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CAMPBELL,James Robertson. Notes on the Autobiography of John Stuart Mill. Bradford,J.Dale & Co. 1873
Octavo, original paper covers, duststained, pp.24.
Very rare
First edition of this rare and elusive pamphlet. Sermon by the Rev James Campbell critical of Mill.

CHERNYSHEVZSKII,Nikolai. Сочиненія Н.Чернъішевскаго. Допоаненія и примвчанія на иервую книгу МОИТИУЕСКОЙ ЗКОНОМIЙ Цжона Стюарта Миппя. Томъ III [together with] Оуерки иаь МОИТИУЕСКОЙ ЗКОНОМIЙ (II Миааю) Томъ IV. Элиндина и Комцаніи, Женева 1869; H.Georg, Genève & Bale 1870
2 volumes bound in one, octavo, 19th century boards rebacked, pp.(2), x, (4), 9-276,(2)blank, (1`); (1),viii, (1), 478, (2)blank, 4 index, a few leaves foxed in the second volume, first volume with ownership inscription on the title in Yiddish, Russian text throughout.
Very rare volumes 3 and 4 [of 5] of the Collected Works of the Russian socialist reformer Nikolai Gavrilich Chernyshevzskii [1828-1889] – volume 3 is Additions and Remarks on the 1st Book of John Stuart Mill's Political Economy and volume 4 is Sketches from Political Economy (according to Mill). Both volumes… Read More

CHRISTIE,W.D. John Stuart Mill and Mr. Abraham Hayward, Q.C. A reply about Mill to a letter to the Rev.Stopford Brooke, privately circulated and actually published. London, Henry S.King & Co. 1873
Octavo, half calf, marbled boards pp.47
First edition. Abraham Hayward [1801-1884], strongly Tory and a bitter critic of Mill, had circulated a letter about Mill and birth-control leaflets and other suggestions of immorality to prevent Mill being buried in Westminster Abbey. Christie, in this pamphlet, defends Mill's reputation from these 'slurs...of an ignoble letter'. "It is part of the wickedness of the accusation that the accuser knew the subject-matters to be such that Mr Mill's friends, however certain of the real strength of the case, would be reluctant to touch them".
Packe,
Life of John Stuart Mill, p.72

COMTE,Auguste.
Cours de Philosophie Positive. Paris, Bachelier 1830, 1835, 1838, 1839, 1841,1842
6 volumes, octavo, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, spines with raised bands gilt, red morocco labels, volume numbers gilt, pp.viii + 739 + (3) with 1 folding table; (3)-724; (3)-845+(3); xi + (1) + 736; iv + 775 + (1); xxxviiipp + (2) + 904, without the half titles, occasional light foxing, 19th century bookplate to the front paste-downs of Samuel Meath, an excellent copy.

FIRST EDITION of one of the major documents of secular philosophy. Auguste Comte (1798-1857) began a course of lectures in Paris in 1826 on positive philosophy which were expanded into this six volume work. The Cours de Philosophie Positive was published over a period of twelve years and is Comte's magnum opus. It attempts to show that the facts of society are as reducible to general laws as other phenomena.
"His remarkable achievement is the construction of system which embraces all human activity and knowledge. His attempt… Read More

COWELL, Herbert - John Stuart Mill: An Autobiography. [Extracted from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine] Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 1874Octavo, pp.75-93, boards, paper label to upper cover. ref:189