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CALVERT, George Henry.
Introduction to social science. A discourse in three parts.
New York, Redfield, 1856.
First edition, rare in commerce. George Calvert (1803-89) was a journalist, traveller, and writer, and was the first American author to produce biographies of Goethe and Wordsworth. Calvert held the position of Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Baltimore.
£200
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CAREY, H.
C. The British Treaties of 1871 & 1874: letters to the President of the United States.
Philadelphia, Collins, 1875.
First edition of a pamphlet which marks the completion of the arc in Carey’s thinking regarding bilateral trade deals, described in his time as ‘reciprocity’ arrangements. Having endorsed such deals early in his career as acts that promoted free trade, in the 1840s and 1850s Carey came to believe...
£175
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COASE, Ronald Harry.
British broadcasting. A study in monopoly.
London, London School of Economic, Longmans, Green & Co., 1950.
First edition. In British broadcasting, Coase scrutinizes the cogency of the arguments employed in order to justify the monopoly that existed in British broadcasting at the time under the B.B.C., ‘broadcasting’ of course referring to the ‘wireless’ radio and not to television. This followed debates...
£150
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COMBE, George.
Phrenology applied to painting and sculpture.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.
First edition, scarce in commerce. George Combe (1788-1858) was a Scottish lawyer and a leading exponent of phrenology, co-founding in 1820 the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. This is an art historical retrospective using phrenology as the basis for an understanding of beauty and artistic ability, one...
£350
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Au Siège de la Société Positiviste, 1892-1894.
A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1830-1842, disseminated by the Positivist Society as a fitting memorial to the author, whose original work, as stated by the editor’s preface, was already very difficult to obtain.
£350
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COMTE, Auguste.
Appel aux conservateurs. Prix: trois francs.
Paris, Chez l’Auteur et chez Dalmont, Août 1855.
First edition of Comte’s ‘appeal to conservatives’, a briefer and logical exposition of the Positivist system than the Cours. The folding tables depict the positivist structure and the positivist calendar. Comte was seeking a system of logic in which the very explanation of the ideal would be tantamount...
£500
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COMTE, Auguste.
Lettres d’Auguste Comte a M. Valat.
Paris, Dunod, éditeur, successeur de Dalmont, Juillet 1870.
First edition thus, Comte’s letters written to Philippe Valat, a disciple of whom little seems to be known. He was a professor of mathematics at Montpellier and rector of a church at Rhodez. The letters, all of them from Comte to Valat, are sometimes highbrow but mostly show Comte simply discussing...
£125
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COMTE, Auguste.
CONGREVE, Richard, editor and S. LOBB, translator. The eight circulars of Auguste Comte. Translated...
London, Trübner & Co., 1882.
First edition, the first appearance in English. Comte’s ‘circulars’ are fundraising essays, addressed to the patrons who subscribed to positivist funds. Congreve was a founder of the London Positivist Society in 1867, and promoted a specifically religious interpretation of the positivist philosophy,...
£150
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COMTE, Auguste.
DESCOURS, Paul and H. Gordon JONES, translators. The fundamental principles of the positive philosophy....
London, Watts, 1905.
First edition thus, rare in commerce. The introduction is by Edward Spencer Beesly, an English positivist who was acquainted with Marx. In 1893 he founded the Positivist Review. He describes this as the first instalment in a more complete translation of Comte’s Philosophie Positive than...
£80
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COMTE, Auguste.
HARRISON, Frederic, editor. The new calendar of great men. Biographies of the 558 worthies of all ages and...
London and New York, Macmillan, 1892.
First edition of a positivist collection of biographies drawn from Comte’s thirteen-month calendar of eminent men in history. This is not one for feminists; though in leap-years, an additional day is generously provided for ‘good women’ (and another for ‘all the dead’). Harrison was tutored...
£175
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[COMTE, Auguste.]
LEWES, George Henry. Comte’s philosophy of the sciences: being an exposition of the Cours de philosophie positive...
