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

Albumen print with oval corners 17.2 x 20.0cm, pasted on original album leaf titled in ink in a contemporary hand Smyrna Turkey in Asia, preserved in an acid free mount.

The bearded and turbaned trader stands in front of his camel with its calf behind in a cobbled and flag stoned street beside a building with five columns at the side with shuttered windows. In the background can be seen the rear of another camel and beyond an archway.
Smyrna was one of the most important harbour settlements of Western Anatolia - the largest city of Asiatic Turkey and her greatest trade centre, and the second largest city of Turkey. The most mentioned issue by visitors are the camels that pass the lanes and narrow streets while carrying loads, Schubert wrote "When two camels came across in lanes, the one carrying less valuable load would sit down on its knees and the other one would jump over it. At this time, people on the streets would have to shelter in shops."
Maison Rubellin had a studio in Smyrna at 120 rue… Read More

SECCOMBE, John T. Science, Theism, and Revelation, Considered in relation to Mr Mill's Essays on Nature, Religion, & Theism. London, Simpkin & Marshall 1875
Octavo, publisher's printed paper covers, pp.79
First and only edition

Classic of the Self-Help
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Smiles,Samuel. Self-Help:With Illustrations of Character and Conduct. London, John Murray 1859
Octavo, 7.5 x 5.5 ins, original purple/brown cloth, covers panelled and ruled in blind with floral central motif, spine lettered in gilt, spine faded, original brown endpapers with faint cracks on inner hinge of endpapers, pp.xii + 343, Edmonds & Remnants binders label on back inner endpaper, an excellent copy.

First edition. Samuel Smiles [1812-1904], was a Scottish writer, and social reformer.
Self-Help became an immediate best-seller and one of the Victorian's most important statements on the virtues of hard work, thrift and perserverance. Smiles was a critic of rapacity and complacent affluence and advocated virtues central to the projects of other 19th century institutions that actively encouraged cultivation of the intellectual and moral working-class self such as mechanics' institutes, public libraries and people's colleges.
Smiles later developed this theme with… Read More

MURCHISON, Roderick Impey. Siluria. The history of the oldest fossiliferous rocks and their foundations; with a brief sktch of the distribution of gold over the earth. Third edition with maps and additional illustrations.
London, John Murray 1859
Thick quarto, 9.3 x 6ins, fine original blind stamped brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London with their printed label, spine lettered gilt, upper cover gilt, pp.xix + (1)errata +592 + Figures of the principal Silurian fossils XLI plates with separate descriptive text + 32pp adverts dated January 1859, with the folding Geological Map of the Silurian Rocks in pocket at the end, engraved coloured frontispiece of Loch Assynt, tabular diagram on p.157, folding sketch map on p.522, numerous woodcuts in the text throughout, faint damp stain on last few leaves, printed bookplate on inner blank of booksellers Friedrich Klincksliek, 14 rue de Lille, Paris, a fine copy.

Dibner, Heralds of Science, 97. Geikie, The Founders of Geology, p.420. Zittel, History of… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. [St Petersburg] 1865-18672 volumes, large octavo, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, rubbed, volume I rehinged, pp. (2), xxxi, 553, xi, vi; (4), 537, viii, volume II with the original pale blue printed paper covers bound in, without the half title in volume I, stamps of the library of the St Petersburg Seminary.First edition in Russian of A System of Logic. Translated from the fifth London edition under the editorship of and withnotes by P.L.Lavrov and F.Rezener.Rare [BL only in copac]coded060

[WOOD,John Philip].
A Sketch of the Life and Projects of John Law of Lauriston,comptroller General of the finances in France. Edinburgh, Peter Hill and George Kearsley 1791
Quarto, 29.0 x 23.0 cm, t, pp.(4) + ii + 48, paper wrappers with short tear, original blue paper wrappers, uncut, an excellent copy, preserved in a marbled portfolio with ties.
ESTC T8458. Kress B2240. Goldsmith 14941.
RARE FIRST EDITION of the earliest published biography in English of the Scottish economist John Law. The dedication is to William Davidson of Muirhead.
The son of a prosperous banker John Law [1671-1729] devoted his entire life to making proposals for the establishment of banks, both in Scotland and on the Continent, convinced as he was that the key to economic prosperity lay in augmenting the base of metallic currencies with paper money, particularly paper money backed by land holdings. He was appointed Controller General of Finances in France by the regent Philippe dOrleans in 1716 and the became the architect… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. Speech of J.Stuart Mill Esq., M.P. for Westminster upon the Reform Bill, delivered in the House of Commons, April 13th, 1866. From the "Daily Telegraph." London, Diprose & Bateman 1866
Octavo, cloth boards, spine lettered gilt, pp16, title lightly dust stained, with 2 other works bound in and described below, H.R.Fox Bourne, John Stuart Mill: Notices of his life and works 1873 and John Stuart Mill, England and Ireland 1868
First and only edition . Rare no copy in Copac.

