1. Toulmin, Stephen.

Manuscript Letter Signed to his friend, professor of Philosophy, Henry Aiken. The letter was sent from Sussex in England and includes information about Toulin’s latest book and his dedication to tirelessly writing together with his wife June Goodfield. June Goodfield has added to the letter as well by alerting Aiken and his wife of Stephen and her coming to Boston again.

Sussex / England, no year [c.July 1968 ?]. Octavo. Two pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Corners torn and some fraying.

2. Sartre, Jean-Paul / de Beauvoir, Simone / Merleau-Ponty, Maurice / Beckett, Samuel / Benjamin, Walter etc.

Les Temps Modernes [Modern Times]. Revue Mensuelle. 88 (eightyeight) Issues / Volumes of this important Periodical / [Lot de 88 numéros: 2e année – No. 13 (Octobre 1946) – 11e année – No. 125 (Juin 1956)]. The collection includes reviews / critique of famous essays like Simone de Beauvoir’s “La Lesbienne” and Jean-Paul Sartre’s “La mort dans l’ame” and “Le Diable et le Bon Dieu” / Werner Krauss – “Un Allemand a Paris / Enno Kind – La Resistance allemande etc. The collection includes: Year 1947: 2e année, No.13 / 2e année, No.14 / 2e année, No.22 / 2e année, No.23/24 / 2e année, No.25 / 3e année, No.26 / 3e année, No. 27 / Year 1948: 3e année, No.28 / 3e année, No.29 / 3e année, No. 30 / 3e année, No.31 / 3e année, No.32 / 3e année, No.33 / 3e année, No.34 / 3e année, No.35 / 3e année, No.36 / 4e année, No.37 / 4e année, No.38 / Year 1949: 4e année, No.39 / 4e année, No.40 / 4e année, No.41 / 4e année, No.42 / 4e année, No.43 / 4e année, No.44 / 5e année, No.45 / 5e année, No.46-47 / 5e année, No.48 / 5e année, No.49 / 5e année, No.50 / Year 1950: 5e année, No.51 / 5e année, No.43 / 5e année, No.54 / 5e année, No.55 / 5e année, No.56 / 6e année, No.57 / 6e année, No.58 / 6e année, No.59 / 6e année, No.60 / Year 1951: 6e année, No.63 / 6e année, No.64 / 6e année, No.65 / 6e année, No.66 / 6e année, No.67 / 6e année, No.68 / 7e année, No.69 / 7e année, No.70 / 7e année, No.71 / 7e année, No.72 / 7e année, No.73 / 7e année, No.74 / Year 1952: 7e année, No.75 / 7e année, No.76 / 7e année, No.77 / 7e année, No.79 / 7e année, No.80 / 8e année, No.81 / 8e année, No.82 / 8e année, No.83 / 8e année, No.84-85 / 8e année, No.86 / Year 1953: 8e année, No.87 / 8e année, No.88 / 8e année, No.89 / 8e année, No.90 / 8e année, No.91 / 9e année, No.92 / 9e année, No.93-94 / 9e année, No.95 / Year 1954: 9e année, No.99 / 9e année, No.100 / 9e année, No.101 / 9e année, No.102 / 9e année, No.103 / 10e année, No.104 / 10e année, No.105 / 10e année, No.106 / 10e année, No.107 / 10e année, No.108 / Year 1955: 10e année, No.109 / 10e année, No.110 / 10e année, No.111 / 10e année, No.112-113 (Numero Special: “La Gauche” – avec Simone de Beauvoir, Victor Leduc, Maurice Duverger, Claude Lanzmann, Jean T. Desant etc. etc.) / 10e année, No.114-115 / Year 1956: 11e année, No.121 / 11e année, No.122 / 11e année, No.123 / 11e année, No.124 / 11e année, No.125 //

Paris, Les Temp Modernes [Gallimard (1945-1948) / Julliard (1949-1965), 1946 -1956. Octavo. Original Softcover / Broche Originale. Some of the issues with condition-problems but in general in good to very good condition with some of the issues having frayed and detached wrappers. Only one frontwrapper with titles missing. A very rare run of 88 issues of this rare periodical. 88 Issues with interruptions in between.

3. Sartre, Jean-Paul / de Beauvoir, Simone / Merleau-Ponty, Maurice / Beckett, Samuel / etc.

Les Temps Modernes [Modern Times]. Revue Mensuelle. 2e année – No. 14 (Novembre 1946).

Paris, Les Temp Modernes [Gallimard (1945-1948)], 1946. Octavo. Original Softcover / Reliure Originale (Broche / Printed Wrapper). Frayed and damaged spine. Wrapper detached !

4. Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Les jeux sont faits. [Superb Exemplaire]

Paris, Nagel, 1947. 8°. 193 ages. Broché / Softcover. Premiére Edition. Tres bon etat / First edition of this book written by Sartre in 1943 but unpublished until after the war. The story of Pierre and Eve, a couple who meet after their death only to be returned to live, could be deemed to be an existential “Heaven Can Wait,” though it is unlikely that Sartre could have seen the Lubitsch film (1943) in occupied Paris. One of 500 numbered copies on vélin pur fil des papeteries navarre, this one being No. 306. Uncut, near fine.

5. Russolo, Luigi.

The Art of Noise (futurist manifesto, 1913) – Translated by Robert Filliou. [Great Bear Pamphlet].

New York, Something Else Press, 1967. Octavo. 16 pages. With one Illustration, showing Luigi Russolo in 1913 with his mechanical orchestra. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the rarest “Great Bear Pamphlets”.

