Search results for: 'the works'
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. The Works,Edinburgh : 1843
First collected edition of Bentham's works, compiled under the supervision of his disciple and editor, John Bowring, assisted by John Hill Burton, who wrote the lengthy "Introduction to the study of Bentham's works". The collected works were first issued in 22 parts, at 9 shillings each, between the years 1838 and 1843. "The Works are not complete,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 126241
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BENTHAM, Jeremy - BURTON, John Hill (ed.) Benthamiana: Or, select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham.Edinburgh : 1843
First edition, comprising "a popular selection in one volume of Bentham's writings" (Muirhead), serving as an introduction to utilitarianism. John Hill Burton had previously edited the works of Bentham in conjunction with Sir John Bowring.
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BLAKE, William; ELLIS, Edwin John, & W. B. Yeats (eds.) The Works of William Blake.London : 1893
First edition, one of 150 large paper copies in the deluxe binding; there were also 500 copies in cloth. Yeats had "marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake's prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake's esoteric... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136158
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FISKE, John. The Writings.Cambridge : 1902
Riverside Press edition. Number 14 of 1,000 sets only. Fiske was considered "one of the most important intellectual influences in the last quarter of the 19th century. He was probably the most admirably fitted among all his contemporaries to lead the fight for evolution among his countrymen, and the charm of his historical writings and lectures not... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 117369
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BLAKE, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.Clairvaux : 1960
First edition thus, deluxe limited issue: copy VIII of 20 deluxe copies with an original guide sheet and stencil, and a set of hand-coloured plates showing progressive stages, as well as colour collotype proofs, from a total edition of 526 copies on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used by Blake, with each page watermarked with Blake's monogram.... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 136923
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BENTHAM, Jeremy - HALEVY, Elie. The Growth of Philosophical Radicalism.London : 1952
Fourth edition in English (first English edition published in 1928), with C. W. Everett's Bibliography of Bentham's works at the end (pages 522-546), and an index. Learn More£30.00Stock Code: 103802
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TAYLOR, Thomas (trans.) Ocellus Lucanus on the Nature of the Universe.London : 1831
First edition of Taylor's translation of these four ancient Greek philosophers. The neoplatonist Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) was a prolific translator of ancient Greek writing, and was the first to translate the complete works of Plato and Aristotle into English. He was such a committed Hellenist that he and his wife are reputed to have conversed only... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 124726
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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. System of Economic Contradictions, or the Philosophy of Misery.New York : [1888?]
First separate edition in English, first published by Tucker himself as the fourth volume in his translated edition of Proudhon's works (1888), here with a cancel half-title and title page, and a variant binding. This reissue is rarely found - WorldCat locates only one copy, at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, with another... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 133006
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BONAR, James. Philosophy and Political Economy in Some of their Historical Relations.London : 1893
First edition of this study of how economic analysis has been closely influenced by the course of political philosophy. A Scottish civil servant, James Bonar's (1852-1941) other writings include works on Malthus and Ricardo, as well as the catalogue of Adam Smith's Library. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 127159
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JAMES, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. A Study in Human Nature.London, New York and Bombay : 1902
First edition, first impression, of one of James's masterworks, with a printed presentation slip "From the Author", from the library of the Oxford philosopher F. "Canning" S. Schiller (1864-1937), with his pencil annotations throughout.
James focuses on four central topics: the "experiential approach and the generic meaning of religion; the... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136480
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. The Book of Fallacies: from Unfinished Papers.London : 1824
First edition. "The substance of this treatise, drawn up from the most unfinished of all Mr. Bentham's Manuscripts, has already been published in French by M. Dumont" (Preface). A host of fallacies are detected and analysed, for instance the Argument from the Wisdom of Our Ancestors; the Hobgoblin Argument or 'No Innovation'; the Official Malefactors... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 101331
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MILL, James. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind.London : 1829
First edition of this "magnum opus in associationist psychology and philosophy of mind" (ODNB) by the father of John Stuart Mill; an attractively bound set.
