Search Results: Mill Collection from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

Octavo, 13.5 x 21.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, embossed JSM initials on writing paper, lightly dust-soiled, slight creasing and chipping at fore-edge, repaired without loss.£3,500 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]A very fine political letter to Edmond Beales, relating to one of the most notable episodes in Mill's later political career. In it, Mill outlines his reasons for favouring the reformer Edwin Chadwick over the trade unionist Alexander McDonald as the Liberal candidate for Kilmarnock.Chadwick was a founder member of Mill's London Debating Society and had been acquainted with Mill since 1824.Edward Pleydell-Bouverie, who had been the Liberal member for Kilmarnock for twenty-five years, protested at Mill's action in recommending Chadwick and publication of Mill's reply to Bouverie was considered by many to have cost Mill his seat at Westminster.Edmond Beales was closely connected with radical groups active in the campaign for American and European democracy. He stood unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate… Read More

Large octavo, 20.5 x 13.0 cm, 3 pages in French in ink.£2,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin (1801-1864) was co-founder of the Journal des Economistes in 1842 and was publisher of the French translation from the third edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy and Representative Government and Charles Dupont-White (1807-1878) was the French economist who translated Mill's Representative Government.In this fine letter Mill asks Guillaumin to send copies, now approaching publication, of his Le gouvernement représentif to his Avignon friend and writer on economic and agricultural subjects Auguste Picard and the positive philosopher Célestin de Blignières (1822-1905).Mill reports that he leaves for Greece on January 29th, and to forward to Poste Restant Athens anticipated articles on his book by Emile Littré (1801-1881) and on books of Dupont-White in the Journal des Débats.Marion Filipiuk, Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill, no.529

Octavo, 10.7 x 17.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, checks and encilled x's next to some names and docketed on top of fourth page J.S. Mill Sept.13/65.£4,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]Newly discovered letter by John Stuart Mill from Berlin to his publisher John Nicolaus Trübner, publisher of Auguste Comte and Positivism 1865, giving instructions to send presentation copies on publication to 23 people and 1 institute providing names and addresses:George Grote [1794-1871] banker and historian of Greece and lifelong associate of Mill. Alexander Bain [1818-1903] philosopher, first biographer of Mill. W.J.Thornton [1813-1880] author, employee of East India Co. Friend and adherent of Mill's. Theodor Gomperz [1832-1912] Austrian philosopher & philologist, supervised translation of Mill's works into German. Max Kyllmann [1832-1867] native of Germany, founder of Union & Emancipation Society. Richard Congreve [1819-1899] founded a Positivist community in London. J.E.Cairnes [1823-1875] economist, Whately Professor… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. The Contest in America. Reprinted from Fraser's Magazine. Second edition. Boston, Little, Brown and Company 1862
Small octavo, original grey printed paper covers, pp.32, a fine copy.
First separate publication.
£150

MILL,John Stuart. Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. Reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. Vol.III. London, John W Parker and Son 1867Octavo, original publishers cloth, rubbed and worn, upper cover with The Cork Library printed paper label, spine laid down lettered gilt, pp.(4), 379, 24 adverts., library stamp of Cork Library on the title. £350First edition of this third volume includes articles Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform, Bain's Psychology, A few words on non-intervention, The Contest in America, Plato.

MILL,John Stuart. Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. Reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. London, John W Parker and Son 18592 volumes octavo, original publishers brown cloth, a little faded, spines lettered gilt, a little wear to the hinges, pp.vi, (ii), 474, (6) adverts; (iv), 563, (1), ownership in ink on both titles Isabella Sanders 1870, a fine set £350
First editions. Articles included in these volumes are Civilisation [first published 1836], Bentham [1838], Coleridge [1840], M de Tocqueville on Democracy in America [1840], Vindication of the French Revolution of February 1848, in reply to Lord Brougham and others [1849], Enfranchisement of Women [1851], and Whewell on Moral Philosophy [1852]

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
First edition.
Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Read More