6. Russell, Bertrand.

Collection of important publications by and on the British Philosopher Bertrand Russell [some of the publications from libraries of important philosophers like Quine]. The collection includes: 1. Bertrand Russell – War – The Offspring of Fear (First Edition – London, 1914) / 2. Bertrand Russell – Ideas that have harmed Mankind – Man’s Unfortunate Experience with his self-made enemies, including sadistic Impulses, Religion, Superstition, Envy, Economic Nationalism, Pride, Racism, Sex Superiority, Creeds and other evil things. (First Edition – Girard (Kansas), 1946) [From the library of Henry David Aiken] / 3. Bertrand Russell – Scientific Method in Philosophy (First Edition – Oxford, 1914) / 4. [Bertrand Russell] Paul Foulkes – Wisdom of the West (London, 1960) / 5. Bertrand Russell – The Analysis of Mind (London, 1951) / 6. Bertrand Russell – “Per Aspera ad Astra” (in: “Science and the Future of Mankind” – together with essays by Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer others, this copy used to belong to the library of Boston’s “Simmons College”) / 7. Ronald Jager – The Development of Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy [From the library of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (with inscription and signed by Jager to Quine)] / 8. Quine, Willard Van Orman / Heimpel, Carl G./ Wang, Hao – Symposium – Issue on Bertrand Russell by “The Journal of Philosophy”: ‘The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell’: Willard van Orman Quine – Russell’s Ontological Development / Carl G. Hempel – On Russell’s Phenomenological Constructionism / Hao Wang – Russell and Philosophy // A Historical Survey of Western Philosophy in its Social and Political Setting.

London / Oxford / Den Haag and others, Clarendon Press / Dr.Junk / Allen and Unwin / Macdonald & Co. Ltd., 1914 – 1972. Original Hardcover and Softcover – Bindings. Only one publications iwth some minor damage, otherwise all publications in very good or even better condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Rombach, Heinrich.

Welt und Gegenwelt. Umdenken über die Wirklichkeit: Die philosophische Hermetik. [Widmungsexemplar / signiert / SIGNED Association-copy from the library of Philosopher Graham Parkes]. Mit zahlreichen Fotografien und Illustrationen.

Erste Auflage. Basel, Verlag Herder, 1983. 21 x 20 cm. 181 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. From the library of Philosopher Graham Parkes. With some spotting to the first three and last three pages and pastedowns. Otherwise in Excellent condition. Very rare, signed and inscribed association-copy, gifted from Rombach to his fellow philosopher, Graham Parkes. / Leicht fleckig auf den ersten und letzten drei Blatt und Innendeckeln. Sonst sehr guter, eigentlich neuwertiger Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. Aus der Bibliothek des Philosophen Graham Parkes. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung (signiert) von Heinrich Rombach auf dem Vorsatzblatt: “In Erinnerung an ein Gutes Gespräch im Juni 1985 – Rombach”. Widmungsexemplare des Philosophen Heinrich Rombach sind von grosser Seltenheit. Dieses Buch ist einer der wirklich seltenen und immer wieder vergriffenen Titel des Philosophen Heinrich Rombach.

8. [Quine, Willard Van Orman] Romanos, George D.

Quine and Analytic Philosophy. The Language of Language.

Cambridge/ London, Bradford Books, 1983. 20.1cm x 13.5cm. xvii, 227 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Front free endpaper detached.

9. [Quine, Willard Van Orman] Bergmann, Gustav.

Logical Atomism, Elementarism and the Analysis of Value [Signed [monogrammed] and inscribed by Vienna Circle-Member Gustav Bergmann to his colleague Willard Van Orman Quine: “To W.V.Q cordially G.B.”.

First Edition. Philosophical Studies, 1951. Octavo. 7 pages inside the Number 6 – issue of Volum II, of the “Philosophical Studies”, edited by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars”. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Excellent association copy between two of the

10. 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.

11. [Quine, W.V.O.] Jager, Ronald / Russell, Bertrand.

The Development of Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy.

First Edition. London, George Allen & Uwin, 1972. 8°. 519 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near fine copy in publisher’s cloth covered boards in like dust jacket. Inscribed by Jager on the front free endpaper :″For W.V. Quine with Best Wishes. Ron Jager March 1973.” [Muirhead Library of Philosophy – Edited by H.D.Lewis].

12. [Quine, W.V.O.] Stich, Stephen P.

Deconstructing the Mind.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996. 8°. 218 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: “August 1996, For Van Quine with admiration and affection, Steve Stich.”

13. 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.

14. Plato / Stallbaum, Gottfried.

Platonis Opera Omnia. Uno volumine comprehensa ad fidem optimorum librorum denuo recognovit et una cum scholiis graecis. Emendatius edidit Godofredus Stallbaumius. [Original Greek Edition, printed in double columns – With Latin Index / Includes all X Books of “De Republica” and also the XII books of “De Legibus”].

Editio Stereotypa C. Tauchnitiana. Nova Impressio. Leipzig / London, Holtze/Dulau, 1867. 4° (20 cm x 28 cm). XV, 725, 3 unnumbered pages. Hardcover / Original quarter Vellum with beautiful marbled endpapers and the original miniature booksellers-label from Sanders & Co. (Oxford) to pastedown. Original Greek Edition in a wonderful, firm, quarter vellum binding with vellum corners. With only very few notes and clean annotations.

15. [Newton, Sir Isaac] Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] / Leibniz / Baker, David Erskine / [Berkeley, George].

The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton : Or, A Comparison between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]. By M. De Voltaire. Translated from the French by David Erskine Baker / [Bound together with a First Edition of George Berkeley’s Miscellaneous Tracts which also include “De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum” in which Berkeley rejected Sir Isaac Newton’s absolute Space, Time and Motion. (″With this essay, Berkeley is considered to be the “precursor of Mach and Einstein” – Karl Popper)].

First English Edition. London, Printed for R.Dodsley, 1747. Octavo. 72 pages. Modern cloth. The bookblock with signs of stitching to the inner margin (possibly used to be part of a Sammelband). Last three leaves with paper-restoration and manuscript inscription to last page (looks like a 18th century gift-inscription). With numerous manuscript – annotations in the tracts of George Berkeley, namely in “A Word to the Wise”, “Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water”, “The Querist”. From the library of Daniel Conner, Manch House, County Cork.

16. Locke, John.

De l’education des enfans; traduit de l’anglois de Mr. Locke, par Mr. Coste. [French translation of “Some thoughts concerning education” from 1695]. Sur l’édition angloise publiée après la mort de l’auteur, qui l’avoit revûë, corrigée, & augmentée. Suivant la copie imprimée à Amsterdam.

