to see economy as a single inter-connected system and to try to explain how it worked, and the first to present a coherent theory of prices and income distribution. He made major contributions to monetary theory and to the theory of balance of payments adjustment. The Physiocrats, writing only a few years after the (delayed) publication of Cantillon's one surviving work, the ""Essai sur la nature du commerce en general"", took many of their ideas very directly from it. Adam Smith probably learnt from Cantillon's ""Essai"" , as well as from the Physiocrats. There is thus a direct line of intellectual descent from Cantillon's ""Essai"" to Smith's ""Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"", and to modern economics."" (Brewer, p. 1). ""Cantillon predated the Physiocrats in two ways. First, he used the term ""entrepreneur"" and emphasized the role of this figure in economic life. Business people, Cantillon said commit themselves to definite payments in expectation of uncertain receipts"" this risk taking is remunerated by profit, which competition tends to reduce to the normal value of the entrepreneurs' services. Second, writing a generation before Quesnay constructed his ""Tableau Economique"", Cantillon stated: ""Cash is therefore necessary, not only for the Rent of the landlord... but also for the City merchandise consumed in the country... The circulation of this money takes place when the Landlords spend in detail in the City the rents which the farmers have paid them in lump sums, and when the Entrepreneurs of the Cities, Butchers, Bakers, Brewers, etc. collect little by little the same money to buy from the Farmers in lump sums Cattle, Wheat, Barley, etc.""Cantillon developed a theory of value and price. His emphasis on the role of land and labor, on supply and demand, and on the fluctuations of price around intrinsic value makes him a direct forerunner of classical economists... Cantillon anticipated classical economic thought in several other ways. For example, he stated, ""Men multiply like mice in a barn if they have unlimited Means of Subsistence."" The classical economist Thomas Malthus held a similar view. Also, Cantillon analyzed interest as a reward for the risk taken in lending, based on profits that the entrepreneurs can make by borrowing and investing... In addition, Cantillon focused on the productivity of a nation's resources..."" (Brue, pp. 59-60).See: Anthony Brewer, Richard Cantillon: Pioneer of Economic Theory, 1992Stanley L. Brue, The Evolution of Economic Thought. Sixth Edition, 2000Kress: 5423" Einaudi: 846 Goldsmiths’ 8989 Higgs, Bibliography of Economics, 938.‎

‎Futuropolice Nouvelle - Complet en 24 volumes. 1.1- In the basket / 1.2 - Groom / 1.3 - Le maître chanteur bienveillant / 1.4 - La vengeance de Nitocris / 2.1 - Pur Colombie / 2.2. - Le plongeon / 2.3 - Le chat du sergent / 2.4 - Horreur pastorale / 3.1 - Diacétylmorphine / 3.2 - Squelette... fais cliqueter tes vieux os desséchés / 3.3 - La trappe étoilée / 3.4 - La Toison d'Or / 4.1 - Look funèbre / 4.2 - La petite maison / 4.3 - Journal local / 4.4. - Une aventure à Brownville / 5.1 - La Veuve Flicot / 5.2 - Rira bien qui mourra le dernier / 5.3 - Au nom du père / 5.4 - L'âme d'un agent de police / 6.1 - De parfaits petits crimes / 6.2 - Pourvu que tu en crèves / 6.3 - Un parfum bleu sombre / 6.4 - On ne peut pas tout avoir. ‎

‎ Futuropolis, collection Futuropolice Nouvelle, 1983-1986. 6 séries de 4 volumes in-12, soit 24 volumes, les 4 premières séries sous étui de carton (1 avec étiquette de l'éditeur). Etuis un brin poussiéreux, quelques dos très légèrement insolés. Chaque volume est accompagné de dessins en noir par un illustrateur de renom. ‎

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‎Une vraie réussite que cette collection dirigée par François Guérif , affreusement difficile à rassembler - cet ensemble constitue donc une jolie petite perle rare. ‎

