1. Gombrich, E. H.

The Tradition of General Knowledge.

London, London School of Economics, 1962. Octavo. 23 pages. Softcover. Some minor signs of staining to cover. Inscribed and signed by E.H. Gombrich, then Director of the Warburg Institute. Very Rare !

2. Gombrich, E. H.

Lessing – Lecture on a Mastermind.

London, Oxford University Press, 1957. Octavo. 23 pages. Original Softcover in Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Gombrich on the titlepage: “To Professor Harry Levin with admiration and best regards – E.H.Gombrich”.

3. Comenius, Johann Amos.

Das Labyrinth der Welt und das Paradies des Herzens. Mit einer Handzeichnung. Aus dem Tschechischen übertragen, mit Anmerkungen und einer literar-historischen Einleitung versehen und im Auftrage der Comenius-Gesellschaft zu Berlin herausgegeben von Zdenko Baudnik.

Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1908. Octavo. Frontispiz, XI, 338, [2] Seiten. Hardcover / Originales, sehr dekoratives Ganzpergament. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren an der Bindung (vorderer Einbanddeckel nur leicht verfärbt). Fraktur-Schrift !

4. Starr, Meredith / [Roland Meredith Starr] / [Meher Baba].

The Way of Escape.

First Edition / Original Edition. Cambridge, Published by the National Poetry Circle, [1931]. Small Octavo (12.7 cm x 18.8 cm). 15 pages. Original Softcover, stapled with cover-illustration by Meredith Starr, monogrammed in the plate “M.S. 1931”. The booklet rests loosely inside the original softcover wrappers. The staples a little rusty. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. This pamphlet is of extreme scarcity ! The last two pages of the publication are basically an advertising for the retreat center which Meredith Starr established in 1931 at East Challacombe, North Devon (a couple of miles from Combe Martin), to where he invited Meher Baba in order to come and meet westerners. In his preface, [Roland] Meredith Starr writes: “The Way of Escape” is a symbolic poem that deicts some of the complexes of modern life, particularly those responsible for the cleavage between thought and reality ! The ways of Escape, the path leading to the North, represents the attainment of synthesis (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual maturity) in a world disintegrated by analysis. Neither realism nor idealism can satisfy the needs of the present age. Both are necessary and both must be integrated in a Higher Consciousness. In this connection the remarks of Jung in “Psychological Types” concerning the symbol will repay serious investigation. A symbol is composed of elements that are both real and unreal, and hence can bridge the gulf between and illusion. In the poem this Higher Consciousness is indicated by the description of Alaska and by the utterances of Christ – not the Christ of dogmatic religion, but the living Christ of universal love and wisdom immanent in every human heart and personified by the great religious teachers of Mankind – Combe Martin, Meredith Starr”.

5. [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.

6. 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.

7. 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 – ]

8. [Schütz, Alfred] Kersten, Fred.

Phenomenology, History, Myth.

The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, (1970). 8°. 35 pages. Softcover. Offprint from “Phenomology and Social Reality – Essays in memory of Alfred Schütz”. Inscribed and signed by Fred Kersten.

9. Kaufmann, Fritz (1891-1958).

Art and Phenomenology.

1940. 8°. 15 pages. Stapled Offprint from “Philosophical Essays”. Inscribed and monogrammed by Fritz Kaufmann: “In friendship and gratitude – FK”.

10. [Levin, Harry] Kahler, Erich von.

The True, the Good and the Beautiful. A lecture delivered at Ohio State University December 10,1959.

Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1959. 8°. 40 pages. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by Erich Kahler “for Harry Levin with gratitude for the splendid Gauss lectures – Erich Kahler – May 1961” (by mentioning Gauss he speaks of “Christian Gauss”) / Also included: “The Nature of the Symbol – Offprint from “Symbolism in Religion and Literature, 1960”