Édition pirate [de Suisse]. Amsterdam, 1730. Octavo (11 cm x 16.5 cm). Frontispiece – Portrait of John Locke, [6], 3-24, 468, [12] pages. Hardcover / Reliure originale. Un peu taché, frotté et heurté par endroits, le dos collé avec des bandes de papier et des étiquettes en papier. Globalement un très bon exemple de cette importante publication.

17. James, William / [Gibbens, Alice Howe].

The Energies of Men. [Personal copy of William James’ wife Alice Howe Gibbens – signed: “A.H.James”]. Stunning provenance of the First Edition-offprint from ‘The Philosophical Review’, Vol. XVI, No. 1, January, 1907, of William James’ Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Association on December 28th, 1906. A study of psychic energy ranging from Pierre Janet to Yoga to the “mind-cure” movement. James already is fascinated in this address about G.Papini’s “Doctrine of Action”, “the study of all human powers and means”.

1907. Octavo. 19 pages. Original Wrappers / Softcover. The wrappers detached and brittle. The pages stapled and in very good condition. James retired in January 1907 from Harvard. Possibly one of the rarest offprints with a William James-connection and with high probability, a gift from James to his wife. Books with the provenance of his wife never seem to surface on the market.

18. Humboldt, Wilhelm von.

Über das Entstehen der grammatischen Formen, und ihren Einfluss auf die Ideenentwicklung. (Gelesen in der Akademie der Wissenschaften am 17. Januar 1822).

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 29 Seiten plus Errata-Blatt (Seiten 401 – 430 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

19. Hingeston, James.

Discourses upon the Divine Covenants – Or, an Enquiry into the Origin and Progress of Religion, Natural and Revealed. Part I [all published plus an Appendix with Dissertations].

This is the First Edition (not a reproduction). London, Printed for M. Hingeston and T.Cadell, 1771. Octavo. XXI, [Errata], 287 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full calf with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Very Rare !

20. [Helvétius, Claude Adrien].

De L’Esprit. [On Mind]

A Amsterdam & à Leipsick, Chez Arkstée & Merkus, 1776. Octavo. Tome Premier: XII, 370 pages / Tome Second: 551 pp. [avec “Le Bonheur – Poeme” – ‘Ou Essai sur la Vie & les Ouvrages de M.Helvetius par M***’]. Hardcover – Modern masterbinding / Tres bon reliure moderne (demi-maroquin). Tres bon etat / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. An excellent, early french language edition on beautiful, uncut, excellent paper with extra wide margins.

21. Gregory, G. [Reverend George Gregory].

Essays – Historical and Moral [including “Freedom of Speech and of the Press” and “Resistance to the Legislature” an ‘Essay on the Slavery of the Female Sex’ – ‘Of the Schemes asserting an Equality of the Sexes’ and ‘The History of the Female Sex’ and the ‘General State of the Controversy concerning the Inferiority of the Female Understanding’ / “Inquiry how far our commerce would be affected by the Abolition of the Slave Trade in respect of our West India Colonies”].

First Edition. London, Printed for J.Johnson, 1785. Octavo. VIII, 349 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full calf with original spine-label. Front hinge weak but holding. Minor scuffing and rubbing. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Halftitle present but front free endpaper missing. Text in excellent condition. Exlibris / Bookplate of Daniel Conner to pastedown. Extremely Rare and important publication with early remarks on Gender Equality and a lengthy section on the justification of Slavery.

22. [Einstein, Albert] / Lorentz, H.A. / [Holton, Gerard].

H.A.Lorentz – His Creative Genius and His Personality.

First Edition. Leiden, Rijksmuseum, 1953. Small Octavo. 8 pages including a reproduction of a photograph, showing Einstein and Lorentz by P. Ehrenfest in 1921. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Small note in red ink by former owner of this pamphlet, american physicist Gerald Holton: “translation seen by AE [Albert Einstein]”

23. Edwards, Jonathan.

A careful and strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will, which is supposed to be essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame.

First British Edition. Boston / London, Re-Printed for Thomas Field, 1762. Octavo. IX, [5], 414, [8] pages plus two pages of advertising for Jonathan Edwards’ “Treatise concerning Religious Effections”. Hardcover / Original 18th century calf, rebacked with new spine and spinelabel. Interior all original and besides some minor signs of foxing in very good condition. Name of preowner in ink on titlepage. Binding overall excellent with only minor signs of external wear. A very rare and important book.

24. Derrida, Jacques & Fathy, Safaa.

Tourner les mots: au bord d’un film. [Signatures autographes de Jacques Derrida]

Edition limitée (No.60/70). Paris, Galilee, 2000. 8°. 169 pages with illustrations / photographs in colour. Softcover / Reliure Broché. Pages Unopened ! Signatures autographes de Jacques Derrida / First edition, one of seventy examples printed on “verge ivoire,” of this work produced as a companion to the film “D’ailleurs, Derrida”. Only seventy copies were produced, and most were distributed among the film’s collaborators. This copy signed by Derrida on the half title. Fine in publisher’s printed wrappers.

25. Derham, William [Philosopher and Scientist] / [John Senex (Cartographer)].

Astro-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, From a Survey of the Heavens [Including a Chapter on the “Attraction of Gravity”].

Sixth Edition. London, W. Innys, 1731. Octavo. [16], LVI, [8], 246 pages,[10 pages of Index], [with 3 astronomical foldout engravings by english Cartographer and Explorer John Senex / The Engravings show the Ptolemaic Geocentric System with the Earth as centre of the Universe and discuss other models as well by pointing to pages within the text that reflect on the illustrations / Two of the Engravings are showing the Stars and Constellations over Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Asia etc.]. ]. Original Hardcover / bound in contemporary panelled calf. The book has been sympathetically rebacked to style. Besides a spot of hard green adhesive to the front board in very good condition. The armorial 18th century bookplate of one Dr. Blackett appears on the first pastedown [″A coat of arms divided into three portions, with three stars and three scallop shells throughout. At the helm is the head of an eagle, and elaborate mantling, flowers, and leaves surround the crest. Below is the motto ‘Nous Travailler ons dans L’Esperance’”] / The text of this rare and notoriously underrated book is complete and clean with the three foldout engravings of the cosmos to the rear with only a small archival paper restoration to one of the engravings.

26. Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera, cum delectu commentariorum. Edebat Josephus Olivetus, Academiae Gallicae XLVir.

Editio Tertia, Emendatissima. [9 Volumes – complete set]. Geneva, Fratres Cramer, 1758. Quarto (22 cm x 25 cm). Tomus Primus (Quo Rhetorica continentur.): XXX, 656 pages / Tomus Secundus (Qui Philosophicorum primus): 14, 674 pages / Tomus Tertius (Qui Philosophicorum alter.): 711, (1) pages / Tomus Quartus (Qui Orationum primus): 683 pages / Tomus Quintus (Qui Orationum secundus including “De Lege Agraria”): 687, (1) pages / Tomus Sextus (Qui Orationum tertius): 677, (1) pages / Tomus Septimus (In quo Epistolae ad Familiares): 656, (4) pages / Tomus Octavus (In quo Epistolae ad Atticum): 667 pages / Tomus Nonus (In quo Epistolae ad Q. Fratrem, &c.): 364 pages plus 303 pages of Index Ciceroniani Quatuor // Hardcover / Original parchment with original marbled paper covered pastedowns and endpapers. Bookplate / Exlibris of Daniel Conner to pastedown. Volume One and occasional some of the other Volumes with some signs of an old, faded dampstain but the set generally in very good, original condition with only minor signs of external wear. Wonderful set from the library of a student to Oxford University. The set is full of wonderful text-vignettes and besides the clear and spacious typography, the majority of the text is in clean condition.

27. Boccaccio, Giovanni / [Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari].

L’amorosa fiammetta di M. Giovanni Boccaccio, di Nuovo Corretta et Ristampata, con La Tavola et le Postille delle cose Piu Notabili.

Venetia, Appresso I Gioliti, 1584. 9.5 cm x 15.4 cm. 107, [1] pages including illustrated titlepage with Giolito’s printer mark and Giolito’s stunning colophon of Phoenix rising from the ashes and the Motto: “Semper eadem” (″Always the same”). Hardcover in custom – made solanderbox. Recently rebound in half-leather with marbled paper-covered-boards. The bookblock in very good condition with some minor, contemporary inkstains. Name of preowner “Exlibris Bernard Rielliae [″Bernard Reilly”] in contemporary ink (16th or 17th century entry). Small lesion to titlepage and first three pages only. Very faint, faded dampstain to the outer margins of a few pages.

28. Aristotle [Aristoteles] / Apuleius, Lucius / Averroes / Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus / Gilbertus Porretanus [Gilbert de la Porrée / Gilbert of Poitiers / Pictaviensis] / Plato / Porphyrius / Seneca, Lucius Annaeus / [Garaldi, Bernardino / Morandi, Bartolomeo].

Ecce lector candidissime notabilia dicta scitu & memoria digna. Timei Platonis. Aristotelis. Comentatoris. Porphirij. Gilberti Por. Boetij. Senece. Apulei. Quibus addita sunt pulcherima problemata Aristotelis philosophis attinentia, medicis quocumque vtilia.

[Pavia], Bernardino Garaldi / Bartolomeo Morandi [Papie, Impensis Bartolomei de Morandis Bergomensis, et per magistrum Bernardinum de Garaldis impresse], 1521. Octavo (15,5 cm x 11 cm). CXI leaves with woodcut-titlepage. Excellent modern Hardcover (full calf with spinelabel) bound to 16th-century style. Very good condition. Few pages with minor staining only. With some manuscript annotations and one longer manuscript-entry to the last page of the volume. Sole edition, only held in two libraries worldwide (Bergamo and Turin / Torino). An extremely scarce, early 16th century print of a repertory with chapters on Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics. Mainly philosophical but also some medical aphorisms from various philosophers. The Volume also includes an early edition of Aristotle’s “Problemata”.

29. [Adorno, Theodor W. / Horkheimer, Max / Benjamin, Walter] Haag, Karl-Heinz / Schweppenhäuser, Prof. Dr. Hermann.

Wichtige Frankfurter Schule-Sammlung von sehr bedeutenden Arbeitsexemplaren / Widmungsexemplaren / Autorenexemplaren, Autographen und Manuskript-Notiz-Zetteln des deutschen Philosophen Karl-Heinz Haag. Die Arbeitsexemplare (Sieben Buchtitel in neun (9) Bänden) und handschriftlichen Notizen und Autographen (Postkarten), stammen aus der privaten Bibliothek des Adorno und Horkheimer- Schülers, Karl-Heinz Haag. Die in der Sammlung enthaltenen Manuskript-Notizen und Autographen (Postkarten von Horkheimer) sind inhaltsreich und teilweise auch deshalb sehr bedeutend, weil es unter Insidern bekannt ist, dass Haag auch während seiner aktiven Zeit innerhalb der Frankfurter Schule notorisch wenig veröffentlicht und schriftlich kommentiert hat. Beiliegt ausserdem ein Zeitungsausschnitt zur Adorno-Lehrstuhl-Nachfolge. / Important, stunning collection of seven, signed or/and annotated association-copies (working-copies) from the private library of german philosopher Karl-Heinz Haag. Haag was pupil, friend and colleague of Adorno and Horkheimer and was one of the members of the Frankfurt School of Social Theory and Social Research. The collection of annotated books (Seven Booktitles in nine (9) volumes) also includes ephemera (Autograph postcards, newspaper-clipping, as well as several manuscript – pages of significant notes and thoughts by Karl-Heinz Haag regarding topics discussed in some of these publications). The collection is especially important because Haag published and commented notoriously little during and after his tenure in Frankfurt. [See complete set of photographs of this collection on our website].

