Featured Work First German Edition. This is the highly influential work of Immanuel Kant’s “Critik der reinen Vernuft” (“Critique of Pure Reason”), published in 1781 by Johann Friedrich Hartknoch in Riga. Kant explores and examines the foundations and parameters of...
Featured Work First Edition. “Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England” was written by English poet John Milton and published in 1644. It was written in opposition to licensing and censorship. In the...
Featured Work First Edition in English. This work is Augustine of Hippo’s classic book of Christian philosophy entitled “Citie of God,” translated by John Healey from the Latin version and edited by Ioannes Lodovicus Vives (Juan Luis Vives) with Vives learned...
Featured Work First Separate Edition, in Latin. This is Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s most famous work, “Oration on the Dignity of Man,” with two supplementary works by Pico: “Epistola Ioan, Pici ad Ioannem Franciscum nepote epistola, qua eum ad euangelium &...
Featured Work Illuminated and Rubricated Manuscript on Paper in Latin. This manuscript contains “De Consolatio Philosophiae” with an anonymous commentary on Boethius. It was transcribed in an early humanist hand around 1400-1425 in Northern Italy. The Consolation of...
Featured Work First Edition. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" is one of the earliest and most famous works on feminism. Written in approximately six weeks by Mary Wollstonecraft after she read Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French...
Featured Work Second Edition, with illustrations, sculpture, and annotations. This volume is an illustrated translation of Homer's "Odyssey," translated into English by John Ogilby, entitled, "Homer, His Odysses Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture and Illustrated with...
Featured Work First English Edition. Entitled, "Aristotles Politiques, Or Discovrses of Government," this edition of Aristotle's "Politiques" was published in 1598 in London and translated from the 1568 French edition. "Politiques" was written by the ancient Greek...
Featured Work This volume contains "Nicolai Machiavelli Princeps" ("The Prince") by Niccolo Machiavelli and "Vindicae contra tyrannos: sive, de principis in populum, populiq in principem, legitima potestate,"often attributed to Hubert Languet or Philippe de...
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