Mumbai: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 2019. 16th printing (35,000 copies). Paperback, perfect bound. A series of talks by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, an exponent of Vedic spiritual tradition and Bhakti yoga. Deals with Consciousness, meditation, karma, death and reincarnation.
Penguin Classics, 2003. Paperback. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks.....
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make.....
London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Convent Garden, 1849. Bohn's Standard Library. Green cloth with golden gilt lettering. 423 pp. This work includes 32 pages of advertising at the back of the volume. It is bound in green cloth, and possesses golden lettering. The work is a translation of a......
Profile Books Ltd, 2022. Main. Paperback. The inscription on the Oracle of Delphi says: 'Nothing in excess.' C.S. Lewis described temperance as going to the 'right length but no further.' Easy to say, hard to practice - and if it was tough in 300 BC, or in the 1940s, it.....
Stuttgart: Gotta, 1827. Sämmtliche Werke in Siebzehn Banden. Half Roan. 17 volumes in 10 books, appears to lack Vol 11. Volumes 3 to 10 are of Schiller's plays. A good set in the original quarter roan binding. Printed with gothic font (as was then customary in the Germanic regions).
London: Ward, Lock, & Bowden, Limited, 1914. Half blue and grey cloth with gold gilt lettering. 522 pp. Selection of works containing all Bacon's major works, excluding Novum Organum. This edition is a nice copy, with clean boarding. There is outward foxing, but the inner pages are rather clean. The.....