Frankfurt u.a., Suhrkamp / Institute of Social Research / Kohlhammer etc., 1955 – 1972. Octavo. Paginierung / Collation: 1. Adorno – Aspekte der Hegelschen Philosophie (Inscribed, signed): 59 Seiten mit zahlreichen Annotationen /59 pages, heavily annotated / 2. Haag – Kritik der neueren Ontologie (Author’s copy): 59 Seiten / 59 pages / 3. Adorno – Drei Studien zu Hegel (Inscribed, signed): 172 Seiten mit zahlreichen Annotationen / 172 pages with annotations / 4. Horkheimer – Zur Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft (Inscribed, signed): 353 Seiten mit vielen Anmerkungen und Anstreichungen / 353 pages, heavily annotated / 5. Horkheimer – Kritische Theorie (Inscribed, signed): XIV, 376, XI, 358 Seiten mit zahlreichen Anmerkungen und Anstreichungen / XIV, 376, XI, 358 pages, heavily annotated / 6. Schweppenhäuser – Tractanda (Inscribed, signed): 141 Seiten / 141 pages. Original Softcover and Hardcover – Volumes. Sehr guter Erhaltungszustand aller Publikationen mit teilweise eingelegten, handschriftlichen Notizen sowie ein alter Zeitungsartikel in dem der Zersetzungsprozess der Frankfurter Schule kommentiert wird. / All publications in very good condition with minor signs of wear. Amazing provenance and possibly one of the last important collections surfacing from the library of a member of the Frankfurt School. The inter-connection between Adorno – Haag – Horkheimer, reflected in Haag’s annotations, lends itself for study and new publications of criticism.

30. Kenner, Hugh.

The Mechanic Muse.

New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 136 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Near new. Some ephemera inside cover including a leaf from publisher noting this book as an advance copy (dated November 27, 1986).

31. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – [Rang, Florens Christian / Benjamin, Walter] Rosenzweig, Franz.

Der Stern der Erlösung [Personal copy of Walter Benjamin’s friend “Florens Christian Rang” / Persönliches Exemplar aus der Bibliothek des Walter Benjamin-Freundes “Florens Christian Rang”. Voll signiert von Rang auf dem Titelblatt. Besitzvermerk von Florens Christian Rang in Tinte. Mit sehr interessanten Text-Markierungen in Buntstift und Bleistift, sowie zwei Annotationen zu Text-Verweisen im hinteren Einbanddeckel [hier kann nicht einwandfrei gesagt werden ob alle Anstreichungen von Rang sind da es zwei Formen von Anstreichungen gibt / Rang selbst hat nachweislich auch mit Buntstift markiert]. Die Handschrift mit dem Textverweis im Innendeckel deckt sich nicht mit online verfuegbaren Schriftproben Rang’s (siehe Abbildungen auf der Webseite des Florens Christian Rang Archivs)]. Bedeutender Fund für die Florens Christian Rang-Forschung da Walter Benjamin beide, Franz Rosenzweig und Florens Christian Rang, in seinem Essay, “Privilegiertes Denken – Zu Theodor Haeckers Vergil”, in einem Atemzug als bedeutende Kämpfer “gegen die Idolatrie des Geistes” nennt. Leider wird Benjamin’s Erwähnung von Rosenzweig und Rang oft nur verkürzt zitiert obwohl Benjamin in seinem Essay [1932] zu Haecker’s Vergil-Polemik noch einen Schritt weitergeht und die Bedeutung von entschärfenden, informierten und kompetenten Stimmen wie Rosenzweig und Rang hervorhebt. Benjamin schreibt in der wichtigen Passage: “Es ist nicht unsere Schuld, wenn der Verfasser [Haecker] das realpolitische Äquivalent seiner »Idee des Men­schen« in so peinliche Nähe rückt: jenes, im drastischen Sinne privilegierte, Verständnis der nichtabendländischen Völker, welches gekennzeichnet ist durch das Ineinanderwirken von Ausbeutung und Mission. So pflegt nun einmal die Kontrebande auszuschauen, die in das Musselin des reinen Geistes gewickelt, die Reisenden nach Wolkenkuckucksheim mit sich führen. Am allerwenigsten sollte die Theologie ein solches Wolkenkuckucksheim sein. Es sind denn auch in der Tat theologische Denker gewesen, die gerade in unserer Generation erschienen, um den Kampf gegen die Idolatrie des Geistes aufzunehmen: der Jude Franz Rosenzweig von der Sprache, der Protestant Florens Christian Rang von der Politik her. Nun hält allerdings auch Haecker sich für einen Sprachdenker so gut wie er ein Politiker ist, wennschon er vielleicht vorzieht, nicht dafür zu gelten. Aber das eben schließt ihn aus der Reihe der echten theologischen Denker aus, daß er die Philosophie der Sprache wie der Politik vom Geiste aus handhaben zu können meint, ohne weder mit der Philologie noch mit der Ökonomie näher sich einzulassen. Freilich – und so erst rückt der Sachverhalt ins rechte Licht – bei Rosenzweig und vollends bei Rang handelt es sich um häretisch gestimmte Männer, denen es nichts Unmögliches ist, die Tradition auf ihrem eigenen Rücken zu befördern, statt sie seßhaft zu verwalten.” Die zahlreichen und sehr aufschlussreichen Anstreichungen in Rosenzweig’s Werk, bestätigen Benjamin’s Auffassung, da Sie uns erlauben Rang’s Transformierung vom Nationalisten zum politisch moderat eingestellten Konservativen, teilweise nachvollziehen zu können. Die Publikation Rosenzweigs fällt ausserdem in die kritische Phase von Rang’s Wandlung. Die “Deutsche Bauhütte”, Rang’s publizistisches Testament seiner Entfernung vom Nationalismus, erschien nur drei Jahre später. Die vorliegende Ausgabe ist eindrucksvoller Nachweis für die immer neue Bereitschaft Rangs zur völligen Aufgabe seiner Ideale und zur Offenheit gegenüber einem philosophischen und politischen Erweckungserlebnisses, begonnen mit der Abkehr vom Christentum und vollzogen mit der Lektüre des Magnum Opus eines jüdischen Philosophen dessen Werk er mit seinem Besitzeintrag für sich ganz privat legitimiert. Zum Zeitpunkt der Lektüre von Rosenzweig’s “Stern der Erlösung”, hatte Rang bereits durch Mitarbeit im Forte-Kreis seine wilhelminischen “Phantasmagorien einer preussischen Religion” [Christine Holste – “Der Forte-Kreis 910 – 1915”] abgelegt und war durch solch disperaten Kontakte wie zu Martin Buber und Gustav Landauer ein Kandidat für eben jene Evolution die Benjamin in ihm spüren musste. Benjamin, der Rang nicht nur persönlich kannte sondern ihn auch “erkannte”, schrieb an Scholem, dass er „seltsamerweise […] diesem Mann, ebenso wie seine Unterstützung und Bestätigung, das zu danken vermochte und danken mußte, was ich von deutscher Bildung Wesentlichstes in mich aufgenommen habe. Denn nicht nur, daß in diesem Bereiche die Hauptgegenstände unserer beharrlichen Betrachtung fast sämtlich dieselben waren – das Leben, das in diesen großen Gegenständen lebt, habe ich menschlich ganz allein in ihm lebendig gesehen, ausbrechend mit desto mehr vulkanischer Gewaltsamkeit, als es unter der Kruste des übrigen Deutschland erstarrt lag. Wenn ich mit ihm sprach, war nicht sowohl Harmonie in unsern Gedanken, als daß ich, wetterfest und athletisch, an dem unmöglichen, zerrissenen Massiv der seinigen mich versuchte und oft genug eine Zinne mit weitem Ausblick auf eigne unerschlossne Gedankenbereiche gewann. Sein Geist war von Wahnsinn durchzogen wie ein Massiv von Schluchten. Aber durch die Moralität dieses Mannes gewann Wahnsinn keine Macht über ihn.” / Of utmost interest for the evaluation of Rang’s development from nationalist to empathetic centrist. Benjamin famously mentions both, Florens Christian Rang and Franz Rosenzweig as equally important influences for his Generation in “fighting the Idolatry of the Spirit/Mind”. This makes Rang’s personal copy of Rosenzweig’s masterpiece an enormously interesting find; possibly even a key to Rang’s ideological and religious transformation].

