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Religion & Philosophy
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The First Time In English:
“I Think, Therefore, I Am”
This Edition In John Locke's Library
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DESCARTES, René. / Tr. ANON.. A discourse of a method for the well-guiding of reason, and the discovery of truth in the sciences. London, Thomas Newcombe for John Holden, 1649.
Very rare first English edition and fine copy of one of the most important works of Western Philosophy ever written, Descartes’ Discourse, containing for the first time in English the phrase which is not only the conceptual cornerstone of Rationalism, generally considered the beginning of modern philosophy, but is synonymous in the cultural imagination with the very field of Philosophy: “I think, therefore, I am.”
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Battle of the Biographers
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[SWEDEN / CHARLES XII / VOLTAIRE] FABRICE, Friedrich Ernst von.. Anecdotes du sejour du roi de Suede a Bender, ou, Lettres de Mr. le baron de Fabrice pour servir d’eclaircissement a l’histoire de Charles XII. Hamburg, Christian Herold, 1760.
Rare first French edition (first German: 1759) of this account of Charles XII’s exile in Turkey, published on the request of Voltaire to supplement his biography of the monarch and validate it vis-à-vis the rival biography published by Nordberg.
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“THERE IS NO UNDERSTANDING THE JESUITS
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO THAT BOOK” (O’MALLEY)
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IGNATIUS DE LOYOLA, [SAINT]. Exercitia spiritualia. Vienna, [in aedibus Caesari Collegii], 1563.
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WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEONARDO DA VINCI
THE ONLY SET OF HIS FIGURES PUBLISHED IN HIS LIFETIME
THE HOE COPY
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PACIOLI, Luca. Divina Proportione. Venice, Paganino de Paganini, 1 June 1509.
First and only edition of one of the richest sources for studying the interplay of mathematics, art and architectural theory and typography during the High Renaissance by the mathematician Luca Pacioli, with illustrations designed by Leonardo da Vinci.
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The Quintessential Libertine Text
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[[JESUITS, ANTI-]] PALLAVICINO, Ferrante. La rettorica delle puttane composta conforme li precetti di Cipriano. Dedicata alla Università delle Cortegiane più celebri. Cambrai [Venice], 1648.
Extremely rare second edition of the quintessential libertine text of the seventeenth century, The Whore’s Rhetoric, presenting a defense of prostitution in strictly scholastic form.
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