RIBOT, Théodule.

La psychologie Allemande contemporaine. [École Expérimentale].

Paris, Baillière, 1879.

First edition, a nice association. The ‘new’ Germany psychology was scientific and empirical, relying solely on observation of physical phenomena. Ribot’s work was published in the same year as the establishment of Wilhelm Wundt’s psychological laboratory in Leipzig; he was delighted with the...

£175

RIBOT, Théodule.

The diseases of personality. Authorised translation.

Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company, 1891.

First separate edition in English; there appears to have been an earlier appearance with other of Ribot’s Diseases; first published in French in 1885. A study of mental illnesses including double personality (‘double monsters’, and twins), insanity, sexual characteristics such as ‘opposite...

£125

SCRIPTURE, Edward Wheeler.

The new psychology. [The Contemporary Science Series].

London and New York, Scott and Scribner’s, 1898.

First British edition, from a series edited by Havelock Ellis; first published 1897 in America. Scripture founded a laboratory for experimental psychology at Yale University, the experiments of which are described here, and was a founder of the American Psychological Association. He trained under Wilhelm...

£100

SIMMEL, Georg.

Philosophische Kultur. Gesammelte Essais. [Philosophischsoziologische Bücherei, Band XXVII].

Leipzig, Klinkhardt, 1911.

First edition.

£45

SIMMEL, Georg.

Rembrandt, ein kunstphilosophischer Versuch.

Leipzig, Wolff, 1916.

First edition.

£50

SMALL, Albion Woodbury.

General sociology, an exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer.

Chicago and London, Chicago University Press and Fisher Unwin, 1905.

First edition. Small was one of the founders of academic sociology in the United States and was the first President of the new American Sociological Association. His study of Spencer and Ratzenhofer is a significant development on stage-based sociological theory, i.e. the development from savagery to...

£125

SPENCER, Herbert.

The Study of Sociology. [The International Scientific Series].

New York, Appleton, 1874.

First edition thus, the first American appearance of the sociological portion of Spencer’s ‘philosophical system’, which commenced in 1860, and thus the first appearance in America of his foundational system of sociology, which unified Darwinian evolution and social science, famous for introducing...

£100

[SPENCER, Herbert.]

GEORGE, Henry. A perplexed philosopher, being an examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s various utterances...

New York, Webster, 1892.

First edition. A perhaps ill-conceived attack on Herbert Spencer, considering that at the time, as the author freely admits, the British philosopher, ‘of all his contemporaries, [held] the foremost place in the intellectual world, and through a wider circle than any man living, and perhaps than any...

£65

SULLY, James.

Illusions, a psychological study. [The International Scientific Series, Vol. 34].

London, Kegan Paul, 1881.

First edition of Sully’s study of perception, dreams, and memory, with his discussion of psychology as a ‘positive science’, praised by both Freud and Wundt.

£100

TARDE, Gabriel.

Les lois sociales. Esquisse d’une sociologie. [Bibliothèque de Philosophie Contemporaine].

Paris, Baillière, 1898.

First edition. The result of discussions at the Collège Libre des Sciences Sociales, founded 1895 in Paris, in October of 1897. Tarde’s ‘social laws’ are another example of an attempt at empirical sociology, a scientific law or ‘loi d’uniformisation’ to cover the social phenomena of history...

£175

VEBLEN, Thorstein.

An inquiry into the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation.

New York, Macmillan, 1917.

First edition. Veblen considers the situations in Germany and England during the First World War and projects the economic consequences of plenty in peacetime, which he frames as the rise of the middle-class ‘gentleman’, based on a model of Victorian English, peacetime gentlemanliness. This envisages...

£150

[WEBER, Max].

ROGERS, Howard J. Congress of Arts and Science. Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. [Volume VII, economics, politics,...

Boston and New York, Houhgton, Mifflin & Co., Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1906.

First edition. This volume apparently contains Max Weber’s first appearance in English, entitled “The Relations of the rural community to other branches of social science”. The paper was delivered by Weber at the St. Louis World’s Fair and was first published in this translation. It never appeared...

£200

WEBER, Max.

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie.

Tübingen, Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1920-21.

First edition thus, a collection of Weber’s work on religion including his most famous and controversial essay, Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), as well as his studies of ancient Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. Weber...

£225

WEBER, Max.

Wirtschaftsgeschichte … Abriss der universalen Sozial- und Wirtschafts-geschichte. Aus den nachgelassenen Vorlesungen...

Munich and Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1923.

First edition of this posthumous compilation of lectures.

£60

WUNDT, Wilhelm; James Edward CREIGHTON and Edward Bradford TITCHENER, translators.

Lectures on human and animal psychology....

London and New York, Sonnenschein and Macmillan, 1894.

First edition in English, first published 1863-1864. A significant appearance in English considering the establishment of Sully’s laboratory at University College London in 1898, Wundt’s lectures developed a scientific link between psychology and anatomy through experiments on sensation, by...

£100

WUNDT, Wilhelm.

Julia GULLIVER and Edward Bradford TITCHENER, translators. Facts of the moral life.

London and New York, Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1897.

First edition in English, first published as Ethik, eine Untersuchung der Tatsachen und Geseze des stlichen Lebens (Ethics, an investigation of the facts etc.) in 1886. This is a more broadly sociological work and a departure from Wundt’s scientific sociology, considering social groups and actions...

£125

ZIMMERMANN, [Johann Georg].

Solitude considered, in regard to its influence upon the mind and the heart. Written originally in...

London, Printed for John Fairbairn and Archibald Constable, 1797.

Rare late edition of Zimmermann’s immensely popular Solitude, first published 1756, the first appearing in English in 1779. Its combination of rational philosophy and irrational, romantic melancholy caught the mood of the later eighteenth century. Zimmermann’s own romantic eccentricity comes...

£250

HILLER, Ernest Theodore.

The strike: a study in collective action. Introduction by Robert E. Park.

Chicago, University Press, 1928.

First edition. The introduction is by Robert E. Park, who was one of the founders of the Chicago School and on the editorial board of the Sociological Series. Hiller studies historic strikes by miners and hop-pickers to narrate a typical strike and study the characteristics of strikers and strike-breakers....

£120

MACIVER, Robert Morrison.

As a tale that is told. The autobiography of R. M. MacIver.

Chicago, University Press, 1968.

First edition, a nice presentation copy of MacIver’s somewhat self-indulgent autobiography, an interesting account of American sociology in the 1920s and 30s including his time teaching at Barnard College, the women’s college of Columbia University.

£100

MOWRER, Ernest R.

Family disorganization.

Chicago, University Press, 1927.

First edition. A study of divorce and desertion in families, related to Isaac’s and Znaniecki’s work on The Polish peasant in America (1918-20), which recorded cases of the disintegration of family life through the same ‘case-study methods’.

From the University of Chicago Sociological Series.

£75