Lithograph on heavy paper, some small tears and bumps at edges, sheet size 435 x 325 mm, print size 380 x 285 mm, foxing and spotting noticeable particularly in the margins, still a strong and powerful likeness of the philosopher, unframed.

8vo, xxiv, 232 pp. with the errata leaf, contemporary marbled boards very rubbed and worn at corners, spine and label renewed, title-page with taped repairs to edge and inscription ‘ex Bibliotheca Wilmus[?]’, the first 12 pages with underlinings in early ink, interleaved, with contemporary annotations in a rather hasty German cursive on 43 of the blank pages, and a humorous sketch on the rear pastedown of ‘Dr. Imm. Kant en miniature’ with the word ‘Logik’ emerging from his mouth, an interesting copy.

The archive includes papers and essays (some unpublished), correspondence, and many hundreds of books and offprints in logic and philosophy, some with presentation inscriptions, others with annotations by Dummett. The material ranges from manuscripts and first drafts through to corrected page proofs and published pieces. Besides the seminal work in logic and philosophy that made him famous, Dummett’s other interests – the Catholic Church, immigration and refugees, electoral reform, and the history of Tarot cards – are well represented here. The archive is unresearched, and contains much interesting academic and biographical material for future scholarship.

Whitelock Bulstrode: Essays upon the Following Subjects. Viz. 1. Of Generosity. 2. Of the New Man. 3. Of the Government of the Eye … 18. A Letter… touching the Equivocal Generation of Plants and Insects …19. Of Reading the Holy Scriptures, &c. 20. Of Persons running in Debt, and dying without Payment. London: printed for A. Bettesworth, and J. Clarke, 1724.

The professional archive of the American logician and philosopher Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz (1906-2001), including extensive manuscripts by Ambrose, and autograph material by Wittgenstein, G.E. Moore, R.B. Braithwaite and Rush Rees, and many others.

Manuscript entitled ‘A course of Lectures on Government By John Millar Esquire. 1786’, Lectures 9-47, with, bound at the end, an 8-page printed curriculum: A Course of Lectures on Government; given annually in the University. Glasgow: 1783. 4to, 176 numbered pages handwritten in ink, clearly legible, rebound around 1850 in half green morocco, dampstain running through top right-hand corner with slight loss of text on a few leaves, general condition very good.

Leviathan: of van de Stoffe, Gedaente, ende Magt van de Kerckelijcke ende Wereltlycke Regeeringe. Beschreven door Thomas Hobbes van Malmesbury. Amsterdam: J. Wagenaar, 1667. 8vo, with the extra engraved title, the portrait of Hobbes and the folding table, [xiv], 744, [64] pp., (misnumberings: 45 for 47, 207 for 307, 389 for 289, 307 for 407, 595 for 597, 789 for 689), contemporary vellum with hand-lettered spine, uniform light browning, 3 leaves (F, N, T2) with small tears in bottom margin, a spot on X6, a tiny dampstain running through top margin of index, hole in final leaf of index repaired with slight loss of text, still a good copy overall.

8vo, with the half title, 12mo, [viii], 253, [3] pp., L3 a cancel, contemporary gilt-panelled calf, nicely rebacked and corners restored, B3 with a paper flaw, tiny stain in outer margin of last few leaves, no stamps or inscriptions, a very good copy.

​One page, folded from folio to small 4to, the original sheet being 336mm by 214mm, address on verso, with seal, approximately 150 words in a clear hand in brown ink, with one correction in his hand changing “them” to “the printers”, the paper professionally cleaned and backed with acid-free tissue, tear neatly repaired but in good condition.

