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Auction No 369, Category: Philosophy

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

William Godwin "Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries", Effingham Wilson, 1831

Lot: 157

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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William Godwin Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries, Effingham Wilson, 1831, First Edition, later quarter-leather, gilt, for Bury Co-Operative Library with library labels to front endpapers; a few fox marks but very largely fine clean text; viii,471pp. VG

Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii [Boethius] "Consolationis Philosophiae Libros Quinque,

Lot: 162

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £46
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Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii [Boethius] Consolationis Philosophiae Libros Quinque, Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Petrus Callyus, Frederick Leonard, 1695, 4to, contemporary leather, gilt, worn, rear hinge partly split, front board incorporating ownership panel of Benjamin Bower of Manchester; front pastedown with ownership signature dated 1945; engraved frontispiece; title page with woodcut; introduction with elaborate headpiece (repeated at page 1) and historiated initial, woodcut tailpieces thereafter; fine text; pp.(42),352,(58). 

John Locke "Some Thoughts Concerning Education", S.Birt & others, 1752, 12th Edition

Lot: 177

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education, S.Birt & others, 1752, 12th Edition, modern quarter calf, gilt, slightly rubbed; foxing to pp.33-47, and final 7 pages. Generally clean text; (vi),325,(5)pp; together with 4 other works. (5). Good to VG  

"Thomas Carlyle's Works: The Standard Edition in 18 Volumes", Chapman & Hall, 1904-05

Lot: 178

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
UNSOLD
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Thomas Carlyle's Works: The Standard Edition in 18 Volumes, Chapman & Hall, 1904-05, half-leather, gilt with raised bands, title labels a little rubbed & faded o/w a fine set without internal inscriptions. (18)

J. B. Hannay "Sex Symbolism in Religion", London, 1922, 1st Edn, 2 volumes, orig. gilt cloth, spines a little faded,

Lot: 179

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £18
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J. B. Hannay Sex Symbolism in Religion, London, 1922, 1st Edn, 2 volumes, orig. gilt cloth, spines a little faded, ownership signature, fine internally; William Inge The Philosophy of Plotinus, Longmans, 1923, 1st Edn, 2 vols, orig. gilt cloth; and Confucius The Unwobbling Pivot and The Great Digest, Peter Owen, 1951, in foxed d/jkt, translated by Ezra Pound. G/VG (5)

George Grosz "A Post-War Museum", Faber, 1931, printed wraps, Criterion Miscellany No.31, fine;

Lot: 222

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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George Grosz A Post-War Museum, Faber, 1931, printed wraps, Criterion Miscellany No.31, fine; and others in Faber & Faber’s Criterion Series including H.G.Wells Imperialism and the Open Conspiracy, and John Middleton Murry The Fallacy of Economics. Good to Fine. (9)