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[004279] . ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK, Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During A Life Time of Discriminating Reading For His Own Use. ill. Photographs. New York City: Wm. H. Wise & Co. Roycroft Distributors,, 1923. Size: Approx. 8 1/2 " x 10 3/4". Roycrofters. Very Good "When Elbert Hubbard was storing up in his Scrap Book the fruits of other men's genius, he did not contemplate a volume for publication. He was merely gathering spiritual provisions for his own refreshment and delectation. To glance at the pages of his Scrap Book is to realize how far and wide he pursued the quest, into what scented rose gardens of Poetry, and up what steep slopes of Thought." 228 pp. plus Index of Subjects (11 pp.). Includes photographs of the Roycroft Chapel, Roycroft Inn, Elbert Hubbard and Elbert Hubbard II, "Chief of Roycrofters". The different "selections" are artistically started with a orange vignette-a decorative first letter of the new paragraph, which makes the reading of it very clean and clear. Brown "linen-like" covers. Bound at left side with ribbon through 3-holes-like a scrapbook. Very Good condition. Inside on front endpapers, a "sheet" on each page with advertisements? for Hubbard's works: One on ELBERT HUBBARD'S SCRAP BOOK and other LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT. They were scotch-taped to the endpapers and are loose, so there is scotch tape "residue". They could be retaped to cover it up. Not bad. On frontispiece page with photograph of Hubbard, watermark at top edge, at widest part, down 1/4". Not close to portrait, Otherwise the interior is Very Good. $20.00

[002983] . PROCEEDINGS OF THE MANCHESTER LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Disbound. Philosophy. Very Good Commencing with Obituary Notice of Edward Garside. Born 1860. Died, March 6th, 1939. Disbound with Proceedings, Annual Report,etc. uncut pages. i-lxvi. string-tied. Very Good+. Date? 1939? $25.00

[002984] . PROCEEDINGS OF THE MANCHESTER LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Disbound. Philosophy. Very Good Commencing with Obituary Notice of William Watts Woodward who died, May 1st 1938. Disbound with Proceedings, Annual Report,etc. uncut pages. i-lii. string-tied. Very Good+. Date? 1938? $25.00

[003659] . SCIENCE, June 6, 1884. Volume III. No. 70. ill. Etchings, Chart. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1884. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Very Good Articles by Famous Americans: FREDERICK SCHWATKA: The Middle Yukon with 9 illustrations; in Letters to the Editor: G. BROWN GOODE: The invention of the vertical camera in photography with photo engraving illustration; and CHARLES C. ABBOTT: Hibernating mammals. Other articles: " The conic projection in oceanic cartography" with a North-Atlantic track-chart. " The Royal Society of Canada"; and " Calderwood's Mind and Brain". Mildly chipped covers at side edge. Overall covers are Very Good. Faint vertical crease down the middle. Interior is tight, clean and VG. $55.00

[004410] Alison, Archibald. Miscellaneous Essays . Philadelphia: Cary & Hart, 1845. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Good Reprinted from the English Originals, with the Author's corrections for this edition. Contents include: Chateaubriand; Napoleon; Bossuet; Poland; Madame De Stael; Marshal Ney; Robert Bruce; Paris in 1814; The Louvre in 1814; Tyrol; France in 1833; Italy; Military Treason and Civic Soldiers; Arnold's Rome; French Revolution of 1830; Desertion of Portugal; Karamsin's Russia; The Spanish Revolution of 1820 and others. Total of 34 articles. 390 pp. Salmon color covers with some soiling/rubbing. Corner tips bumped/rubbed to boards. Paper label top of spine with black print title: "Cheap Edition Alison's Miscellanies Complete in One Volume". 1/2"X1/4" missing piece at top of spine. Chips at spine end. Overall covers are Good. ex.-lib. bookplate on front endpaper. On free endpaper numbers and "clear" embossed stamp. Brownish tone to endpapers. Slight and sporadic foxing. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Archibald Alison (13 November 1757, Edinburgh-17 May 1839) was a Scottish didactic and philosophical writer. $95.00

[000810] American Philosophical Society. PROCEEDINGS FOR THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, MEMORIAL VOLUME I.. ill. Full Page Portraits. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1900. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Wraps. American Philosophical Society. Good to Good- / . Memorial issue with Obituary Notices of John A. Ryder, William H. Furness, Henry Hazlehurst, Henry Phillips, Jr., William John Potts, Lewis Allaire Scott, J. Sergeant Price, Thomas Sterry Hunt, Henry Duval Gregory, William Pepper, Richard A. Tilghman, Alexander Biddle, W.G.A.Bonwill, Daniel Garrison Brinton, and Edward Drinker Cope. Most of them have a full page photograph with their signature underneath. Each obituary notice was read before the American Philosophical Society. 316 pp. ex-mus. markings on spine and front cover. Chipping at top/bottom of spine and along front gutter. Front cover barely attached. Moisture residue along top edge and bottom tips of side edge.Internally one water stain to top/bottom margins of portrait, but barely visible on portrait. Some "waviness" on some page top margins(not in text), otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. small tear through cover & first two pages. Index. $68.50

[002658] Bronowski, J.. THE ASCENT OF MAN. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1973. Eleventh Printing. Philosophy. Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 0-316-10930-4. one side page in FOREWORD small fold back(crease). $15.00

