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THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
Written by Boethius; V.E. Watts.
Stock no. 1827284
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Nearly fine condition.

Translated and introduced by V.E. Watts. Cream paper boards. Blue, brown & red titles. Floral designs surrounding title to front. Matching cream endpapers. Seven colour plates. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase with a few light scuff marks.

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MEDITATIONS AND OTHER WRITINGS
Written by Rene Descartes; Nicholas Humphrey; Desmond M. Clarke. Illustrated by Shout.
Stock no. 1826925
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2011. Very good condition.

Introduced by Nicholas Humphrey. Translated and edited by Desmond Clarke. Grey cloth spine with gilt title, yellow pictorial paper boards. Frontis plus 10 colour illustrations. A lovely copy, feels unread. Contained in publisher's slipcase which has a few white marks to spine and is scuffed to sides.

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ANIMAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
Written by Ashley Shew.
Stock no. 1825094
Published by Lexington Books. 1st 2017. Slightly better than very good condition.

Postphenomenology and the Philospophy of Technology series. Investigating the conceptual limits of tool use and technology through the lens of technological knowledge. This book considers animal tool use, techniques, and construction within the context of theories about what constitutes technology and what constitutes knowledge. Glazed pictorial boards. Printed by Lightning Source UK Ltd, a print on demand company. ISBN: 9781498543118. Boards lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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BEYOND THE ZONULES OF ZINN: A FANTASTIC JOURNEY THROUGH YOUR BRAIN
Written by David Bainbridge.
Stock no. 2137787
Published by Harvard University Press. Circa 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth spine with silver title; red boards. American edition. ISBN: 9780674026100. Foxing and marks to outer page edges. Some light browning and edge-creasing to wrapper.

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION
Written by Stephen Toulmin.
Stock no. 2136092
Published by Hutchinson University Library. 1953. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Black boards with red title block and gilt title to spine. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A couple of small pencil annotations to text. Wrapper is browned to spine, which also has 1" tear; some edge-creasing and marks.

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A NEW THEORY OF BEAUTY
Written by Guy Sircello.
Stock no. 1822192
Published by Princeton University Press. 1st 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Princeton Essays on the Arts, 1. A comprehensive theory that encompasses beauty in art and nature, as well as intellectual, utilitarian, and moral beauty. Mustard cloth boards, white title to spine. Vertical crease to spine. Large bookplate to front pastedown else contents clean. Dustwrapper is heavily faded to spine and rubbed at edges.

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AN OBJECTIVE THEORY OF PROBABILITY
Written by D.A. Gillies.
Stock no. 1821059
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1973. Almost very good condition.

Presenting a philosophical theory of probability which can best be considered as a development of von Mises' views. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0416773508. Ex-lib with usual labels and library markings. Boards sciffed and marked. Else contents clean.

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THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Oliver Goldsmith; Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Mrs. Herbert Railton.
Stock no. 1820468
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st thus 1891. Almost very good condition.

Limited Edition of 150. The Temple Library series. Vellum(?) spines, orange/brown title to spine, green cloth boards. Deckle-edged. Numbered copy 139. Both spines grubby, volume II spine is also worn with chips of missing vellum and title is faded. Endpapers and text block browned. Hinges pulled but binding tight.

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THE AMBIVALENCE OF BERNARD MANDEVILLE
Written by Hector Monro.
Stock no. 1818868
Published by Clarendon Press. 1st 1975. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A consideration of The Fable of the Bees and also Mandeville's little-known other books including a pamphlet on public executions and another on public brothels, a medical treatise on nervous indigestion.Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0198120613. Light browning to text block. Blue dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and lightly scuffed.

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SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE
Written by Nancy J. Nersessian.
Stock no. 1710847
Published by Martinus Nijhoff. 1st 1987. Fine condition.

Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Understanding Scientific Practice. Glazed pictorial boards. 221pages. ISBN: 9024734258.

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LA DOCTRINA PSICOLOGICA Y PEDAGOGICA DE LUIS VIVES
Written by Fermin De Urmeneta; Luis Vives.
Stock no. 811728
Published by Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cintificas. 1949. Very good condition.

Beige card wraps. Black title to spine, red title to front. Text in Spanish. 636 pages. Contents very good. Covers browned and a little chipped at edges.

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