Das Leben des Bened. von Spinoza, aus denen Schrifften dieses beruffenen Welt-Weisens und aus dem Zeugniß vieler glaubwürdiger Personen, die ihn besonders gekannt haben, … Nunmehro aber aus dem Frantzösischen ins Hoch-Teutsche übersetztet und mit verschiedenen Anmerckungen vermehret [by Johann Faccius]. Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1733 [bound with] Das Leben des weltberühmten Herrn Peter Bayle, wie solches zuerst in Französischer Sprache von Hn. Des Maizeaux aufgesetzt, und nunmehro, seiner Schönheit und unzehliger Merckwürdigkeiten wegen, ins Deutsche übertragen von J. P. Kohl. Hamburg: König und Richter, 1731.

4 works in one volume, 4 groups of contemporary ink annotations bound in behind each text (total 14 pp.), mid-19th-century half cloth over marbled boards, rubbed, spine lettered gilt ‘Einleitung in Schopenhauer Philosophie’ (the same words handwritten on the front free endpaper), the four texts very good, with light browning and foxing in places and isolated further brief annotations in pencil.

2 volumes, 8vo, iv, 168, 3-156, [2], [ii], 154, xiv, 127; [iv], 188, [ii], 174 (145-160 misnumbered 165-180), [ii], 109 pp., uniform contemporary marbled boards, rubbed at edges, spines with red labels lettered in gilt, faint underlining and marginal reading marks in unobtrusive old crayon on perhaps 40 pages, otherwise light uniform age-toning, no library stamps, generally a very good copy.

Second edition of Hume’s classic treatment of religion, published in the same year as the first very small Edinburgh edition, now virtually unobtainable. ‘Hume began

Signed by the author. First edition of Heidegger’s Habilitationsschrift, ‘The Categories and Theory of Meaning of Duns Scotus’. Large 8vo, [viii], 245 pp., original printed stiff wrappers, front hinge with short tears top and bottom, covers darkened towards edges and with slight show-through where a bookplate was once glued inside front cover, a crack down the spine but textblock still tight, title-page inscribed ‘Vom Verfasser, M.H.’, a very good copy, entirely unopened.

4to, [i], [i], [xiv], 12, [x], 511, [8], 143 pp., elaborately blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, a little dusty and marked, two clasps in good order, all edges red, front free endpaper with some holes and early inscription ‘Prohibitus Decr. 4 Mart. 1709’, scattered foxing, some sections browned, a good copy with wide margins in an attractive contemporary binding.

David Hume über die menschliche Natur, aus dem Englischen, nebst kritischen Versuchen zur Beurteilung dieses Werks von Ludwig Heinrich Jakob. Erster Band: Ueber den menschlichen Verstand. Zweiter Band: Ueber die Leidenschaften. Dritter Band: Ueber die Moral. Halle: Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1790, 1791, 1792.

Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats. Im Anschluss an Lewis H. Morgan’s Forschungen. Hottingen-Zürich: Schweizerische Genossenschaftsbuchdruckerei, 1884.

8vo, viii, 503 pp., contemporary calf, spine ruled gilt with red morocco label, lightly rubbed, minor wear at head of spine, outer leaves stained at edges from turn-ins, contemporary ownership inscription ‘Mr. E. Maclae’ on front free endpaper, internally clean with only a few isolated spots, a very good copy.

Das Elend der Philosophie. Antwort auf Proudhons “Philosophie des Elends” von Karl Marx. Deutsch von E. Bernstein und K. Kautsky. Mit Vorwort und Noten von Friedrich Engels. Stuttgart: J.H.W. Dietz, 1885.

An early 18th-century commonplace book, 8vo, contemporary calf fairly worn, spine label renewed, c.220 pp., closely hand-written in legible ink throughout, with notes, transcribed essays, letters, sermons and biblical commentary, etc.

A Concise and Genuine Account of the Dispute between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau: with the Letters that passed between them during their Controversy. As also, the letters of the Hon. Mr. Walpole, and Mr. D’Alembert, relative to this extraordinary Affair. Translated from the French. London: printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1766. 8vo, pp viii, 95, [1] pp., 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, small stab-holes in inner margins, outer leaves a little browned towards the edges, otherwise internally clean and fresh, a very good copy.