Erste Ausgabe. Frankfurt am Main, J.Kauffmann Verlag, 1921. Oktav (16 cm x 22,5 cm). 532, [2] Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Verlagseinband mit illustriertem und beschriftetem Einbanddeckel. Die seltene Publikation, aus der Bibliothek von Florens Christian Rang, wurde mit einem neuen Einbandrücken versehen und das originale Rückenschildchen wurde neu aufgezogen. Die Bindung ist firm, die originalen Vorsatzblätter wurden erhalten. Das sonst notorisch schlecht erhaltene Papier der Publikation, hier generell in aussergewöhnlich guter Erhaltung; allerdings mit einigen kleineren Schäden: Kleine Einrisse ohne Textverlust auf den Seiten 7-8 / Sehr feine Einrisse ohne Textverlust auf den Seiten 207 – 210 / Unschöne Ausrisse mit nur geringem Textverlust am Rand der Seiten 409 – 414.

32. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – Benjamin, Walter.

Fantastic Collection of eight [pristine] Volumes of Philosophical Writings and Biographical Works by and on Walter Benjamin. The collection includes all the important modern, historical-critical english-language publications: I.Walter Benjamin – Selected Writings. Volume I (1913-1926), Volume II (1927-1934), Volume III (1935-1938) and Volume IV (1938-1940) – Translated by Rodney Livingstone and others – Edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W.Jennings, Howard Eiland and Gary Smith / V. The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin (1910-1940) – Edited and Annotated by Gershom Scholem and Theodor W.Adorno – Translated by Manfred R.Jacobson and Evelyn M. Jacobson / VI. Walter Benjamin – Early Writings (1910 – 1917) – Translated by Howard Eiland and Others / VII. Theodor W. Adorno & Walter Benjamin – The Complete Correspondence (1928 – 1940) / VIII. Walter Benjamin – The Arcades Project – Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin //

Chicago / Cambridge, (Massachusetts), University of Chicago Press / The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994 – 2011. Octavo. More than 3000 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjackets all in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, near pristine condition. Unusual in this condition and compilation, this collection is a must for each admirer of Walter Benjamin.

33. [Rawls, John / Matson, Wallace] / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

What Rawls calls Justice. Mimeographed, signed and inscribed essay by Wallace Matson to Henry David Aiken (who was a friend of Rawls).

Berkeley, 1978. Octavo. 12 pages. Original, mimeographed Offprint / Stapled and sent as Third Class Airmail. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only and some mild rusting to staples. Manuscript corrections by Wallace Matson in the text. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

34. Langer, Susanne K.

Philosophy in a New Key. A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art. [Including a Typescript of a letter to Susanne K. Langer, written by Philosopher Henry David Aiken to her in the year 164 while at Connecticut College: “Dear Mrs. Langer, i am writing on behalf of the Department of Philosophy to invite you to participate in a Memorial Meeting for Harry Sheffer…..we very much hope, Ms.Langer, that you will be able to say something about the philosophical implications of Harry Sheffer’s thought and to indicate if possible its influence upon recent philosophy including your own…”]. [The book with the printed dedication by Langer: “To Alfred North Whitehead – my great Teacher and Friend”].

First Edition. Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1942. 22.8cm x 16cm. xiv, 313 pages. Original Hardcover with the very rare, original, unclipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good + condition with only minor signs of wear. The very rare dust-jacket with minor abrasions and some fraying. The jacket with a faded dampstain. Tiny tear to spine of jacket. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken with some minor annotations and markings in pencil.

35. Chisholm, Roderick M. / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of six (6) first edition offprints by and on Roderick M. Chisholm, all from the library of his friend and colleague Henry David Aiken, most of them signed and inscribed by Chisholm and one signed and inscribed by Roderick Firth: 1. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Reichenbach on Observing and Perceiving” / 2. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Philosophers and Ordinary Language” / 3. Roderick M. Chisholm – “The Contrary-To-Fact Conditional” / 4. Roderick M. Chisholm – “The Defeat of Good and Evil” / 5. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Sentences about Believing” / 6. Roderick Firth – “Chisholm and the Ethics of Belief” [signed and inscribed by Roderick Firth: “Henry – with best regards – Rod”].