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MILL,John Stuart. England and Ireland. Second edition. London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer 1868 Octavo, grey boards, pp.44 2nd edition
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FOX-BOURNE,H.R. and others. John Stuart Mill: Notices of his Life and Works. . Together with Two Papers written by him on the Land Question. Reprinted from the Examiner. London, E.Dallow 1873 Octavo, pp.vi, (2), 75.
First edition. Includes W.T.Thornton, His Career in the India House; Henry Trimen, His Botanical Studies; W.Minto, His Miscellaneous… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. Speeches of Mr Jacob Bright,M.P., Mr Robert Lowe,M.P. Mr J.S.Mill,M.P. and Mr G.Shaw Lefevre, M.P., in the Debate on the Second Reading of "The Bill to amend the Law with respect to the Property of Mariied Women". Manchester, A.Ireland & Co, 1868
Octavo, disbound, pp.23.
First edition. The speeches are on pp.3-16.
"The Married Women's Property Act, introduced in 1870 – and which Mill clearly helped to bring about – gave women the right to hold property in their own name after matrimony" Reeves, p.425.
Not in MacMinn.

OUVRY, Col.H.A. Stein and his reforms in Prussia, with reference to the land question in England: and an appendix containing the views of Richard Cobden, and J.S.Mill's advice to land reformers. London, Kerby and Endean 1873Small octavo, publishers red cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.xii, 194 a fine copy.First and only edition£250ref:071

KILLICK, Rev. A.H. The Student's Handbook Synoptical and Explanatory of Mr J.S.Mill's System of Logic. London, Longmans, Green 1870
Octavo, original publishers purple cloth, upper cover lettered gilt, a little wear to spine, pp.x, (1), (1) blank, 267
First edition
ref:065

MILL,John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Second edition. London, Longmans, Greem, Reader, and Dyer 1869 Octavo, original publishers orange cloth, a little soiled, spine lettered gilt, pp. (4), 188 Second edition ref:043THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN Referring to his wife Harriet's contribution he wrote in his Autobiography "It might be supposed, for instance, that my strong convictions on the complete equality in all legal, political, social and domestic relations, which ought to exist between men and women, may have been learnt from her. This was far from being the fact, that those convictions were among the earliest results of the application of my mind to a political subject, and the strength with which I held them, was, as I believe, more than anything else, the originating cause of the interest she felt in me. What is true is, that until I knew her, the opinion was in my mind, little more than an abstract principle. I saw no more reason why women should be held in legal subjection to their people,… Read More

The School of Salamanca and the Quantity Theory of Money
THOMAS DE MERCADO, Fray. Summa de Tratos y Contratos...anadidas ala primera addition, muchas nueuas resoluciones. Y dos libros enteros, como parace en la pagina siguente. Seville, Hernando Diaz 1571
Thick quarto, 20.0 x 14.0cm, quarter vellum and cloth boards, five raised bands, spine lettered gilt, leaf edges gilt, some wormholes neatly restored in the blank margins, two parts in one volume, [12] leaves + 154 leaves [misnumbered]; 220 leaves [misnumbered] + [14 ] leaves tablo, title with engraved woodcut of a friar holding a model of the church in his left hand and a quill in his right hand, printers ornamental woodcut initials, printed marginalia.

Palau, IX p.91 165052. Colmeiro, 279. Smith, Rara Arithmetica p.335. Schumpeter, pp.95, 101. Kress 105. Goldsmith 155. Not in Einaudi or Sraffa.
See Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson, The School of Salamanca. Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory 1544-1605.Oxford 1952 pp.2-18; 40-51, 96-102.
Second edition,… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. In two volumes. Second Edition. London, J.W.Parker 1846
2 volumes, octavo, original cloth backed paper covered boards, original printed paper labels, pp.xvi,580, 32 adverts; xii, 630, (2) adverts, a fine copy.
Second edition
"In the early part of 1830 I had begun to put on paper the ideas on Logic (chiefly on the distinctions among Terms, and the impact of Propositions),,,.Having secured these thoughts from being lost, I pushed on into other parts of the subject, to try whether I could do anything further towards clearing up the theory of logic generally. I grappled at once with the problem of Induction, postponing that of Reasoning, on the ground that it is necessary to obtain premises before we can reason them…In July and August 1838, I had found an interval in which to execute what was still undone of the original draft of the Third… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. In two volumes. London, John Parker 1862
2 volumes, octavo, original publishers cloth, printed paper labels, pp.xvi, 536, 5 adv; xii, 550, (1) adv, largely unopened.
Fifth edition

MILL,John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. In two volumes. London, John Parker 1856
2 volumes, octavo, original publishers cloth, printed paper labels, cloth faded, pp.xvi, 528; xii, 531, (1), 8 adverts, volume II partly unopened, contemporary ownership in ink John S Collins 56, some pencil annotations, a fine copy.
Fourth edition with a considerable number of additions, the most important relating to the doctrine of Causation, and to the incessantly renewed attempt to make human conceptions, and supposed incapacities of conception, the test of objective truth.

MILL,John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. In two volumes. London, John W.Parker 1851
Octavo. Original publishers cloth, faded, original printed paper labels, pp.xvi, 502, 2 adverts; xii, 527, 4 adverts, a fine copy.
Third edition
"In the early part of 1830 I had begun to put on paper the ideas on Logic (chiefly on the distinctions among Terms, and the impact of Propositions),,,.Having secured these thoughts from being lost, I pushed on into other parts of the subject, to try whether I could do anything further towards clearing up the theory of logic generally. I grappled at once with the problem of Induction, postponing that of Reasoning, on the ground that it is necessary to obtain premises before we can reason them…In July and August 1838, I had found an interval in which to execute what was still undone of the original draft of the Third Book. In working out the logical… Read More