‎J'avais peur de Virginia Woolf. ‎

‎ Anatolia - Libella, 2007. In-12 broché, couverture à rabats. A l'état de neuf. Illustrations de l'auteur. ‎

‎"Imaginez un peu que votre premier emploi soit celui de grouillot de Virginia Woolf. Nous sommes en 1926, à Londres, et Richard Kennedy, naïf adolescent de seize ans, doué pour le dessin, est mis en apprentissage dans la maison d'édition Hogarth Press, dont les patrons sont les redoutables mais fascinants Leonard et Virginia Woolf. Commencent alors de savoureuses mésaventures : Richard s'essaie à l'amour avec les femmes dissolues de la capitale (à seize ans!), s'efforce d'installer dans l'imprimerie une étagère qui ne tombera pas sur l'irascible Leonard (elle choit lamentablement) et se hasarde à prendre une décision importante concernant l'impression d'un des livres de Mrs Woolf (décision mal pensée, qui déclenchera une crise de nerfs chez son méthodique patron). Tout au long de cette joyeuse rétrospective, Kennedy nous offre un rare aperçu de l'univers de Bloomsbury, vu depuis l'entrée de service. Ce charmant récit sur le passage à l'âge adulte saisit au vol un moment béni de l'histoire de la littérature anglaise, certes, mais mieux encore, il capture cet instant magique dans la vie de tout adolescent, celui où il apprend soudain qu'un vaste monde est là, qui l'attend, et qu'en dépit des bévues qu'il pourra commettre, ce monde est accueillant et plein de promesses." ‎

‎Voyage D'Italie, contenant les Moeurs des peuples, la description des Villes Capitales, des Eglises, Convents, Tombeaux, Bibliotheques (...). 2 vols. - [THE MOST INFLUENTIAL GUIDEBOOK OF ITS DAY - COINING ""GRAND TOUR""]‎

‎Paris, Ballaine, 1671. 8vo. Two part bound in one contemporary full calf binding with five raised bandes. Wear to extremities. Upper capital chipped, with a bit of loss of leather, showing endbands. Inner front hinge split. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Small worm-tract to inner margin, not affecting text. (36), 436, 341 pp. ‎

‎The exceedingly rare first French translation of Lassels‘ travel-guide, considered the first comprehensive guide to Italy it quickly became the most influential English guidebook of its day. The concept of the “Grand Tour” was also first introduced here. Lassels’ asserts that any truly serious student of architecture, antiquity, and the arts must travel through France and Italy, and suggested that all ""young lords"" make what he referred to as the Grand Tour in order to understand and learn about the political, social and economic realities of the world. “The idea of tourism as self-enriching rather than soul-preserving come truly into vogue between 16th and 18th centuries. The Grand Tour, a term first used in the French translation of a ‘Voyage or a Compleat Journey through Italy’ by Richard Lassels published in 1670, encompassed experience (including sexual), education and exchange of ideas, creating the largest and most independent wandering “academy” – a sort of finishing school – that Western civilization had ever known”. (White, Museum and Heritage Tourism). “The term ‘Grand Tour’ itself first appeared in the French translation of Richard Lassels’ Voyage or a Complete Journey Through Italy, which was published in 1670. This was one of a number of accounts of travel on the Continent, most of which were written by Englishmen, and by the early eighteenth century, there was a steady stream of such publications. The eighteenth century then saw a massive growth in the production of books, newspapers, and other printed material, and this encouraged the development of different types of writing and publishing, including travel accounts. There also emerged travel guides, the most useful of which was probably The Grand Tour containing an Exact Description of most of the Cities, Towns and Remarkable Places of Europe by Mr [Thomas] Nugent, first published in four volumes in 1743, and repeatedly republished. An alternative was The Gentleman’s Pocket Companion for Travelling into Foreign Parts, first published in 1722, which contained a list of useful phrases at the end, but not, perhaps, those which the wellbred young man should employ.” (Kathleen Burk, The Grand Tour of Europe) The most influential English guidebook of the period, conditioning the first impressions of many a tourist to that country. It also provided the basis for subsequent guidebooks . . . The unprecedented attention it paid to art and architecture encouraged the phenomenon of the eighteenth-century style 'grand tour' (a term coined by Lassels) according to which art prevailed over all other subjects, religious or secular"" (ODNB). The original English edition was published in 1670. French translations were published it 1671 and 1682. A German translation titled 'Ausführliche Reise-Beschreibung durch Italien' appeared in Frankfurt editions in 1673 and 1696. It was reprinted well into the 1700ies. Provenance: A large Danish estate.‎

