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Rotterdam en de Zee, De geschiedenis van de haven van Rotterdam
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No Binding. Very Good/Fair. Neither publisher nor date is given and I've so far been unable to trace either but internal evidence suggests mid 1950s to possibly early 1960s - one of the later plans includes an outline of the "Maasvlakte project" (the extension of Europoort and built during the 1960s on land reclaimed from the sea) while… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Structure of Scientific Thought, An Introduction to Philosophy of Science
by Madden, Edward H (Editor)
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Hardback. Good. Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA, 1960. Large 8vo, 180x246mm; pp ix, 381; blue cloth gilt, gilt dulled and back cover a little water-spotted. The work consists of writings from a range of relevant philosophers from Kant, Hume and J S Mill through to the present. There's an entry by Bertrand Russell title "Non-Demonstrative Inference and Induction"… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rationalist Annual, 1954
by Hawton, Hector (editor)
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Soft cover. Good/Not relevant. C A Watts & Co. Ltd., 1954; 8vo, 88pp including publisher's advertisements at the end; good copy. Includes articles by Bertrand Russell ("Are the world's trouble due to decay of faith?"), JBS Haldane and others NOTE: on account of the weight of this volume the postage cost will be LESS than the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Atlantic, August 1952
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Soft cover. Good. 205x277mm, 96pp + covers; back cover detached, but present, spine ragged and relevant staples rusted but, subject to that, in decent condition; contains "A Life of Disagreement", being the transcript of an interview with Bertrand Russell by Romney Wheeler of NBC and filmed in London on the occasion of Russell's 80th birthday. In addition there… Read more about this item Item Price
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John Inglesant, A Romance
by [Shorthouse, Joseph Henry]
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Hardback. Very Good. Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1880, [first edition, privately printed]; 8vo, pp [viii], (9)-577; good later binding in half brown pigskin, green marbled boards and end papers, spine decorated gilt and with raised bands, top edge gilt; lacks half title; slight browning or dust marking in places but nevertheless a very good copy of what was to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Some Putative Facts of Hard Record, or, He Commences Authour Aetatis Suae 19-20, Excerpts from 1923 MS Diary and a Few Notes
by Cozzens, James Gould
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Hardback. Near Fine. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1978; 8vo, pp 16; fawn linen boards gilt, printed on purported hand made paper (it's not) with artificial deckle edges but nevertheless an attractive copy in first class condition. This is a private printing for friends, number 168 of 250 copies, published on the occasion of Gould's 75th… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rationalist Annual, 1946
by Watts, Frederick (editor)
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Soft cover. Good/Not relevant. C A Watts & Co. Ltd., 1946; 8vo, 94pp including publisher's advertisements at the end; good copy; this is the paperback version of the 1946 edition. Includes an article "Mind and Matter in Modern Science" by Bertrand Russell and other articles by J B S Haldane, Julian Huxley, C E M Joad and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Illustrated, January 7 1950
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Soft cover. Good. 258x300mm, pp 32, self-covered; b&w and some coloured illustrations; staples rusty but a clean, good copy. With a 3pp article by Bertrand Russell "The Next 50 Years". Sadly his predictions were a bit wide of the mark - "Our most eminent living philosopher forsees the possible end of hunger and poverty if only war can… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bitches' Brew, or, The Plot Against Bertrand Russell
by [Purcell, Victor] as "Myra Buttle
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Hardback. Very Good. Watts & Co., London, 1960, 1st edition; 8vo, pp [ii], 87; original red cloth, spine text in silver; corners and edges a little rubbed in places but a very good copy. Purcell was a prolific and accomplished writer, a sinologist, colonial civil servant, a lecturer at Cambridge on Far Eastern History, a specialist on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sixty Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions ...
