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• The Metaphysics of Aristotle, Translated From the Greek, With Copious Notes, in Which the Pythagoric and Platonic Dogmas Respecting Numbers and Ideas are Unfolded From Antient Sources; To Which is Added, A Dissertation on Nullities and Diverging Series (London: Printed for the author, 1801), by Aristotle and Thomas Taylor
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• Metaphysics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. D. Ross (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Metaphysics, by Aristotle, trans. by Hugh Tredennick (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Discourse on Metaphysics; Correspondence with Arnauld; and Monadology (Chicago: Open Court, 1908), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, trans. by George R. Montgomery, contrib. by Paul Janet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Positiones metaphysicae, et mathematicae (typis a Ghelenianis, 1773), by Franciscus Henricus Blumegen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Metaphysik des Averroes (1198) (Halle a.S. : Max Niemeyer, 1912., 1912), by Averroës and M. Horten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik ; die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können ([s.n.], 1794), by Immanuel Kant (page images at HathiTrust)
• La doctrine du sens commun; ou, Traité des premières vérités et de la source de nos jugemens, suivi d'une exposition des preuves les plus sensibles de la véritable religion. (Chez Seguin aìné, 1822), by Claude Buffler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watts' Philosophical essays (Printed for T. Longman, T. Field, and C. Dilly, 1794), by Isaac Watts and William K. Frankena (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio de metafisica (Imprenta de E. Maestre, 1919), by Averroës and Carlos Quirós Rodríguez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Aurelius Augustinus Metaphysik : im Rahmen seiner Lehre vom Übel dargestellt. I. Teil (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1886), by Konrad Scipio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Muʻāsharāt al-maymūnah (1609), by Ibn al-'Arabi, active 1650 ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Manzalāwī, and active 1609 Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Khawlī (page images at HathiTrust)
• شرح الفصوص (1511), by Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd Qayṣarī (page images at HathiTrust)
• مفتاح غيب الجمع والوجود ([Egypt?], 1939), by Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, J. Heyworth-Dunne, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah Fanārī, and Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī (page images at HathiTrust)
• مشاعر ([Egypt?], 1937), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī and J. Heyworth-Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• شواهد التحقيق (in the 1930s), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī and J. Heyworth-Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• رسالة المشاعر (1935), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, J. Heyworth-Dunne, -1330? ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Ismāʻīl ibn al-Sumayʻ Iṣfahānī, and Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī (page images at HathiTrust)
• كتاب اسرار الايات (in the 1930s), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, and J. Heyworth-Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• هيجل (1937), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, J. Heyworth-Dunne, Averroës, and Ernest Belfort Bax (page images at HathiTrust)
• تعليم الانتقادي (in the 1930s), by -1330? ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī, Ibn al-'Arabi, and J. Heyworth-Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• رسالة الفوز الاصغر (in the 1930s), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Miskawayh and J. Heyworth-Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• رسالة المشاعر (in the 1930s), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, J. Heyworth-Dunne, and Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī (page images at HathiTrust)
• حكمة الاشراق (in the 1930s), by Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash Suhrawardī and J. Heyworth-Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• شفاء الحكمي (in the 1930s), by J. Heyworth-Dunne and Avicenna (page images at HathiTrust)
• نظم الالهية (in the 1930s), by Avicenna and J. Heyworth-Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• مشاعر الصدرية (in the 1930s), by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, J. Heyworth-Dunne, and fl. 17th century? Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tunukābunī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institvtiones logicae et metaphysicae (Apud Joann. Christian. Dieterich., 1781), by Johann Georg Heinrich Feder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prolegomena zu einer jeden Künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten konnen. (Verlag von Leopold Voss, 1878), by Immanuel Kant and Benno Erdmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Aurelius Augustinus Metaphysik : im Rahmen seiner Lehre vom Übel (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1886), by Konrad Scipio (page images at HathiTrust)
