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Image for The Works of Aristotle, Volume Two [2]: Logic - Categories; On Interpretation; Prior Analytics; Posterior Analytics; Topics; On Sophistical Refutations (The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

The Works of Aristotle, Volume Two [2]: Logic - Categories; On Interpretation; Prior Analytics; Posterior Analytics; Topics; On Sophistical Refutations (The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: Aristotle; Edghill, E.M.; Jenkinson, A.J.; Mure, G.R.G.; Pickard, W.A;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2306982

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded, minor scuff on front board. 1979 Full-Leather. 411 pp. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes: Categories; On Interpretation; Prior Analytics; Posterior Analytics; Topics; On Sophistical Refutations. Translations by E.M. Edghill, A.J. Jenkinson, G.R.G. Mure, and W.A. Pickard. This edition was produced as the second of four volumes for The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World.
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Greek Science: It's Meaning for Us, in Two Volumes: Volume 1. Thales to Aristotle; Volume 2. Theophrastus to Galen (Pelican Books)

By: Farrington, Benjamin

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Penguin Books: 1949

Seller ID: 2307844

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Wrapper edges rubbed, pages lighlty toned. 1949 Mass Market Paperback. Two volume set. After a brief discussion of the achievement in science of the pre-Hellenic peoples, Professor Farrington describes the various phases of the development of science among the Greeks. The story begins about 600 B.C. and the first couple of centuries are conspicuous for the boldness of their thought and the rapidity with which the foundations of many of the chief branches of science were laid. In the next two or three centuries the Greeks continued to accumulate information and also showed their logical powers ...
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The Sophists

By: Guthrie, W.K.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2305280

ISBN: 0521096669

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Two stickers on rear wrapper, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1977 Trade Paperback. ix, 345 pp. The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, ...
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Socrates

By: Guthrie, W.K.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2309485

ISBN: 0521096677

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrapper edges rubbed, rear wrapper and page ridge stained. 1971 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 200 pp. The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of the two parts is available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. Socrates dominated the controversi...
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Mathematics in Aristotle

By: Heath, Sir Thomas

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Oxford, At the Clarendon Press: 1949

Seller ID: 2304836

ISBN: 0198143613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Bottom corner of front board bumped, ink name on front free endpaper. 1949 Hard Cover. xiv, 291 pp. Heath's work in study and translation of Greek mathematical works is partially responsible for the modern understanding of Archimedes's contribution to the field. Heath (1861-1940) was a preeminent authority on ancient Greek mathematics, a distinction all the more remarkable by its being achieved amidst a full career as a civil servant. Among numerous editions and monographs he is perhaps best known for A History of Greek Mathematics (2 vols, 1921), which immediately be...
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The Presocratic Philosophers

By: Kirk, G.S.; Raven, J.E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press: 1973

Seller ID: 2309831

ISBN: 0521091691

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Revised edition. Faintly foxed. 1973 Trade Paperback. xi, [1], 486, [1] pp. Includes information on the ancient Greek worldview, early philosophers such as Thales, and also looks at philosophy in Greek settlements in Italy.
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Lysiae Orationes ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem Accurate Editae.

By: Lysias

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lipsiae, Ex Officina Car. Tauchnitii: 1818

Seller ID: 2309051

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed, joints beginning to split, hinges just beginning to loosen. 1818 Half-Leather. 280 pp. Though there is a Latin title page (repeated in Greek on the following leaf) and Latin page headings, the text itself is in the original Greek. Lysias was an ancient Greek speech writer and a contemporary of Socrates (he is mentioned in the opening of Plato's Phaedrus). This volume appears to include his complete extant speeches: De Caede Eratosthenis; Oratio Funebris; Adversus Simonem; De Vulnere Praemeditato; Defensio Calliae; Oratio Adversus Andocidem; In Olea Sacra Incusati; Expostulatio D...
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Dialogues de Platon. Par le Traducteur de la Republique, in Two Volumes: Tome Premier; Tome Second.

By: Plato (Platon); Grou, Jean Nicolas

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey: 1770

Seller ID: 2305606

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Rebound: cloth spine and corners, marbled boards, new end sheets. Ink name and stamp on title page of each volume. 1770 Hard Cover. [viii], 424; [vi], 442 pp. 12mo. French translations of eight of Plato's Dialogues: Theaetetus; Protagoras; Hippias I; Hippias II; Gorgias; Ion; Philebus; and Meno. Translated from the Greek by Abbe Jean Nicolas Grou (1731-1803), who already had translated Plato's Laws and the Republic. Grou, a Jesuit, fled to Holland when his order was suppressed in France, and it was there that these Dialogues were published. Later he returned to Paris and adopted the alias Lecl...
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Image for Loix de Platon. Par le Traducteur de la Republique, in Two Volumes: Tome Premier; Tome Second. [with] La Science du Bonhomme Richard, Moyen Facile de Payer les Impots. Traduit de l'Anglois: Troisieme Edition, Exactement Semblable a la Premiere. [Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth]

Loix de Platon. Par le Traducteur de la Republique, in Two Volumes: Tome Premier; Tome Second. [with] La Science du Bonhomme Richard, Moyen Facile de Payer les Impots. Traduit de l'Anglois: Troisieme Edition, Exactement Semblable a la Premiere. [Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth]

By: Plato (Platon); Grou, Jean Nicolas; [Franklin, Benjamin]

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Amsterdam / A Philadelphie. Se vend a Paris, Marc-Michel Rey / Chez Ruault, Libraire: 1769

