1. Abolitionism – Woolman, John.

Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes – Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of every Denomination. In: “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, Late of Mount Holly, in the Province of New Jersey, North America. To which are added, His works, containing his last Epistle and other Writings”.

First Irish Edition. Dublin, Printed by R.M.Jackson, 1794. Octavo. XV, 464 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century full leather with original spine-label. Binding firm but rubbed with some minro damaged to the boards. Overall in very good condition.

2. [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.

3. Aiken, Henry David / John Rawls / Donald Davidson / Rudolf Carnap / Roderick M. Chisholm / Nelson Goodman / Raphael Demos and others.

Collection of manuscript material, offprints, association-copies and books from the library and personal collection of Professor Henry David Aiken, American Philosopher, specialist on Analytic Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics and Education at the Universities of Columbia, Harvard, Michigan and Brandeis. The collection reflects Aiken’s deep connections to the important postwar-period of great thinkers at American Universities like Harvard and Brandeis. Aiken was friends with John Rawls, Raphael Demos, Daniel Bell, Arnold Kaufman, Stephen Toulmin, Israel Scheffler. Aiken’s “Beloved teacher” and mentor was Ralph Barton Perry (see his dedication in “Predicament of the University”). More importantly, Aiken was accepted as scholar and friend around important thinkers like Willard Van Orman Quine, Alfred North Whitehead, Robert Nozick and John Rawls. The collection includes first edition offprints from nearly all of these mentioned, including the rare first appearance of John Rawls’ “Justice as Fairness” in its original wrappers-issue from 1957 [See on our website images under “Libraries & Collections”]. The collection also includes materials previously inscribed and gifted to fellow philosophers in Aiken’s circle of friends, now reunited with this Archive. [Please enquire for access to excellent photographs and descriptions to each title, included in this collection]. The collection includes for example the Proof of Aiken’s publication “The Predicament of the University” [Working-Title: “The Future of the University”] – This title is of great interest alone, with Aiken’s annotations. Also included is the first edition of Aiken’s personal copy of his Thesis for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts: “Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art – A Study with special reference to the Theory of Tragedy”. Among the collection are roughly 200 offprints, often with dedications and inscriptions to colleagues. [Each title is listed in detail, with images, on our website under “Libraries & Collections” (click on “Henry D. Aiken Collection”).

Harvard / Brandeis / Cambridge (Mass.) etc., c. 1935 – 1975. Octavo & Quarto. More than 2000 pages. Original Softcover / Stapled. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4. [Anonymous]

La Logique ou l’Art de Raisonner. [Les trois principales operations de notre esprit / Des idees / Des jugemens et des propositions / Du raisonement / Du syllogisme / De diverses sortes de Sophismes / Sophismes d’amour-propre, d’interet, de passion, ou suggeres par l’imagination / Methode pratique pour former sa conscience par le moyen d’une Logique chretienne / Ou explication des regles qu’on a donnees dans la premiere / Combien la Logique est utile et necessaire / De la carte et distinction des idees, et de leur obscurite et confusion / etc. etc.]

Gand [Ghent], Imprimerie de J. Poelman, [ca. 1780]. 16.5 x 10 cm. 72 pages. Relié demi-cuir. [Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar – Lower spine slightly damaged]. État d’usage. Couverture, tranches de couverture et coins frottées. Intérieur en bon état malgré quelques traces de rousseurs. Titre sur le dos décoré en doré. Ce livre est lié à une seconde publication.

5. Anonymus [Cassius Longinus, Dionysius / [Pseudo-Longinus] / Schardam, Petro Joanne.

Dionysii Longini – “De Sublimitate Liber” [″On the Sublime”]– The Greek Text with Latin Translation and Schardam’s Philological Dissertation and Notes by George Millar / [Dionysii Longini De Sublimitate Commentarius – Curante Georgio Miller, Collegii Dublinensis Olim Socio. (Including: Petro Joanne Schardam – “Dissertatio Philologica De Vita et Scriptis Longini”)].

Editio Altera. Dublin, D.Graisberry, 1820. Octavo (14 cm x 21 cm). V, 257, [30 unnumbered] pages, including “Index Vocum et Phrasium Memorabilium” / “Index Auctorum” / “Index Sectionum”. Plus a16-page-catalogue of “W.B.Kelly’s Scholastic and other Publications” bound at the rear. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Foxing Name of preowner on titlepage: “Geo. Sheehan – Cork”.

6. [Aristotle] / [Daniel Conner].

Interleaved edition with contemporary 19th century manuscript annotations and original drawings by Oxford – student Daniel Conner (Manch House, Dunmanway, Ireland) Aristotelous Technes Rhetorikes Biblia Tria – Aristotelis De Rhetorica Libri Tres. [Bound with: Aristotelous Peri Poietikes = Aristotelis De poetica Liber]. [With a Preface by Theodor Goulston (Gulston)].

Oxford, Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1805. Large Octavo. Pagination of De Rhetorica: XXXI, 237 pages / Pagination of De Poetica: XVII, 104 pages. Modern, recent, stunning half-leather-binding by our bookbindery in Frankfurt / Germany, which included the whole bookblock and endpapers with pastedown. New marbled-paper-pastedown and endpapers and the original bookplate of Daniel Conner applied. In professional Collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7. 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”.

8. Bahm, Archie John.

What is Self ? – The Organicist Answer.

Moradabad, Darshana, 1962. 8°. 27 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition. [Reprinted from Darshana – an international quarterly of Philosophy, Psychology, Psychical Research, religion, Mysticism & Sociology – No.5 – ]

9. Bataille, Georges.

The Accursed Share. Volumes I,II & III (complete set). Translated by Robert Hurley.

New York, Zone Books, 1993. 22.8cm x 15.1cm. 197, 460 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Philosopher Graham Parkes.

10. Batselier, Dom Pieter / Callender, Elsie (trans.)

Saint Benedict – Father of Western Civilization.

Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1981, 26 cm x 33 cm. 476 pages. 476 beautiful mononchrome and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near fine condition. Interior in excellent condition also.