Oeuvres philosophiques latines et françoises de feu Mr. de Leibnitz. Tirées de ses manuscrits … et publiées par Mr. Rud[olf] Eric[h] Raspe. Avec une préface de Mr. Kaestner… Amsterdam et Leipzig: Jean Schreuder, 1765. 4to, half-title, [ii], xvi, [i], 540, [17] pp., contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and slightly stained, certain signatures with mild age-toning, otherwise just a few isolated spots, a fine copy.

2 works in one volume, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait and folding plate of the calculating machine, [xxiv], 64, 843, [52]; [II], xvi, 556, lxxx, [20] pp., contemporary vellum, early ink annotations to front pastedown and flyleaf, minor browning only, a very well-preserved copy.

Des Freyherrn von Leibnitz kleinere Philosophische Schriften … mit einer Vorrede herrn Chistian Wolffs … Jena: Mayer, 1740 [bound with] MEIER: Beweiss, dass keine Materie dencken könne. Halle: Hemmerde, 1743 [bound with] MEIER: Beweis der vorherbestimmten Uebereinstimmung. Halle: Hemmerde, 1743.

3 works in one volume, 8vo, [lxxviii], 464, [xii], 84, [xvi], 231, [1] pp., contemporary vellum with hand-lettered spine, without a front endpaper, early ownership inscription on first title-page, otherwise clean, very good copies.

Recueil de diverses pièces, sur la philosophie, la religion naturelle, l’histoire, les mathematiques, &c. Par Mrs. Leibniz, Clarke, Newton, & autres auteurs célèbres. Amsterdam: Duvillard et Changuion, 1720.

2 volumes, 12mo, engraved frontispiece with portraits of the main authors, also an engraved portrait after Kneller of the dedicatee, Princess Caroline of Ansbach, [vi], xcviii, [ii], 409, [6]; [vi], 424, [14] pp., (vol. 1 pagination 161-5 repeated and 409-410 misnumbered 408-409), somewhat later vellum with red morocco labels, small hole in one spine, bookplates of Julius Gertig on pastedowns, title-pages printed in red and black, in the first volume worming from p. 200 onwards with loss of a few letters not affecting legibility, in the second volume some sections browned and some miniscule marginal worming, scattered light spotting throughout, still a very good copy, rare.

8vo, c. 950 pp., 18th-century half vellum, first text with frontispiece portrait of Leibniz, uniform light browning (a little heavier in the first and last texts), generally very good copies in an attractive contemporary binding.

First edition of The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, intended by Kant as a first step towards a projected-but-never-completed metaphysics of nature. Adickes 64.

Specimina philosophiae: Seu dissertatio de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice, et Meteora, ex Gallico translata, & ab auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendata. Ultima Editio cum optima collata, diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1664 [bound with] Passiones Animae. Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1664.

Critik der Urtheilskraft. Berlin und Libau: Lagarde und Friederich, 1790.

Critik der practischen Vernunft. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1788.

8vo, ix, [i], 93 pp., original printed wrappers with a few marks, small hole in front cover and spine somewhat darkened, internally very clean.

First edition in English, the sheets printed by Naumann in Leipzig then bound in the UK.

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.

On Liberty. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859.

Studien über Autorität und Familie. Forschungsberichte aus dem Institut für Sozialforschung. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1936.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Corrected reprint of the first edition of 1984. ‘Parfit was one of the most important — if not the most important — moral philosophers in

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.

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’.

3 typescripts and 7 offprints, some signed, general condition very good.

An nice exchange between two major 20th-century philosophers, whose obvious liking for each other could sometimes turn to irritation.

A Commonplace book written by an unidentified person in Edinburgh during the 1770s.

Des vrayes et des fausses idées, contre ce qu’enseigne l’auteur de la recherche de la vérité. Cologne: Nicolas Schouten, 1683.