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

Two parts in one volume, twelvemo, contemporary vellum, engraved title frontispiece + (7) + 692pp; (2) + 125pp, a few woodcut initials, printed marginilia.
Second printing of Qur’an in Dutch, the first translation into Dutch of du Ryer’s French translation of the Qur’an. The second part contains an account of the Life of the Prophet.
Not in the British Library

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de . Memoirs, Letters and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America. Translated from the French by the translator of Napoleon's correspondence with King Joseph. With large additions. Boston, Ticknor & Fields 1862
2 volumes, octavo, publishers cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.x, 11-430, 16 adverts; xi, 12-442, ownership in ink on half title of volume I H J Hubertus Quebec June 6, 1862, a fine copy.
First American edition includes letters to John Stuart Mill dated Nov 10 1836, Nov 15 1839, Dec 18 1840, Feb 9 1859.
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[MILL,John Stuart] Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last thirty years. London, 1858
Tall octavo, blue cloth on grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, pp.(4), 101, drop head title.
Very rare, 1 copy only in Copac at BL.
MacMinn, p.90
First separate edition. Of this Memorandum
Mill wrote in his manuscript of the bibliography of his writings of this I was partly the author and partly the editor, the facts being furnished by the departments of the India House.
It was published in Parliamentary Papers, 1857-58, XLIII, 1-38. (see above in folio). There was also a separate printing containing the correspondence between the directors of the East India Co and the government and their Petition to Parliament.
MacMnn: "A review of the improvements in legislation, education, religion, roads, and other matters achieved under the supervision of the East India Company".

together with five pamphlets in one volume
[MILL,.John Stuart] A Constitutional view of the India… Read More

FOX, Caroline. [edited by Horace Pym.) Memories of Old Friends. Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871. Second edition. To Which are added fourteen original letters from J.S. Mill never before published. London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1882Two volumes, octavo, publishers green cloth, spine lettered gilt, shaken, worn, pp. xxxii, 334; xii, 354, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait of Caroline Fox.Second edition, including for the first time fourteen letters from John Stuart Mill to her brother Robert Barclay Fox of Penjerrick in Cornwall. The 'extracts' from Caroline Fox's journal contain many references to John Stuart Mill, Carlyle, and Sterling. Her father was Robert Were Fox, the scientist, friend and correspondent with John Stuart Mill.

OLIPHANT,Margaret. Mill on the Subjection of Women. Art.XI. 1. The Subjection of Women. By John Stuart Mill 1869. 2. Women's Work and Women's Culture: a Series of Essays. Edited by Josephine G.Butler 1869 [Extracted from the Edinburgh Review] Edinburgh Review October 1869
Octavo, pp.572-602, boards, paper label to upper cover.
Margaret Oliphant [1828-1897] Scottish novelist, she published over ninety novels, and historical writer.
£150

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.