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William Ernest Hocking Collection and Related Resources

Selected Title, Frontispiece and Dedication Pages.

antique etching of a king wearing chainmail made out of soldiers

Upper detail frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, by Abraham Bosse, 1651

antique title page of book

Lower detail, frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, by Abraham Bosse, 1651

Principles of Philosophy Descartes, 1692 

Principia Philosophiæ. Ultima editio cum optima collata, diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata.

Author: Renati Des-Cartes

Publisher: Ex Typographia Blaviana Place: Amstelodami (Amsterdam) Publication date: 1692 

dedication page antique book

Dedication page (detail) Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, 1651 

 

antique title page

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences René Descartes English edition 1649

Marginalia

Selections of marginalia from the Hocking Collection

Kant's Kritik of Judgement 
(published in German as Kritik der Ureilkraft, 1790) 

Indication of former owner Josiah Royce (1855–1916) 

book title page with names inscribed

Meister Eckhart inscribed by Hocking

 

Meister Eckhart front board

Meister Eckhart front board

 

Meister Eckhart front endpaper

Meister Eckhart front endpaper

 

Meister Eckhart "Vision of God not continue in this body"

Meister Eckhart "Vision of God not continue in this body"

 

Meister Eckhart "One must bring forth fruit"

Meister Eckhart "One must bring forth fruit"

 

Meister Eckhart "One must bring forth fruit"

Meister Eckhart  "The practical aspect"

 

 

 

Selections of covers and bindings