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Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner 1865 by John Stuart Mill - September 13th 1865: Mill’s instructions to his publisher to send 24 presentation copies

by John Stuart Mill

Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner 1865 by John Stuart Mill - September 13th 1865

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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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.
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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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Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française, trés-augmentée.

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New Edition in Four Volumes....
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New Edition in Four Volumes. Embellished with an Elegant Head of the Author. Embellished with an Elegant Head of the Author.

by SMITH,ADAM

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India Pamphlets 1858

India Pamphlets 1858

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[MILL,John Stuart] East India (Improvements in Administration). Copy "of a Memorandum (prepared at the India House) of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last Thirty Years". London 1858Folio, disbound, pp.1-38 +(2).MacMinn, p.90FIRST EDITION, from Parliamentary Papers, 1857-1858, XLIII. 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.MacMnn: "A review of the improvements in legislation, education, religion, roads, and other matters achieved under the supervision of the East India Company".withSix pamphlets in two volumes[MILL,John Stuart] Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last thirty years. London, 1858Tall 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.90First separate edition. Of this Memorandum… Read More
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Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet.
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Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet.

by MILL,John Stuart

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MILL,John Stuart. Om det Representativa Styrelsesättet. Öfversättning. Foöreningens Boktryokeri, Norrköping 1862
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Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française,...

Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française, trés-augmentée.

by Malthus,T.R.

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The Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem. Translated from the Original Portugese of...
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New Edition in Four Volumes....
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by SMITH,ADAM

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India Pamphlets 1858

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[MILL,John Stuart] East India (Improvements in Administration). Copy "of a Memorandum (prepared at the India House) of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last Thirty Years". London 1858Folio, disbound, pp.1-38 +(2).MacMinn, p.90FIRST EDITION, from Parliamentary Papers, 1857-1858, XLIII. 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.MacMnn: "A review of the improvements in legislation, education, religion, roads, and other matters achieved under the supervision of the East India Company".withSix pamphlets in two volumes[MILL,John Stuart] Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the last thirty years. London, 1858Tall 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.90First separate edition. Of this Memorandum… Read More
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and of the principal philosophical...
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings

by Mill, John Stuart

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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
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of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Read More
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Ãœber die Freiheit
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Ãœber die Freiheit

by John Stuart Mill; Manfred Schlenke

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Utilitarianism and Other Essays
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Utilitarianism and Other Essays

by John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham

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Considerations on Representative Government (Great Books in Philosophy)
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Considerations on Representative Government (Great Books in Philosophy)

by Mill, John Stuart

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Utilitarianism
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Utilitarianism

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Utilitarianism

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On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
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On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)

by John Stuart Mill

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Utilitarianism
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Utilitarianism

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On Liberty: With Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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On Liberty
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp

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Tokyo: Edo-Tokyo Museum, 1999. 1st. Softcover. Edo-Tokyo Museum, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto in illustrated wraps. very good condition, except for remainder of small price label on front. Ships from Hawaii. In collaboration with the Peabody Museum, this publication and exhibit marks the 200th anniversary of the first commercial contact of America with Japan. Few know that in 1799 an American ship called "Franklin" docked in Nagasaki and engaged in trade. The ship was constructed in Salem, home of the Peabody Essex Museum. Captain Devereaux brought back with him a a large number of Japanese works of art, thus initiating an ongoing exchange and appreciation of Japanese culture and art. Show less.
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At the Bottom of the Ladder
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At the Bottom of the Ladder

by Camillus Kessler

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1926, Cartoons by Camillus Kessler. Quarto, cloth pictorial boards, 274 pages, no dust jacket. Platinum Age comics depicting celebrities, political humor, captains of industry (and their first jobs), economics and social strata. Cracked hinges, toning, wear to covers, clean pages.
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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Golden Shape 1st Ed. A)
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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Golden Shape 1st Ed. "A")

by Moss, Jeffrey

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Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Sesame Street Golden Shape 1st Ed. IMPRESSION "A", Western Publishing) RARE. Used. VG Paperback. Written by Moss, Jeffrey. Features Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets. Rare/Scarce.
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