‎Traité Philosophique des Loix Naturelles, ou l'on recherche et l'on établit, par la Nature des Choses, la forme de ces Loix, leurs principaux chefs, leur ordre, leur publication & leur obligation: on y refute aussi les Elemens de la Morale & de la P... - [A MAIN ATTACK ON HOBBES IN FRENCH]‎

‎Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier & Paris, Chez Huart, 1744. 4to. Beautiful cont. full mottled calf with five raised bands and gilt red title-label to richly gilt back. All edges of boards gilt. A very beautiful and well preserved copy with only minor fowing to a few leaves. Half-title, beautiful engraved frontispiece (a bit ahaved at bottom, where half of the last line of text is cut away - thus not disturbing image, and all text still legible), XXVIII, (1), 435, (1, -errata), (8, -contents) pp.‎

‎First edition of the important first French translation of Cumberland's magnum opus, the highly important and influential masterpiece, which not only criticized Hobbes, absorbing and neutralizing many of his insights, but which thus also created a new political and ethical theory, which came to greatly influence later jurists and philosophers of natural law and ethics, e.g. Locke, Pufendorf, Hutcheson, and Shaftesbury, as well as much philosophy of the French Enlightenment. The present work also greatly influenced the understanding and reception of Hobbes in France and affected the French Enlightenment philosophers. ""Traité Philosophique des Loix Naturelles"", originally published in Latin in 1672, the same year as Pufendorf's ""De jure naturae et gentium"", constitutes Cumberland's earliest work, published by him at the age of 40. It was immediately read by the greatest of his contemporaries, exercised a great influence and was soon regarded as one of the three greatest works of the modern natural law tradition, together with Grotius' ""On the Law of War and Peace"" and Pufendorf's ""De jurae naturae"". In a later work Pufendorf commended the ""De legibus"" highly, and with its early utilitarian views and its doctrine of the common good as the supreme law of morality, it anticipated and influenced the direction that much ethical thought was to take in the 18th century. ""Some of the earliest utilitarian thinkers were the 'theological' utilitarians such as Richard Cumberland (1631-1718) and John Gay (1699-1745). They believed that promoting human happiness was incumbent on us since it was approved by God."" (SEP).""His combination of a strong critique of innate ideas and assertion of the moral community with God was a contributing factor in the formation of the kind of empirically based natural providentialism, or natural religious teleology, which soon became the framework or natural law thinking and, indeed, for the mainstream of Enlightenment moral thought."" (Haakonssen, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy"", p. 51).At the age of 60, the English philosopher and theologian Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was appointed bishop of Peterborough (without having applied for it). Before that, he had been educated at Magdalen College in Cambridge and at the University of Oxford. He studied medicine for some time and then theology, becoming Doctor of Divinity in 1680. In 1658 he became rector of Brampton Ash in Northamptonshire, and in 1661 he became one of the 12 preachers of the university. In 1670 he became rector of All Saints at Stamford. He was known for the great effort and time that he put into his work, and it was not until his late thirties that he found time to finish the major work that he had been working on. Thus in 1672, he published his first work, his magnum opus ""De legibus naturae""( ""Traité Philosophique des Loix Naturelles""), which became famous for its vast critique of Hobbes - mainly of that which he saw as his egoistic ethics- and for its propounding of utilitarianism.The main purpose of the ""De legis naturae"" is to refute Hobbes' theories of the constitution of man, morality, origin of society, etc. and to show that the state of nature is not a state of war. According to Cumberland, man's primary end is not self-advantage, and power is not the foundation of society. He puts forth a new doctrine of morality, which is still based on natural law, but which is accompanied by a running criticism of Hobbes' views, which seem to him subversive of religion, morality, and civil society. He sees the law of nature as capable of pointing out that which will promote the common good, and he believes that the law of nature can be inferred by observing physical and mental phenomena. Thus, Cumberland agrees with Hobbes in the attempt to provide a naturalistic account of the normative force of obligation and in the attempt of establishing a rational dictate, but he opposes Hobbes in the way that these can be derived.Another edition of the present work was published simultaneously at Lausanne and Geneva, and it was published again in 1757 in Leyden. The first English translation of the work appeared in 1727, and a new translation into English followed in 1750.Brunet II:442 (only mentioning the present Amsterdam-edition and the 1757 Leyden-edition).‎

