Philosophia Rationalis Sive Logica by Christian Freiherr Von Wolff

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1745. Hardcover. .. Octavo (17 x 10.5 cm). Pp. (vi), 339, (1). Attractive engraved allegorical vignette to title-page, with the text printed in red and black. Engraved head-pieces and initials, shoulder notes. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary full mottled calf, spine with gilt tooled raised bands between gilt compartments, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges, green ribbon marker, some abrasion marks to leather on upper cover, minor evidence of worm activity at foot of spine and at utmost margin of first few leaves. In fine condition. Handsome copy with rather bright, crisp interior. ~ First French edition. "Psychologia Empirica" was first published in Germany, in 1732. In 1756 a second French edition was published (J. Schreuder, Amsterdam). Freiherr von Johann Christian Wolff (1679-1754). B-1

Geneva:: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1732-41., 1732. 5 volumes. 4to. 246x202 mm. xxiv, 526; viii, 396, [2]; vii, [1], 581, [1]; viii, 374, [2]; [8], 501 pp., including errata leaf at end of Volumes 2 and 4. WITH THE FINE COPPER-ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF WOLFF BY DAUDET AS FRONTISPIECE, AND WITH 164 FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES; occasional browning, scattered soiling and stains, some early marginalia. Contemporary vellum boards, marbled edges; somewhat soiled, spines darkened. Preserved in the Robert Honeyman-commissioned quarter red morocco slipcases. Stamps of the Cologne Gymnasium on titles; signatures of E. F. August dated 1822-23; bookplates of Robert Honeyman IV. [The August – Honeyman – Gutzwiller copy]. Later edition, published in Geneva, of the 1713 Latin version of Wolff's 1710 Anfangsgrunde aller mathematischen Wissenschaften, a textbook used as the basis for teaching mathematics through the end of the 18th century. This massive work encompasses all the aspects of mathematics, arithmetic, geometry,… Read More