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

MACAULAY, T.B. Art.VII. Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, the Liberty of the Press, Prisons and Prison Discipline, Colonies, the Law of Nations, and Education. By James Mill Esq. [Extracted from the Edinburgh Review] Edinburgh Review, March 1829Octavo, pp.159-189bound with[MACAULAY,T.B.] Art.VI. Westinster Review, (XXII,Art,16,) on the Strictures of the Edinburgh Review (XCVIII,Art,1) on the Utilitarian Theory of Government, and the 'Greatest Happiness Principle'. [Extracted from the Edinburgh Review] Edinburgh Review, October 1829Octavo, pp.99-125The historian and whig Macaulay's [1880-1859] famous attack in the Edinburgh Review in 1829 on James Mill's Essays. Bain writes "an attack made in the interest of Whiggism, as against the Radical school. There was much superficiality, as well as flippancy, in Macaulay's articles; yet, they exposed weak points in the statement, if not in the substance of our author's theories; and they are memorable for having created an epoch in the intellectual history… Read More

[MACCAIG,D] A Reply to John Stuart Mill on the Subjection of Women. Philadelphia, J.P.Lippincott & Co 1870
Octavo, original publishers green cloth, spine lettered gilt, small tear to cloth on spine with loss of two letters, pp.242, (10) adverts, bookplate of Holton Library Brighton and library stamp on title.
First edition. Rare BL and LSE only in copac

MACCALL, William. National Missions. A series of lectures. London, Trubner 1855Octavo, publishers cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.viii, 382, 2 adverts, pasted on front blank cutting from an autograph letter in ink .most faithfully W.Maccall, ownership in ink Geo:E Harris, a fine copy.First and only editionref:077

MACCALL, William. The Elements of Individualism. A series of lectures. London,J.Chapman 1847Octavo, publishers cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.vii, 350, 1 adverts, pasted on front blank cutting from an autograph letter in ink Mr G E Harris, most faithfully W.Maccall, a fine copy.First and only editionref:080

MACFIE, Robert Andrew. Speech delivered at a meeting of the Liverpool Reform League on December 19th 1866: including extracts from Archbishop Whately and Mr John Stuart Mill on plurality of votes as a needful element in any final scheme of Parliamentary Reform. London, Longmans, Green & co 1866Octavo, disbound, pp.16, library stamp to title.First edition.

4 volumes, octavo, original printed paper covers, entirely uncut and unopened, xxixpp + 434pp; (2) + 420pp; (2) + 384pp; (2) + 381pp, spines darkened, some wear to extremities, an excellent copy.
Not in Kress or Goldsmith

Third edition in French translated from the fifth English edition of 1817 by Pierre Prevost and his son G.Prevost. Previous French editions were published in 1809 and 1823.

MANSEL, H.L. The Philosophy of the Conditioned comprising some remarks on Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and on Mr J.S. Mill's Examination of that Philosophy. London, Alexander Strahan 1866Octavo, original publishers purple cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.vii, (1), 189 a fine copyFirst edition. Henry Longueville Mansel [1820-1871] was a metaphysician, theologian, Oxford professor and follower of Sir William Hamilton. Author of The Limits of Religious Thought 1858 which Mill described in a letter to Bain in January 1863 "detestable, to me absolutely loathsome book". Mansel reciprocated Mill's dislike, he thought Mill's teaching "utterly mischievous". Mineka, The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill, letter no.572.ref:039

MARCH PHILLIPS, Lucy F. The battle of the two philosophies. By an Inquirer. London, Longmans Green, 1866
Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.(4), 88, ownership on title of Rev J G Armstrong, .
Rare first and only edition. A critical study welcoming John Stuart Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and comparing the two philosophers and their philosophies.

OLIPHANT,Margaret. Mill on the Subjection of Women. Art.XI. 1. The Subjection of Women. By John Stuart Mill 1869. 2. Women's Work and Women's Culture: a Series of Essays. Edited by Josephine G.Butler 1869 [Extracted from the Edinburgh Review] Edinburgh Review October 1869
Octavo, pp.572-602, boards, paper label to upper cover.
Margaret Oliphant [1828-1897] Scottish novelist, she published over ninety novels, and historical writer.
£150