‎Recherches sur la statistique physique, agricole et médicale de la province de Liége par Richard Courtois, docteur en médecine, sous-directeur du jardin botanique de l´université de Liége. - [EARLY WORK ON STATISTICS]‎

‎Verviers, Chez M. -R. Beaufays, 1828. 8vo. Bound in two nice contemporary uniform half calf bindings with black leather title-label with gilt lettering and green leather tome-label. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and small stamp of previous owner (same as ex-libris) to verso of title-page. Front hindge on vol. 1 a bit. A very fine and clean set. (2), 254 pp. (4), 281, (1), 23 [supplement], (4) pp.‎

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‎First edition of Courtois' important and early work on statistics, predating Quetelets groundbreaking work (Sur l'Homme..., 1842) by almost 15 years. In the present work, Courtois assembled date on various subjects such a climate, agriculture, geology and flora and fauna. There is no direct reference to pure statistical methods but this is a fine example on the usage of statistics in its early period. Courois quickly found himself in the center of the debate between Quetelets and Say's debate on the usefullness of statistical research, a debate which Courtois contributed to with the present work. Richard Courtois (1806-1835) received his doctorate in medicine in 1825 and at the same time, functioned as the deputy director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Liège. ‎

‎Diseases of the Skin. With 1310 Illustrations and 11 colored Plates. Ninth Edition.‎

‎London, Henry Kempton, 1935. Royal8vo. 2 orig. full cloth. 1433 pp. Illustrated.‎

‎Letters written during a ten Year's Residence at the Court of Tripoli, published from the Originals in the Possession of the Family of the Late Richard Tully...Comprising Authentic Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Bashew, his Family, and other Pe...‎

‎London, Henry Colburn, 1819. 8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. boards, orig. printed titlelabels on backs. Some tears to the rather fragile backs. XVI,375(4),396 pp., 1 folded engraved map and 7 hand coloured aquatint-plates. Offsetting from a few plates, otherwise clean.‎

‎Abbey No 301. Lowndes p. 2718 as well as Tooley (No 493) attributes the work to Richard Tully. The first edition issued in 4to in 1816 in 1 volume having only 5 plates. 2 more plates were done for the second edition in 8vo from 1817. The third edition comprising these additional plates.‎

‎Philobiblon, a Treatise on the Love og Books: by Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham. Written in MCCCXLIV, and translated from the first Edition, MCCCCLXXIII. With some Collations.‎

‎London, Printed for Thomas Rodd (by Richard Taylor), 1832. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. 11 raised bands. Gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Gilt geometrical borders on covers. Inside gilt limeborders. A neath repair to top of spine. A note on inside front free endpaper states that it was bound by Henderson and Bisset, Scottish bookbinders. VI,151 pp. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. With the engraved bookplate of Thomas Maitland Dundrennan and the Danish bibliophile K.F. Plesner.‎

