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

Quarto, contemporary French mottled calf, a little worn, spine with five raised bands richly gilt in compartments and label lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine worn, covers with triple gilt fillets and an inner panel of triple gilt fillets embellished at the corners with fleurions in the contemporary 17th century syle à la Duseuil, title with engraved woodcut, pp,(10), 648, (4), with the errata leaf, dedication and privilege, woodcut initials, old faint water stain in the upper outer margin, an attractive copy.

RARE FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE QUR’AN AND THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE VERNACULAR by André du Ryer. It inspired the later translations into English of 1649, Dutch of 1658, German 1703 and Russian 1776. André Du Ryer was French vice-consul in Egypt from 1623 to 1626, and both adviser and interpreter to the French ambassador in Istanbul and ambassador extraordinary of the sultan to France in the early 1630s. He assembled a fine collection of Turkish,… Read More

Twelvemo, contemporary vellum, (6) + 486pp + (2), title printed in red and black with printers woodcut device, some woodcut initials, some printed marginilia, ownership in ink on the title of Robt. St.George.
The third printing of the Qur'an in French. The translation is by Andrew du Ryer who was Resident in Alexandria.
British Library, Arabic Books, I, Willems 1472

IMHOOFF,Jean Jaques. L'Art de Tenir les Livres en Parties Doubles ou La Science de Faire Ecriture de toutes les Negociations que se sont, soit en Banque, soit en Merchandises, ouvrage divise en deux parties...
Vevey, chez l'auteur 1786Quarto, two parts, contemporary calf, scuffed and rubbed, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt with contemporary red morocco label lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, 250 leaves; pp.viii + 99 + (2) errata + (2) + 35 + (48) + (2) + 25 + (36) + (2) + 18 + (8) + 12 + (30) + (6) + 22 + (8) + (8) + (2) + 14 + (32); (2) + 66 [misbound], printers woodcut to title, signed by the author in ink at the end of the preface, a very good copy. Reymondin, Bibliographie Methodique...sur les science des comptes, pp.70-71. Historical Accounting Literature,[ICA] p.160. An accountants book collection, [ICA Scotland] p.26. Herwood, 504.FIRST EDITION of this tour de force by Imhooff, published by the author in the town of Vevey on the shores of Lake Geneva, now renowned, as in 1867… Read More

MILL.John Stuart. La Libertè. Traduit et augmentè d'une introduction par M.Dupont-White. Paris, Guillaumin et Cie 1860
Octavo, original publishers printed paper covers, uncut, pp.(6), xc, 211, (1).
First edition in French translated by Charles Dupont-White [1807-1878], French economist, translator of not only Liberty but also Representative Government, and correspondent with Mill over many years.

GOGGIA,P.E. La mente di Mill. Saggio di logica positiva applicata specialmente alla storia. Livorno, Tipografia di Francesco Vigo. 1869
Octavo,original grey printed paper covers, pp.122 + 1, discreet library stamp, a good copy.
First edition
Rare [copac 1 copy only BL]

TAINE, H. Le Positivisme Anglais. Étude sur Stuart Mill. Paris, Germer Baillière 1864
Octavo, contemporary quarter blue cloth and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 157
First edition. Hippolyte Taine [1828-1893], French historian, critic and philosopher, who reviewed Mill's Hamilton "with boundless admiration". His deterministic theories, which held that man was the product of heredity, historical conditioning, and environment, became the theoretical basis for the naturalistic school.
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REY, Louis. Le Roman de John Stuart Mill. Paris, E.Monzein 1913Octavo, original printed paper covers, 28pp, authors presentation in ink, dated Avignon June 1913Provenance Monsieur et Madame Verdet-KléberFirst and only edition, very rare. Pastor Louis Rey, Pastor of the Protestant church in Avignon to which Mill diligently paid his dues, became his closest friend in the town. He was present at Mill's death at Saint Vèran in May 1873, and made a short address at his burial. After Mill's death he helped Helen Taylor with her legal affairs, and when she left Avignon, he undertook Power of Attorney for the sale of her house and property. Later he made two public addresses, before and after the First World War, in favour of Mill's statue being erected in the Place Crillon, facing the Hôtel de l'Europe. He lived to the age of ninety-nine in 1937.Reeves: p.275. Packe, p.485. Copac 1 copy only at BL.ref:113

VÉRAN, Jules. Le Souvenir de Stuart Mill à Avignon. [IN] Revue des Deux Mondes, CVIIe Année - Huitième Periode, Tome Quarante et Unième. 1er Septembre Paris, Bureau de la Revue des Deux Mondes, 1937Octavo, original publishers printed paper covers, pp.211-222.A source on Mill's life in Avignon. This article begins by noting the death of Pastor Rey, aged 99 'dernier survivant des amis de l'economiste et philosophe anglais Stuart Mill'. It includes the transcript of Mill's letter of 3rd November 1858 to the Mayor of Avignon gifting 1000 francs to the poor in memory of Harriet. There is an account of Mill's friendship with the botanist Fabre, Helen Taylor's life in Avignon after Mill's death, her return to England in 1905 and donation of 3000 francs to the town of Avignon to maintain Mill and Harriet's tomb. There is also a reference to the sale of Mill's library.ref:124

Octavo, contemporary cloth backed boards with loss of original paper to boards, printed paper label rubbed, pp.xii, 267, without the half title, a good copy.
Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
"Longfield's general theory of value is noteworthy in that he not only puts very lucidly the influence of cost of production upon the supply side of the equation between supply and demand, but calls attention to the demand side as well...Longfield uses profits in the sense of general returns to capital, and that his theory of profits is… Read More

Octavo, 23.0 x 15.0 cm, uncut in the original sheets, stab holes, pp.(2) +396 + (4), printing flaw on page 276 affecting part of the text on 11 lines, publishers adverts dated December 1806, advert leaves browned, an excellent copy, a remarkable survival in the original sheets, uncut and never bound, preserved in a green cloth box.
Printing & the Mind of Man, 232b. Sabin 103953.
FIRST EDITION of William Wilberforce's book of 80,000 words which he completed on the evening of 27th January 1807 and published four days later. It summed up his arguments against the slave trade which he had presented over the previous twenty years. Copies were rushed to the House of Lords as soon as it came off the presses to coincide with the debate and 2nd reading of the Abolition Act that was to take place in the first week of February 1807. The Lords carried the Abolition Bill by 100 votes to 34, and the triumph was repeated in the House of Commons on 23rd February – 283 votes to 16.