In the Analysis, which Mill began work on in 1822, he "maintains that the human mind is a store of 'associations' of ideas derived from experience (for example, between 'burn' and 'fire').... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 107491
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JEVONS, William Stanley. The Substitution of Similars, The True Principle of Reasoning, Derived from a Modification of Aristotle's Dictum.London : 1869
First edition of the economist, logician, and philosopher's most popular and accessible work. "At the end of 1866 Jevons had begun 'thinking about logic again seriously' and considered grafting some developments on to the modified version of Boole's system that he had published in 1863. In the next two months the idea that 'the great and universal principle... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 122828
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Official Aptitude Maximized; Expense Minimized: as shewn in the several papers comprised in this volume.London : 1830
First edition of this collection of papers. The preface states that the reason for publishing these different papers under the same general title is that they belong to one and the same design and, it is believed, aim at one and the same result. The work from which they take their common origin was an all-embracing system of proposed Constitutional... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 101415
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SIDGWICK, Henry. The Methods of Ethics.London : 1874
First edition of the philosopher's most famous and original work, the first of his three major textbooks and "a pioneering attempt to apply a scientific methodology to a wide range of philosophical topics" (The New Palgrave IV). Along with Alfred Marshall, Sidgwick was one of the two founding fathers of the Cambridge School of Economics. Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 117791
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WILLIAMS, Aaron. The Harmony Society, at Economy, Penn'a.Pittsburgh : 1866
First edition in book form, originally published in articles in the Pittsburgh Commercial in 1865-6, of this key work of utopian communism. Aaron Williams had joined the Harmony Society, based on millenarian communal living, in February 1865. Founded by George Rapp, The Harmony Society had its origins in Germany in the late eighteenth century, before... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 125581
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Constitutional Code; for the Use of all Nations and all Governments professing Liberal Opinions.London : 1830
First edition, all published, of Bentham's Constitutional Code, the only edition published in his lifetime. "The massive, unfinished Constitutional Code, the major work of his final decade, established Bentham as a major theorist of constitutional democracy" (F. Rosen & J. H. Burns, preface to the 1983 Clarendon Press edition, p. xliv). He drafted the... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 114170
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WAYLAND, Francis. The Elements of Moral Science.New York : 1835
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author to "Mrs Arnold", that is, Frances Arnold, mother of historian Samuel Greene Arnold. Economist and educator Francis Wayland (1796-1865) was president of Brown University for 28 years and a highly regarded author on moral philosophy. Samuel Greene Arnold was a trustee of Brown University... Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 117226
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[RAPP, George.] Thoughts on the Destiny of Man:Indiana : 1824
First edition, the first extensive publication of this important American utopian community. "A statement of the principles upon which the Society was founded and of its aspirations... printed on their own press... and probably edited by Father Rapp himself" (quoted in Sabin). The Society had earlier published just one other work, a small leaflet of... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 87748
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Panopticon; or, The Inspection House: Containing The Idea of a New Principle of Construction applicable to any Sort of Establishment, in which Persons of any Description are to be kept under Inspection: and in particular to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, MDublin printed, London reprinted, & London : 1791
First London edition of all three parts of Bentham's famous but abortive Panopticon Penitentiary Scheme. Both the second Postscript and the plates were delayed in being printed and "very few copies of either the London or the Dublin editions have all the engravings According to Bentham, most of the plates were destroyed in a fire at the printer's... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 120454
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FOWLER, Richard. An attempt to solve some of the difficulties of the Berkleyan controversy, by well-ascertained physiological and psychological facts;Salisbury : [1859]
First edition, presentation copies, inscribed by the author to George Matcham with his "kind regards". In each pamphlet Fowler contends with Berkeley's arguments against matter, striving to explain their obscurities through the use of accessible biological and medical examples. Fowler (1765-1863) was the leading physician at the Salisbury Infirmary.... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 121151
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DRESSER, Horatio W. The Power of Silence.Boston : 1895
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "Mrs I. S. Hackett with best wishes of Horatio W. Dresser May 31st 1895". This is the New Thought religious leader's first book: "it is a chapter from life, an appeal to life, and aims to give the thing itself, so far as possible, instead of talking... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 117970
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Théorie des peines et des récompenses.Paris & London : 1818
Second edition of Bentham's French work on crime and punishment, edited, arranged and translated from his unpublished manuscripts by his Swiss collaborator Étienne Dumont. This work was first published in English as The Rationale of Reward, (London, J. & H. Hunt, 1825) and The Rationale of Punishment, (London, R. Heward, 1830), both translated and... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 101528
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JEVONS, W. S. Pure Logic or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity: with remarks on Boole's System and on the Relation of Logic and Mathematics.London : 1864
First edition of Jevons's first work on logic, one of two pamphlets (the other was The Substitution of Similars, 1869) in which he developed the calculus presented by Boole in An investigation of the laws of thought (1854). Jevons had already consulted Boole before sending him a copy; in a letter of 1863 he recorded,"I have written on the subject to... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 114514
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JAMES, William. Autograph letter signed from James to his friendly critic, the American philosopher John Edward Russell;Rome : 1900
An affectionate autograph letter signed from James to John Edward Russell, professor of philosophy at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, with the letter from Russell to James, in his wife's hand, which prompted the aforementioned response, plus related correspondence from Alice James dated from their time spent abroad in Europe.
Russell... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 126088
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HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. System der Wissenschaft. Erster Theil, die Phänomenologie des Geistes.Bamberg and Würzburg : 1807
First edition, second issue of Hegel's first major and best-known work, known in English as "The Phenomenology of Spirit", the only part published, in which he develops the idea of Geist realizing itself in the intellectual development of mankind. "It begins with a dialectical discussion of sense perception in which it is argued that knowledge of physical... Learn More£11,000.00Stock Code: 132068
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HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. System der Wissenschaft. Erster Theil, die Phänomenologie des Geistes.Bamberg and Würzburg : 1807
First edition, first issue of Hegel's first major and best-known work, known in English as "The Phenomenology of Spirit", the only part published, in which he develops the idea of Geist realizing itself in the intellectual development of mankind. "It begins with a dialectical discussion of sense perception in which it is argued that knowledge of physical... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 132061
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SPENCER, Herbert. The Data of Ethics.London : 1879
First edition of the philosopher and sociologist's treatise on the nature of human conduct, the first part of The Principles of Ethics (1879-93) which was the final instalment in his 10-volume masterwork, A System of Synthetic Philosophy. In The Principles of Ethics, Spencer "portrayed social evolution as tending inexorably towards greater individualism,... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 118165
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Théorie des peines et des récompenses.London : 1811
First edition of Bentham's French work on crime and punishment, edited, arranged and translated from his unpublished manuscripts by his Swiss collaborator Étienne Dumont.
"Samuel Bentham, Jeremy's brother, had long been urging Bentham to translate, or get translated into French, his writings on legislation, in order that his name and views... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 98719
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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. Qu'est-ce que la propriété?Paris : 1841
Second edition of the French anarchist philosopher's notorious thesis, together with the first editions of his two succeeding works, the "deuxième" and "troisième" memoirs. Qu'est-ce que la propriété? was first published in 1840, and shocked its readership with its famous assertion that "all property is theft", which remains widely cited among radical... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 129328
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. A Genealogy of Morals;London : 1899
First edition in English of Nietzsche's demonstration of the relativity of morals, tracing the West's system of morality to the "slave morality" of early Christianity, and outlining the possibility of a new master morality. The Genealogy, a central work in Nietzsche's canon that influenced many authors, philosophers, and political movements, was first... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 145737
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FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb. Das System der Sittenlehre nach den Principien der Wissenschaftslehre.Jena & Leipzig : 1798
First edition of The System of Ethics, the most accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical project, in which Fichte develops the view of moral activity as a free commitment of the will in disregard of desires and empirical conditions.
His longest single book, it "ranks among the most under-appreciated works in the history... Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 121988
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MILL, John Stuart. Ueber Frauenemancipation.Leipzig : 1880
First edition of Freud's translation into German of Mill's Subjection of Women, considered Freud's "only major non-scientific publication" (Norman exhibition catalogue) and his first publication in book form, issued here as volume twelve of Thomas Gompertz's first complete German edition of Mill's works, which began in 1869 and concluded in 1880. It... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 129614
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Œuvres, jurisconsulte anglais.Brussels : 1829-30
First collected edition of Bentham's works, edited and partly translated into French by Bentham's collaborator and disciple Etienne Dumont, preceding by 8 years the first English collected edition. "Even in the English-speaking world it was largely through Dumont's versions that Bentham came to be read" (Dinwiddy, p. 293). Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123580
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PELLARIN, Charles. Lettre de Fourier au grand juge (4 Nivôse an XII).Paris : 1874
First edition of one of Charles Fourier's important early writings, inscribed by the editor of the work and one of his most enthusiastic disciples, Charles Pellarin, "A madam Miyneros ?, Hommage de son dévoué condisciple Ch. Pellarin", on the half-title. François Marie Charles Fourier (1722-1837) is considered one of the founders of utopian socialism;... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 126495
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt.Leipzig : 1889 [but 1888]
First edition, first issue, of Nietzsche's last great work before his psychological collapse in January 1889, with an excellent association; the heavily annotated copy of Heinrich Köselitz, Nietzsche's amanuensis and most frequent correspondent, and the person responsible for the title of this work, with the surname of his pseudonym, "Gast" (a name... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 126701
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Gesammelte Werke.Munich : 1920-29
First complete collected edition of Nietzsche's works, in the original German, number 198 of 1,600 sets, this one of 185 special copies printed on rag paper and bound in full vellum. Arranged chronologically, with an introduction by Richardo Oehler, notes and indexes, this was the first edition to claim completeness, and has only been surpassed by the... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 144914
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HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts.Berlin : 1821
First edition of Hegel's Outline of the Philosophy of Right, complete with the secondary title page. Compiled from a series of lectures the author gave at Heidelberg University in 1819-1820, the work offers Hegel's most extensive and mature statement of his political philosophy, widely esteemed as among the greatest works in political thought. "The... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 138485
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MARX, Karl; RIFAT, Haydar (trans.) Sermaye.Istanbul : 1933
First appearance in book form of Marx's Das Kapital in Turkish, being the first edition of Haydar Rifat's translation, and the first book-length translation (preceded only by Bohor Israel's summary translation in a 1912 journal).
