Antoine Arnauld – On True and False Ideas, 1683
Des vrayes et des fausses idées, contre ce qu’enseigne l’auteur de la recherche de la vérité. Cologne: Nicolas Schouten, 1683.
Scottish Enlightenment commonplace book
A Commonplace book written by an unidentified person in Edinburgh during the 1770s.
Hilary Putnam & Paul Feyerabend – an exchange of 5 typescripts
An nice exchange between two major 20th-century philosophers, whose obvious liking for each other could sometimes turn to irritation.
Paul Feyerabend – Collection of draft typescripts and offprints, 1956-65
3 typescripts and 7 offprints, some signed, general condition very good.
Carl Hempel – 8 offprints, 3 draft typescripts, and a long letter to Adolf Grünbaum
From the collection of Adolf Grünbaum, Hempel’s friend and colleague at the University of Pittsburgh, eleven rare publications and a letter of rich content, general condition very good. Hempel was known to his friends as Peter, and most of his inscriptions here are signed ‘Peter’.
Euclid – The Commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid’s Elements, 1792
The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus, on the first book of Euclid’s Elements, to which are added, a History of the Restoration of the Platonic Theology, by the latter Platonists; and a Translation from the Greek of Proclus’s Theological Elements. By Thomas Taylor. London: printed for the author, 1792.
Derek Parfit – Reasons and Persons. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986
Corrected reprint of the first edition of 1984. ‘Parfit was one of the most important — if not the most important — moral philosophers in the world. Some of his contemporaries go further, making a compelling case that Parfit belongs to an elite canon alongside three other British philosophers in the utilitarian tradition: Jeremy Bentham, […]
G.E. Moore’s copy
Griechische Sprachlehre für Schulen. [Vol. I] Fünfte Auflage. Leipzig: Krüger, 1875; [Vol. II] Sechste Auflage. Leipzig und Würzburg: Krüger, 1891; [Vol. III] Fünfte Auflage. Leipzig: Krüger, 1879. 3 volumes, 8vo, [ii], 206; [ii], 362; [ii], 143, [3] pp., contemporary green cloth with gilt lettering, spines a little darkened, boards bright and corners sharp, ownership inscription ‘G.E. Moore, Feb. 2nd, 1893’ on all three title-pages, uniform browning, pages untrimmed, a nice association set.
Lord Monboddo (James Burnett) – Antient Metaphysics, 6 vols, 1779-99
Antient Metaphysics: Or, the Science of Universals. With an Appendix, Containing an Examination of the Principles of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy. Edinburgh (J. Balfour, Bell & Bradfute) and London, (T. Cadell, W. Davies), 1779, 1782, 1784, 1795, 1797, 1799.
Hans Vaihinger – two letters, 1911, 1916
Two letters to the philosopher and psychologist Karl Groos (1861-1946), one handwritten and dated 14 January 1911, the other typewritten and dated 29 February 1916, with the second half of a third typewritten letter to Groos from around the same date, all three letters signed.