![Item #CNJL2366 Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, Briefwechsel [Correspondence] 1926-1969;...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL2366_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686094447)
Munich and Zurich: Piper, (1985). Hardcover. Octavo size, 864 pp., note that all text is in German. From the dust jacket flap: "Die Korrespondenz zwischen Hannah Arendt und Karl Jaspers - es sind an die 420 Briefe erhalten - wird in dieser Ausgabe vollständig abgedruckt und durch einige Briefe ihrer..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2014). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 333 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "Erich Auerbach (1892-1957)...a prophet of global literary studies [and] best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, [here] presents a wide selection of essays, many of which are little known outside..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 390 pp., from the library of the Science Hill School. Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-1878) , the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was an outspoken educator and writer, and advocated for equal access to education for women. She..... More
![Item #CNJL314 The Holy Bible [with] The Making of the Bruce Rogers World Bible; Containing The...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL314_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1521152562)
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1949. Rogers, Bruce. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, the Bible one of 975 copies, elephant folio size, [942] pp., [and] Making of the Bible number 178 of 1875 copies, quarto size, [41] pp. The second folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1919. Gill, Eric. First Edition. Wraps. Twenty-fourmo size, 28 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable", with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996. Mazur, Michael. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 16 1/4" by 11 1/2", 102 pages. The pagination follows the Hebrew convention, reading right to left, as do the lines of Hebrew. The type for the Hebrew is Hadassah, set in photocomposition through the good offices of..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. Dine, Jim. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 14 7/8" by 11 inches, 64 unnumbered pages. The type is Garamond Bold, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie-Harris, with 14 point for the words ascribed to St. John and 18 point for words ascribed to God and the..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. Dine, Jim. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 14 7/8" by 11 inches, 64 unnumbered pages. The type is Garamond Bold, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie-Harris, with 14 point for the words ascribed to St. John and 18 point for words ascribed to God and the..... More
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty-fourmo size, 234 pp., in French. The biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, two women who leave the land of Moab to return to Naomi's native land of Bethlehem, is a story of love, devotion, and loyalty; it is a story of strength..... More
![Item #231128053 The Birth of Christ [The Nativity]; from the Gospel according to Saint Luke....](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/231128053_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701889148)
[Waltham Saint Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Rooke, Noel. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 370 copies, octavo size, 44 pp. This volume comprises a portion of text from the Book of Saint Luke, telling of the birth of Jesus Christ; printed by The Golden Cockerel Press, this publication is..... More
(Oxford): (Oxford University Press), (2014). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the OUP publication, four volumes (complete), large octavo size, total of approximately 2000 pp. One could spend a lifetime studying the life and work of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848). An ordained Catholic priest as well as a scholar, philosopher and..... More
[London and New York]: [Sold by Hacon & Ricketts, The Vale Press....London, & John Lane, New York], [1902]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 310 copies, quarto size, 199 pp. "Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) is a spiritual testament and early psychological self-portrait. Published in 1642 after an unauthorized..... More
Torino: Zecchi e Bona, 1850. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 176 pp., text in Italian. Text in Italian, with some Latin quotes scattered throughout. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan leather with marbled paper boards, gilt lettering and decorations direct to spine, text block edges appear to have been stained at some point, now faded..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1947. Hardcover. Octavo size, 346 pp. Per Wikipedia, "Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St John Sprigg (20 October 1907 – 13 February 1937), a British Marxist writer, literary critic, intellectual and activist..published The Crisis of Physics in 1936... According to Marxist historian Helena Sheehan..... More
![Item #23092701 Cantico delle Creature [Canticle of the Creatures]. Christian Hymn, Francesco...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23092701_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697317995)
Perugia: Xilocart, 1988. Leboroni, Mariaelisa. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 180 copies, oblong quarto size, 5 text pp. and 7 woodcuts, signed by the artist/printer, text in Italian. Saint Francis of Assisi (ca. 1181-1226) is almost synonymous with the love of animals and the earth, and his "Canticle of the..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, first printing, large octavo size, 345 pp. From the jacket flap: "No one has figured more prominently in the study of German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett...Frege (1848-1925) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher whose work had enormous..... More
San Francisco: Printed for The Book Club of California by John Henry Nash, 1921. Nash, John Henry. Limited Edition. No binding. Single leaf folded once to make [4] pp. A lovely broadside printed by the San Francisco printer extraodinaire, John Henry Nash (1871-1947) with his characteristic mitred ruled border, this..... More
Ditchling Common, Sussex: Saint Dominic's Press, 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 copies on hand-made paper, duodecimo size, 40 pp. "Fr. Noble's essay is both for the guidance of a would-be postulant to the [Dominican] Lay-Brotherhood and for the encouragement of one who has discovered his vocation" (n.b., from..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: Pepler and Sewell, St Dominic's Press, 1934. Hagreen, Philip. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, sixteen unpaginated leaves. The text of a lecture given in London by Fr. McNabb to the Catholic Poetry Society. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in brown quarter-cloth over green paper covered..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 188 pp. From the jacket flap: "This book examines the central questions concerning the duty to obey the law: the meaning of this duty; whether and where it should be acknowledged; and whether and when it should be..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 351 pp. From the jacket flap: "Employing different understandings of the concept of truth as investigative tools, the author depicts varying theological responses to the growth of natural science in the nineteenth century..." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full grey..... More
Santa Fe: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2021. Baumann, Gustave. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 108 copies, large octavo size, 96 pp., Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) was a German-American printmaker and painter, one of the leading figures in the revival of colour woodcuts; he spent a...... More
[New Delhi]: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives [Associated Publishing House], 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Octavo size, 133 pp. First volume of the periodical "The Tibet Journal"; "an occasional publication of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, devoted to the presentation of scholarly and general interest articles on..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition, first printing, large octavo size, 846 pp. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is known as one of the "most influential political theorists of the 20th century"; Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), a psychiatrist and philosopher, is "often viewed as a major exponent..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007-2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes (complete), quarto size, 2823 pp. " 'The Development of Ethics' is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as..... More