London, Bohn, 1853.
First edition. Lewes brings Comte’s philosophy to a new audience in England, where Comte’s reputation is on the rise, and updates the scientific context to include all the ‘very latest facts and ideas’. Lewes had no formal scientific training but from around 1853 onwards he took an active interest...
£175
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[COMTE, Auguste.]
CAIRD, Edward. The social philosophy and religion of Comte.
New York, Macmillan, 1885.
First American edition, first published Glasgow in the same year, originally appearing as a series of articles in the Contemporary Review. Caird is critical of the Positivist religion, calling it ‘artificial’ and focusing on its current schisms. Comte himself gets off lightly, with Caird willing...
£60
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[COMTE, Auguste.]
LÉVY-BRUHL, Lucien. BEAUMONT-KLEIN, Kathleen de, translator. The philosophy of Auguste Comte. Authorised...
New York and London, Putnam’s and Sonnenschein, 1903.
First American edition, the London edition appearing the same year; first published in French in 1900. An attempt to reinforce the idea of the absolute reality of ‘humanity’ in a system otherwise entirely relative, towards which doubts were obviously growing. Lévy-Bruhl ponders mathematics, science...
£50
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[COMTE, Auguste.]
LITTRÉ, Émile. Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive.
Paris, Hachette, 1863.
First edition. Littré, better-known as a philologer and compiler of French dictionaries, was a devoted positivist. This edition contains Comte’s correspondence with John Stuart Mill but also with Harriet Martineau, translator of the Cours de philosophie positive; an account of Comte’s influences;...
£75
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COOLEY, Charles Horton.
Personal Competition. Its place in the social order and effect upon individuals; with some considerations...
New York and London, Macmillian and Sonnenschein for the American Economic Association, 1899.
First separate edition, rare in commerce. Cooley’s essay addresses the phenomena of success and the crucial problem that sometimes the ‘good’ men fail and the ‘bad’ men succeed. This takes into consideration the ‘great’ men of history versus, for example, philanthropists.
£60
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COOLEY, Charles Horton.
Human nature and the social order.
New York, Scribner’s, 1902.
First edition. Cooley’s first published book on the subject of sociology, following a number of articles written in the 1890s. In this work Cooley lays out his conception of the individual self as being defined by its relationships with society, with a strong focus on the development of children. This...
£125
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COOLEY, Charles Horton.
Social organization. A study of the larger mind.
New York, Scribner’s, 1909.
First edition. This work continues from Human nature by further developing the idea of a self-conscious self, more reliant in this instance on the basic tenets of psychoanalysis, such as the Ego. Much more prevalent here is the consideration of economic systems, with free will under discussion...
£150
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COOLEY, Charles Horton.
Social process.
New York, Scribner’s, 1918.
First edition of Cooley’s last major work of theoretical sociology. If Social organization was a book about free will and the potential or predilection for upward movement in economic systems, such as in the ‘ascendant’ capitalist class, the most significant idea presented by Cooley in Social...
£150
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DURAND DE GROS, Joseph-Pierre.
Essais de physiologie philosophique suivis d’une étude sur la théorie de la méthode en general.
Paris, London, New York and Madrid, Baillère, 1866.
First edition of Durand’s early work of behavioral psychology. His essays on the physiology of perception and the relationship of the mind to the outside world do not, by his own admission, use groundbreaking medical observations, but he readdresses well-versed scientific knowledge with philosophical...
£100
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DURKHEIM, Émile.
L’Année Sociologique. Quatrième Année (1899-1900) [Offered with:] Sixième Année (1901-1902). [Bibliothèque...
Paris, Alcan, 1901, 1903 [i.e. both 1903?].
Second edition, a uniform reprint of the original editions, two volumes only, of Durkheim’s journal the ‘sociological year’, which he founded in 1896. These issues contain essays on religion, anthropology, the behavior of crowds, sociological phenomena and criminology, and, perhaps more interestingly,...
£65