Harvard / Brown University, 1946 – 1969. 8°. c. 80 pages. Original Offprints / Stapled. All offprints in very good+ – near fine condition.

36. Carnap, Rudolf / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of original First edition essays in “Philosophical Studies” and other publications by and on Vienna Circle – Philosopher, Rudolf Carnap. The Collection includes: 1. Leonard Linsky – A Note on Carnap’s “Truth and Confirmation” / Rudolf Carnap – “Rejoinder to Linsky” [Philosophical Studies Volume I, Number 6, 1950] / 2. Rudolf Carnap – Meaning Postulates [The Problem of Truth Based on Meaning] [Philosophical Studies Volume III, Number 5, 1952] / 3. Rudolf Carnap – “On Some Concepts of Pragmatics” / Roderick M. Chisholm – A Note on Carnap’s Meaning Analysis” [Philosophical Studies Volume VI, Number 6, 1955] / 4. Rudolf Carnap – “Remarks on Probability” [Philosophical Studies Volume XIV, Number 5, 1963].

Minnesota, Philosophical Studies, 1950 – 1963. Octavo. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

37. [Aiken, Henry David] Sheffer, Henry M.

Manuscript Letter signed from eminent american logician, Henry M. Sheffer, to Philosopher Henry David Aiken, congratulating Aiken of being accepted to Harvard: “…..the Harvard Board of Overseers may not have O.K.‘d your appointment yet. However, I consider it final and official. Letme congratulate both you and Harvard on your joining the Emerson Hall First Floor Department. It will be a great pleasure to see you here again next Fall….”. Sheffer then continues ominously: “Then we can talk about a number of things one does not wish to put on paper”.

Cambridge (Emerson Hall), April 17th, 1946. Octavo. 1 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Original Letters or anything published by Sheffer, is exceedingly rare !

38. [Aiken, Henry David] Knopf, Alfred A.

Scathing Typed Letter signed from eminent publisher Alfred A. Knopf to Philosopher Henry David Aiken, who promised him to deliver the book “Pragmatism Revisited” two years prior and who he had already reminded twice about deadlines which had been ignored by Aiken. Knopf, famous for his lengthy correspondence, asks for the advance to be returned and expresses his disappointment in no uncertain terms: “….this makes me feel that you have lost all interest in having this book published by Knopf…..you seemed to be so friendly and so interested in our house when I did meet you in Boston that I hesitate to take this action….”. [The letter, from the personal collection of Henry David Aiken, is accompanied by an original typescript of Aiken’s apologetic response to Knopf. Acccording to our sources, this book never saw the light of day].

New York / Cambridge [Mass.],) 1964. Octavo. 2 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

39. [Aiken, Henry David] Demos, Raphael.

Collection of Five (5) Manuscript Letters from Greek-American Philosopher, Raphael Demos to Philosopher Henry David Aiken. Besides very few personal matters (Aiken rented a Lice-infested house from Demos), the letters are lengthy and full of content regarding philosophical questions. Demos thanks Aiken for his “thoughtful comments about my article on ‘Society and the Individual’ and Demos reflects on Aiken: “Now as to your point that goodwill is addressed to me which is capable of joys and sorrows and not just an angel – I will distinguish between respect and goodwill. Angels, because rational, have intrinsic worth, and so claim respect certainly. Value and respectability don’t imply capacity for feeling. But goodwill does imply that the recipient is a striving, failing, succeeding, up-ended individual, who has sorrows & grip – not just an angelic being. While the Greek identify man with his rationality, it is noticeable that common sense proceeds otherwise; when the Radcliffe girls say their Professor is so human, they don’t mean he is intellectual, they mean the opposite – that he has non-rational impulses and feelings…..” / The collection of letters originates from the personal collection of Henry Aiken and also comes with a scathing letter from American Philosopher Arthur Edward Murphy in which Murphy writes to Aiken about Raphael Demos and does not hold back in his evaluation of Demos and his Philosophy: “I just saw your remarks re Demos in the Journal. Very well done ! I think Demos is not very bright, however, and it is perhaps better not to give him too much publicity. I don’t think he will convert any one except for those already suffering from dithers & blithers. And it is a waste to refute him. Intelligent people don’t have to be convinced. And bigots like R.D. can’t be convinced. Strictly speaking, before Demos creates an obligation in others… he ought to say in plain unemotional prose what he means by such concepts as ‘God’ & ‘evidence’. It is perfectly possible that if we knew how he uses these terms, we would agree that what he says is trivially true. This discussion is presumably in the domain of logic. But discussion on that domain when one of the parties refuses to make explicit the rules of his game can never terminate in illumination. Nevertheless, I think you handled him neatly & have done yourself no harm as general opinion is concerned. He is a perfect horrible example of retrogression. Ugh ! A perfectly low grade person morally & intellectually nonregarding as a seer & defender of orthodoxy…… Have you seen Lazerowitz’s [Morris Lazerowitz] paper in Mind on Universals. It is highly provocative. I would like to discuss it with you….”.

Westport Point (Massachusetts), c.1944 – 1967. Octavo. 13 pages of letters by Raphael Demos to Aiken / [Plus:] 1 page of a manuscript letter by Arthur Edward Murphy to Aiken about Demos. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Original Letters or anything published by Raphael Demos or Arthur Edward Murphy, are very rare !

