11. Berger, Peter / Kellner, Hansfried.

Marriage and the Construction of Reality – An exercise in the Microsociology of Knowledge.

Diogenes, [1964]. 8°. 24 pages. Softcover. Offprint from “Diogenes 46” (1964). Some stains within text.

12. Berger, Peter L.

Towards a Sociological Understanding of Psychoanalysis.

Social Research, 1965. 8°. 35 pages. Softcover. First Edition Offprint from “Social Research” – Spring 1965.

13. Bettelheim, Bruno.

Symbolic Wounds. Puberty Rites and the Envious Male.

First Edition. New York, Stratford Press, Inc., 1954. Size. 286 (2) pages. Frontispiece (colour) of carved ancestral figure from New Ireland. Original Hardcover in original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of wear. Endpaper inscribed and signed by the author Bruno Bettelheim. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger (Cape Clear).

14. Blair, Hugh.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters.

First Dublin Edition. In Three Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Colles, Burnet, Moncrieffe etc., 1783. Large Octavo (13,5 cm x 21 cm). Pagination: Volume I: 429 pages / Volume II: 444 pages / Volume III: 389 pages plus 34 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Original full leather. Original Trinity College Dublin price-binding with supralibros on all boards (some in gilt) and three beautiful price-bookplates from Trinity College, awarded to Ricardo Meade, on the pastedowns. Some old wormhole-damage. Still overall very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

15. Boas, George.

The Heaven of Invention.

First Edition. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1962. 8°. X, 394 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Stunning, unusually excellent condition.

16. Bochenski, J.M.

Logik. Mit 4 Tafelbeilagen. Die erste umfassende Darstellung der gesamten – der westlichen wie der östlichen – Geschichte der formalen Logik, vom zeitgenössischen Standpunkt aus, in erläuterten Dokumenten, mit einer ausführlichen Bibliographie. Zugleich ein einzigartiges historisches Lehrbuch der Logik.

First Edition. Munchen, Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg, 1971. Size. XV, (1) 639 (1) pages. Original Hardcover in originalem Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand. Exemplar des Schweizer Philosophen Rolf A. Eberle (1931-2014) [Eberle worked intensely on the Ontological thought of Nelson Goodman]. Mit seinem Namenszug und Adresse seiner Wahlheimat in Los Angeles, California, auf dem Vorsatzblatt. Kleiner Ausriss am vorderen Vorsatzpapier. Dieses Buch ist mittlerweile extrem Selten !

17. Boole, George.

Of Propositions numerically definite. [Original Offprint]. By the late George Boole, Professor of Mathematics in Queens’s College, Cork. Communicated by A. de Morgan, Esq.

Cambridge, University Press, 1869. 4°. pages 396 – 411 pages. Modern Softcover with original transaction stapled. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society – Volume XI, Part II].

18. Boole, George.

On the Analysis of Discontinuous Functions. 16 pages. [Read 20th July, 1846] / Bound with: On a certain Multiple Definite Integral 10 pages. [Read 13th April, 1846].

First Edition of two papers presented to the Royal Irish Academy. [Dublin / Lincoln], Royal Irish Academy, 1845 – 1846. Quarto. pages 124 – 149 from “The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXI, Part I, 1846. Modern Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very rare extract of the original printed paper.

19. Bougeant, Guillaume Hyacinthe / François-Alexandre Aubert de la Chesnaye Desbois.

Amusement Philosophique sur le Langage des Bestes, Nouvelle Edition. Augmentee d’un Avertissement, d’un Discours preliminaire, d’un Critique, avec des Notes, & de la Retractation de l’Auteur. [Ensemble avec: Lettre ¡a Madame la Comtesse D***. Pour servir de Supplément à l’amusement Philosophique sure le langage des Bétes. [par François-Alexandre Aubert de la Chesnaye Desbois]

Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, [1750]. 10,5 cm x 17,5 cm. XLVI, 134 pages, (50) pages, [4] pages. Reliure originale / Hardcover – Original full leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornament to spine. The volume is now in protective Mylar. Minor wear. Spine slighty starting. Otherwise in excellent and firm condition.

20. Cahn, Steven M.

The Eclipse of Excellence – A critique of American Higher Education. Foreword by Charles Frankel.

Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1973. 8°. 45 pages. Softcover. Original wrappers. FINE condition.