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Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner 1865: Mill’s instructions to his publisher to send 24 presentation copies
by John Stuart Mill
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Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Octavo, 10.7 x 17.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, checks and encilled x's next to some names and docketed on top of fourth page J.S. Mill Sept.13/65.
£4,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]
Newly discovered letter by John Stuart Mill from Berlin to his publisher John Nicolaus Trübner, publisher of Auguste Comte and Positivism 1865, giving instructions to send presentation copies on publication to 23 people and 1 institute providing names and addresses:
George Grote [1794-1871] banker and historian of Greece and lifelong associate of Mill. Alexander Bain [1818-1903] philosopher, first biographer of Mill. W.J.Thornton [1813-1880] author, employee of East India Co. Friend and adherent of Mill's. Theodor Gomperz [1832-1912] Austrian philosopher & philologist, supervised translation of Mill's works into German. Max Kyllmann [1832-1867] native of Germany, founder of Union & Emancipation Society. Richard Congreve [1819-1899] founded a Positivist community in London. J.E.Cairnes [1823-1875] economist, Whately Professor of Political Economy, Trinity College Dublin. Thomas Hare [1806-1891] political reformer particularly proportional representation. Herbert Spencer [1820-1903] philosopher. Augustus de Morgan [1806-1871] Professor of Mathematics, University College London. Lord Amberley [1842-1876] Liberal MP, father of Bertrand Russell. Henry Fawcett [1833-1884] politician, political economist, disciple & friend of Mill. J.E.Cliffe Leslie [1826-1882] political economist, Professor Queen's College Belfast. C.M.Ingleby [1823-1886] Shakespearean scholar. G.Clémenceau [1841-1929] translated Mill's book Auguste Comte et le positivism 1868, famous leader of the Third Republic. Gustave d'Eichthal [1804-1886] close friend, chief contact with the Saint-Simonians & lifelong correspondent of Mill's. Charles Duveyvier [1803-1866] leading writer among the Saint-Simonians. Emile Littré [1801-1881] scholar, philosopher, one of Comte's most ardent disciples. Cèlestin de Blignières [1822-1905] positivist philosopher. Charles Dupont White [1807-1878] French economist, translated Mill's Liberty and Representative Government into French. Count Mamiani [1799-1885] Italian writer, philosopher and statesman. Pasquale Villari [1826-1917] Italian historian and statesman. Constantin Baër [ ] author of a number of works on government and economics
Unpublished and unrecorded. Mineka records other letters to Trübner later in the year.
£4,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]
Newly discovered letter by John Stuart Mill from Berlin to his publisher John Nicolaus Trübner, publisher of Auguste Comte and Positivism 1865, giving instructions to send presentation copies on publication to 23 people and 1 institute providing names and addresses:
George Grote [1794-1871] banker and historian of Greece and lifelong associate of Mill. Alexander Bain [1818-1903] philosopher, first biographer of Mill. W.J.Thornton [1813-1880] author, employee of East India Co. Friend and adherent of Mill's. Theodor Gomperz [1832-1912] Austrian philosopher & philologist, supervised translation of Mill's works into German. Max Kyllmann [1832-1867] native of Germany, founder of Union & Emancipation Society. Richard Congreve [1819-1899] founded a Positivist community in London. J.E.Cairnes [1823-1875] economist, Whately Professor of Political Economy, Trinity College Dublin. Thomas Hare [1806-1891] political reformer particularly proportional representation. Herbert Spencer [1820-1903] philosopher. Augustus de Morgan [1806-1871] Professor of Mathematics, University College London. Lord Amberley [1842-1876] Liberal MP, father of Bertrand Russell. Henry Fawcett [1833-1884] politician, political economist, disciple & friend of Mill. J.E.Cliffe Leslie [1826-1882] political economist, Professor Queen's College Belfast. C.M.Ingleby [1823-1886] Shakespearean scholar. G.Clémenceau [1841-1929] translated Mill's book Auguste Comte et le positivism 1868, famous leader of the Third Republic. Gustave d'Eichthal [1804-1886] close friend, chief contact with the Saint-Simonians & lifelong correspondent of Mill's. Charles Duveyvier [1803-1866] leading writer among the Saint-Simonians. Emile Littré [1801-1881] scholar, philosopher, one of Comte's most ardent disciples. Cèlestin de Blignières [1822-1905] positivist philosopher. Charles Dupont White [1807-1878] French economist, translated Mill's Liberty and Representative Government into French. Count Mamiani [1799-1885] Italian writer, philosopher and statesman. Pasquale Villari [1826-1917] Italian historian and statesman. Constantin Baër [ ] author of a number of works on government and economics
Unpublished and unrecorded. Mineka records other letters to Trübner later in the year.
