61. [Hobbes, Thomas] Member of the Athenian Society [attributed to John Dunton].

The Athenian Oracle [Including: “An Elegy on the Death of the Honourable Robert Doyle” / “What think you of the Milky Way in Heaven ?” / “Who was the first Founder of Atheism ?” / “Whether Hobbs [sic] [Thomas Hobbes] or Lestrange [Roger Lestrange] is the better Christian ?” / “A Voluntary on the Nativity of our Blessed Lord: Christmas-Day 1692”]. Being an entire collection of all the valuable questions and answers in the old Athenian Mercuries : Intermix’d with many Cases in Divinity, History, Philosophy, Mathematicks [sic] [Mathematics], Love, Poetry, never before published : to which is added, an alphabetical table for the speedy finding of any questions.

The Third Edition Corrected. Volume I (of three Volumes). London, Printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks-market, 1706. 12.7 cm x 20 cm. 568 pages, inlcuding two leaves of advertising for “Books printed for Andrew Bell”. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with ornament to boards and recently rebacked spine. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Moderate foxing to front and rear pastedown and endpapers.

62. [Russell, Bertrand] Quine, Willard Van Orman / Heimpel, Carl G./ Wang, Hao.

Symposium: 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.

The Journal of Philosophy, 1966. 8°. 16 pages (Symposium), Softcover. In: “The Journal of Philosophy” – 1966 – Double Number containing the above mentioned articles by Quine, Hempel and Wang on Bertrand Russell. The Double number contains also articles by Leonard Linskey and Henry David Aiken.

63. [Quine, W. V. O.] Sukale, Michael.

Comparative Studies in Phenomenology.

The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. 8°. 153 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Very good in blue printed wraps, with slight soiling to front wrapper. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author to Philosopher W. V. Quine on the front blank: “For Prof. Quine with many thanks for a fruitful exchange of ideas in Farmington. Oct. 22, 1983. From Michael Sukale.”

64. 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].

65. [Chomsky, Noam] Harman, Gilbert.

On Noam Chomsky – Critical Essays [by Quine, Davidson and many others]. [SIGNED by Noam Chomsky]. Edited by Gilbert Harman.

First Edition. Garden City, Anchor Books, 1974. 8°. 348 pages. Original Softcover. Top edge stained. Minor crease to rear cover. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the endpaper. [Modern Studies in Philosophy – Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (General Editor)].

66. Chomsky, Noam / Halle, Morris / Jakobson, Roman.

Hypothèses. [SIGNED by Chomsky] – Trois entretiens et trois études sur la linguistique et la poétique. Présentations et contributions de Jean Pierre Faye, Jean Paris, Jacques Roubaud, Mitsou Ronat.

First Edition / Premiere Edition. Paris, Éditions Seghers / Laffont, 1972. 8°. 217 pages. Softcover / Broché. Avec la signature de Noam Chomsky. / Original Softcover. Signed by Noam Chomsky.

67. Kierkegaard, Søren.

Efterladte Papirer. 1848.

First Edition. Kjobenhavn, G.A. Reitzels Forlag, 1880. 20.6cm x 13cm. XII, (4) 398 pages. Private hardcover of the early 20th century in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Titlepage privately inscribed.

68. Kant, Immanuel.

A very important Bibliography of books by and about Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) including: I. Individual works by Kant / II. Collections, Selections, Letters and Collected Works editions by Kant / III. Biographies, Bibliographies and related Material / IV. Critical works on Kant / V. Portraits of Kant and Addenda. Bound copy of a bibliography and title-page catalogue of a private collection, compiled by a leading antiquarian bookshop in the 1990’s / (Unique xeroxed copy of a singular collection of important Kant publications).

Germany, c.1995. Quarto. Listing 406 titles on approximately 200 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition. The copies of titlepages of all original editions of Kant that are m,entioned in this bibliography are included in this volume.

69. [Gray, Cleve] Barzun, Jacques.

Romanticism and the Modern Ego. [Beautifully inscribed by Jacques Barzun to american abstract expressionist painter Cleve Gray].

6th edition. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1947. Octavo. 359 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Barzun to Cleve Gray on the endpaper: “Cleve Gray, painter, whose seeing eye does not stop at the outside of books. Dec. 15’ 48 – Jacques Barzun”. With several markings in pencil by Gray inside. [An Atlantic Monthly Press Book].

70. Albert, Hans.

Traktat über kritische Vernunft. [Widmungsexemplar].

3., erweiterte Auflage. Tübingen, J.C.B.Mohr, 1975. 8°. XVI, 219 Seiten. Softcover. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. Mit der gedruckten Widmung an Karl Popper. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung und Signatur von Hans Albert an Oswald Schwemmer. / Inscribed by the german philosopher Hans Albert to fellow philosopher Oswald Schwemmer in 1975. Inscribed books by Albert are very uncommon.