Search Results: Authors starting with B from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

BAIN, Alexander. James Mill. A Biography. London, Longmans, Green 1882Thick octavo, publishers green cloth boards, spine lettered gilt, upper cover lettered, pp.xxxii, 466, (1), frontispiece portrait, fine copy.First edition. The only full-scale biographical study of James Mill. Bain interviewed many of those who knew Mill in his youth and also used a number of unpublished letters.ref:089

Early photographs of the Royal Navy, Algiers, Seville and Gibraltar
Naval Cadet Casper Baker's album of photographs 1865-1873
Quarto, 9 1/2 x 11inches, old paper boards, upper cover with paper label in ink Casper Baker, 62 pages, misnumbered 60 in pencil, interleaved with tissue, many albumen silver prints mounted on card, 6 naval photographs, and over 70 other photographs, the majority measuring over 7 x 9 inches, each photograph labelled in ink, first leaf loose, in excellent condition.
Provenance: Album compiled by Casper Baker, later vice-admiral Casper Joseph Baker (1852 –1918), an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War. He was recorded as an entrant in January 1866 to HMS Britannia [training ship] in January 1866, being awarded Naval Cadetship in the examination in December 1865. Between 1899-1907 successively Captain of HMS Sappho, Hero, Blake, Astraea, Flora, Edgar, and the battleship Ramilles. Retired 1908, and then Vice-Admiral.
Compiled by Casper Baker when a naval… Read More

BIRKS,Thomas Rawson. Modern Utilitarianism, or the Systems of Paley, Bentham, and Mill Examined and Compared. London, Macmillan, 1874.
Octavo, publishers blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.viii, 240, 48 advert
First edition – the main part of a course of lectures in 1873 at Cambridgeon Modern Utilitarianism. Birks was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral philosophy.

BOWER, George Spencer. English Philosophers. Hartley and James Mill. London, Sampson Low 1881
Octavo, publishers red cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in black, pp.iv, 250, 32 adverts.
First edition

BRIDGES,J.H. The Unity of Comte's Life and Doctrine. A reply to strictures on Comte's later writings, addressed to J.S.Mill, Esq.,M.P. London, Trübner & Co., 1866
Octavo, quarter cloth and marbled boards, paper label, pp.70.
First edition. The positivist John Henry Bridges (1832-1906) was, alongside Richard Congreve, Frederic Harrison and Edward Beesley, a significant representative of Comtian philosophy in Britain. His 'literary services to positivism included translations of Comte, most notably of his General View of Positivism (1865). He also established himself as an apologist with his short book on The Unity of Comte's Life and Doctrine (1866), in which he undertook to reply to J.S. Mill's critique of the same year, Auguste Comte and Positivism. Mill, as presented by Bridges, was an 'incomplete Positivist', one who accepted it as a philosophy but not in its social or religious dimensions. Mill, he suggested, would have been less harsh as a critic if he had not been burdened by his own 'dread of… Read More