[000489] Coues, Samuel Elliott. OUTLINES OF A SYSTEM OF MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY:Being a Research Into the Laws of Force. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851. Size: Approx. 5 " x 8 1/4". Hardbound. Philosophy. Good + / No Jacket. "These outlines of a System of Mechanical Philosophy are the result of a research made by the author, for his own instruction. In the research he attempted to separate supposition from fact,-the questionable from those things necessarily taken for truth by the laws of the mind." Embossed decorative brown boards.Backstrip ends frayed, else Good Plus externally. . Foxing on endpapers and title page, rest of interior clean and tight. 330pp. $75.00

[001955] D'Angelo, Edward. THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM AND DETERMINISM. 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good several white specks on front cover otherwise Near Fine. $5.00

[004452] Ellis, Wilmot E. . Bovarysm: The Art-Philosophy of Jules De Gaultier . Seattle, WA: University of Washington Book Store, 1926. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/4". Stiff Covers. Philosophy. Good "It is an odd fact that one of the greatest modern philosophers-perhaps the greates now living-Jules de Gaultier of France, has been recognized as such by a distinguished group of thinkers scattered allover the world, but remains comparatively unknown to the elite of England and America." 40 pp. Fading around edges. Rubbing to corners. Covers intact. Overall Good or better. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $15.00

[004544] Hoffman, Hester R.. The Reader's Advisor: An Annotated Guide to the Best in Print in Literature, Biographies, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Bibles, Classics, Drama, Poetry, Fiction, Science, Philosophy, Travel, History, . New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. 10th Edition, Revised and Enlarged.. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4". Blue Cloth. Books on Books. Good 1292 pp. including index. Blue covers with white lettering on front cover and spine. Spine's top edge, small piece fraying. Overall covers are Good or better. ex. library markings on title page. Front endpaper with library pocket residue? Previous owner's name: Ed Woodworth stamped. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Thick book. Could require extra postage. $10.00

[004849] Hutchins, Robert M and Mortimer J. Adler (Editors-in-Chief). The Great Ideas Today 1961. . ill. Photographs. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Philosophy. Very Good to Very Good+ / Good to Good-. A dynamic new work which focuses the wisdom of the past upon the problems of today...Justice WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS tells why democracy is best for the new nations while noted journalist PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE disagrees in The Great Debate of the Year. The Editors examine our exciting times in the light of the Great Ideas Experts. MARK VAN DOREN, GILBERT CANT, GEORGE P. GRANT, EDWARD A. SHILS, WALTER SULLIVAN explore the newest contributions in the arts and sciences. Also pertinent works by EINSTEIN, TOYNBEE, DEWEY and MOLIERE. 562 pp. Covers are Very Good+. Spine with gilt lettering. Vertical crease on spine. Interior is tight, clean and Near Fine. Numerous illustrations. Some in color $35.00

[004874] Jerome, Jerome K.. THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW. New York: George Munro's Sons, 1895. Size: Approx. 4 3/4" x 7". Paper Wraps. Essays. Good Munro's Library of Popular Novels. No. 42. A collection of humorous essays. The book consists of 14 independent articles arranged by themes: ON BEING IDLE. ON BEING IN LOVE. ON BEING IN THE BLUES. ON BEING HARD UP. ON VANITY AND VANITIES. ON GETTING ON IN THE WORLD. ON THE WEATHER. ON CATS AND DOGS. ON BEING SHY. ON BABIES. ON EATING AND DRINKING. ON FURNISHED APARTMENTS. ON DRESS AND DEPORTMENT.and ON MEMORY. 102 pp.This was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. Paper wraps. Soiling to covers. ex-lib. stamped twice on cover and twice in margins of pages. Front cover and first few pages of the bottom corner tips missing. Overall Good. Triangular "library pocket" on back endpaper with words:"Subject to library rules". Last line of text on a few pages slightly blurred. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859 -June 14, 1927) was an English author. $35.00

[004614] Lynch, Bohun. Collecting: an Essay . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Size: Approx. 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Essay. / Good-. One from The Pleasures of Life Series. Frontispiece color portrait of the author. 81 pp. Book is Very Good. Interior stamped with previous owner's name on title page and on one page's lower margin-not near text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Dust Jacket intact with chips/tears and some missing pieces around the edges. Spine label illegible. Missing strip at spine's bottom edge. DJ is Good- to Fair. $10.00

[004411] McPharlin, Paul (Edited and illustrated by, in a new English version). Satirical Dictionary Of Voltaire . Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1945. Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 8 ". Decorative Cloth. Philosophy. Very Good First published as Question on the Encyclopedia, then reprinted as Reason by Alphabet, and finally reworked, with many additions, as The Philosophical Dictionary...The Philosophical Dictionary is Voltaire's principal essay in philosophy..." Contents go from A to Z with several entries for some "letters". Some include: Adam, Books, Celibacy; Divorce; Equality; Fraud; Greatness; Happiness; Impotence; etc, ending with Zeal. 109 pp. Illustrations. Decorative covers with ABCs. Spine slightly sunned. Covers are VG to VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $10.00

[001723] Mivart, St. George.. Lessons From Nature as Manifested in Mind and Matter.. 1876. Good ex. mus. part of top spine border gone. $18.00

[004686] Translated by W Hamilton. Plato: The Symposium.. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951. Size: Approx. 4" x 7". Paperback. Plato. Very Good A new Translation by W Hamilton. 122 pp. including Notes on the Text. The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a series of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposion or drinking party at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.The Symposium was presumably composed around the same time as Plato's Republic and Phaedrus; with those two texts, it is often considered one of Plato's literary high points. Plato takes great care to make the setting realistic and the historical context credible. Although this may be far from its original purpose, the dialogue has been used as a source by historians exploring Athenian social history (particularly the symposium as an institution) and sexual behaviour. Paperback with illustrated cover. Slightly rubbed spine ends/joints. Overall covers are VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $10.00