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

Influential on Karl Marx and Nietzsche
LANGE,F.A.
J.St.Mill's Ansichten über die sociale Frage und die angebliche Umwälzung der Socialwissenschaft durch Carey. Duisberg, Berlag von Falk & Lange 1866
Octavo, uncut, original publishers printed paper green upper cover, rebacked , uncut, pp.viii, 256.
£1,800
First edition by the German philosopher and sociologist Lange's[1828-1875] highly influential work. Karl Marx read the work extensively during his research on the second volume of Das Kapital and was greatly inspired by it, especially in regard to rent theory and soil exhaustion. He prepared excerpts in his notebook kept between August 1867 and September 1868.
Nietzsche described this book in a letter to Muschacke as 'without a doubt the most significant philosophical work to have appeared in the last hundred years' Nietzsche was introduced to Darwin via Lange, which became a pivotal event in the construction of his theory of the Übermensch.
"Lange was one of the originators of "physiological… Read More

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 Bain interviewed many of those who knew Mill in his youth and also used a number of unpublished letters.ref:089

HOLYOAKE,George Jacob. John Stuart Mill as some of the Working Classes knew him. An answer to a letter circulated by "The author of the article in the 'Times' on Mr Mill's death."London, Trübner & Co 1873
Octavo, disbound, pp.29

First and only edition, by the atheist campaigner Jacob Holyoake defending Mill from the attacks of Abraham Hayward. Abraham Hayward, an antagonist of Mill's for 50 years, had written an obituary described as "a vengeful piece of character assassination", and referring to Mill's youthful 'foolish scheme for carrying out the Malthusian principle'.
Reeves,pp.481.

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

PARKER,Joseph. John Stuart Mill on Liberty: a critique. London, F.Pitman 1865
Octavo, card wrappers, 38pp

First edition. Joseph Parker [1830-1902] was a congretationalist divine, son of a stonemason. In 1858 he was called to the Cavendish Chapel in Manchester and for eleven years was 'a preacher of power in that city'.

HAYEK, F.A. von. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor. Their correspondence and subsequent marriage. Chicago, University of Chicago Press 1951
Octavo, publishers cloth, pp.320,errata slip.
First edition. Hayek provides a full account of how Harriet Taylor had such a deep influence on John Stuart Mill and his thought. His gradual drift to socialism was inspired by her and that many of his opinions on the arts, letters and politics of Victorian England were formed under the influence of her thought and conversation.
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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

VISSAC, Marc de. John-Stuart Mill. Avignon, François Seguin 1905
Octavo, original printed paper covers, 15p, offprint from Mémoires de l'Academie de Vaucluse vol.XXIV.
An important source on Mill's life in Avignon by Baron Marc de Vissac [1841-1918] President of the Academie de Vaucluse 1904-1905 which had been founded in 1801 and whose priority was the study of all aspects of local history. Written when Mill's house in Avignon was to be sold: "On va vendre rochainement, à Avignon, un petit ermitage qui a abrité l'un des lus grands phiosophes et des plus grands économistes du XIXe siècle". On page 12 Vissac states the size of Mill's library in Avignon "...982 volumes composant sa bibliothéque..."
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CHARLES DARWIN. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.SBeagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. Tenth thousand.
London,John Murray 1860
Octavo, 12.o x 19.8cm, fine original blind stamped green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London with their printed label, spine lettered gilt, pp.xv + (1) + 519 + 32 adverts dated December 1861, with the Postscript on p.vii, woodcuts of a lizard on p.385, outline of the Barrier Reef on p.471 and reef on p.473, a fine copy.

Freeman no.20.
First published separately in 1839 from vol III of Fitzroy's Narrative of the voages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle. This 1860 printing is the final definitive text. Charles Darwin's "first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been… Read More