21. 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”.

22. Dymond, Jonathan.

An Enquiry into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity and an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by which it is Defended: with Observations on some of the Causes of War, and on Some of its Effects. Contempt prior to examination, however comfortable to the mind which entertains it, or however natural to great parts, is extremely dangerous; and more apt than almost any other disposition, to produce erroneous judgments both of persons and opinions.

Third Edition. London, Longman, Hurst & Co., 1824. 19.5cm x 11.5cm. xii, 227 (3) pages. Original Hardcover (blue publisher’s boards with spinelabel). Spinlabel and boards a little rubbed. Overall very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very scarce. One of few 19th century writings on pacifism.

23. [Platon] / [Victor Cousin].

Lysis, ou de L’Amitié – Argument Philosophique.

[Paris], [Bossanges Freres], no year [c.1827]. 8°. 33 pp. Softcover / Originale Titelbroschur. [Extracted from Victor Cousin’s: “Oeuvres de Platon, Volume 4”.

24. [Dante Alighieri] / [Thomas Hobbes] / [Sir Isaac Newton] / [Edmund Halley] / [Malkin, Arthur Thomas].

Gallery of Portraits of important philosophers, scientists and men of letters [with Portraits of Carl von Linne / Portrait of Thomas Hobbes / Portrait of Edmund Halley / Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton / Ignatius von Loyola / Cromwell / Sir Humphry Davy etc.].

No Place [London], [Charles Knight & Co.], No Year [1832]. Circa 225 pages. Features thirty black and white portraits, with many black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with half-leather and buckram boards. Gilt lettering and blind design on spine with raised bands with gilt ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor foxing throughout. Some tissue guards loose. With marbled edges and marbled both endpapers and pastedowns. Name of previous owner written in blue ink on free front endpaper “Richard Allen”, also featured within in pencil and dated ‘1832’. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

25. 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.

26. Kant, Emmanuel (Immanuel).

Anthropologie. Suivie des divers fragments du même auteur relatifs aux rapports du physique et du moral et au commerce des esprits d’un monde à l’autre. Ouvrage traduit de l’allemand par J. Tissot.

Paris, Librairie Philosophique De Ladrange, 1863. 13 cm x 22 cm. 483 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar (Removable protective cover). Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight discoloration of opening pages.

27. 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.

28. 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].

29. Hubbard, Elbert.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers – Aristotle. Written by Elbert Hubbard and done into a book by The Roycrofters, at their shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, MCMIV.

New York, The Roycrofters, 1904. 15.5 cm x 20 cm. 22 pages. A variety of advertisements for Roycroft products and services at the beginning and end of publication. Original Softcover. Hand stiched with silk. Deckled edges. Unusually excellent condition of this fragile publication / Only minor signs of external wear. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers (Vol. XIV. March, 1904. No.3)].

30. 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.