Aristotle thomas taylor (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Fine. Reprint. Hardback. Octavo. vii, 390pp. Original purple cloth with gilt spine titles. A fine and unread copy. No jacket. The Thomas Taylor Series, Volume 21. Reprint of the 1811 edition.

Zustand: Fine. Reprint. Hardback. Octavo. vii, 454pp. Original purple cloth with gilt spine titles. A fine and unread copy. No jacket. The Thomas Taylor Series, Volume 22.

Zustand: New.

Frome, The Prometheus Trust, 2003. 437 pp. Orig. hardcover.

Taylor published the first complete English translation of the works of Plato in 1804, revising the work begun by Floyer Sydenham (1710-1787), whom he knew in his latter years. His patron was Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. Second edition; 2 vols; 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm); slight spotting and offsetting to text; later half calf, burgundy cloth boards, contrast green and red morocco lettering-pieces to spines, marbled edges, corners and extremities rubbed; VIII, xlvii, [1], 351, [1]; [4],409, [3]pp.…

Exceptionally rare complete set of the first edition in English of the works of Aristotle, limited to only 50 sets, signed by the translator Thomas Taylor in volumes one and four. Quarto, 11 volumes, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels, ribbon book marks bound in, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. The set composes of the following: Volume 1: The Organon, 1807, signed at the end by the translator Thomas Taylor, and with A Brief Notice of Mr. Thomas Taylor, the Celebrated Platonist, with a Complete List of his Published Works, by J.J. Welsh. Volume 2: The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nichomachean Ethics, 1811. Volume 3: The Great and Eudemian Ethics, the Politics and Economics Volume 4: The Physics, 1806, signed by Thomas Taylor on the last page. Volume 5: The Treatises on the Heavens, on Generation, and Corruption, and on Meteors, 1807, folding plate of mathematical figures. Volume 6: The History of Animals and Treatise on Physiognomy, 1809. Volume 7: The Treatises on the Parts, and Progressive Motion of Animals, Problems; and His Treatise on Individual Lines, 1810. Volume 8: The Treatises on the Soul; on Sense and Sensibilities; on Memory and Reminiscence; on Sleep and Wakefulness; on Dreams; on Divination by Sleep; on the Common Motion of Animals; on the Generation of Animals; on the Length and Shortness of Life; on Youth and Old Age, Life and Death; and on Respiration, 1808. Volume 9: The Metaphysics, 1812. Volume 10: A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, by Thomas Taylor, 1812. This set includes an 11th volume being Taylor's first edition of The Metaphysics, 1801 containing an extensive introduction and notes. Lowndes, p. 68: "Of this valuable translation, the only complete one extant in the English language. Fifty copies only were printed at the expense of William Meredith, Esq." In near fine condition. Complete sets are of the utmost rarity; rare and desirable set of this landmark work. Aristotle's philosophical works covered an incredibly broad range of subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, rhetoric, politics and government; constituting the first comprehensive system of Western Philosophy. Through these many branches, Aristotle sought the universal; his aim was to discover the essential nature of being, becoming, existence and reality which he believed could be achieved through detailed systems of logic and classification. Aristotleâs works on natural history, particularly observations of the sea-life visible from the island of Lesbos, are some of the earliest known to have survived and include one of the earliest classification systems. Aristotleâs Metaphysics is considered to be his principal work as well as the first major work in metaphysical philosophy itself. âIt forms the highest step in Aristotleâs system, and deals with the first principles of all existence. Here he grapples with the deepest questions of philosophyâ (Peck, 130). Translated by Thomas Taylor, a leading English classicist of the day. âIn his knowledge of Plato and Aristotle he has never been equaled by any Englishman, and he is still the most important disseminator of ancient philosophy in the history of English and American literatureâ (Axon, 11).…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition in English. First edition in English of the works of Aristotle, one of 50 sets printed, and boldly signed by the translator Thomas Taylor in ink at the end of the first volume. All volumes bear the armorial bookplates of noted bibliophile and Bronte family benefactor Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861). Incomplete set, with eight of ten volumes present of the complete translation. Uniformly bound by "J. Mackenzie, Binder to the King" in contemporary half morocco over French Curl marbled boards with spines lettered and tooled in gilt; all edges gilt, 4to. Very Good with wear extremities rubbed, sporadic foxing, hinges slightly tender. Volumes include: 1. The Organon, 1807. 2. The Treatises on the Soul, 1808. 3.The History of Animals, 1809. 4.The Treatises on the Parts and Progressive Motion on Animals etc., 1810. 5. The Rhetoric, 1811. 6. The Great Edemian Ethics, 1811. 7. A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1812.8. The Metaphysics (first edition of 1801). The first collected English translations of Aristotle's works from Orphic fragments by Neoplatonist scholar Thomas Tyler (1758-1835.) Provenance of famed bibliophile and collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer whose well-curated and respected library expanded to nearly 20,000 volumes. Bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin remarked that she was, "the head of all female book collectors in Europe." Known for her philanthropic endeavors she donated a sum of 50 pounds to Patrick Bronte, father of Charlotte Bronte, when he was widowed in 1821. Currer also contributed an unknown amount to the Clergy Daughter's School that the Bronte sisters attended. Scholars postulate that Charlotte chose the non de plume of "Currer Bell" for her first published 1847 novel Jane Eyre in honor of Currer's philanthropy. A desirable set, even without Currer's bookplate, that seldom comes up for sale.…