First Venice edition of the Gabriel Gerberon editing of Anselm’s works, first published in Paris in 1675. Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was born in SUMMER Aosta, in Piedmont. After study in Burgundy and France, he entered the Benedictine order and became prior and later abbot of Bec. He succeeded his teacher Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093. A much admired theologian and MISCELLANY philosopher who has been called the father of scholasticism, Anselm is best known his ontological argument for the Consisting of 100 Books, Mostly Recent existence of God, advanced in his Proslogion (1077-78). He stood strongly against anti-intellectualism, insisting that rational Acquisitions, but with a Few Older Items, analysis of the Christian faith did not necessarily lead to Including Many with Reduced Prices scepticism. Instead, he believed that intelligent study and discussion led to a better understanding of that faith and could MICHAEL THOMPSON BOOKS, 8242 West make it stronger. 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MAGEE, David. The Ballad of the Creech…[et al.], 1806. Two volumes, quarto. [12, including Hollow Leg. [Kentfield, California: The Allen Press, 1955]. imprimatur leaf, title-page, dedication, directions to the binder Broadside, 15 ¼” x 20 ¼.” Large initial “T” wood engraving and erratas for each volume], 409, [1, blank]; [4, imprimatur by Mallette Dean, previously used of Balzac’s The Hidden leaf and title-page], 431, [1, blank], pp. Engraved frontispiece Treasure. One crease in center. Just the hint of foxing. A very in Volume I, seven facsimile plates, and one plate of music. good copy. Without half-titles. Contemporary calf over marbled boards, $250 rebacked to style. Gilt-decorated flat spines. Contemporary One of about thirty copies, according to Lewis Allen. booksellers’ labels of T. Wickham, Maidstone. Some light Allen Press Bibliography, p. 113. staining to boards, light foxing to first and last few leaves, some offsetting from plates. A very good, clean copy. $950 Attractive Folio Edition of the Works of the Father of Scholasticism First edition of this early biography of poet, moral philosopher and literary critic James Beattie (1735–1803). 3. ANSELM, Saint. Sancti Anselmi Ex Beccensi Abbate Compiled by a close friend, it is largely made up of Beattie’s Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi. Opera Omnia nec non Eadmeri letters, linked together by comments from Forbes. Monachi Cantuariensis Historia Novorum et alia opuscula: Labore ac studio D. Gabielis Gerberon…Venetis: Typis Josephi 6. BELL, Alexander Melville. Visible Speech: The Science of Coronae, 1744. Two volumes, folio. [12], xl, 484; xxiv, 366, Universal Alphabetics; Self-Interpreting Physiological Letters, for [2], 243, [1] pp. Engraved frontisportrait in Volume I, title- the writing of all languages in one alphabet. Illustrated by page of Volume I in black and red. Woodcut headbands, tail- tables, diagrams, and examples. Inaugural Edition. 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