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‎First English edition of the famous English translation that appeared anonymous, now known to have been by J. B. Inglis" it followed the edition of 1473, with all its errors and inaccuracies. Bury (1287-1345) was a bibliophile. He was a patron of learning and one of the first English collectors of books. He is chiefly remembered for his Philobiblon, written to inculcate in the clergy the pursuit of learning and the love of books. The ""Philobiblon"" is considered the earliest books to discuss librarianship in-depth.‎

‎Métal hurlant 75. ‎

‎ Les Humanoïdes Associés, Métal Hurlant, 1982. In-4 broché, couverture illustrée. ‎

‎Numéro 75 de cette revue culte de la presse pour adulte, tout d'abord consacrée à la science fiction et qui révéla bon nombre de grands noms de la bande dessinée. ‎

‎Wieder-erobertes Paradies, nebst desselben Samson, und einigen andern Gedichten, wie auch einer Lebens-Beschreibung des Verfassers. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt (+) Leonidas, ein Heldengedicht. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von J. A. Ebert.‎

‎Basel, Johann Rudolf Imhof, 1752 (+) Zürich, Füesslin und Co., 1766. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches. Previous owner's name to lower margin of title-page. Internally nice and clean. 244, (16), XXX, 218 pp.‎

‎First German translation of Milton's Paradise Lost. Withbound is the German translation of Richard Glover's Leonidas which led him to take an interest in politics‎

‎De eerste lesse van de opperste wysheyt, ofte een verhandelingh van de self-verloochening.‎

‎Utrecht, Willem Clerck, 1679. 8vo. In contempoarary full vellum with yapp edges and title in contemporary hand to spine. Light wear to extremities, internally nice and clean. (48), 539, (13) pp.‎

‎Rare first Dutch translation of Baxton's ""A treatise of self-denial"" originally published in English in 1675.Richard Baxter (1615–1691) was an influential English Puritan church leader and theologian. Known for his moderate views, he played a significant role in the religious and political turmoil of 17th-century England. He has been described as ""the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen"".‎

‎Mer d'encre. ‎

‎ Editions Jacqueline Chambon, 2004. In-8 broché, couverture couleurs. En belle condition. ‎

‎"On rapporte que lorsque Chu Ta, devenu le maître Bada Shanren, mourut: " Le pinceau lui échappa des mains et tomba sur sa chemise blanche. Il glissa lentement sur sa poitrine en laissant une trace noire. " Cette histoire est une histoire vraie. Chu Ta, né en 1626, fut le dernier prince de la dynastie des Ming en Chine. Après l'invasion manchoue, qui décima sa famille, il se réfugia dans un temple et devient moine, peintre et calligraphe. Il vécut pauvre, longtemps inconnu, fuyant la notoriété, à la recherche d'une spiritualité où il trouvait les racines de son art. C'est ainsi qu'il devint pour la postérité le maître du " grand noir ". Richard Weihe raconte la vie longue et mouvementée de Chu Ta en un roman court et dense qui vise à l'essentiel. Et son style vif et ramassé semble reproduire la brièveté et la nécessité du geste de son personnage, exemple vivant de la philosophie et de l'art du zen." ‎

‎The Art of Patience and Balm of Gilead under all Afflictions.‎

‎London, R Smith, 1694. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and triple ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of boards. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches and corners bumped. Light marginal browning throughout. Tear to inner margin of first two leaves. Frontispiece partly detached. (6), 168 pp. + frontispiece. ‎

‎The rare first edition of Allestree’s posthumously published religious and philosophical reflections on how to cope with adversity and suffering. Richard Allestree (1619-1681) was a notable English Anglican divine, scholar, and author who played a significant role in 17th-century religious and intellectual life. Born in Uppington, Shropshire, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. His academic and religious career was interrupted by the English Civil War where he served as a Royalist soldier leading to his expulsion from Christ Church in 1648 due to his political affiliations. Allestree’s writings emphasized practical piety and moral guidance, of which the present work is a fine example, reflecting his commitment to Anglican doctrine and pastoral care. His influence extended through his academic roles, shaping theological education and contributing to the religious discourse of his time.‎

