Editore: University of Chicago Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0226063453 ISBN 13: 9780226063454
Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.
Editore: Philosophical Library, NY, 1949
Da: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st printing; lite brown c w/gilt titles on rust; owner' name; 284 clean, unmarked pages.
Editore: Published by Effingham Wilson and Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1819. Image 2in x 1.5in. Sheet size 9in x 5.5in, 1819
Da: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, Regno Unito
Stipple engraving, from Biographical Magazine, fine delicate portrait with biographical information in letterpress below.
Editore: Published by Effingham Wilson and Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1819. Image 2in x 1.5in. Sheet size 9in x 5.5in, 1819
Da: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, Regno Unito
Stipple engraving, from Biographical Magazine, fine delicate portrait with biographical information in letterpress below.
Editore: John Tallis & Co, c. 1850. 9in x 6in. Very Attractive Antique Print., 1850
Da: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, Regno Unito
Stipple engraving, with decorative border, from Lodge's Portraits,
Editore: Printed for A. Millar, 1753. ESTC T143342, From Bath Public Library with impressed stamps on a few leaves., 1753
Da: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, Regno Unito
Half-title, frontispiece portrait of Author; ii+531pp; a few leaves spotted or with marginal staining. 8vo modern red cloth, spine gilt, Bolingbroke's ideas were influential on Voltaire and the American supporters of Independence like Thomas Jefferson and William Adams. He was a close friend of Pope and was present at the poet's death.
Editore: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catharine-street, in the Strand, London, 1750
Da: The Book Gallery, Jerusalem, Israele
RARE second edition of a collection of papers by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) - an English politician, government official and political philosopher, best known as the philosopher of the Country Party. St John was leader of the Tories and supported the Church of England politically despite his anti-religious views and opposition to theology. In 1715 he supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France he became foreign minister for the Pretender. He was attainted for treason, but later was allowed to return to England in 1723. 170x115mm. 338 pages (+2). Marbled board Hardcover with gilt leather ribbed spine. Text block edge dyed red. Cover yellowing, rubbed/slightly worn and dirty/slightly stained. Cover edges and corners bumped and worn/peeling. Spine, spine edges and hinges worn and peeling. Spine gilt almost entirely peeled. Spine hinges cracked (front cover coming loose, but still holding). Binding coming loose and visible between rear endpaper and whitepage. First whitepage upper corner cut-out. Both front whitepages coming loose from binding. Rear whitepage detached. Rear whitepage edges worn/slightly tattered. Pencil inscriptions on title-page bottom edge. Title-page edge near binding slightly torn. Several last pages slightly stained - NO damage to text. Pages yellowing, slightly age-stained and wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book by the pioneering British ideologist of systematic parliamentary opposition has sustained some external wear to cover and spine, but is otherwise in good condition. The book is in : English.
Editore: Printed for the Editor, and Sold by A. Millar, 1753. ESTC N2688, 1753
Da: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, Regno Unito
Frontispiece portrait of Author; ii+531pp. 8vo contemp. calf, spine gilt, maroon leather spine label, rubbed, spine chipped at head of spine, Bolingbroke's ideas were influential on Voltaire and the American supporters of Independence like Thomas Jefferson and William Adams. He was a close friend of Pope and was present at the poet's death.The CaOHM reports that this is a reissue of the 1753 edition "printed for A. Millar" (T143342).It was partly printed by William Bowyer.
Editore: n.p., 1880
Da: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo Copia autografata
Condizione: Very Good. Manuscript Letter Facsimile. 4to. Pp. 4. Purported but unconfirmed nineteenth century facsimile of a letter in French from Lord Bolingbroke (signed) to l'Abbé Alari (unnamed) dated 23 June 1723. "Je n'aime pas les apologies, et je n'en ay pas besoin." Laid writing paper, watermark cluster of eight grapes on a hooked stem. Twice folded. Dated soon after his pardon by George I, before his return from France. In this letter to "my dear friend" he defends his political reputation against "the calumnies of the uninformed.".
