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Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924. Hardcover. Three quarter red levant and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 481 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 20 of 25 on India Paper, "has been printed for presentation to friends." Title page in red and black, several engraved facsimiles including frontispiece and captioned tissue guards. Originally published 1705 as satire… Read more about this item

London: Jacob Tonson, 1703. leather_bound. Uniformly bound in period Cambridge style binding brown calf. Very good. 5 Vols. 633, 624, 600, 750, 736 pages. 20 x 13 cm. With 53 engraved plates (including 5 frontispieces), tables, and ads. At the end of Vol. IV page of Tonson ads. Early ownership signatures of John and Anne Amson. Raised bands,… Read more about this item

Hamburg, 1672. Second edition. Hardcover. Contemporary vellum backed marbled boards. 20.5 x 16.8 cm. *4 **2; A-Z4 Aa-Ff4 Gg2. As in other copies of the second edition, p.42 reads 24, and p.207 reads 213. Woodcut printer's device, Roman, italic and Hebrew type. Spinoza was excommunicated in 1656, and thereafter adopted the the Latin form Benedict of his birth name. BRUNET… Read more about this item

London: Robert Daniel, 1651. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary Cambridge style full brown calf lacking spine label. Very good. 393 pages, plus (5 leaves: Index Rerum & Verborum & Index Scripturarum). 32 x 21 cm. Translated and edited by Richard Montague. Parallel text in Latin and Greek. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as St. Photios the… Read more about this item

Bisley, Gloustershire: Published by him & printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red buckram, gilt lettered spine. Teg. Near fine. 135 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 8 of 300, Meek's eschatology is surmised in his "So long as man, as we know him, exists, religion will exist." Clean, crisp copy,… Read more about this item

Dublin: William Watson, 1777. First edition. Hardcover. Modern black leatherette, spines printed in gilt. Very good. 2 vols. 445, 428 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The controversy of Voltaire's anti-Semitism has been long disputed. He was at war with both Judaism and Christianity. He wanted to purge all men, of whatever persuasion, from these superstitions in order to… Read more about this item

London: John Nourse, 1775. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Fine. 485 [30, Inded & Errata]. 21.5 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece, An English politician and grammarian, fond of the Greek and Roman classics. Samuel Johnson found Harris uncongenial, saying he was "a sound, solid scholar," but "a… Read more about this item

London: Cadell and Davies, et al., 1799. Second edition. leather_bound. Contemprary full brown tree calf. Near fine. 2 vols.. 531, 563 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Errata. The author, Bishop of Lincoln and later, Bishop of Winchester served as Prime Minister of Great Britain in December 1783 when the Fox-North coalition fell. Pitt later named him his private… Read more about this item

London: John & James Rivington, 1792. First edition. leather_bound. Full straight-grained red morocco. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 90 & 79 pages. 21 x 23.5 cm. Errata leaf, published posthumously. LOWNDES 1846. "An excellent work, full of profound and abstruse learning." This copy with the leather Johnsonian bookplate of R. B. Adam. Binding attributed to Roger… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Corn. Crownfield, 1726. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary calf professionally rebacked in antique calf with green morocco spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 8vo, 23 x 14cm, (*4),A-Z8,Aa-Bb2,A1-K4, twenty copper-engraved plates, some are fold-outs. Appendix. Index. DIBDIN LIBRARY COMPANION p. 517. "Of the same class is Dr. Knight; whose`Lives of Colet and Erasmus' are in every well… Read more about this item