‎The Generall Historie of the Turkes, from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Ottoman Familie (...) - [THE FIRST MAJOR ORIGINAL ENGLISH ACCOUNT OF THE OTTOMAN TURKS]‎

‎(London), Adam Islip, 1638. Folio. In contemporary full calf with six raised bands and double ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, scratches to boards. Corner bumped, with loss of leather. Inner hinges split. Title-page chipped in outer margin and with two tears, with minor loss of text. Previous owner's name to title-page. Outer half of bookblock with waterstain. (10), 1500, (20), 31, (32) pp. The engraved title-page and 32 portraits included in the pagination. Wanting the first blank. A somewhat defective but text-wise complete copy.‎

‎Enlarged fifth edition of this first major original English account of the Ottoman Turks, originally published in 1603. This work was repeatedly republished, copied, and extended, and had an unparalleled influence on numerous seventeenth century authors as a source of information and authority on the Ottoman Turks. Samuel Johnson praised him as the best of English historians, saying that ""in his history of the Turks [Knolles] has displayed all the excellencies that narration can admit."" (Johnson, Samuel (1969) [1751], ""The Rambler, Number 122). ""Compiled from a range of Byzantine and western histories, travelers' reports and letters, together with material from Leunclavius' recent Latin translation of a late 15th-century Ottoman chronicle, Knolles' was the first major work on the subject to appear in English, and was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of narrative synthesis. Subsequent editions in 1621, 1631, and 1638 included continuations by other writers. Knolles' literary style was admired by such writers as Johnson and Byron, and the work's reputation as an engrossing account survived well into the 19th century"" (ODNB). “Richard Knolles (late 1540s-1610) was born in Northamptonshire. When exactly Knolles began work on his most ambitious scholarly achievement The Historie of the Turkes is difficult to ascertain. The first folio edition appeared in 1603. James VI of Scotland became James I of England in March of that year following the death of Elizabeth I. Knolles took adavntage of the dynastic transition by dedicating the work to “the High and Mightie Prince James”. Knolles’ Historie is based heavily on a range of sixteenth-century printed chronicles and reports. It is, therefore, essentially a synthesis of other works, but a carefully crafted synthesis produced in English. Nothing of this scale and detail had appeared before, in English, on the Ottomans, and it would be another fifty years before a subsequent work in English would become the authority on the subject. Despite this fact, both Samuel Jonson and Lord Byron turned to Knolles centuries later, and both alluded to the richness of his prose style. William Shakespeare, moreover, likely used Knolles’ work (and possibly an earlier manuscript version) as a source for his Othello (ca. 1603-1604).” (University of Toronto, Victoria College, The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) ‎

‎La musique lettriste (la musique leltriste, hypergraphique, infinitésimale, aphoniste et supertemporelle). ‎

‎Paris, La revue musicale N°282-283, Richard-Masse Éditeurs, 1971. In-4 broché, couverture décorée. En belle condition. Impression sur divers papiers, bien complet du supplément plié sur papier jaune. ‎

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‎The whole duty of man, et menniskes skyldighed imod gud, sig selv og sin næste, øjenskinlig og klarlig sat frem for alle, men særdelis for den eenfoldige deeled udi XVII capitler (...). - [FIRST DANISH TRANSLATION]‎

‎Kiøbenhavn (Copenhagen), Bockenhoffer, 1686. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with three raised bands. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Light wear and soiling to extremeties, head of spine chipped. Internally with a few vague stains but generally nice and clean. 629, (11) pp. Engraved half-title included in the pagination. ‎