Seller ID: 2305607

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

1769 first French edition of Plato's The Laws, bound together with a 1778 third edition of Benjamin Franklin's La Science du Bonhomme Richard (The Way to Wealth). Some pencil marginalia in 'Richard', edges a bit rubbed with minor loss from corners, tiny piece of volume II spine label missing. viii, [8], 398, [2], 151, [5]; 502 pp. 12mo. Contemporary full leather, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and triple rules, marbled edges and endpapers. French translation of The Laws, a series of twelve Platonic dialogues written towards the end of his life. Grou, a Jesuit, fled to Holland when his order...
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The Works of Plato, in Three Volumes (The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: Plato;

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2309669

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges faintly foxed, spine of third volume leans backward. 1979 Full-Leather. Part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World, originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 516; 557; 391 pp. Original maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes: Charmides; Lysis; Laches; Protagoras; Euthydemus; Cratylus; Phaedrus; Ion; Symposium; Meno; Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Gorgias; The Republic; Laws; Timaeus; Critias; Parmenides; Theaetetus; Sophist; Statesman; Philebus; The Seven...
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Image for The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles, Translated from the Greek; Nine of the Dialogues by the Late Floyer Sydenham, and the Remainder by Thomas Taylor: with Occasional Annotations on the Nine Dialogues Translated by Sydenham, and Copious Notes by the Latter Translator; in which is given the Substance of Nearly All the Existing Greek Ms. Commentaries on the Philosophy of Plato, and a Considerable Portion of Such as Are Already Published. in Five Volumes.

The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles, Translated from the Greek; Nine of the Dialogues by the Late Floyer Sydenham, and the Remainder by Thomas Taylor: with Occasional Annotations on the Nine Dialogues Translated by Sydenham, and Copious Notes by the Latter Translator; in which is given the Substance of Nearly All the Existing Greek Ms. Commentaries on the Philosophy of Plato, and a Considerable Portion of Such as Are Already Published. in Five Volumes.

By: Plato; Taylor, Thomas; Sydenham, Floyer; Olympiadorus

Price: $6,000.00

Publisher: London, Printed for Thomas Taylor, by R. Wilks, Chancery-Lane; and Sold by E. Jeffery, and R.H. Evans, Pall-Mall: 1804

Seller ID: 2306765

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. Bookplate of Parisian bookseller Hector Bossange on front endpapers, Astor Library stamp on title pages. Boards rubbed with minor restoration to corners, portion of corner of rear flyleaf on volume three absent. 1804 Large Hardcover. cxxiii, 544; 657; 600; 614; 720 pp. 4to. Red leather spines with gilt titles and decorations, marbled boards and endpapers. The first English translation of the complete works of Plato. Earlier translations contained only selected dialogues, abridged versions of works, etc., and many early translations of Plato were into Latin rather than English (Tay...
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Analysis of Aristotle's Logic, with Remarks.

By: Reid, Thomas

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for William Creech; and Sold by J. Murray, Fleet-Street, London: 1806

Seller ID: 2305909

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges rubbed, owner bookplate of Thomas Freer Ash and Mary Louisa Ash on front endpaper, front and end matter foxed, ink name on title page. 1806 Full-Leather. 150 pp. Contemporary full calf, red leather spine label, gilt titles and rules. First included as an appendix to one of Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man, and apparently printed separately here for the first time (according to advertisement by publisher preceding text). Thomas Reid was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, and a co-founder of the Royal Society of...
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Les Travaux de Gassendi sur Epicure et sur l'Atomisme (1619-1658).

By: Rochot, Bernard

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin: 1944

Seller ID: 2306771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

French text. Lightly toned. 1944 Trade Paperback. xviii, 212 pp. A study of Epicurus and the philosophical school of Atomism, by Docteur es Lettres, Professeur au College de Tonnerre. This was originally Rochot's doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne. He later worked on editions of the works of Rene Descartes and Galileo.
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What Plato Said

By: Shorey, Paul

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1958

Seller ID: 2309701

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1958 fourth printing, not to be confused with 1960s abridged edition, which contains about half the pages of this edition. No jacket. Minor general wear. 686 pp. Shorey provides line-by-line summaries of Plato's dialogues with commentary on the broader context where warranted.
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The Trial of Socrates

By: Stone, I.F.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown: 1988

Seller ID: 2305131

ISBN: 0316817589

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Book review laid in. Faint edge wear. 1988 Hard Cover. The Athens of Socrates's time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet this city put Socrates, its most famous philosopher, to death. Presumably this was because it citizens did not like what he was teaching. Yet he had been teaching there all his life, unmolested. Why did they wait until he was 70, and had only a few years to live, before executing him? In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone rang...
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Plato: A Collection of Critical Essays, II: Ethics, Politics, and Philosophy of Art and Religion (Modern Studies in Philosophy, AP 9b)

By: Vlastos, Gregory; Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books: 1971

Seller ID: 2307934

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine lightly creased, light crease on front wrapper, wrappers lightly toned. 1971 Mass Market Paperback. xi, 314 pp. A collection of essays on Plato, edited by Gregory Vlastos, with contributions by numerous authors.
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Plato's Theaetetus (The Idol, June, 1963, Volumes XXXIX, Number 4)

By: [Plato]; Lewis, Tayler; Somers, Wayne; Peterson, Sven

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Union College: 1963

Seller ID: 2304694

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor general wear. 1963 Large Softcover. 61 pp. Translated by Tayler Lewis, Profeesor of Greek, Union College, 1849-1877. Edited by Wayne Somers. Introduction by Sven Peterson. The Theaetetus is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge, written circa 369 BCE. In this dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions of knowledge: knowledge as nothing but perception, knowledge as true judgment, and, finally, knowledge as a true judgment with an account. Each of these definitions is shown to be unsatisfactory. Socrates declares Theaetetus will have benefited fr...
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