Philosophy from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Wiltshire, U.K.: The Prometheus Trust, 2009. Hardcover. Edited and translated by John M. Dillon. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering. ix, 450pp, (6pp ads). Fine. Pristine and tight revised second edition (originally published in 1973) of Volume I in the "Platonic Texts and Translations" series. Iamblichus (c. 245-c. 325 A.D.) was an influential neoplatonic philosopher from Syria. (FFront… Read more about this item

Paris: Société d'Édtition 'Les Belles Lettres', 1968. Hardcover. Edited and translated by H.D. Saffrey andf L.G. Westerink. 8vo. Blue buckram with gilt spine lettering. cxcv, (2pp), (250pp), (4pp), pp. 130-173pp; xciii, (4pp), (142pp), (2pp), pp. 76-144. Fine. Front flyleaf of second volume with ownership signature. These two volumes (issued paperback) here hardbound back-to-back, entirely in French with all Proclus… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Translation by Glenn R. Morrow and John M. Dillon. Small 4to. Brown cloth with white spine lettering. xlvi, 616pp. Near fine. Rear board (only) rubbed. Superb, tight first of this edition, a new translation of this study of one of Plato's more difficult and challenging dialogues by the 5th century A.D. Neoplatonist philosopher.… Read more about this item

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1931. Hardcover. 12mo. Dark blue blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. 188pp, (6pp). Top edge gilt. Near fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Superb, tight first edition of this Greek-focused survey -- and the last work by the noted Latin scholar and Harvard professor (1866-1931).

Wiltshire, U.K.: The Prometheus Trust, 2013. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering. xiv, 247pp, (9pp ads). Fine. Pristine and perfect second edition, with corrected page 121 tipped in. Volume VIII of this publisher's "Platonic Texts and Translations" series.

Wiltshire, U.K.: The Prometheus Trust, n.y.. Hardcover. Edited by L.G. Westerink. Translation by William O'Neill. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering. x, 513pp. Fine. Pristine and perfect first thus joining Westerink and O'Neill's 1962 and 1965 renditions of this Plato dialogue in which Socrates converses with Athenian general-statesman Alcibiades about war, peace, justice and other weighty matters. … Read more about this item

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Translation by Carlos Steel. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 126pp. Fine/fine. Immaculate first edition of this translation of the 5th century A.D. Neoplatonist philosopher's essay, which Steel calls "one of the most remarkable discussions on fate, providence, and free choice in Late Antiquity." Surprisingly scarce.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Hardcover. Introduction, translation and commentary by Helen S. Lang and A.D. Marco. Small 4to. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. xii, 189pp. Very good. Mild touch of binding wear; discreet paper strengthening to rear inner hinge. A tight and nice first edition of this volume in "The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature" series… Read more about this item

New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2004. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with black spine lettering, dust jacket. xi, 494pp. Near fine/fine. Superb and tight first edition of Volume XII in the Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities series. Lyco and Hieronymus were both third century B.C. ancient Greek philosophers of the Peripatetic School, but also bitter rivals.

Edmonds, WA: The Alexandrian Press, 1993. Hardcover. Translation by A.C. Ionides. 8vo. Teal blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 125pp, (1p ad). Fine. Tight and pristine first of this edition, a facsimile of an edition self-published in London by translator Ionides apparently in 1917 (though the publisher fails to note this). Alexander "Alec" Constantine Ionides (1862-1931) was grandson of… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2001. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xi, 195pp. Near fine. Tight, quite attractive second printing of this slim study of the 6th century B.C. Greek philosopher and his beliefs.

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale blue cloth with black spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 262pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and scuffed and faintly edgeworn. Quite attractive and tight first edition.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Introduction by Christopher Morley and note by A.S.W. Rosenbach. 4to. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and green/gold decorative paper over boards, green cloth-covered clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. ix, 190pp (mostly uncut). Top edge gilt. Fine/very good. Mild wear and age toning to clamshell case. Tight and handsome copy… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. Translation revised by A.S.B. Glover. Illustrations by William Sharp. Small 4to. Quarter brown morocco with gilt spine lettering and marbled paper over boards, slipcase. xviii, 635pp. Numerous brown line drawings. Fine/very good. Faint slipcase wear. Handsome, tight LEC production of the groundbreaking, posthumously-published (1782-89) autobiography by the influential Swiss philosopher and… Read more about this item

New York: Philosophical Library, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with pale blue spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 281pp. Very good/very good. Jacket edgeworn, with a few small edge chips and expert archival mends on verso -- complete and still attractive; small front flyleaf ownership signature. Tight and nice first edition of this two-column A to Z… Read more about this item

Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2006. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. v, 190pp. Near fine. Accompanied by 12 audio CDs in individual sleeves, both book and CDs housed in a heavy duty small 4to clamshell case. Near fine. Handsome full set of this "Great Courses" seminar, the "Course Guidebook" outlining these twenty-four 30-minute lectures. This publisher does… Read more about this item

Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2004. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. ii, 71pp. Fine. Accompanied by stiff trifold housing 6 audio CDs, all contained in heavy duty clamshell case. Fine. Pristine set of this "Great Courses" seminar, the "Course Guidebook" outlining these twelve 30-minute lectures. This publisher does not denote edition in any consistent, verifiable manner.

N.p.: Literary Licensing, n.y.. Hardcover. Translation from Greek by Alexander Wilder. Small 4to. Glossy paper over boards. 283pp. Fine. Pristine facsimile edition of the 1911 first U.S. edition of this translation (New York: The Metaphysical Publishing Co.). Iamblichus (here translated by Wilder as Iamblichos) was a neoplatonic philosopher from Syria (245-325 c.e.) and in this work philosophizes on divine… Read more about this item

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xi, 259pp. Very good/very good. Front flyleaf ownership signature and a number of small, discreet inked "x"s and parentheses in margins; jacket faintly worn, with spine age toned. Tight, nice first edition.

La Salle, IL: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1948. Hardcover. Edited by Mary Whiton Calkins. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. xxv, 187pp. Very good. Faintest of binding wear only; front flyleaf ownership signature. A tight and attractive second edition of a selection first published in 1905.