Editore: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catharine Street, in the Strand, London, 1749
Da: The Paper Hound Bookshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 8vo. 251pp (+ xi pp author's rebuke of Pope's 1744 unauthorized edition). Calfbound with five raised bands and morocco label on spine. Boards are heavily corroded from red rot (which has been arrested with the application of a consolidant), but binding is sound and text is unmarked (save for contemporary ownership inscriptions on title page, dated 1749 and 1771; later owner's name, early 20th Century, in ink on front free endpaper, and last owner's name and notes on front pastedown in pencil, dated 1949).
Editore: London: Printed for R.Francklin, 1731., 1731
Da: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
8vo. pp. 32. woodcut ornaments, initial & title vignette. disbound. Uncut. First Edition, Second Issue, without erratum. Goldsmiths' 6922.
Editore: R. Francklin, London, 1749
Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). A very smart copy of the seventh edition of Viscount Bolingbroke's attack on Robert Walpole's Whig administration. The seventh edition of this work, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.Initially published in The Craftsman, Bolingbroke offers a sustained attack on Sir Robert Walpole and the Whig party, prompted by the 1733 Excise Bill and the 1734 Septennial Bill, and arranged in a series of letters.With the armorial bookplate of Lieutenant Colonel Grame to the front pastedown. ESTC Citation No. T16281The work of English politician, government official and political philosopher Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England, despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology In a full calf binding. Light fading to back strip, with minor rubbing to front joint, otherwise excellent. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright. Very Good. book.
Editore: Dublin: George Faulkner, 1743., 1743
Da: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
12mo. pp. xii, 274, [11]index, [3]ads. woodcut title vignette. contemporary sprinkled calf. armorial bookplate of Thomas Rochfort. First Irish Edition. NCBEL II 1120.
Editore: London: Printed for T.Davies, Bookseller to the Royal Academy,, 1775
Da: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, Regno Unito
Condizione: DNB. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. xxxvi + 243 pp. [4] A8, a8, B-Q8, R2. Illustrated with one plate, engraving of author, serving as frontispiece. Contemporary calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules with red morocco label, gilt. Extremities worn but overall a fine copy. Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (16781751) played a prominent role in English politics in the turbulent period of the early eighteenth century, which saw the end of the Stuart line and the accession of the House of Hanover. Mercurial in temperament, he was a man of great learning and a notable orator, suffering a 'lifelong conflict: a struggle between his reason and his passions'. A landowning Tory who accepted the settlement of 1688, he held high office as Secretary at War (supporting Marlborough's campaigns) and later as Secretary of State, but fell out of favour after the death of Queen Anne in 1714 and fled to France to join James Stewart, the Old Pretender. He abandoned the Jacobite cause following the failure of 1715 and did not return to England for another ten years, after he had received a full legal pardon. These three writings of the 1730s are a product of his continued opposition to the Whig ministry dominated by Walpole and are also based on his study of history and philosophy in exile. This edition reprints three of Bolingbroke's works. He addressed his 'Letter on the Spirit of Patriotism' to Lord Cornbury in 1736 as a plea to all honest politicians to abandon their Whig or Tory principles and unite against corruption. 'The Idea of a Patriot King', circulating in manuscript form by late 1738, appealed for the monarch to rule in the interests of the nation as a whole and to chose as ministers, men of property, probity and public virtue. The three pamphlets, including 'The State of Parties at the Accession of George I', were privately reprinted by Alexander Pope in 1739 and in a revised form with an attack on Pope, by Bolingbroke, in 1749 (included in the Advertisement to the present edition). This new edition of 1775 includes a dedication to Edmund Burke by the publisher, an introduction to the reader, accounts of the character of Bolingbroke by Lord Chesterfield and Lord Orrerey and a reprint of Pope's 'Address to Lord Bolingbroke in the Conclusion of his Essay on Man'. HISTORY/THEOLOGY 18th CENTURY HISTORY 18TH CENTURY HISTORY/THEOLOGY.
