Hickock laurens (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: VG for age & Genre. 'New and revised edition'. xii+543; ex-Andover-Harvard Theological Library with their plate+discard and release stamps to front pastedown, another owner's small gilt label top same, front gutter expertly repaired with white tape, but gutter to verso front endpaper remains partly opened though secure, blue lib.number verso t.p., remainder of text-block & rear endpaper & pastedown clean, tight and completely unmarked, top edge reasonably dust-free. Black cloth covers appear clean and unworn bar routine corner-rubbing, but on examination it is clear that the spine has been expertly relaid on black cloth, presumably by the library, and there is a small white lib.label ghost to lower spine. Despite faults an excellent copy of this treatise by Hickock, an atypical U.S. 'mental & moral philosopher' of the time whose complex position was a kind of ultimately religious neo-Kantianism as far as I can figure. He also authored a companion 'Empirical Psychology'. Apparently extremely rare with no copies listed on major web-sites at time of listing. The copyright entry date verso t.p. is 1861 but other sources give 1st ed. as 1849, his first book.…

Zustand: Good + overall. A Poughkeepsie imprint of a sermon delivered by the American philosopher who would later become president of Union College. Hickok (1798 - 1888), taught at a private school in Bethel, Ct., graduated from Union College, and studied theology by apprenticing himself to William Andrews and Bennet Tyler, both of Connecticut. Hickok was ordained minister in 1824 at the Congregational Church in Kent, Connecticut, where he served as pastor until 1829. He then succeed Dr. Lyman Beecher at the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Connecticut. He taught at Western Reserve College, Auburn Theological Seminary, and then Union College. He succeeded Eliphalet Nott as president of Union in 1865 and then retired to Amherst Mass, where he continued to work with students & teachers of philosophy. 8vo, 9pp. Toned, chipped at edges. With linen reinforcement at spine, and in a modern acetate fronted binding.…