• First truths and the origin of our opinions, explained : with an enquiry into the sentiments of modern philosophers, relative to our primary ideas of things :translated from the French of Pere Buffier : to which is prefixed a detection of the plagiarism, concealment, and ingratitude of the doctors Reid, Beattie, and Oswald. (Printed for J. Johnson ..., 1780), by Claude Buffier and Joseph Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prolegomena zu einer jeden Künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten konnen (J. F. Hartknoch, 1783), by Immanuel Kant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbuch der Logik und Metaphysik (Im Schwickertschen Verlage, 1795), by Ernst Platner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evangelium medici seu Medicina mystica, de suspensis naturae legibus sive de miraculis, reliquisque ... memoratis quae medicae indagini subjici possunt ... : ubi perpensis prius corporis naturà, sano [et] morboso corporis humanis statu ... juxta medicinae principia explicantur (Sumptibus Bibliopolarum Richardi Wellinton ...,Henrici Nelme ...,[et] Samuelis Briscoe ..., 1697), by Bernard Connor, Samuel Briscoe, Henric Nelme, and Richard Wellington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du Ciel où l'on recherches l'origine de l'idolatrie, et les méprises de la philosophie : sur la formation, & sur les influences des corps célestes : tome second. (chez Jean Neaulme, 1744), by Jean Neaulme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evangelium medici seu Medicina mystica, de suspensis naturae legibus sive de miraculis, reliquisque ... memoratis quae medicae indagini subjici possunt ... : ubi perpensis prius corporis naturà, sano & morboso corporis humanis statu ... juxta medicinae principia explicantur (apud Joannem Wolters, 1699), by Bernard Connor, Antonio Hernández Morejón, Miguel Fernández, and Johannes Wolters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mikhlal yofi. ([s.n.], 1798), by of Perpignon Menaḥem ben Avraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundriss der allgemeinen Logik und kritische Anfangsgründe der allgemeinen Metaphysik (Bei Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1800), by Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundsätze der logik und metaphysik. (bey Johann Christian Dieterich, 1794), by Johann Georg Heinrich Feder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das Organ der Seele. (F. Nicolovius, 1796), by Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring, Christian Koeck, Ludwig Schmidt, Friedrich Nicolovius, Immanuel Kant, and Christoph Koeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können. (L. Voss, 1878), by Immanuel Kant and Benno Erdmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physicae, sev, Philosophiae natvralis systema methodicvm, : in tres partes digestum: in qvo tamqvam inspecvlo seu theatro vniversa natura, per theoremata et problemata breuiter et perspicuè explicata et disceptata, contemplanda proponitur (Apud Guilielmum Antonium, 1605), by Clemens Timpler and Wilhelm Antonius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risālatān fī mā baʻda al-ṭabīʻah. (L. Voss, 1851), by Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān and Salomon Poper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei metaphysische Abhandlungen (University Microfilms International, 1985), by Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān and Salomon Poper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metaphysik (Meiner, 1920), by Aristotle and Eugen Rolfes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les meditations metaphysiques (chez Robert-Marc d'Espilly, 1724), by René Descartes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Aurelius Augustinus Metaphysik im Rahmen seiner Lehre vom Übel dargestellt. I. Teil (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1886), by Konrad Scipio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours de la méthode (Librairie Alcan, 1921), by René Descartes and Victor Brochard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Logica e metafisica. (Società tipogr. de' classici italiani, 1848), by Antonio Genovesi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francisci Svarez, e Societate Iesv, Metaphysicarvm dispvtationvm, in quibus & vniuersa naturalis theologia ordinatè traditur, & quaestiones ad omnes duodecim Aristotelis libros pertinentes, accuratè disputantur, tomi dvo (Haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1610), by Francisco Suárez and Haeredes Melchioris Sessae (page images at HathiTrust)