[MARMONT DU HAUTCHAMP, Barthélémy]
Histoire des Finances Sous la Minorité de Louis XV. Pendant les années 1719 & 1720. Précedée D'un Abrégé de la Vie du Duc Regent, & du sur Sr.Law. Tome Premier – Tome Sixieme.
La Haye, chez Pierre du Hondt 1739
Twelvemo, 6 volumes bound in 3 volumes, 16.2 x 9.3cm, small octavo, very fine contemporary continental mottled calf, spines richly gilt with fleur-de-lys, red and blue morocco labels lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, leaf edges marbled, original silk page markers, pp. LIV-204 + (2) blank; (2) + 312 + (2) blank; (2) + 208 + (2) blank; (2) + 286 + (4) blank; (14) + 294 + (4) blank; (18) + 246 + (2) blank, complete with 2 folding tables in volume VI of Billets de Banque...faits en consequence des Arréts...1719-1720 printed on both sides, and the engraved plate Admiré la force in volume IV, titles printed in red and black with printers woodcut devices, woodcut decoration to chapter openings and endings, woodcut initials, insignificant scuffing to back… Read More

McCosh, James. An Examination of Mr J S Mill's Philosophy; being a defence of fundamental truth. New York Robert Carter & Brothers 1866
Octavo, publishers brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, a little worn, pp.v + (1) + 7-434 + (2) adverts. First edition. James McCosh [1811-1894], from 1851-68 he was Professor of Logic at Queen's College, Belfast, and thereafter President of Princeton College, New Jersey. He wrote several works on philosophy, including Method of the Divine Government (1850), Intuitions of the Mind inductively investigated (1860), and Laws of Discursive Thought (1870).

The School of Salamanca and the Quantity Theory of Money
THOMAS DE MERCADO, Fray. Summa de Tratos y Contratos...anadidas ala primera addition, muchas nueuas resoluciones. Y dos libros enteros, como parace en la pagina siguente. Seville, Hernando Diaz 1571
Thick quarto, 20.0 x 14.0cm, quarter vellum and cloth boards, five raised bands, spine lettered gilt, leaf edges gilt, some wormholes neatly restored in the blank margins, two parts in one volume, [12] leaves + 154 leaves [misnumbered]; 220 leaves [misnumbered] + [14 ] leaves tablo, title with engraved woodcut of a friar holding a model of the church in his left hand and a quill in his right hand, printers ornamental woodcut initials, printed marginalia.

Palau, IX p.91 165052. Colmeiro, 279. Smith, Rara Arithmetica p.335. Schumpeter, pp.95, 101. Kress 105. Goldsmith 155. Not in Einaudi or Sraffa.
See Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson, The School of Salamanca. Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory 1544-1605.Oxford 1952 pp.2-18; 40-51, 96-102.
Second edition,… Read More

MERIVALE, Herman. Essays on the Tenure of Land. Art.VI. 1. Systems of Land Tenure in various Countries. A series of essays...1870. 2. Reports respecting the Tenure of Land in Europe. Foreign Office 1869. 3. Programme of the Land Tenure Reform Association: with an explanatory statement. By John Stuart Mill 1871. 4. Landlordism. By David Syme 1871. 5. Nasse on the Agricultural Community of the Middle Ages. Translated by Colonel Ouvry 1871. [Extracted from the Edinburgh Review] Edinburgh Review October 1871
Octavo, pp.449-483, boards, paper label to upper cover.
Herman Merivale [1806-1874], under-secretary for India 1859-1874, prolific writer on colonial and economic questions.
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Quarto, contemporary quarter continental calf and boards, pp.viii + 299, folding table, printers woodcut to title page, woodcut on page 1, Latin with Syriac type throughout in the text, contemporary ownership in ink on front blank ex libris Bonaventura Guillaume, discreet small oval library stamp on recto of title, the colophon on the final leaf reads: Goettingae, Fr. Andr. Rosenbusch, Acad. Typogaphi, a fine copy.
For a history of Syriac typography see: Dr J.E.Coakley: The Typography of Syriac: A Historical Catalogue of Printing Types, 1537–1958

FIRST EDITION printed at the expense of the Hallesches Waisenhaus (Halle orphanage), which was also an educational institution. Michaelis [1717-1791] was a German theologian and orientalist at Halle. He is regarded as the founder of Syriac philology. This elegant grammar includes Alphabetum vulgare, Mutata literarum, Vocalibus, Ribui, consonants, abjunctives, particples, verbs, plurals, paradigma nominum, suffixes, syntax, etc.

Quarto, contemporary tree calf, edges worn, rebacked, red morocco label, (2) + ccxxxvipp + 496pp, including the dedication to the Duke of Buccleuch, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map.
Goldsmith 11720. Viner, Guide to John Rae’s Life of Adam Smith pp.70-74. Not in Kress or Vanderblue.
Second edition, but the first to contain this critical attack on Adam Smith’s laissez-faire doctrines to the East India Trade in the Wealth of Nations. The long criticism appears on pages clxi-clxxxvi and begins; "Of the example of Portugese Asia cannot be better enforced by an examination of the popular arguments relative to the British commerce with India. A recent Writer on the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, has stood forth as the philosophical champion for the abolition of the Monopoly of the English United East India Company…"
Mickle, a Scottish poet and translator of Camöens epic verse, dedicated The Lusiad to Adam Smith’s pupil the Duke of Buccleuch, who apparently said that it had… Read More

Quarto, 25.0 x 19.8 cm, 2 pages in ink, with some deletions and insertions in the text, integral leaf removed leaving a somewhat irregular margin, docketed at head of first page,.£6,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]An important unpublished letter about the abuse of power by government, that such power is destructive and that when it happens it should be taken away. It was the duty of every man to expose abuses or otherwise they would be deprived of their liberty.Written to Josiah Conder [1789-1855], bookseller and author, proprietor and editor of the Eclectic Review between 1814-1837, during which he supported the dissenting interest. Mill is said to have written in the British and Monthly reviews and especially the Eclectic. Details of the present controversy may be found in the Eclectic Review 1816The letter was written from Ford Abbey. "Jeremy Bentham, having rented Ford Abbey, invited Mill and his family to take up their abode with him. The party must have gone there in July...It is not… Read More

MILL,John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. In two volumes. London, John Parker 1856
2 volumes, octavo, original publishers cloth, printed paper labels, cloth faded, pp.xvi, 528; xii, 531, (1), 8 adverts, volume II partly unopened, contemporary ownership in ink John S Collins 56, some pencil annotations, a fine copy.
Fourth edition with a considerable number of additions, the most important relating to the doctrine of Causation, and to the incessantly renewed attempt to make human conceptions, and supposed incapacities of conception, the test of objective truth.

MILL,James and GROTE,George. Objections to the ballot, answered from the writings and speeches of Mill, Grote, &c. London: Henry Hooper, 1837
Octavo, linen-backed marbled boards lettered., pp.20.

First edition: variant issue, one of the copies printed for general distribution. A disposal of 23 popular objections to Parliamentary elections by ballot, by and large supported by relevant quotations from George Grote and James Mill. Among the objections were: Ob.5. 'That the present frank and manly manner of open voting, is preferable to the mystification of the Ballot'. Ob.11. 'That in towns, combinations of the people by political unions, may be able to operate irresistibly on the fears of voters'. Ob.12. 'That the Ballot will not prevent intimidation'. Ob.14. 'That the Ballot will not secure independent voting'. Ob.17. 'That the Ballot will favour the telling of lies'.
"For most of the radicals, the single most necessary reform was the introduction of the secret ballot...Once the act of voting was… Read More

MILL,James & John Stuart MILL.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. Volume I. January-April 1824. London,Baldwin, Cradock and Joy 1824
2 parts in one volume, thick octavo, original grey boards, uncut, pp.iv +288; (2) + 289-560, title with engraved view of Westminster, discreet library stamps on title of Gr.York kl.oels Bibliothek, an excellent copy.
Contains on pp.206-250 James Mill's Art.XI. Periodical Literature. 1.Edinburgh Review.. Contains on pp.505-541 John Stuart Mill's Art.X. Periodical Literature. Edinburgh Review.
"Mr Bentham determined to establish the Review at his own cost, and offered the editorship to my father, who declined it as incompatible with his India House appointment...e consented to write an article for the first number. As it had been a favourite portion of the scheme talked of, that part of the work should be devoted to reviewing the other Reviews, this article of my Father's was to be a general criticism of the Edinburgh Review from its commencement. Before writing he made me read… Read More

MILL,James. A Fragment on Mackintosh: being strictures on some passages in the dissertation by Sir James Mackintosh, prefixed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. London, Baldwin & Cradock 1835Octavo, original boards rebacked in calf, spine lettered in gilt, corners worn, leaf edges uncut, pp.vi, (2), 431, (1), ownership inscription of W R Sorley, (1855-1935), professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge University.

Rare first edition of James Mill's last book. Published a year before James Mill's death A Fragment on Mackintosh is a severe exposure of the flimsiness and misrepresentations of Sir James Mackintosh's famous Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy 1830 and discusses the foundations of ethics from the author's utilitarian point of view. John Stuart Mill was to write about his father's work in his Autobiography
"His 'Fragment on Mackintosh' which he wrote and published about this time, although I greatly admired some parts of it, I read as a whole with more pain than pleasure; yet on… Read More