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- Seller
- Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 11
- Title
- Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner 1865
- Author
- John Stuart Mill
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- September 13th 1865
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mill Collection;
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Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books
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About Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books
Obituary: Book dealer Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020), as published in The Antique Trade Gazette
Rare book specialist Hamish Riley-Smith, who died on August 10, did not originally intend to become a dealer.
He went to Trinity College Dublin, where he read economics and met our mother Brigitta (Gita) von Wagner. He planned to work in the family brewing business, John Smith's, and spent seven years learning the craft at Whitbread's. But after all the family interest in John Smith's was sold in 1972, he looked for a new career.
In 1974 he started Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books. He had no formal training in the book business, other than an acute awareness of business and a degree in economics. He started, in his own words, as a runner, taking one book to another dealer and making a small margin.
Hamish quickly realised this was not for him and started to focus on Arabic and economic books and the social sciences. Through knowledge and research he built up a strong and friendly working relationship with the Japanese, travelling to Japan often. He also traded in Arabia, the US and Europe.
Sacks of catalogues
We can remember how sacks of catalogues would leave the house and go off to museums and institutions across the world, and answers would come back via telex. This was a world before the internet, mobile phones and faxes and computers were only just coming in.
Among his proudest sales were the 14th century Qur'an manuscript of Mameluk Sultan Al Malik Al Nasir Muhammad (pictured here); The Papers of Sir Roy Harrod; The library of Sir John Hicks; The Betjeman Library; typescript/manuscript of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractus Logico Philosophicus; The Felibriges Library of Musée Theodore Aubanel, Avignon; as well as collections of Isaac Newton; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; Shakespeare; William Petty; Robert Owen and Adam Smith.
He was resolute in his independence and had many friends and colleagues in the book business, but he never did a book fair ("I am not a book fairy") and refused to join any trade associations.
He will be remembered by the family as a loving husband, father and grandfather, and a great source of fun and interest; for Hamish, above all, family came first. His business will continue to be run by his wife Gita and two sons, Damian, director of Paragraph Publishing, and Crispian, director of Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd.
Rare book specialist Hamish Riley-Smith, who died on August 10, did not originally intend to become a dealer.
He went to Trinity College Dublin, where he read economics and met our mother Brigitta (Gita) von Wagner. He planned to work in the family brewing business, John Smith's, and spent seven years learning the craft at Whitbread's. But after all the family interest in John Smith's was sold in 1972, he looked for a new career.
In 1974 he started Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books. He had no formal training in the book business, other than an acute awareness of business and a degree in economics. He started, in his own words, as a runner, taking one book to another dealer and making a small margin.
Hamish quickly realised this was not for him and started to focus on Arabic and economic books and the social sciences. Through knowledge and research he built up a strong and friendly working relationship with the Japanese, travelling to Japan often. He also traded in Arabia, the US and Europe.
Sacks of catalogues
We can remember how sacks of catalogues would leave the house and go off to museums and institutions across the world, and answers would come back via telex. This was a world before the internet, mobile phones and faxes and computers were only just coming in.
Among his proudest sales were the 14th century Qur'an manuscript of Mameluk Sultan Al Malik Al Nasir Muhammad (pictured here); The Papers of Sir Roy Harrod; The library of Sir John Hicks; The Betjeman Library; typescript/manuscript of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractus Logico Philosophicus; The Felibriges Library of Musée Theodore Aubanel, Avignon; as well as collections of Isaac Newton; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; Shakespeare; William Petty; Robert Owen and Adam Smith.
He was resolute in his independence and had many friends and colleagues in the book business, but he never did a book fair ("I am not a book fairy") and refused to join any trade associations.
He will be remembered by the family as a loving husband, father and grandfather, and a great source of fun and interest; for Hamish, above all, family came first. His business will continue to be run by his wife Gita and two sons, Damian, director of Paragraph Publishing, and Crispian, director of Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd.
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