The translation is from Gabriel Deville's French abridgement of the first volume of Das Kapital, originally published... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 142650
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MILL, John Stuart. Gedachten over vrijheid.Groningen : 1859
First edition in Dutch. First published in English earlier the same year, On Liberty, "perhaps more than any other of his works, has been viewed by posterity as the kernel of Mill's social philosophy" (ODNB). "Many of Mill's ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought and speech have never been improved... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 124043
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MARX, Karl; RIFAT, Haydar (trans.) Sermaye.Istanbul : 1933
First appearance in book form of Marx's Das Kapital in Turkish, being the first edition of Haydar Rifat's translation, and the first book-length translation (preceded only by Bohor Israel's summary translation in a 1912 journal).
The translation is of Gabriel Deville's abridgement of the first volume of Das Kapital, originally published in Paris... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 143061
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MILL, John Stuart. O zasadzie uzytecznósci (Utilitarianizm).Warsaw : 1873
First edition in Polish of Mill's Utilitarianism (first, 1863), his important "definition of Utilitarianism, and a defence of the philosophy expressed by it" (MacMinn, et al.) The translator was the positivist philosopher, publicist, and jurist Feliks Bogacki (1847-1916). As stated on the title page, this Polish edition was authorized by Mill. Mill... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 119395
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MARQUAND, Allan. A New Logical Machine.Boston : 1886
Original offprint of Allan Marquand's presentation of his new logical machine to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in November, 1885. A student of Charles Sanders Peirce, Marquand (1853-1924) graduated from Princeton in 1874 and obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1880 from Johns Hopkins University, returning to Princeton in 1881 to teach Latin... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 100212
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TALLACK, William. Penological and Preventative Principles, with Special Reference to Europe and America,London : 1896
Second, enlarged edition, first published 1889. The initial publication, and also this extensively revised and augmented edition, were "encouraged by" the Howard Association - the world's oldest penal reform organisation, now the Howard League - bookplate recording their presentation of this copy - "Kindly acknowledge safe receipt" - the front pastedown.... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 113547
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LAVATER, John Caspar. Essays on Physiognomy.London : 1840
A reprint of the defence by Lavater, "the last of the descriptive physiognomists", of the pseudo-science of physiognomy, more correctly pathognomy, "the age old quest for the art how to know men" (Garrison & Morton; Hunter & MacAlpine). Lavater's work was first published in German in 1772 and enjoyed widespread success thereafter. This copy has the... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 100644
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HUSSERL, Edmund. Philosophie der Arithmetik.Halle-Saale : 1891
First edition of Husserl's first book, the initial volume of his Philosophie der Arithmetik. Husserl (18591938) began his career as a mathematician, and it was in search of complete clarity respecting fundamental mathematical concepts that, with the encouragement of Franz Brentano, to whom this work is dedicated, he turned to the philosophy of mathematics.... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131952
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THORNTON, William Thomas. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics.London : 1873
First edition of Thornton's principal philosophical work, collecting together his essays, which together criticize the ethical and teleological views of Hume, Huxley, and the utilitarians. Thornton's writings, especially his 1869 work On Labour, proved a major influence on his close friend John Stuart Mill. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 145925
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HART, Edmund. Philosophical inquiries;London : 1828
First edition of this little-known work which purports to "investigate every received philosophical opinion, bring it to the test of reason, and divest it of its errors, shielded howsoever it may be by the names of great men" (preface, p. v). Despite its noble aims, it was not received wholly favourably, with the London Literary Gazette for 1828 judging... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 129615
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JAMES, William. Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results.Berkeley : 1898
First edition thus of James's lecture in which he first pledged his commitment to pragmatism, delivered before the Philosophical Union in August 1898, considered the "opening gun in James's discourses on pragmatism" (Burkhardt & others, p. 264) and laying the groundwork for his influential 1907 masterwork.