‎The rare first Danish translation by Pakington’s popular “The practise of Christian graces”. The original English version went through more than 30 editions and three more Danish editions were published in 1740, 1765 and finally in 1779. For two centuries it was both a popular and influential work within, primarily Anglican, but also protestant, tradition. It was first published anonymously in 1658, with an introduction by Henry Hammond (1605-1660). The authorship was initially attributed to Lady Dorothy Pakington but the consensus view of modern scholars attributes the book to Richard Allestree. The authorship remained a secret, and over the years it has been attributed to at least 27 people, beginning with Hammond himself. Thesaurus 312Biblioteca Danica 1, 282.‎

‎The causes of the decay of Christian piety.‎

‎London, Printed by R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, 1683. 8vo. In a contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine, corners bumped. A nice and clean copy. (20), 449, (3) pp. + two engraved plates.‎

‎Uncommon later edtion of Allestree’s devotional work originally published in 1667. Richard Allestree (1619 – 1681) was an English Royalist churchman and devotional writer. He was educated at Oxford and became a noted preacher and scholar eventually serving as Provost of Eton College and later as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Allestree is perhaps best known for his work ""The Whole Duty of Man"" which was a popular devotional manual in the 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing moral and religious duties.‎

‎Le journal de César. ‎

‎Porrentruy, Editions du Pré-Carré, collection Jurassica, 1979. In-8 broché, couverture à rabats. ‎

‎"La collection Jurassica, lancée par les Editions du Pré-Carré à Porrentruy en 1978, représente une expérience éditoriale originale et unique. Elle apparaît comme un prolongement naturel de l’Anthologie jurassienne, qui avait révélé les auteurs du pays, mais dont les œuvres étaient devenues pour une grande partie introuvables." Hughes Richard. ‎

‎Richard Avedon - Evidence 1944-1994. ‎

‎New York, Random House, 1994. In-folio, cartonnage photographique sous jaquette imprimée. Jaquette très légèrement jaunie en bords, pour le reste en belle condition. ‎

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‎Le cerveau, un inconnu. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. ‎

‎ Robert Laffont, collection Bouquins, 2000. Fort volume in-8 broché (1445 pages !), couverture décorée. Epuisé. ‎

‎"Chacun de nous a un esprit, mais savons-nous vraiment ce qu'il est, comment le cerveau fonctionne ou quel sens peuvent avoir de telles questions ? Quels sont les rapports entre la vision d'un philosophe sur l'esprit et ce qu'un physiologiste pourrait en dire ? Et que peuvent-ils tous deux apprendre d'un spécialiste de la psychologie expérimentale ou d'un psychiatre ? Avec ses 1000 entrées, allant de la brève définition à de véritables articles de fond, avec ses 200 illustrations et des bibliographies de fin d'articles, qui sont autant de nouvelles suggestions de lectures, ce dictionnaire nous entraîne dans un passionnant voyage au sein des " sujets de la vie mentale ". Ainsi trouve-t-on réunis ici des articles sur des expériences quotidiennes mais surprenantes comme celles du sommeil, de l'humour et de l'audition, sur des phénomènes moins courants comme le bilinguisme, le décalage horaire ou les calculateurs de génie. Les différentes manières dont nos sens peuvent être abusés sont traitées en détail, de même que les questions de l'intelligence humaine, animale et artificielle, les émotions, l'enfance, le vieillissement, le langage et l'apprentissage, les problèmes sexuels, la criminologie et le monde controversé de la parapsychologie, sans oublier bien sûr le fonctionnement du système nerveux. Des auteurs reconnus discutent de thèmes dont ils sont les spécialistes : c'est ainsi que A. J. Ayer nous parle des visions philosophiques de la relation entre le corps et l'esprit, que J. Bowby traite de l'attachement, Chomsky de sa propre théorie du langage, R. D. Laing des relations interpersonnelles, A. Luria de la neurolinguistique et B. E Skinner du comportementalisme. Richard Gregory, maître d'œuvre de cet ensemble, a lui-même rédigé les articles sur la perception et les illusions." ‎