Da: Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij, Kalmthout, ANTW, Belgio
Membro dell'associazione: ILAB
Prima edizione
Londres ( Paris ? ) , no printer, no publisher, 1750, in-8°, 204 x 133 mm, (4)nn pp + vii pp + 255 pp, bound in full mottled calf, smooth spine with gilt decoration and title, edges painted red, nice copy allthough there is some worming in the inner margin of the first 6 leaves. This is the first edition of the French translation. (Livre en français).
Editore: London: Printed for A.Millar, 1752., 1752
Da: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 315; 2 p.l., 68 [i.e. 286], [4]. with half-titles. contemporary sprinkled calf (joints cracked, extremities chipped, spine labels wanting). contemporary engraved bookplate of 'Il Cavalier Mann', possibly Sir Horace Mann [1701-1786], British envoy at Florence. First Edition, consisting of Letters on the Study and Use of History (written in 1738 and originally privately printed before Bolingbroke's death), Plan for a General History, Of The True Use of Retirement and Study, and Reflections upon Exile. In the Letters on the Study and Use of History Bolingbroke made famous the maxim 'History is philosophy teaching by examples'. NCBEL II 1120. Rothschild 418.
Editore: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catherine-Street, in the Strand, 1749
Da: Respublica Books LLC, Wilmette, IL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism: London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catherine-Street, in the Strand, 1749. First authorized edition. Letters of the Honourable Algernon Sydney: London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, 1742. First edition. First authorized edition of Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke's (1678-1751) most influential political tracts, bound together with the first edition of the letters of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) to Henry Savile. Assembling Bolingbroke's three famous Letters written in the 1730s following his exile from England upon the accession of King George I, this bright first edition contains Bolingbroke's On the Spirit of Patriotism, The Idea of a Patriot King, and Of the State of Parties at the Accession of King George I. Bolingbroke was an English Tory politician, government official, and political philosopher who supported the failed Jacobite rebellion of 1715 that sought to overthrow King George I. After escaping to France (in disguise) in the wake of the failed uprising, Bolingbroke would become foreign minister for the Pretender (James Francis Edward Stuart) and pen his famed political tracts, which argued for an end to political partisanship, a balancing of the English constitution, and the restoration of virtue by a king acting on purely patriotic grounds. It is reported that Bolingbroke entrusted early versions of the Letters to his friend and English poet, Alexander Pope, and that Pope, unbeknownst to Bolingbroke, secretly published 1,500 copies of The Idea of a Patriot King. As a result, Bolingbroke is said to have purchased and destroyed all of the Pope copies before authorizing the first publication of this corrected edition of the Letters in 1749. Accompanying Bolingbroke's Letters is the first edition publication of Algernon Sidney's letters to Henry Savile, envoy-extraordinary to Louis XIV. In his letters to Savile, Sidney, the celebrated English politician and republican theorist, reports to his friend on the turbulent state of English politics. Sidney would later be tried and executed in 1683 on account of his alleged role in the Rye House Plot as well as for the thought contained in his seminal work Discourses Concerning Government, which was first published posthumously in 1698. Both Bolingbroke and Sidney would greatly influence the thought of America's founding generation. John Adams is reported to have read all of Bolingbroke's works multiple times, and Thomas Jefferson would later claim of Sidney's Discourses that the work offered "the best elementary book of the principles of government, as founded in natural right, which has ever been published in any language." A handsome first edition compilation of Bolingbroke and Sidney. Octavo. Two works bound together in contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards with vellum corners, black morocco spine label letters in gilt. Some scuffing to boards, contemporary ink signature to front fly-leaf: "P Griffin St. Edmund Hall, Oxon, July 1764." Bright and well-preserved. Very good-plus.