The lecture was originally published... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 117949
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SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Ueber das Sehn und die Farben, eine Abhandlung.Leipzig : 1816
First edition of Schopenhauer's second work, a treatise on vision and colour, drawn from, and in sympathy with his exchanges with Goethe on the matter. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 135259
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BRADLEY, Francis Herbert. Appearance and Reality.London : 1893
First edition of Bradley's most important work, a major text of British idealism.
"Appearance and Reality is divided into two books. The first, 'Appearance', is brief, and its aim destructive, arguing that 'the ideas by which we try to understand the universe' all bring us ultimately to contradictions when we try to think out their implications.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 144676
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LESLIE, T. E. Cliffe. Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy.Dublin : 1879
First edition. Leslie's friend and contemporary John Kells Ingram summarised Leslie's work as "distributed under two heads, that of applied political economy, and that of discussion on the philosophical method of the science" (ODNB). He was one of the few Victorian economists to consider the consequences of growing militarism and made valuable contributions... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 109525
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DURKHEIM, Émile. De la division du travail social.Paris : 1893
First edition of the author's first major work and one of the founding texts in the field of sociology. The Division of Labour in Society was Durkheim's dissertation, which built on the ideas of August Comte to analyse the way that societies maintain order and how this changes as they progress from primitive to industrial modes of organisation. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131862
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MARX, Karl. Das Kapital.Hamburg : 1872
Second edition of volume one of Marx's polemical masterpiece of political economy. Only the first volume of this most influential of books was published in Marx's lifetime, and though the later volumes were edited by Engels from the author's manuscript, the revised edition of volume I was edited by Marx himself and contains the first printing of his... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 145418
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COMTE, Auguste. Cours de philosophie positive.Paris : 1830-42
First edition of Comte's canonical statement of positivism, one of the major philosophical texts of the 19th century; this copy carrying detailed annotations by a leading contemporary French zoologist. "The remarkable achievement of Comte, all arguments about the validity of his theories aside, is the construction of a system which embraces all human... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 110733
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HERBART, Johann Friedrich. Allgemeine Metaphysik, nebst den Anfängen der philosophischen Naturlehre.Königsberg : 1828-29
First edition of the author's central work on metaphysics. While at university in Jena Herbart became a member of Fichte's inner circle, though he soon took a critical stance towards the Wissensschaftslehre and began to identify more as a Kantian; after his studies were complete he accepted an offer from Königsberg to become the second successor to... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140914
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MARX, Karl. Congrès Ouvrier de l'Association Internationale des Travailleurs tenu à Genève du 3 au 8 septembre 1866.Geneva : 1866
First edition of this account of the 1866 Geneva Congress, the first congress of the International Workingmen's Association, commonly known as the First International. The Association had been founded in 1864 in London by French and British radicals, including the exiled Karl Marx, who delivered the inaugural address at that meeting. The first congress... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 128994
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HUSSERL, Edmund. Philosophie der Arithmetik.Halle-Saale : 1891
First edition of Husserl's first book, the initial volume of his Philosophie der Arithmetik; presentation copy, inscribed by the author "mit dem Ausdruck vorzüglicher Hochachtung" at the head of the front wrapper, above the printed presentation note "Uberreicht vom Verfasser".
Husserl (18591938) began his career as a mathematician, and it was... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 144965
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PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. Qu'est-ce que la propriété?Paris : 1841
Second edition of the French anarchist philosopher's notorious thesis which caused a scandal by equating all property with theft. In the wake of the social turmoil caused by the economic decline in France in 1839-40 and the July Monarchy's lapse into a "religion of property", Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) argued thatunlike freedom and equalitythe... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 121060
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COULANGES, Fustel de. La Cité antique.Paris : 1864
First edition of the author's best known work, published at a time of renewed interest in religious history. "Its fundamental idea is that the beliefs of man are the determinants, and even the creators, of his institutions. In the preface to La Cité antique Coulanges wrote: 'The past never completely dies for men. Man may forget it, but he keeps it... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 114886
