181. Poirier, Jean.

Histoire des Moeurs. Volume I: Les Coordonnées de l’homme et la culture matérielle / II: Modes et modèles / III: Thèmes et systèmes culturels.

3 Volumes (complet). Paris, Gallimard, 1990-1993. 17.7cm x 11cm. 1738 pages / 1658 pages / 1756 pages. Reliure originale / Original Hardcover in original slipcases. Bel exemplaire. Edition-originale. / Very good condition with minor external signs of wear. [Encyclopédie de la Pléiade].

182. Popper, Karl R.

Das Elend des Historizismus.

3.Auflage, 1971. Tübingen, Mohr, 1971. 8°. XVI, 132 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. [Die Einheit der Gesellschaftswissenschaften ; Bd. 3]

183. Puget de la Serre, Jean.

L’Entretien des Bons Esprits sur les Vanitez du Monde.

Paris, Chez Mathurin Henault, Nicolas de la Vigne et Nicolas de la Coste, 1631. 12 cm x 16.5 cm. Frontispice, (6), 569 pages including a further 3 engravings (4 engravings including Frontispice). / Edition Originale, illustrée d’un frontispice gravé représentant la mort couronnée plus 3 gravures à représentations des Vanitez du Monde. Original Hardcover / Reliure d’époque de veau moucheté, dos à nerfs, caissons ornés, pièce de titre de maroquin marron, tranches rouges. Bon etat. Très rare ! / Minor repairs (professional) to the titlepage and only very minor lesion to some of the illustrations and some pages.

184. Quine, Willard Van Orman / Christensen, Niels E.

Collection of twelve (12) offprints from Quine’s personal library. The collection includes twelve essays in original offprints by Quine plus one edition of ‘Philosophical Studies’ signed and inscribed to Quine by his Danish student Niels E. Christensen [″To Professor Quine, my teacher in logic, from yours – Niels E. Christensen”] / The collection includes the following titles: 1. Peano as Logician (1987) / 2. A way to simplify truth functions (1955) / 3. Existence and Quantification (1968) / 4. Alcance y lenguaje de la ciencia (1973) / 5. Indeterminacy Without Tears (1994) / 6. Assuming Objects (1994) / 7. Carnap e la Verita Logica (1957) / 8. The Flowering of Thought in Language (1997) / 9. Paradoxes of Plenty / 10. In appogio della definizione implicita (1964) / 11. Free Logic, Description and Virtual Classes (1997) / 12. On Relations as Coextensive with Classes [comes with a vintage, printed bibliography of Quine’s publications] / 13. Niels E. Christensen (University of Copenhagen) – Further Comments of Two-Valued Logic – Inscribed by Christensen to Quine (1957).

1955 – 1997. Octavo. Original stapled offprints. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

185. Reichenbach, Hans / Goodman, Nelson / Lewis, Clarence I. (C.I.).

The Experimential Element in Knowledge [Three Papers read at the 1951 meeting of the Eastern Division of the Amrican Philosophical Association at Bryn Mawr College: I. Hans Reichenbach – Are Phenomenal Reports absolutely Certain ? / II. Nelson Goodman – Sense and Certainty / III. C.I.Lewis – The Given Element in Empirical Knowledge /

Philosophical Review, 1952. 8°. 28 pages. Offprint from “The Philosophical Review” Vol. LXI, No. 2, 1952. Octavo, paginated 147-175. An offprint from The Philosophical Review of a paper read at the 1951 meeting of the Eastern Division of the APA, entitled “The Given Element in Empirical Knowledge”. Near fine in stapled wraps lacking external covers, as issued.

186. Reichenbach, Hans.

Wahrscheinlichkeitslehre. Eine Untersuchung über die logischen und mathematischen Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung

First Edition. Leiden, Sijthoff, 1935. 24.5cm x 16cm. IX, 451 pages. Original hardcover in protective Mylar. Gilt lettering on spine and frontboard. Bindung lose ! / Binding loosened / Very good publisher’s cloth, front hinge starting, former owner’s name in ink, B. Wiesner, twice on front endpapers.

187. Ridderstrale, Jonas/ Nordstrom, Kjell A.

Karaoke Capitalism. Management for Mankind.

Sweden, Bookhouse Publishing, 2003. 20.9cm x 17.3cm. 324 (2) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Endpaper signed by the author Kjell A. Nordstrom.

188. Rieff, Philip.

Two offprints: 1. History, Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences (1953) / 2. The Authority of the Past – Sickness and Society in Freud’s Thought (1954) //

Social Research, 1953 – 1954. 8°. 13, 23 pages. Softcover. Stapled. Only slightly stained. Rare !

189. Riesman, David.

A Philosophy for “Minority” Living – The Jewish Situation and the “Nerve of Failure”.

New York, Commentary, 1948. 8°. 9 pages. Softcover. Original offprint from “Commentary” – 1948.

190. Riesman, David.

Some Observations on the Limits of Totalitarian Power.

The Antioch Review, 1952. 8°. 13 pages. Softcover. Original offprint from “The Antioch Review” – 1952.