Philosophy

Being a translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Literature, with Prolegomena, Commentaries, and Notes.London and Benares: The Theosophical Publishing Society.. 1906. "I found greater pleasure in the spiritual considerations which insistently imposed themselves upon my mind". First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. 230x140mm. pp. xvi, 481 [1]; xi, [i], 403 [1]; xii, 371 [1bl], [7, 1bl, adverts]. Loosely inserted leaf of handwritten notes. Beige cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. Some soiling and rubbing and the head and foot of spines are bumped and rubbed. Spines darkened and that of volume III is soiled.

New York: Harper Row. 1984.Signed by Kundera on the title page. First US edition and the first edition in English translation. 219x138mm. pp. [6], 314. Publishers black paper covered boards, and tan cloth, spine lettered in black. Original dustjacket.

Compuesto por el Illuminado Doctor, Y Martyr de Jesu-Christo el Beato Raymundo Llull Mallorquin de la Tercera Orden del S.P.S. Francisco.Mallorca: En la Oficina de la Viuda Frau. 1753. THE LADDER OF UNDERSTANDING First vernacular edition. 4to. 195x140mm. pp.[viii], [2] plates, 252. Folding table of contents and folding woodcut illustration preceding A1, woodcut vignettes to text. Title-page trimmed and extended at lower margin (probably to erase inscription), a couple of pages lightly browned. Contemporary Spanish limp vellum, title in ink to spine, lacking ties. Some internal cracking at the hinges and the usual warping.