Thomas taylor translator (29 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: slightly edge-worn and a little darkened, even so still showing well. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.…

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Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii, 322pp. Near fine. Handsome and tight revised edition of this 1994 text, Volume V in the "Thomas Taylor Series." Contains Taylor's translations of "The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus" (1824) and half a dozen others between 1787 and 1806. Taylor (1758-1835) was a highly-regarded English translator, the first to accomplish the entire works of Plato and Aristotle. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 2nd edition. 176 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.47 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Limited edition. Limited edition. 1976, first of this facsimile reprint of the Original Edition of 1831, translated from the originals by Thomas Taylor. This edition, with Introductory Preface by Manly P. Hall. Very good in good dust jacket, rubbed with closed tear at head of dj. Former owner notes at corner of front end paper. ISBN 0893144037.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Waletr Scott publicationon red cloth + nameplate & name to end paper.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiv, 344pp. Near fine. Tight and attractive reprint of this 1994 text, Volume VI in the "Thomas Taylor Series." Maximus was a 2nd century A.D. Greek philosopher and rhetorician and the Dissertations his major work, a collection of 41 essays on philosophical, religious and other topics. Taylor (1758-1835) was a highly-regarded English translator, the first to accomplish the entire works of Plato and Aristotle; his Maximus translation first appeared in London in two volumes in 1804.…

Hardcover. Introductory Preface by Manly P. Hall. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering/rules, pictorial dust jacket. (2pp), xvi, 169pp. Frontispiece. Fine/near fine. Faintest of wear to jacket (with printed list of this publisher's titles on verso). Handsome facsimile reprint of these eclectic offerings by the famed translator, first published by Edward Jeffrey in London in 1793. Taylor (1758-1835) was a highly-regarded English translator, the first to accomplish the entire works of Plato and Aristotle. The Sallust here noted was NOT the Roman historian and politician Gaius Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (c. 86-35 BCE), but rather the 4th century CE Neoplatonist writer and Roman official Saturninius Secundus Salutius (or Sallustius).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: vg. Reprint. Quarto, xi, 344pp. Original purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. '"The Dissertation of Maximus Tyrius' was originally published by Thomas Taylor in 184 in two volumes; the forty-one surviving dissertations by this little-known author shine, not only with his love of philosophy, but also with a well-trained rhetorician's delivery. the discourses herein abound with thought-provoking excursions through questions that are as necessary to consider today as they were when Maximus the Tyrian wrote about them with such vigor and learning, some eighteen centuries ago" (from the publisher). Dealer sticker on inside bak cover. Binding and interior in overall near fine condition.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: vg. Later printing. Quarto. xi, 305pp. Original purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. The hymns and essays in this volume are collected from several publications of Thomas Taylor. Contains republications of 'The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus', and extracts from Mystical Initiations, Two Orations of the Emperor Julian, Sallust on the Gods and the World, Five Books of Plotinus, The Fable of Cupid and Psyche, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, and Collectanea. Dealer sticker on inside back cover. Binding and interior in overall near fine condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: vg. First edition. Quarto. xi, 252pp. Original purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "The works contained in this volume are of great interest both to those who are established in their understanding of the Platonic Theology and to those who are coming anew to the beautiful doctrine of the Gods" (from the publisher). Dealer sticker on inside back cover. Binding and interior in overall near fine condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. Greek language. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print. Pp. xii.227 [228 blank], contemporary sheepskin, rebacked with th old spine laid down, corners restored, plate of James Fraser Gluck to verso of front board. Complete, tightly bound. Slight smell of cigarette smoke.

Hardcover. First Edition. Small 4to. Purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. xi, 252pp. Near fine. Handsome and tight first of this edition, Volume IV in the "Thomas Taylor Series." Taylor (1758-1835) was a highly-regarded English translator, the first to accomplish the entire works of Plato and Aristotle; this volume contains translations of Sallust, Demophilus, Emperor Julian, Lucanus, Taurus, Maternus, Proclus and Synesius.…

The first edition in English of Aristotle's Metaphysics. The 'Metaphysics', as it has come to be known, is a collection of fourteen separate treatises or books by Aristotle (384-322 BC) which were compiled in the first century BC by a Hellenistic scholar, traditionally identified as Andronicus of Rhodes, into a unitary work on the basis of their thematic similarities. The term itself, meaning 'the things after the physical things', has been understood in a variety of ways, most simplistically as denoting the literal order of these treatises in the Hellenistic edition of Aristotle's works as coming after those books which deal with the physical world. However, 'it seems undeniable that the different treatises of the collection pursue a general philosophical project or discipline, which Aristotle variously refers to as "wisdom," "first philosophy," or even "theology." Such a discipline is described in the Metaphysics as a theoretical science, as opposed to practical and productive sciences, and it is sharply distinguished from the other two theoretical sciences, physics and mathematics' (Gabriele Galluzzo, 'Aristotle's Metaphysics', Oxford Bibliographies in Classics). The translator, Thomas Taylor (1750-1835), was something of an autodidact, having received no formal education since dropping out of St. Paul's School in his youth. At this time Taylor was employed as a bank clerk, devoting his spare moments to the study of Aristotle and Plato in the original. 'In 1787 he began to publish translations of works of ancient philosophy, beginning with the earliest of Plotinus's Enneads (i.6), on the "beautiful", and the "Orphic hymns", this latter with a lengthy preface on the life and theology of Orpheus'. By the date of the publication of the Metaphysics in 1801, Taylor had secured the patronage of the brothers William and George Meredith, and later Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, who made it possible for Taylor to published the first English translation of Plato's complete works in 1804, revising and finishing the effort begun by Flyuer Sydenham (1710-1787), whom Taylor had known in his later years. These translations made available a vast body of Neo-Platonic thought to an audience not otherwise learned in Greek and Latin, exerting a considerable influence on the mystical tendencies of the Romantic Movement from Coleridge to Shelley, Emerson to the Plato Club. First edition in English; 4to (31 x 24 cm); old library stamp and de-acquisition overstamp to title-page, further stamp to half-title and verso of final f. of text, light spotting to title and occasionally thereafter; modern half sprinkled calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, rough-cut with top-edge occasional unopened towards rear of text-block, very good; [4], lv, [1], 467, [1]pp. Provenance: 'Released from the collections of The Long Island Historical Society' (library stamp).…

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.…

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.…