Porphyry Thomas (46 results)
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Published by Centaur Press, 1965
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 236pp hardback, purple cloth gilt, reprinted, (Volume II of the Thomas Taylor series).
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Published by Centaur Press,, London,, 1965
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 196. Original publishers orange cloth, lettered maroon on spine. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket, with very faint edgewear at top edges. Excellent condition.
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Published by Printed for, and sold by, the author [Thomas Taylor], No. 9, Manor Place, Walworth. Also by Messrs. Black and Son, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden,, London:, 1817
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-institutional copy. First edition. Paged as i-viii, v-lxxxiv, 1-600 (matching LoC and Harvard copies). Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Rebound in early to mid-twentieth century dark blue cloth; fraying to spine head and along front board's top edge; small surface chip near front join…t heel; original title label with shallow top edge wear and moderately dulled gilt lettering affixed to upper spine. Front and rear endpapers replaced too with title leaf immediately opposite new ffep verso; front pastedown has O'Casey family Mississippi and Ireland genealogical-themed bookplate. Oval ink stamp "Biblioteca Coll. | SS Petri et Pauli | Prior Park" upon title page but with no other institutional marks readily apparent upon a cursory perusal; pencil writing on page lxxxiv with pencil marks and marginalia amongst text; extensive handwritten notes in older ink on both rectos and versos of two rear flyleaves (both being the book's original paper and deemed worthy of retention by rebinder) - pencil and ink writing quite undoubtedly by the same hand (but certainly predates Dr. Casey's acquisition as much of his impressive book collection was amassed between 1940-1970). Some toning to interior leaves but otherwise mostly clean. Text block's toned top edge soiled and stained; fore-edge and bottom edge toned. Binding is firm. British Neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) was the first to compile a complete English translation of the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato. Acquired from the estate of Birmingham, Alabama pathologist, bibliophile, and genealogist Dr. Albert Eugene Casey (1903-1982) who served as director of laboratories at Birmingham Baptist Hospitals from 1942-1972.
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- First Edition
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United KingdomLUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)
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Add to basketFirst edition. Large 8vo. Handsomely bound by Charles Lewis in contemporary full green morocco. Boards ruled in gilt, the spine with five raised bands, compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, date in gilt to the foot of the spine, and red morocco label with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Olive-green endpapers. Printed on th…icker paper than usually encountered, possibly a large paper copy. Old pencil note to the front free endpaper "Bound by C. Lewis". A very good copy, the binding square, firm and bright with a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents with a nineteenth-century bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown, a small pen annotation to two page margins, underlining to three lines on one page, and some light scattered foxing to preliminary pages and page edges are otherwise in very good order. A most attractive copy. A beautifully bound copy of the first English translation of Porphyry's 'On Abstinence from Animal Food' - one of the earliest extant works on vegetarianism. The philosophers Pythagoras (c.570-c.495 BC), Plutarch (46-after 119 AD) and Porphyry (c.234-c.305 AD) were the three most well-known vegetarian authors of classical antiquity. The vegetarian ideals of Pythagoras, the earliest of the three thinkers, were borne by a number of his followers down the centuries, with the phrase 'Pythagorean diet' coming to serve as the term most commonly used to describe vegetarianism, prior to the coining of the latter term in the early nineteenth century. Despite this lasting fame, his writings on the subject have not actually survived, leaving Plutarch's essays in his 'Moralia' and Porphyry's 'On Abstinence from Animal Food' as the foundational texts in the vegetarian canon. One of the most quoted and referenced works for virtually all subsequent vegetarian writers, Porphyry argues in his exposition that the killing of animals for either sacrifice or food is both unjust and unnecessary, as well as harmful to the purity and piety of the human individual. As he explains, by slaughtering animals for our own purposes "a barbarous and brutal nature becomes strengthened in us, which renders men insensible to the feeling of pity and compassion. Those who first perpetrated these iniquities fatally blunted the most important part of the (civilised) soul". This first English translation was produced by the neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1758-1835), who was also the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato, as well as the Orphic fragments. A great admirer of Hellenism, Taylor was an fervent critic of the corruptions of organised Christianity. He was also a frequently outspoken member of London's intellectual milieu, notably publishing a satire in reaction to Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man' and Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women', titled 'A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes' (1792), which (sarcastically) suggested that if men and women should have rights, then why not also animals? Taylor's edition of Porphyry was significant in aiding the development of vegetarian thought in the nineteenth century (whether he intended it to or not), and his translations as a whole were influential for a number of leading figures in both British Romaniticism and American transcendentalism. Suitably bound in rich green morocco with olive-green endpapers by Charles Lewis, one of the greatest masters of the craft during the period, the present copy is perhaps one of the nicest examples one could find of this cornerstone of any library of vegetarian literature. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, IndiaTrue World of Books
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1917 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd repri…nt. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 76 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 76 Language: English.
