Thomas Aquinas – Summa Summæ S. Thomæ, 1765-66
Summa Summæ S. Thomæ, Sive Compendium Theologiæ … Caroli Renati Billuart, Ordinis Fratrum Prædicatorum S. Theologiæ Doctoris ac Provincialis, juxta Mentem & … juxta Ordinem & Litteram S. Thomæ in sua Summa, ab eodem Auctore editum. Wirceburgi: Joan. Jacob Stahel, 1765-66.
Plato – The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus, 1820
The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, in Five Books; containing a Treasury of Pythagoric and Platonic Physiology. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. London: printed for the author, 1820.
Rudolf Carnap’s first publication, 1922
Der Raum. Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftslehre, Berlin, Verlag von Reuther & Reichard, 1922. Large 8vo, 87pp., Kant-Studien, No 56, paper covers browned towards edges, internally excellent, with pages almost entirely unopened.
Joseph Priestley on ‘the synoptic problem’, 1780
A Harmony of the Evangelists in English; with Critical Dissertations, an Occasional Paraphrase, and Notes for the use of the Unlearned. London: J. Johnson, 1780. 4to, [ii], xxiv, 155, xxviii, 261 (p.158 misnumbered 356), [7] pp., folding engraved map of the Holy Land, contemporary gilt-panelled calf, smooth spine decorated gilt, slight loss to head, ownership signature of Francis Pratt (1771) on B2, a very nice copy.
Max Horkheimer (ed.) – Studien über Autorität und Familie, 1936
Studien über Autorität und Familie. Forschungsberichte aus dem Institut für Sozialforschung. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1936.
John Stuart Mill – On Liberty, 1859
On Liberty. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859.
The only book by C.S. Peirce published in his lifetime
Photometric Researches. Made in the Years 1872-1875. Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. Vol. IX. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1878.
Gottlob Frege’s first publications
Three reviews of works on mathematics, in Jenaer Literaturzeitung, im Auftrag der Universität Jena, herausgegeben von Anton Klette. Jena: Mauke’s Verlag (Hermann Dufft) [from 1878, Leipzig: Veit & Co., 6 vols, all published], 1874-79.
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann – Geschichte der Philosophie. Leipzig, 1798-1819
11 volumes in 12 (all published), large 8vo, c.5700 pp., contemporary maroon half cloth, spines lettered gilt, marbled boards lightly rubbed, bookplates of Baron Charles de Bock in all volumes, no stamps or inscriptions, uniform light age-toning with slightly more noticeable foxing to outer leaves including title-pages, a very clean and attractive set.
F.W. Nietzsche – A Genealogy of Morals: Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899
First edition in English, the sheets printed by Naumann in Leipzig then bound in the UK.