40. Aiken, Henry David / [Hans Jonas] / Quine, W.V.O.

Typed letter, signed by German-born, American Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas, loosely inserted in Henry David Aiken’s pamphlet “God and Evil: A Study of Some Relations Between Faith and Morals”. The Essay by Aiken is inscribed and signed by Aiken in a sarcastic manner: “To God, from one of his congregation – Shem”. In the letter, Jonas reflects on two pages on an evening with Henry David Aiken and his then wife Lillian Woodworth. In his letter to Aiken, Hans Jonas reports back to Aiken after reading his essay [″God and Evil”] and calls it “a beautiful piece of work – in style and content worthy of your “master” who wrote on natural theology….”. Jonas goes on encouraging Aiken: “you are also dead wrong n not publishing a collection of your essays in ethical theory. If your pal Quine can do it “from a logical point of you [sic]”, so can you “from a moral point of view”. Jonas also mentions “that it is worth writing about the ancient problem opf a theodicy in a contemporary context”. [The Essay is n Offprint from Ethics, An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy, Volume LXVIII, No. 2].

New York / Washington, DC, 1958. 16,8 x 24 cm. 21 pages (pages 77-97 of the Journal) plus two page-letter (on one leaf), signed by Hans Jonas Original Offprint / Original TLS (Typed letter signed). Very good+ condition. Stapled. Only minimal signs of staining. The letter also discusses a Reference for one “Ed Sayles” and Jonas suggest that Aiken writes “casual but fairly strong” to Howard R. Bartlett, professor of history and head of the Department of Humanities at MIT.

41. [Maluf, Brother Francis] Wild, John / Aiken, Henry D.

Typed Letter signed from american philosopher John Wild to Philosopher Henry David Aiken, informing Aiken: “I missed you especially two weeks ago when I attempted to defend a realistic view of ethics in terms of the concept of natural law. I am not sure, but I think you might have been in agreement with some of the points I tried to make as over against Lewis’ Kantian subjectivism and Demos’ [Raphael Demos] extreme Platonism….”. Besides some further niceties, John Wild talks in this letter intensely about Christian Arab Philosopher Francis Maluf, from Mashrah, Lebanon, who could be in John Wild’s mind the perfect “section man for your Phil A course”. Wild continues to praise the syrian, Maluf, who had been “teaching Mathematics and Physics in a war job out of Worcester and who has been keeping up his interest in philosophy by attenting courses around here, organizing discussion groups and other intellectual activities which amaze me by their versatility and intensity”. John Wild continues: “He has been offered a permanent job at the University of Beirut in Syria to teach Philosophy there (he is a friend of Malik’s) but if possible wants to stay around here for another year to study and learn before he goes back.” [Maluf had converted to catholicism in 1940 and was later known as Brother Francis Maluf.

Cambridge, April 15th, 1945. Octavo. 2 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Original two-page-letter with original envelope.

42. Schapiro, Meyer / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

The Still Life as a Personal Object – A note on Heidegger and van Gogh.

4°. 7 pages. Stapled offprint from “The Reach of Mind: Essays in Memory of Kurt Goldstein” – 1968. Sent by Schapiro to Henry David Aiken (this lot includes the original envelope).

43. Lowe, Victor / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

“A Resurgence of “Vicious Intellectualism”. (Number 14 of Volume XLVIII of Philosophical Studies, 1951).

Minnesota, Philosophical Studies, 1951. Octavo. 12 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

44. [Lewis, C.I. (Clarence Irving)] / [Aiken, Henry David] / Lucius Garvin / Virgin G.Hinshaw.

The Journal of Philosophy, Volume XLVI, No.7: March 31, 1949: Contents: Lucius Garvin – Relativism in Professor Lewis’s [C.I.Lewis] Theory of Esthetic Value / Virgil G.Hinshaw – Basic, Propositions in Lewis’s [C.I.Lewis] Analysis of Knowledge / Book Reviews: Henry Aiken – D.W.Gottschalk, Art and the Social Order and others [Inscribed and signed by Henry David Aiken: “For Lillas – In partial a poor repayment for happiness received – HDA”].

First Edition. [New York], [Columbia University] / The Journal Of University, 1949. Octavo. 59 pages (pages 169-228 of Volume XLVI, No.7: March 31,1949 of The Journal of Philosophy). Original, stapled Softcover Pamphlet. Very good+ condition. Signed and inscribed by Henry David Aiken, including a Book Review by Aiken but mainly including two early contributions on C.I.Lewis’ Philosophy.

45. Goodman, Nelson / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of First editions of Papers and Essays on and by american philosopher Nelson Goodman. The Collection includes: 1. Nelson Goodman – “On Relations that Generate” (Numbers 5-6 of Volume IX of Philosophical Studies, 1958) / 2. Nelson Goodman – “Discussion on Infirmities of Confirmation Theory” [Carnap] (Offprint from “Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1947) / 3. Hugues Leblanc – A Revised Version of Goodman’s Confirmation Paradox (Number 4 of Volume XIV of Philosophical Studies, 1963) /

Minnesota a.o., Philosophical Studies / Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1947 – 1963. Octavo. Original Offprints / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken. [Philosophical Studies – Edited by Wilfried Sellars and Herbert Feigl].

46. Bergmann, Frithjof / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

The Experience of Values. / Handwritten letter from Bergman to Henry Aiken.

University of Michigan, 1973. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Stapled wrappers. Including a handwritten letter by Bergman with a letterhead of “The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor”: “Dear Henry : I very much look forward to your visit here for the lecture on Dewey. Meanwhile here is this small piece of mine – Affectionately yours, Frithjof” (1979). Letter coffeestained.

47. Wisdom, John.

Other Minds.

First Edition in book form. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1952. 22cm x 14cm. 259 pages. A fine copy in publisher’s green cloth, in a near very good dust jacket. In protective Mylar. Very Good condition with some wear to edges.

48. White, Morton.

Academic Freedom Logic, and Religion. [Including the important essay by George Boas & Sidney Hook: “The Ethics of Academic Freedom”].

Volume Two. Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. 21.2cm x 14cm. 161 (2) pages. Original hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

49. [Schopenhauer, Arthur] Magee, Bryan.

The Philosophy of Schopenhauer.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991. 15,5 x 25 cm. 404 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. With his name on the half title.

50. Bronowski, Jacob. [Foreword by Melvyn Bragg]

The Ascent of Man.

London, Folio Society, 2011. 19 cm x 26 cm. XVII, 302 pages. With colour illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition, first folio edition with protective slipcase and only very minor signs of external wear.