by Smalridge, George
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Hardback. Fair. This, the first edition of Smalridge's sermons, was published by William and John Innes in London in 1726 but this copy lacks both the title page and the engraved portrait frontispiece although it does have the 4pp publisher's catalogue at the end, dated 1725. Folio, pp [6, remaining prelims], [xx, subscribers to the work], [xix, Contents],… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life and Letters, Vol I no 6, November 1928
by MacCarthy, Desmond (editor)
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Soft cover. Good. 140 x 215mm, pp 144, light card covers, signatures of 32pp but also glued in parts; base of spine a little torn and somewhat loose for the lower third, some light browning, particularly at both ends, nevertheless in good condition. Contains a 9pp page essayby Bertrand Russell, "On Catholic and Protestant Sceptics"… Read more about this item Item Price
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russell: the Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives; new series, vol 1, numbers 1 and 2; 1981
by Blackwell, Dr Kenneth (editor)
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Soft cover. Fine. McMaster University Library Press, Hamilton, Ontario, 1981; 150 x 225mm and 146 x 218mm, pp 192 over the two issues comprising this first volume of the new series; original salmon pink wrappers, fine copies.
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Reading I've Liked, a personal selection
by Fadiman, Clifton
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Hardcover. Fair. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946, 1st British edition; 8vo, pp lviii, 869; orange cloth, somewhat discoloured, front hinge weak but internally a good copy; contains "A Free Man's Worship" by Bertrand Russell, and numerous selections from others both not and well known, including Eve Curie, Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos, Somerset Maugham, James Thurber, Virginia Woolf, E… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dublin Review, issue four, April 1837
by [?Tierney, Mark Aloysius] OR [?Bagshawe, Henry], (editor)
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Hardback. Good. The Dublin Review (not to be confused with the modern literary journal) was the leading Catholic periodical of its time, having begun in 1836 as a quarterly, continuing until its demise in 1969. It was founded by the barrister and journalist Michael Joseph Quin who brought in Daniel O'Connell and Cardinal Wiseman to the project. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thomas Day, an English disciple of Rousseau
by Sadler, Sir Michael
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Paperback. Good. Cambridge University Press, London, 1928, first edition and being the Rede Lecture for 1928; small 8vo, pp [1-4], 5-47; original pale green lapping thick paper covers, spine now toned to brown and the head slightly frayed but nevertheless a good copy. The subject, Day, 1748-1789, was a British writer whose bestselling… Read more about this item Item Price
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Opera Omnia, Quatuor Voluminibus
by Bacon, Francis
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Hardback. Very Good. R Gosling and others, Fleet Street, London, 1730, first thus; four volumes, folio, engraved frontispiece to each volume, pp [iii], [ii], [iv], [3] to 224, [viii, being the index to Book I], 394, [xxxviii, being the index to Book II]; [iv], 564, [iv, being folding tables of creditors], [xxviii, being the volume index]; [vi],… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wittgenstein
by Pears, David
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Paperback. Very Good. Fontana, London, 1971, first edition; A-format paperback in the Fontana Modern Masters series, pp 188, [iv, book catalogue]; very good copy, written by an academic philosophers and a useful analysis of Wittgenstein's work.
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Sankt Georg Kalender, froh im Sattel 1934
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Paperback. Good. Calendar for 1934 published by the German sports paper "Sankt Georg", Berlin; 165x245mm; colour printed cover of a young rider breasting a hill on an exuberantly charging horse apparently conveying his joy in riding in the new Germany of the time, duly reifying Hitler's words quoted on the opening page "Nur durch eigene Arbeit, eigenen Fleiss… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reading I've Liked, a personal selection
by Fadiman, Clifton
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Hardcover. Fair. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1947, 1st British edition, second impression; 8vo, pp lviii, 869; orange cloth, spine dulled and some markings on the cover but internally a good copy; contains "A Free Man's Worship" by Bertrand Russell, and numerous selections from others both not and well known, including Eve Curie, Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos, Somerset Maugham,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rationalist Annual, 1946
by Watts, Frederick (editor)
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Hardcover. Good/Good. C A Watts & Co. Ltd., 1946; 8vo, 94pp including publisher's advertisements at the end; good copy. Includes an article "Mind and Matter in Modern Science" by Bertrand Russell and articles by J B S Haldane, Julian Huxley, C E M Joad and others NOTE: on account of the weight of this volume the… Read more about this item Item Price
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