Search Results: Titles starting with C from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

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

The price is £6000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]
ANNAN & Sons.
Clyde Navigation. Glasgow Harbour and Docks.
Glasgow, Annan & Sons, 1892-1898
8 platinum prints, 15.5 x 12.0 ins, mounted on original card 25 x 19 ins with printed titles on card, some foxing on images no.5 and 6, preserved in the original portfolio case with ties, rebacked in goatskin, internally lined with archival paper, upper cover lettered gilt Glasgow Harbour and Docks.
Historic archive of photographs in the maritime history of Glasgow – the development of the Clyde Navigation, Harbour and Docks recorded in eight original platinum prints by the famous Glasgow photographers Annan & Sons between 1892 and 1898 and preserved in their original portfolio case.
Glasgow was the second city of the Empire and by the end of the 19th century had become a major Atlantic seaport and the Clyde shipyards were building the most sophisticated and technologically innovative iron and steel ships in the world.
The photographer was John Annan… Read More

WATSON, J. Comte, Mill, and Spencer. An outline of philosophy. Glasgow, MacLehose, 1895Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, pp.xx, 302, bookplate of James Bonar with his notes in pencil in some blank margins and on the final blank leaf, and printed with author's compliments pasted in, a fine copy.First edition from the library of the distinguished economic historian James Bonar 1852-1941 ref:062

MILL,John Stuart. Considerations on Representative Government. London, Parker, Son and Bourn 1861Octavo, original publishers cloth, rubbed and worn, spine lettered gilt, pp.viii, 340, 4 adverts, including the half title, ownership in ink on the half title P C Daleukry First edition. The chapet 'True and False Democracy' is the best description of the Hare System. Candfield,E. Proportional Representation. A bibliography 1990,p.30.

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

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