First edition in German, translated by the political economist Adolph Soetbeer [1814-1892]. This edition is more than a translation; it is an elaboration, with contradictions discarded or reconciled. It includes an appendix, an extensive bibliography, and statistical tables.
"As far as I have had time to examine it the translations seems extremely well executed: the sense appears to be very faithfully & clearly rendered. I only regret that your time & pains were not bestowed on the edition which is now about to go to press & which I have not only revised throughout but have entirely recast several important chapters; in particular the two most important, those on Property & the on the Futurity of the Labouring Classes" Mill to Soetbeer, March 18 1852, in Mineka, Later letters of John Stuart Mill, letter no.74

J S Mill's step-daughter and 'chief comfort'
HELEN TAYLOR
[1831-1907] autograph letter signed to Mrs S Woolcott Browne (?) Avignon 12 March 1891
16.5 x 10.5 cm, 3 pages, autograph letter in ink, paper embossed at head HT, a few blemishes and holes to the second leaf where formerly mounted, otherwise in good condition.
£1,100 [plus VAT if applicable]
Helen Taylor, feminist, was the daughter of Harriet Taylor Mill and after her death in 1858 she devoted herself entirely to Mill and became his 'chief comfort'. She took charge of his correspondence and helped him in his work. Together they promoted women's rights. After his death she edited Mill's Autobiography 1873.
Helen Taylor's letters are rarely on the market.
The letter is addressed to 'Dear Madam', which is probably Mrs S Woolcott Browne, Hon Secretary of the Moral Reform Union, who was retiring and to be succeeded by Helen Taylor.
Helen Taylor writes that she is unable to leave Avignon to attend 'the conference of 18th March' as she is… Read More

[MILL,John Stuart] East India (Improvements in Administration). Copy "of a Memorandum (prepared at the India House) of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last Thirty Years". London 1858Folio, disbound, pp.1-38 +(2).MacMinn, p.90FIRST EDITION, from Parliamentary Papers, 1857-1858, XLIII. Of this Memorandum Mill wrote in his manuscript of the bibliography of his writings of this I was partly the author and partly the editor, the facts being furnished by the departments of the India House.MacMnn: "A review of the improvements in legislation, education, religion, roads, and other matters achieved under the supervision of the East India Company".withSix pamphlets in two volumes[MILL,John Stuart] Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last thirty years. London, 1858Tall octavo, blue cloth on grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, pp.(4), 101, drop head title.Very rare, 1 copy only in Copac at BL. MacMinn, p.90First separate edition. Of this Memorandum… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. Kvindernes Underkuelse. Paa Dansk ved G.Brandes. Kjøbenhavn, Forlagt af den Gyldendalske Boghandel 1869
Octavo, contemporary quarter calf and boards, spine lettered gilt, hinges cracked, (2), ix, (1)blank, 186 bookplate, a fine copy.
First edition in Danish. Georg Brandes [1842-1927] was a well-known Danish critic and scholar. Very rare [no copy in copac]

1. MILL,John Stuart. OгюстЪ Контъ и Πоложительная. Изложеніе и Изслъдованіе Ѓ.Ѓ.Дьюиса и Д.С.Милля. Переводъ џоџъ редакџіеи Н.Неклюдова и Н.Тиσлена. St Petersburg 1867
Octavo, 2 parts, contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine with four raised bands and title gilt, pp. (iv), xiv, iv, 370, 184, (1) index, (1) blank, bookplate of
Kelecius on front pastedown and his discreet ownership stamp on the title and last leaf, an excellent copy.
First edition in Russian. The translation is edited by N.Neklyudov and N.Tiblen. It includes an examination of G.H.Lewes and J.S.Mill.
Very rare [no copy in copac, OCLC records only 3 copies]
£850

MILL,John Stuart. Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet. Öfversättning. Foöreningens Boktryokeri, Norrköping 1862
Octavo, quarter cloth and boards, morocco label lettered gilt, pp.(4),5-354, title damp stained.
First edition in Swedish. Rare, no copy in Copac.

MILL,John Stuart. A képviseleti kormány. A Második Kiadás után Magyarra forditotta Jánosi Ferencz. Pest, Emich Gusztáv Tulajdona, 1867
Octavo, contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.(4), 350, (1), title and final leaf browned.
First edition in Hungarian. Very rare. [no copy in copac]