London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Hard Cover.
Corners rubbed, minor transfer on front board, ink name and small bookplate on front endpapers.
iv, 335, 16 pp. 8vo. A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf's uncle, a graduate of Eton College, King's College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. These originally appeared.....
Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1912. Hard Cover.
No publisher date (ink date dated 1912). Odor of smoke, ink name and address on front board, some pages foxed.
68 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. An allegory of the ethics of a fictional medical student.
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1836. First Edition. Small Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards a bit soiled, pages lightly to moderately foxed throughout, 2 inch chip from corner of rear free endpaper, pencil name (John B. Church) on rear endpaper.
viii, 192 pp. 12mo. 6 3/8 x 4 1/8. Green cloth.....
London: Trubner & Co., 1889. Hard Cover.
Spine toned, corners exposed, hinges weakening, sticker removal marks on front endpaper.
xxvi, 413, [8] pp. 8vo. Blue-grey cloth, gilt titles, navy blue decorations and borders. A study of moral philosophy by a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, exploring how the ethical behavior.....
Paris: Chez Bechet Jeune, Libraire, 1827. Second Edition. Half-Leather.
Second edition, revised and enlarged (corrigee et augmentee). Spines repaired, boards lightly rubbed, faintly foxed throughout.
Complete in two volumes. xc, 384; [4], 552 pp. 8vo. Leather spines over marbled boards, marbled edges. 16 engraved plates. A work on the psychology.....
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand. 1797. First Edition. Half-Leather.
1797 first edition. Professionally recased. Edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. Bindings tight and square, pages clean and unmarked.
Complete in two volumes. xv, [1], 416; 434 pp. Leather spines.....
New York: Penguin Books, 2004. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An excellent copy.
lxiii, 329 pp. Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical.....
London: Williams and Norgate, 1869. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Binding shaken, pencil underlining and marginalia, rear endpapers lightly stained.
vi, 387 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, black stamped borders. The first book by the Oxford-educated barrister and philosopher. An examination of ethics discussing humanity's moral sense as informed.....
London: Williams and Norgate, 1869. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top corner of rear board bumped.
vi, 387 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, black stamped borders. The first book by the Oxford-educated barrister and philosopher. An examination of ethics discussing humanity's moral sense as informed by the nature of.....
New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Fist edition. No jacket. Page ridges lightly foxed.
203 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Intuitionism; The Emotive Theory of Ethics; The Language and the Logic of Morals; Ethical Philosophy and Moral Living.
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London: Printed for C. Davis against Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, 1751. First Edition. Full-Leather.
Rebacked, retaining original boards, boards rubbed with some loss and some new leather added along edges, handwritten biographical sketch of author on rear endpapers, owner bookplate, bookseller plate, and owner blind stamp on front endpapers.
viii, 406 pp.....
Portland, [Maine]: Arthur Shirley, 1824. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine, faint pencil name and date on front endpaper, pages toned.
414 pp. A work on metaphysical and ethical theory by the American minister and theologian who studied at Dartmouth and Middlebury College. Burton.....
London: T. Cox, 1730. First Thus. Half-Leather.
First thus. Nicely rebound by Green Dragon Bindery with leather spine, morocco label, gilt titles and rules, marbled paper over boards, new end sheets. Binding edge of about a third of the text pages lightly stained, embossed ownership stamps on title page and.....
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1829. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition, originally published in London in 1825, by the author best known for his poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Binder's copy. Front board stained and loose but included, pages foxed.
lxi, 399 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Samuel.....
Philadelphia: John Fordyce / Dickinson, Printer. 1813. Full-Leather.
Boards rubbed, pages foxed throughout, bookplate from Social Library at Salisbury Ferry and ink name on front endpapers, pencil notes on front & rear endpapers.
vi, 398 pp. Original tree calf, red morocco spine label, gilt titles and double rules. A collection.....
Mies, Switzerland: RotoVision, 2003. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
Minor wear to corners.
160 pp. Conscientious Objectives is the first book to address ethical design the hot professional topic of the new century - and as such is an essential tool for both designers and students working in environmental graphics, inclusive.....
New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Smells musty, boards a bit warped.
xii, 192 pp. The central problem for normative ethics is the conflict between a consequentialist view--that morality requires promoting the good of all--and a belief that the rights of the individual place.....
Paris: Chez Leclerc, 1779. Fourth Revised Edition. Full-Leather.
'Quatrieme Edition revue, corrigee & augmentee des Reflexions sur les Principes de la Justice du meme Auteur.' Corners rubbed, lightly foxed throughout.
[iv], 490, [2], 120 pp. 12mo. French text. Original full sheep, red morocco spine label, gilt titles and decorations. Instruction.....
Boston, Massachusetts: James Munroe and Company, 1842. Hard Cover.
Endpapers foxed, a few other lightly foxed pages.
xxii, 368; viii, 409 pp. Two volume set. Translated from the German of De Wette by Samuel Osgood. De Wette was a theologian and Biblical scholar. Osgood was a Harvard and Cambridge Divinity.....
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1839. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Front joint weakening, edges rubbed with corners exposed and minor loss from spine head, boards lightly rubbed, ink gift note on front endpaper, small binder bookplate on front endpaper.
387, [1] pp. Light brown leather spine and corners, maroon.....
London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington, and J. and J. Fletcher, 1773. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. ESTC T69331. Relatively scarce (14 in OCLC). Top portion of front wrapper fore edge slightly discolored.
[ii], 17, [1] pp. Sewn binding. Edwards published this and an edition of Xenophon's Memorabilia.....
London: E. Roper, 1824. Third Edition. Full-Leather.
Boards rubbed and soiled, joints splitting and spine labels gone (one laid in), bookplate of Geo. K. Hawkins on front endpaper of each volume. Text block sewings solid, text clean and unmarked. A good candidate for restoration.
ix, 420; 429 pp. Full diced.....
New York: The Julian Press, Inc., 1971. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket rubbed. Board edges toned.
xxii, 353 pp. In The Moral Society, John David Garcia presents a revolutionary ethical theory much in the spirit of Spinoza and Teilhard de Chardin. The concept of ethics is.....
Breslau: ben Wilhelm Gottlieb Koru. 1798. Half-Leather.
Boards rubbed with a few spots, front and rear endpapers lightly foxed.
[xii], 394 pp. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles, paper over boards. German text. Garve translated Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and Cicero's De Officiis, Edmund Burke, etc. His criticism of.....
London: Printed for William and John Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's, 1728. Second Edition. Soft Cover.
Second edition. Boards absent, portion of leather spine remains.
[vi], 102 pp. Several leaves misnumbered (71 and 72 repeated, 98 skipped, 101 skipped). 8vo., A^4-N^4, O^3, A^1. A short work by.....