• R. Patris, Francisci Svarez, e Societate Iesv, Metaphysicarvm dispvtationvm, in qvibvs et vniversa natvralis theologia ordinate traditvr, et qvæstiones ad omnes duodecim Aristotelis libros pertinentes, accuratè disputantur (Suptibus Hermanni Mylii Biarckmanni :, 1630), by Francisco Suárez, E. P. Graham, George Granville Leveson-Gower Sutherland, Aristotle, Hermannus Meresius, Hermann Mylius, and St. John Vianney Seminary. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• R. Patris, Francisci Svarez, e Societate Iesv, Metaphysicarvm dispvtationvm, in qvibvs et vniversa natvralis theologia ordinate traditvr, et qvaestiones ad omnes duodecim Aristotelis libros pertinentes, accuratè disputantur (Excudebat Balthasarus Lippius :, 1600), by Francisco Suárez, Aristotle, Arnold Mylius, Balthasar Lipp, England) Collegium Manresanensis Societas Jesu (Roehampton, and Marianists. Province of France (page images at HathiTrust)
• R. Patris, Francisci Svarez, e Societate Iesv, Metaphysicarvm disputationvm, in qvibvs et vniversa naturalis theologia ordinate traditvr, et qvaestiones ad omnes duodecim Aristotelis libros pertinentes, accuratè disputantur, tomi dvo (Moguntiae [Mainz, Germany] : Excudebat Balthasar Lippius : Sumptib. Arnoldi Mylij, Anno Domini, M. DC. V. [1605], 1605), by Francisco Suárez, Johann Schelhammer, Arnold Mylius, Balthasar Lipp, and Germany) Kapuzinerkloster Freiburg (Freiburg im Breisgau (page images at HathiTrust)
• O filosofo solitario. (Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1786), by Theodoro de Almeida (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditationes de prima philosophia (O. Beck, 1912), by René Descartes, Karl Güttler, and Carl Güttler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophia aulica, juxta veterum, ac recentiorum philosophorum placita. Compendiose, ac methodo parisiensi pertractata, et illustrioribus superioris ævi inventis, et experimentis illustrata, et quatuor in partes, amputata prolixitate, divisa. In gratiam studiosæ nobilitatis, aut vulgarem philosophiam fastidientis, aut scholarum tædium non ferentis, aut denique rerum curiosarum avidæ (Typis Hampelianis, impressit Joannes Georgius Hofæker, 1701), by William O'Kelly d' Aghrim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sharḥ Hidāyat al-Ḥikmah (Maṭbaʻ Anwār Muḥammadī, 1891), by Ḥusayn ibn Muʻīn al-Dīn Qāḍī Mīr and ʻAyn al-Quḍāh al-Ḥaydarābādī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, Doctoris Angelici, Ordinis Praedicatorum, In Metaphysicam Aristotelis commentaria (Taurini, Italia : Marietti, 1926., 1926), by Saint Thomas Aquinas and M.-R. Cathala (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questiones subtilissime Scoti in Metaphysicam Aristotelis : eiusdem de primo rerum principio tractatus atq[ue] theoremata. (Co[m]missione & expensis reuere[n]di viri Domini Andree de Asula :, 1499), by John Duns Scotus, Maurice O'Fihely, Andreas Torresanus, and Johannes Hamman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summa scholasticae philosphiae ([Lima] : Sumptibus Iosephi de Contreras regio Limae, 1693-1694., 1693), by Nicolás de Olea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedarim (Orientalische Buchdruckerey, 1798), by Menahem ben Abraham Bonafos and Isaac Satanow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hameasef (Ch. Keltera i Spółki, 1866), by Yoʼel Mordekhai, Moses Mendelssohn, and R. J. Fürstenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kant prolegomenái minden leendő metafizikához (in Hungarian), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Bernát Alexander (Gutenberg ebook)
• The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy concerning God, Christ and the creatures ... being a little treatise published since the author's death, translated out of the English into Latin, with annotations taken from the ancient philosophy of the Hebrews, and now again made English / by J.C., Medicinæ Professor. ([London] : Printed in Latin at Amsterdam by M. Brown, 1690, and reprinted at London, 1692), by Anne Conway and J. Crull (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Meditationes de prima philosophia. English (London : Printed by B.G. for Benj. Tooke ..., 1680), by René Descartes, William Molyneux, and Thomas Hobbes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Transnatural philosophy, or, Metaphysicks demonstrating the essences and operations of all beings whatever ... and shewing the perfect conformity of Christian faith to right reason, and the unreasonableness of atheists ... and other sectaries : with an appendix giving a rational explication of the mystery of the most B. Trinity / by J.S. (London : Printed by the Author, Sold by D. Brown ..., Abel Roper ..., and Tho. Metcalf ..., 1700), by John Sergeant (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Rob. Baronii, theologi ac philosophi celeberrimi, Metaphysica generalis accedunt nunc primum quæ supererant ex parte speciali : omnia ad usum theologia accommodata, opus postumum, ex muséo Antonii Clememtii Zirizæi. (Londini : Ex officina R. Danielis, & væneunt apud Th. Robinson & Ri. Davis ..., 1658), by Robert Baron and Anthony Clement (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A laurell of metaphysicke ([London] : Are to be sold by Ro. Walton at the Globe and Compass ..., [1655]), by F. M. Meurisse and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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