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Description: 8vo, pp. [xvi], 288, contemporary calf, rebacked, spine blocked in blind. A contemporary hand identifies Baker as the author on the title-page. Baker's very popular work gave succour and comfort to those who found the new discoveries and innovations in science and philosophy, mostly notable those of Locke and Newton, likely to displace the role of faith in religion. Baker essentially argues that empirical reasoning and knowledge can never produce the certainty found in revelation.
Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$535.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Contemporary full vellum, lettered in ink to spine, engraved portrait and a large engraved vignette. (8),XLVI,595 pp. + Table des Matieres. The vellum a little mottled and rubbed, some pages some-what browned. From the library of Stephanos Carathèodory with his engraved bookplate and his gilt monogram on the spine. Stephanos Carathéodory, was an Ottoman Greek who had studied law in Berlin and then served as secretary in the Ottoman embassies in Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna. Stephanos had married Despina Petrocochino, who came from a Greek family of businessmen who had settled in Marseille. At the time of his son Constantin's birth, the family were in Berlin since Stephanos had been appointed there two years earlier as First Secretary to the Ottoman Legation. The Carathéodory family, originally from Bosnochori or Vyssa, was well established and respected in Constantinople, and its members held many important government positions. Stephanos Carathèodory was the father of Constantin Carathéodory (or Constantine Karatheodori) (Greek: ???sta?t???? ?a?a?e?d???) (13 September 1873 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. His work also includes important results in conformal representations and in the theory of boundary correspondence. In 1909, Carathéodory pioneered the Axiomatic Formulation of Thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. Known correspondence of Carathéodory-Einstein can be seen as facsimile in Einstein Archives Online (11 items). Three letters concern mathematics and these are printed in vol.8 of Einstein's Collected Works (Princeton Univ. Press 1987)
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 3 vols. Engraved frontispiece portrait and one engraved plate. Folio, old paneled calf. The Third Edition. 18th c. ink ownership signature on front pastedowns of Vols. II-III. Slight dampstaining at the upper margin of the first few dozen leaves in Vol. I; shallow dent at the top edge affects a few more leaves; text generally clean and undamaged. Joints cracked; cords holding; chips to the old leather. Additional postage applicable.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
John Locke. The Works of John Locke, Esq. In Three Volumes. , 1727.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: John Locke. The Works of John Locke, Esq. In Three Volumes . The Third Edition. London, Printed for Arthur Bettesworth M.DCC.XXVII. All folios 30 x 20 cm. in original calf bindings sstamped covers, five raised bands. Wear at edges and corners. Front hinges largely split, holding with cords. All spine leathers partially split labels missing, remnants of gilt. Interior paper clear, unfoxed, with ample margins. I: [10], xxviii, 575, [17] pages. Ffe loose, missing rear endpaper, Two engraved frontispieces. II: [2], 671, [13] pages. III: [4], 668, [15] pages. Last leaf loose, missing rear end-paper. Bookplate on verso of front board.
Seller: South Willington Book Cartel, WILLINGTON, CT, U.S.A.
LOCKE, John [1632-1704].. The Works.. London: Printed For Arthur Bettesworth., 1727., 1727.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 Volumes. folio. pp. 2 p.l., xxviii, [2], 575, [16]index; 1 p.l., 671, [13]index; 3 p.l., 668, [15]. 2 engraved plates (incl. frontis. portrait by Vertue after Kneller & memorial plate). woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked preserving endpapers (some scarring to covers but an attractive set. Third Edition, including An Essay concerning Human Understanding, Some Considerations of the Consequences of lowering the Interest, and raising the Value of Money, Two Treatises of Government, Letter concerning Toleration, Some Thoughts concerning Education, Some Familiar Letters, &c., but not the Remains or Le Clerc's account of Locke's life which was first added in the 1751 fifth edition. Christophersen 88. Rand I 341. NCBEL II 1836. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 164. Palgrave p. 633.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$9555.32 + shipping
Description: An attractive copy of one of the best editions, celebrated for being the most complete and with the largest number of illustrations - here in excellent, strong impressions - of the "very adventurous account of his journey to the Far East" by the young German envoy Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo (van Strien, p. 30). Mandelslo (1616-1644) was a friend of the Dutch geographer Adam Olearius, "rightly considered one of the most versatile scholars and travellers of his time" (Speake, p. 885), and was a former page of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. "Together Mandelslo and Olearius were sent by the Duke on an embassy [1633-4] to the Russian Czar and to the Shah of Persia [for the purpose of initiating trade relations with Russia, Tartary and Persia]. Mandelslo was authorized to leave the embassy in Persia and to continue his travels to the Far East. He went to Surat, Agra, and Goa in India, where he received great kindness from the English merchants, and he also visited Ceylon. He gives long accounts of the other parts of the Far East, which he did not visit personally. His return was made to England by sea via the Cape of Good Hope, which he visited in 1639" (Hill). Following his early death at Paris during a smallpox epidemic, Mandelslo's itinerary was found among his effects. "Eventually Olearius edited it and added materials to it as he prepared it for publication. Certain writings by Mandelslo began to appear as early as 1645 as supplements to the report of Olearius on the embassy to Muscovy and Persia. In 1658 a greatly expanded version of this work was printed in Schleswig which includes at its end Mandelslo's augmented narrative with a separate title page. Dutch, French, and English translations quickly appeared. Like Olearius, the French translator Abraham de Wicquefort unhesitatingly added descriptive material from other writers, often without acknowledging fully the debt so incurred" (Lach and Van Kley, pp. 667-8). The present edition is a reissue, with a new title page, of the Leiden edition of 1719 published by Van der Aa; Cox notes that "the French translation of 1719 contain[s] material not found in the original German". The superb plates include views and plans, inter alia, of Cape Town, Goa, Surat, Visapur, Jedo (Tokyo), St. Helena, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Canary Islands, Java, the Dutch attack on Palembang (Philippines) in 1659, Bantam (Java), Makassar (South Sulawesi), Ambon Island (Maluku Islands, Indonesia), "Congo and Angola", the coast of Guinea, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Antwerp. Hill 1073; Howgego I M38; E. G. Cox, A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, 1949; Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley, Asia in the Making of Europe III: A Century of Advance, 1998; Jennifer Speake, ed., Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopaedia, II, 2003; C. D. van Strien, British Travellers in Holland during the Stuart Period: Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces, 1993. 2 parts in one volume, quarto (313 x 201 mm). Contemporary calf, richly gilt spine, early 19th century red and green twin labels, sides with border of blind triple fillets, paired gilt fillet edge roll, swirled Nonpareil pattern marbled endpapers, red edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, 44 plans, views and maps (some double-page and folding) and 19 engraved illustrations in text; titles printed in red and black, letterpress printed in double columns. Binding sometime skilfully refurbished, some light browning and very occasional foxing. A handsome copy, complete with all illustrations and half-titles.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom