Search Results: Authors starting with H from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

HARE, Thomas. The election of representatives, parliamentary and municipal: A Treatise. London, Longman 1865
Octavo, brown publishers cloth, rebacked, pp.xlvii, 350, library stamp on half title and title page and final leaf.
Third edition and first published in 1859 with a second edition in 1861. All early editions are rare.
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HARE,Thomas. The election of representatives, parliamentary and municipal: A Treatise. London, Longman, Brown 1859
Octavo, half green morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.xxxiv, 338, 24 adverts, outer margin of 2 leaves strengthened.
Rare First edition. The classic treatise on the single transferable vote. 'This great practical and philosophical idea' J.S.Mill

"It was soon after the publication of Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform that I became acquainted with Mr Hare's admirable system of Personal Representation...I saw in this great practical and philosophical idea, the greatest improvement of which the system of representative government is susceptible; an improvement which, in the most felicitous manner, exactly meets and cures, and what before seemed the inherent, defect of the representative system; that of giving to a numerical majority all power, instead of only a power proportional to its numbers, and enabling the strongest party to exclude all weaker parties from making their… Read More

HAYEK, F.A. von. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor. Their correspondence and subsequent marriage. Chicago, University of Chicago Press 1951
Octavo, publishers cloth, pp.320,errata slip.
First edition. Hayek provides a full account of how Harriet Taylor had such a deep influence on John Stuart Mill and his thought. His gradual drift to socialism was inspired by her and that many of his opinions on the arts, letters and politics of Victorian England were formed under the influence of her thought and conversation.
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HAZARD, Rowland G. Two Letters on Causation and Freedom in Willing, addressed to John Stuart Mill. With an Appendix on the existence of matter, and our notions of infinite space. Boston, Lee and Shepard (1869)
Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, rebacked, lettered gilt, pp.300, perforated stamp to title, inscribed on the initial blank Samuel Gilman LLD with kind regards of R G Hazard. Peace Dale Aug 6/82 and bookplate of John Hopkins University presented by D C Gilman.
First edition, presentation copy. Hazard [1801-1888] Rhode Island woollen manufacturer and writer on philosophical subjects and correspondent with Mill. Author of the earlier Freedom Mind in Willing 1864 which he sent to Mill. In a letter dated November 1866 Mill wrote "It is a real pleasure to have you for an antagonist, for you see the true gist of a question, do not trifle on the mere surface of the subject, and your arguments are real arguments addressing themselves to the real points in dispute and not to imaginary ones".
Mill… Read More

Folio, 280 x 205 cm, late 18th or early 19th century morocco, stained, spine gilt, darkened, lettered gilt, contemporary marbled endpapers, 410 leaves, woodcut title page border entirely unshaved at the top and rarely found thus, Roman, italic and gothic types, table of contents in double columns, index in three columns, printed shoulder notes, large woodcut initials, some browning and old damp staining to upper margins throughout, insignificant wormhole to upper margin of last few leaves, engraved armorial bookplate of Johnstone to front pastedown, library stamp to lower blank margins of nine leaves, complete with colophon and final blank, an excellent large copy.
Printing & the Mind of Man 55. Adams, H567. Grolier, Medicine 1A. Wellcome 3177. NLM 2320.
Provenance
1. Johnstone, armorial bookplate, either Edward Johnstone [1757-1851], physician, first President of the provincial Medical & Surgical Association, one of the original physicians of the Birmingham General Hospital; or his brother John… Read More

HOLYOAKE,George Jacob. John Stuart Mill as some of the Working Classes knew him. An answer to a letter circulated by "The author of the article in the 'Times' on Mr Mill's death."London, Trübner & Co 1873
Octavo, disbound, pp.29

First and only edition, by the atheist campaigner Jacob Holyoake defending Mill from the attacks of Abraham Hayward. Abraham Hayward, an antagonist of Mill's for 50 years, had written an obituary described as "a vengeful piece of character assassination", and referring to Mill's youthful 'foolish scheme for carrying out the Malthusian principle'.
Reeves,pp.481.

HOLYOAKE, George Jacob. A New Defence of the Ballot in consequence of Mr Mill's Objections to it. [Fifth thousand]. London, Book Store 1868
Twlevemo, disbound, pp.8, last two leaves closely trimmed.ref:091

HUME,David. The Life of David Hume Esq. Written by Himself. London, W.Strahan and T.Cadell 1777
Small octavo, original paper covers, worn and dust stained, spine frayed, stitched as issued, engraved portrait of David Hume by T.Cook, half title + pp.iv + 62pp, duststained, uncut, ownership in ink on the recto of plate Robert Barclay, Capilrig.

Provenance: Robert Barclay [died 1783], purchased the estate of Capelrig, in Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire in 1765 from the baron of the Scottish Exchequer William Mure of Caldwell, who David Hume described as the oldest and best friend I had in the world. Robert Barclay, whose mentor was William Mure, gave him a lucrative post as a tax collector, becoming Deputy Admiral of the Clyde. He was a lawyer in the Glasgow firm of Barclay & Grahame. He corresponded with with David Hume's physician and friend Dr William Cullen 1783 concerning his health.

Todd edition A with correct reading 'myself' on line 3, p.29. Vanderblue,p.46. Jessop,… Read More