richard boethius (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 121 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Very good condition. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Richard Green. Paperback.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Second Graham edition; 12mo (17 x 10.5 cm); engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, 5pp ads to rear, A12 cancellans, text-block toned with moderate spotting; contemporary panelled-calf, later contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, joints carefully restored, small split to spine, very good; [3], vi-xlv, [1], 273, [5 ads]pp. The second edition of this English-language translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy by the Jacobite conspirator Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston (1648-1695). Arguably the most famous work of philosophy from late antiquity, Boethius composed his Consolation at the very end of his life whilst imprisoned and awaiting execution for treason in AD 523-4. It takes the form of a dialogue between the author and philosophy, personified as a 'Woman of a most reverend Countenance' (p.3), who counsels that true happiness is not based upon the attainment of material riches, honour or power, but from the unity of the soul and body within. The text goes on to discuss the problem of evil, the nature of predestination, free will, and justice. As translator, Boethius was an important link between the Hellenic and Medieval worlds and was amongst the most widely read and debated figures from late antiquity. Such is his legacy that he has been dubbed the 'last of the Roman philosophers and the first of the scholastic theologians' (Edward Kennard Rand). ESTC T21900.

8vo, pp.xxxii, 246, [2, errata], with an engraved frontispiece; lightly toned at extremities but a very good copy; bound in contemporary panelled speckled calf; rebacked; old booklabel and stamps of Richmond Public Library, presented by T.J.Garstaing in 1943; modern bookplate of the Fox Pointe library of Howard Knohl.First edition of this translation by the diplomat, politician and Jacobite conspirator Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston (16481695). The translation had initially been completed in 1680; after the Glorious Revolution, Preston was arrested as a supporter of JamesII in exile, released, and then rearrested and sent to the Tower in January 1691 for high treason. His death sentence was dropped after he confessed and named his co-conspirators, including William Penn. Allowed to retire to Yorkshire, he spent the rest of his life revising his Boethius for the press, his own experience in prison informing his understanding of the work his Preface is full of buried allusions to his own experience. ESTC R3694; Wing B 3433. Language: English.