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Aristotle. The Works of Aristotle, The Famous Philosopher, containing I. His Com

6410. Aristotle. [Anon].

The Works of Aristotle, The Famous Philosopher, containing I. His Complete Masterpiece, II. His Experienced Midwife, III. His Book of Problems, IV. His Remarks on Physiognomy, V. The Family Physician. New and improved edition.

London, The Booksellers, no date (c.1890). 9 x 13cm. 528 pages, with text illustrations and colour plates. Original illustrated hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, some creasing to spine. Historical Sex-Manual, disguised as works of Aristotle. Discusses Virginity (and what it is), How Virginity may be lost, How a woman should order herself in order to conception, [″A woman that would conceive should observe that she does not use the act of coition too often; for gatiety gluts the womb and renders it unfit for office (!) – There are two things that demonstrate this: i.e., that common whores (who often use copulation) have never, or rarely, any children: for the grass seldom grows in a path that is commonly trodden in. The other is, that women, whose husbands have been long absent, do, after copulation with them again, conceive very quickly” / “Women ought to take great care that their imagination be pure and dear, that their child may be well formed”]. The book also discusses causes and cure of Barrenenss, Of the Hot Distempers of the Womb, The Diseases of the Womb, Palmistry, shewing the various judgments drawn from the hand, includes a choice of remedies for the several distempers to the human body, (Crabs, Herpes, Hysteria etc.).

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Collection of important and rare publications by and on american philosopher Stanley Cavell

6452. [Stanley Cavell Collection] – Cavell, Stanley [Stanley Louis Goldstein].

Collection of important and rare publications by and on american philosopher Stanley Cavell. The books in this collection originate from the personal library of Stanley Cavell, his friends Victor and Jacqueline, as well as from the library of philosopher Graham Parkes [Please see each title described and photographed in our section “Libraries & Collections” and search for “Stanley Cavell Collection”]. The collection includes: 1. Must We Mean What We Say ? – Modern philosophical essays in morality, religion, drama, music and criticism. First Edition, 1969. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell / 2. Stanley Bates and Ted Cohen – More on what we say. First Edition. Chicago, Middlebury College, 1972 / 3. Cavell, Stanley – Themes out of School. Effects and Causes. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1984. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell / 4. Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed – Reflections on the Ontology of Film. New York, The Viking Press, 1971. Signed and inscribed by Stanley Cavell in the year 1971, to his friends Victor and Jacqueline / 5. [Cavell, Stanley] Oksenberg Rorty, Amélie. The Many Faces of Philosophy. Reflections from Plato to Arendt. First Edition. Oxford and others, Oxford University Press, 2003. Signed and inscribed by the Editor to Cavell. / 6. [Cavell, Stanley] – Massimo Cacciari – Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture – Stanley Cavell’s personal copy with notes and annotations. / 7. [Cavell, Stanley] Desan, Wilfrid – The Tragic Finale – An Essay on the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre – with interesting annotations and textmarkings by Stanley Cavell / 8. Cavell, Stanley. Pursuits of Happiness – the Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1981. From the librray of philosopher Graham Parkes / 9.Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed- Reflections on the Ontology of Film. Enlarged Edition. Massachusetts, Harvard Universaity Press, 1979. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

New York / Cambridge / and others, Charles Scribner’s Sons / Harper / Yale University Press / Oxford University Press / Viking Press etc., 1969-2003. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23,5 cm). XXIX, 365 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth / Softcover. All books in very good or better condition; many signed or inscribed. A rare opportunity to look into the mind of an important philosophical thinker through his annotations and notes, especially in the book on Sartre.

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Kleine Sammlung mit dreizehn (13) wichtigen Publikationen zum Thema Weimarer Republik

6495. Weimarer Republik.

Kleine Sammlung mit dreizehn (13) wichtigen Publikationen zum Thema Weimarer Republik. Die Sammlung enthält die folgenden Titel: 1. Renate Breipohl – Religiöser Sozialismus und bürgerliches Geschichtsbewußtsein zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik. Zürich, 1971. 285 pages. / 2. Günter Brakelmann – Evangelische Kirche in sozialen Konflikten der Weimarer Zeit. Das Beispiel des Ruhreisenstreits. Bochum, 1986. 136 Seiten. / 3. Christoph Führ – Zur Schulpolitik der Weimarer Republik. Darstellung und Quellen. Die Zusammenarbeit von Reich und Ländern im Reichsschulausschuß (1919-1923) und im Ausschuß für das Unterrichtswesen (1924-1933). Darstellung und Quellen. Weinheim, 1970. 371 pages. / 4. Karl Holl / Adolf Wild – Ein Demokrat kommentiert Weimar. Die Berichte Hellmut von Gerlachs an die Carnegie-Friedensstiftung in New York 1922-1930. Bremen, 1973. 268 Seiten / 5. Maser, Werner – Der Sturm auf die Republik. Frühgeschichte der NSDAP. Stuttgart, 1973. 524 Seiten / 6. Gossweiler, Kurt – Kapital, Reichswehr und NSDAP 1919-1924. Berlin, 1982. 616 Seiten. 35 Abbildungen. / 7. Nicholls, Anthony and Matthias, Erich – German Democracy and the Triumph of Hitler. Essays in Recent German History. London, 1971. 271 pages. / 8. Fischer, Kurt Gerhard – Politische Bildung in der Weimarer Republik. Grundsatzreferate der “Staatsbürgerlichen Woche” 1923. Grundsatzreferate der “Staatsbürgerlichen Woche” 1923. Frankfurt, 1970. 190 Seiten. / 9. Holl, K. – Wette, W. – Pazifismus in der Weimarer Republik. Beiträge zur historischen Friedensforschung. Paderborn, 1981. 181 Seiten. / 10. Köhler, Henning – Adenauer und die Rheinische Republik. Der erste Anlauf 1918-1924. Opladen, 1986. 287 Seiten / 11. Hildemarie Dieckmann – Johannes Popitz. Entwicklung und Wirksamkeit in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik. Berlin, 1960. 157 Seiten. / 12. Hans-Hermann Hartwich – Arbeitsmarkt, Verbände und Staat 1918-1933. Die öffentliche Bindung unternehmerischer Funktionen in der Weimarer Republik. Mit einem Vorwort von Georg Kotowski. Berlin, 1967. 488 Seiten / 13. Fritz Berber – LOCARNO – Eine Dokumentensammlung. (Locarno-Vertrag). Mit einer Einleitung des Botschafters Joachim von Ribbentrop. Berlin, 1936. 408 Seiten //

Berlin (und andere Verlags-Orte), Junker und Duennhaupt (und andere Verlage), 1936 – 1986. 8°. c.2000 Seiten. Hardcover (gemischt mit einigen kartonierten Baenden). Alle Bände sind Bibliotheksexemplare in guten Zuständen aber mit den üblichen, teilweise unschönen Merkmalen (Stempel, Rückenschilder, ggfs. Stempel auf Schnitt).

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