Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. 3 volumes. Large 8vo. cxvii, 455 pp.; viii, 589 pp.; xv, 584 pp. Publisher's original brown blind stamped cloth, with gilt stamping on spine, interior with scattered foxing. Previous owner's signature on pastedown and title. Slight variations of color in binding caused by fading, uncommonly... More about THE WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND. A New Edition: With a Life of the Author...

Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1950. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 211pp. Burgundy cloth stamped in silver, in black dust jacket with type in silver, with few edge tears to top. Very good. More about REASON AND LAW STUDIES IN JURISTIC PHILOSOPHY

Lexington, KY: Printed, published and sold by Thomas T. Skillman, 1824. Second Kentucky edition (also published by Skillman in Lexington the previous year, following many 18th and early 19th century editions from London and the eastern United States cities). 12mo. 250 pp. The author was a Presbyterian minister at Dorking... More about A treatise on self-knowledge: shewing the nature and benefit of that important science and the...

Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent: Cincinnati, (OH), Robert Clarke. 1886. New edition, carefully revised and compared with the best Paris edition, to which are prefixed a memoir of the life and writings of the author and an analysis of the work by M. D'Alembert. 8vo. 2 volumes: xlvii... More about The Spirit of Laws

Philadelphia: Printed by William Pritchard, 1797. 12mo. 244pp. Full flame calf. Gilt ruled spine was gilt stamped tan spine label (chipped). Joints rubbed, slight chip to tip of spine. Old tidelines particularly notable on page edges and endpapers, overall toning to text. SHIPTON AND MOONEY 32732; ESTC - W21312. More about OBSERVATIONS ON DOCTOR PRIESTLEY'S DOCTRINES OF PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY AND MATERIALISM

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. First edition thus, the "Manuscript Edition," 1/600 numbered sets, "signed" by the publisher and with a leaf of autograph manuscript by Thoreau bound in. 8vo. 20 volumes. Illustrated, photographs, plates, some colored, folding map of Concord in the final volume. 40 photographic frontispieces not included... More about The Writings of Henry David Thoreau