ELLIOT, Hugh. (edited) The Letters of John Stuart Mill...With a note on Mill's private life, by Mary Taylor. With portraits. Longmans, Green and Co, 19102 volumes, octavo, publishers cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.xlvi, 312; (8), 408, frontispiece portraits of Mill to each volume and illustrations. First editionref:057

MILL,John Stuart. Levned. Fortalt af ham selv. Paa Dansk ved Vilhelm Arntzen. Andr.Fred Høst & Søns Forlag, Kjøbenhavn 1874
Octavo, original publishers purple cloth, covers blind stamped and lettered in gilt, spine lettered gilt, pp.(4), 318 +(2) with frontispiece portrait of the author, fine copy. First edition in Danish. Rare [BL only in Copac]

STEPHEN, James Fitzjames. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1873Octavo, publishers brown cloth, inner hinges cracked, foot of spine worn, spine lettered gilt, pp.vi, (2), 350First edition. Stephen [1829-1894] lawyer and anti-libertarian, this work is a protest Mill's neo-utilitarianism. He attacks the thesis of J S Mill's essay On Liberty and argues for legal compulsion, coercion and restraint in the interests of morality and religion.ref:068

FOTHERGILL,Samuel. Liberty, Licence and Prohibition: an examination of the arguments of John Stuart Mill, in his work on liberty, in relation to the liquor traffic. Manchester : Tubbs & Brook ; London : W.Tweedie no date circa 1859-1873
Octavo, cloth boards, 26pp

First and only edition of this very rare tract by Samuel Fothergill on temperance and prohibition which he argues is "a mild application of Mr Mill's own fundamental principle, which he lays down as guide in determining how far the Legislature is warranted in limiting personal liberty for the sake of the general well-being..."
Very rare. Wellcome Library only in copac

HUME,David. The Life of David Hume Esq. Written by Himself. London, W.Strahan and T.Cadell 1777
Small octavo, original paper covers, worn and dust stained, spine frayed, stitched as issued, engraved portrait of David Hume by T.Cook, half title + pp.iv + 62pp, duststained, uncut, ownership in ink on the recto of plate Robert Barclay, Capilrig.

Provenance: Robert Barclay [died 1783], purchased the estate of Capelrig, in Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire in 1765 from the baron of the Scottish Exchequer William Mure of Caldwell, who David Hume described as the oldest and best friend I had in the world. Robert Barclay, whose mentor was William Mure, gave him a lucrative post as a tax collector, becoming Deputy Admiral of the Clyde. He was a lawyer in the Glasgow firm of Barclay & Grahame. He corresponded with with David Hume's physician and friend Dr William Cullen 1783 concerning his health.

Todd edition A with correct reading 'myself' on line 3, p.29. Vanderblue,p.46. Jessop,… Read More

MACFIE, Robert Andrew. Speech delivered at a meeting of the Liverpool Reform League on December 19th 1866: including extracts from Archbishop Whately and Mr John Stuart Mill on plurality of votes as a needful element in any final scheme of Parliamentary Reform. London, Longmans, Green & co 1866Octavo, disbound, pp.16, library stamp to title.First edition.

DYGASINSKI, Adolf. Logica podlug Johna Stuarta Milla. Warsaw, Przeglad Tygodniowy 1879
Quarto, contemporary Polish quarter calf and cloth boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.354,ii, extremities with wear, hinges weakened, paper browned due to paper stock, binder's label inside front cover of E.Wolski in Radom.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of a Polish Millian logic, summarized, written and compiled by Adolf Dygasinski [1830-1902]. He was an educationist, journalist and writer of short stories, and he was acquainted with Positivism. "Western liberals – particularly English liberals – were extolled within a specifically Polish debate – Adam Wislicki, the editor and publisher of the positivists' organ Przeglad Tygodniowy [The Weekly Review] hoped to shift attention from 'high politics' [the abstract problems of international diplomacy] towards 'little politics'." Mill followed closely events in Poland in the 1860's, as his Letter on Poland published in the Penny Newsman of March 15 1863 proves. This work… Read More

Quarto, contemporary tree calf, edges worn, rebacked, red morocco label, (2) + ccxxxvipp + 496pp, including the dedication to the Duke of Buccleuch, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map.
Goldsmith 11720. Viner, Guide to John Rae’s Life of Adam Smith pp.70-74. Not in Kress or Vanderblue.
Second edition, but the first to contain this critical attack on Adam Smith’s laissez-faire doctrines to the East India Trade in the Wealth of Nations. The long criticism appears on pages clxi-clxxxvi and begins; "Of the example of Portugese Asia cannot be better enforced by an examination of the popular arguments relative to the British commerce with India. A recent Writer on the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, has stood forth as the philosophical champion for the abolition of the Monopoly of the English United East India Company…"
Mickle, a Scottish poet and translator of Camöens epic verse, dedicated The Lusiad to Adam Smith’s pupil the Duke of Buccleuch, who apparently said that it had… Read More