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

MILL,John Stuart. Ueber die Freiheit. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von E.Pickford. Frankfurt am Main, J.D.Sauerländer's Berlag, 1860
Octavo, contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.ix, (2), 164, discreet contemporary private library stamp on the title of C.Schierer, Breslau
First edition in German. Mill had wanted Theodor Gomperz to do the translation and had written to him on January 12th 1859 "I could not desire any better fate for it, supposing that when you have read it, you think it likely to be successful and useful in Germany" and in August 21st 1861 "I am glad you are not discouraged from prosecuting your translation of the Liberty by the fact of there being another translation in the field". Rare [BL and NLS only in Copac] Mineka, The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill, letter nos.349, 505.

BRIDGES,J.H. The Unity of Comte's Life and Doctrine. A reply to strictures on Comte's later writings, addressed to J.S.Mill, Esq.,M.P. London, Trübner & Co., 1866
Octavo, quarter cloth and marbled boards, paper label, pp.70.
First edition. The positivist John Henry Bridges (1832-1906) was, alongside Richard Congreve, Frederic Harrison and Edward Beesley, a significant representative of Comtian philosophy in Britain. His 'literary services to positivism included translations of Comte, most notably of his General View of Positivism (1865). He also established himself as an apologist with his short book on The Unity of Comte's Life and Doctrine (1866), in which he undertook to reply to J.S. Mill's critique of the same year, Auguste Comte and Positivism. Mill, as presented by Bridges, was an 'incomplete Positivist', one who accepted it as a philosophy but not in its social or religious dimensions. Mill, he suggested, would have been less harsh as a critic if he had not been burdened by his own 'dread of… Read More

WATTS,Robert. Utilitarianism as propounded by J.Stuart Mill. Belfast, C.Aitchison; London, Hamilton, Adams & Co. [1868]
Twelvemo, original printed blue wrappers, a little soiled and worn, pp.35, a small ink stamp at head of front wrapper, some ink splashes to rear wrapper, ownership in ink on front wrapper and title, a very good copy.

First edition of this rare and uncommon attack on Mill's Utilitarianism from this Irish Presbyterian who had earlier been a missionary to the United States. The author draws in part on the treatment of American slaves for his argument against Mill.
Very rare no copy of the first edition in Copac [1 copy only of 2nd revised edition

TENNANT, Charles Utilitarianism explained and exemplified in Moral and Political Government. London, Longman Green 1864Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, cloth faded, a little wear, pp.viii, 463, (1)adverts, an excellent copy.First and only edition ref:063

Small octavo, contemporary pale calf, double rule to covers, red morocco label lettered gilt, crest gilt on spine, five raised bands, pp.xxviii, 140, two leaves misbound, engraved armorial bookplate of the Earls of Drogheda, a fine copy.
See Printing & the Mind of Man, 47 [first edition Louvain 1516]. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST DUBLIN PRINTING OF SIR THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA.
Thomas More's Utopia is a work of satire, indirectly criticizing Europe's political corruption and religious hypocrisy. In Utopia the Utopians have eliminated wealth, the nobility, private property, and currency. Labour and goods are distributed equally. Property is held in common. Everyone works the same hours and even though the rulers are exempt from public labour, they work to set a good example for the others. Work hours are equally distributed and there are no monasteries, convents, alehouses, or academies wherein an individual might withdraw from the rest of society. All… Read More