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GOGGIA,P.E. La mente di Mill. Saggio di logica positiva applicata specialmente alla storia. Livorno, Tipografia di Francesco Vigo. 1869
Octavo,original grey printed paper covers, pp.122 + 1, discreet library stamp, a good copy.
First edition
Rare [copac 1 copy only BL]

Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, label of Bibliothek der Wiener Handelsakademie on the upper cover and inside, leaf edges marbled, printers woodcut on title of a grasshopper, pp.xii + 139 pages, discreet library stamp on title, a fine copy.

Provenance: Bibliothek der Wiener Handelsakademie, founded in 1857, the second Handelsakamie of the Austrian Empire after Prague.
Not in Einaudi or Sraffa. Not in the Amex Library. See Chi-Yuen Wu: An outline of international price theories. (2007), pp.204-206. Schumpeter, p.736.

FIRST EDITION of this classic treatise in which Goschen declared that the primary clause which determined the fluctuations in the exchange rates was the balances of international indebtedness. He found that the state of credit in the money market played an important role. Chi-Yuen Wu writes that Goschen produced the first systematic exposition of the effects of the bank rate.
Goschen [1831-1907], Chancellor of the Exchequer in Salisbury's second… Read More

GROTE,George. Review of the work of Mr John Stuart Mill, entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy'.
London, N.Trübner & Co 1868
Small octavo, original publishers green cloth, upper cover lettered gilt, pp.(2), 112, engraved bookplate of William Michael Collett, a fine copy.

First edition. George Grote [1794-1871] was a classical scholar, politician and banker and historian of Greece. In 1817 he came under the influence of David Ricardo, and through him of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham. He and his wife Harriet frequently entertained many of the Benthamite group in their home. Other than a period of estrangement from Harriet Grote, Mill was a life-long friend of and correspondent with the couple. Leslie Stephen described him as "the great representative of Utiltarian history"

GROTE, Mrs Harriet. The personal life of George Grote: compiled from family documents, private memoranda, and original letters to and from various friends. London, John Murray 1873
Octavo, publishers green cloth, brown morocco label, pp.xv, 336, engraved portrait frontispiece, facsimile leaf, a fine copy.
First edition. Life of George Grote [1794-1871] was a classical scholar, politician and banker and historian of Greece. In 1817 he came under the influence of David Ricardo, and through him of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham. He and his wife Harriet frequently entertained many of the Benthamite group in their home. Other than a period of estrangement from Harriet Grote, John Stuart Mill was a life-long friend of and correspondent with the couple.ref:048

GROTE,John. An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy. Edited by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor. Cambridge, Deighton,Bell, and Co. 1870
Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.xxiv, 362, 12 adverts, some pencil annotations on the blank endpapers.

First edition. John Grote [1813-1866] was the younger brother of the historian George, who held the chair of moral philosophy at Cambridge from 1855 to 1866. Grote himself issued only one volume on philosophy—Exploratio Philosophica,
Part 1 (1865). After his death three volumes were compiled from his manuscripts including this book An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy in 1870